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Xirtantile ApprauerXGeo. W. Eaely. tuP t. of Common Sckoli Henry Ely. EXSHURG KGR. OFFICERS. Lf o Feace.D&vid H. Roberts EOROURH AT. LARGE u ainsead. w9f James Myers.) L-5 it ; Parriu 11 ugh Jones. E.J. Mills r"ld J- Jones. ' it, u4"1'7 John-J- Cvans Thomas J. Joneg0 W e""! Jhl Thompson, D. S?r, William D- DVi3' L- dodgers. 'J Zon Danielt. Davis. 4'or-Lemuel Davis. Cci.., , WEST WAKD.I 5 lJtaiU-yi- M- O'Neill. '., Council Ti H Tr,r, ir.i 1 i-i V a Blair. Jnlin n Tknl, n - I 'Can uvuas( UCVIJI X!lWiUia Barnea Jno. II. Evana EBENSBTJItG, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEjMBER 3; 1868. THE IRISH jRND SLAVERY. Daniel O'Connell' famous Let ter to tbe Iriwli Repeal Associ ation of Cincinnati. This great anti-slavery document, the bitter protest of Ireland's greatest leader agalost the pro-slavsry sentiment of so many of his countrymen in America, is again brought to light in the ditiuAlc Telegraph, of Cincinnati, August 5th. A. more severe and searching review of the evil of slavery and" its sympathies has hardly ever ben written. The paper in which it is published in edited by Father I'urcell, a brother of the ArehbUhcp, and intimate friend o General Rosecraus. The letter is prefaced with the following : Wc publish to day, to the exclusion of much important matter, the famous letter of O'Connell to a committee of our citi zens who rebuked him ior his anti-slavery opinions. The document has been con cealed for twenty years by a well-kuown Democrat, to whom we arc indebted for it. We invite" our Irish Catholic brcthreu to read it attentively, and if any one wishes to seethe manuscript, which is beautifully written, and the sigoatuve of O'Connell, they can be accommodated at the office of the Telegraph. "NVe intend to have the letter published in pamphlet form, and we respectfully invite all friends of the good cause of liberty against bondage to aid us in its circulation. THK LETTER. Gentlemen : We have read, with the deepest afSiction, not unmixed with 3ome surprise and much indignation, your de tailed and anxious vindication of the most hideous crime that has ever stained hu manity the slavery of men of color in the United States of America. We are lost in otter amazement at the perversion of mind and depravity of heart which your address evinces. It was not in Ireland you learned this cruelty. Your mothers were gentle, kind aud humane. Their bosoms overflowed with the honey of human charity. Your hist era are, probably, many of them, etii I amongst u.s, and participate in ail that is sood and benevolent in sentiment and ac tion. How, then, can you have become so depraved ? How can your souls have become stained with a darkness blacker than the negro's skin ? You say you have no pecuniary interest in negro sla very. Would that you had! for it might be some palliation of your crime ! but, alas! yuuliave inflicted upon us the horror of beholding you the volunteer advocates of despotism, in its most frightful state of slavery, in its most loathsome aud un relenting form. Wc were, unhappily, prepared to expect some fearful exhibition of this descrip tion. There ha been a testimony borne against the Irish, by birth or descent, in America, by a person fully informed as to the facts, incapable of the slightest mis representation ; a noble of nature more than of titled birth; a man gifted with the highest order of talent and the most renerous emotions of the heart the great, the good Lord Morpeth he who, in the ( House of Commons, boldly asserted tne superior nocial morality of the poorer classes of the Iri-.h over any other people he, the best friend of any ot the Saxon race that Ireland and the Iri-h ever knew ; he, amidst the congregated thousands at Exeter Hall, in London, mournfully, but firmly, denounced the Irish in America as being amongst the wort enemies of the negro slaves aud other men o color. FBOPEBTY IS MAN. Your advocacy 'of slavery is founded upon a gross error. Tou take Jar grantt d that man can be the property 6f hi fellow man. You speak in terms of indignation of those who would deprive whi'e men of their "property" and thereby render them less capable of supporting their families in affluence. You forget the other side of the picture. You have neither sorrow nor sympathy for the sufferings of those who are iniquitously compelled to labor for the affluence ot others; those who work without wages who toil without recompense who spend their lives in procuring for others the splendor and wealth in which they do not participate. You totally forget the sufferings of the wretched black men who are deprived of their ALL without any compensation or redress. If you, yourselves, all of you, or if any one of you, were, without crime or offence committed by you, handed over into perpetual slavery ; if you were com pelled to work from suurjse to sunset without wage, supplied only with such coarse food and raiment as would keep you in working order; if, when your "owner" fell into debt, you were sold to pay ?iu debts, not your own ; if it were T . . . i .2 7 zsauo a crime to teau you to reau huu write ; if y?n were liable to be separated, in the dintribution of assets, from your wives and children ; if you (above all) were to fall into the hands of a brutal master and you-condescended to admit that there are wme brutal masters in America if, among all those circumstan ces, some friendly spirits of a 'more gen erous order were desirous to give liberty to you and your, families, with what inef fable disgust would not you laugh to scorn those who should traduce the generous spirits who would relieve you, as you now, pscuJo-IiiMiuien shame upon you ! have traduced and vilified the Abolition ists of North America ! . THK OUTCBT AGAI.VST ABOLITIOVIST3. Another piece of silliness. You allege that it is the Abolitionists who make the slave restless with' his eondition, and that they scatter the see ls of discontent. How can tret us with euch contenrpt as to use assertions of that kind iu your sd dres?? How can you think we could be so devoid of intellect a3 to believe the negro would not know the miseries of slavery, which he feels every hour of the four-and-twenty, unless he were told by pome Abolitionist that slavery was a mis erable condition ? There' is nothing that makes us think so baly of you an your strain of ribaldry in attacking the Abolitionists. The desire to procure abolition is, in itself, a virtue-, and deserves our love for it3 charitable disposition, is it does respect and veneration for its courage under un favorable circumstances.- Instead of. the ribaldry of your attack upon the Aboli tionists, you ought to respect and counte nance them If they err by excessive zeal, they err in a righteous and a holy cause. You would do well to check their errors and mitigate their zeal within the bounds of strict propriety. But if you had the genuine feelings of Irishmen, you never would confound their errors with their virtues. In truth, we much fear, or rather we should candidly say, we readily believe that you attribute to them imaginary errors for no other reason than that they really possess one brilliant virtue namely, the love of human free dom in intense perfection. Again, we have to remark that you exaggerate exceedingly when you state that there are fifteen millions of the white population in America whose security and happiness are connected with the mainte nance of the system of negro tdavery On the contrary, the system of slavery inflicts nothing but micchief upon the far greater part ot the inhahhants of America. The only places in which individual interest is connected with slavery are the slave holding States. Now, in those States, almost without an exception, (if, indeed, there be any exception,) the people of color greatly exci-ed the whites; and thus, even it an injury wove to be inflicted on the whites by depriving them of their slaves, the advantages would be must abundantly counterbalanced aud compen sated for by the infinitely greater number of persons who would thus be restored to the greatest of human blessings personal libcity. Thus the old Benthamite maxim of "doing the greatest possible good to the greatest possible number" would be amply carried out into effect by the eman cipation ot the negroes. - W'e utterly deny your assertion, and we defy you to show any single instance of preparatory steps taken by any State for the emancipation of negroes bef re the bbolitiou demand was raised. You violate truth in that assertion. There were no such preparations. It is a pure fiction, invented by slaveholders out of their un just animosity to the Abolitionists It U said that the fear of abolition has rendered the slaveholders more strict, harsh and cruel toward the wretch el slaves; and that they would bo more gentle and humane if they were not afraid of the Abolitionists. We repeat that this is not true, and is mciely an attempt to ca&t blame on those who would coalesce to put an end to negro slavery It is in the same spiiit that the crimin al calumniates his prosecutor, and the felon leviles his accuser. It is, therefore, utterly untrue- that the slaveho'dcrs have made the chains of the negro more heavy through any fear of abolition. Yet, if you tell he truth; if the fact he that the negro is made to suffer for the zeal of the Abolitionists; if he ia treated with increased cruelty by reason of the fault of the friends of abolition, then, in deed, the slaveholders must be a truly Satanic race. Their conduct, according to you, is diabolical. Tbe Abolitionists commit an offence, and the unhappy ne groes are punished. The .Abolitionists violate the law of property, and the penal ty of their crime ia imposed upon the negro !' Can anjthingHDC more repugnant to every idea of justice ? Yet this Lyour statement. We, on tbe other hap dj utterly deny the truth of your allegations; and where we fiod ycu calumniate the slavehJRlers we become their advocates against your cal umny. You calumniate everybody slaves, Abilitionisw and slaveowners framers of constitutions, makers of laws everybody ! The slaveholders are not favorites of ours, but we will do men justice, and will not permit you to impute an impossible crime to them. . SLAVEQf AGAISST CHBISTIAKITY. If you be Christians at all, recollect that slavery is opposed to the firt, the highest and the greatest principles of Christianity, which teach u "to love the great and good Grod above all things whatsoever;" aud the next, "to love our felbw-men as oursehes;" which commands us to do un to others as we would be done by. These sacred principles are inconsistent with thp horrors and crimes of slavery; sacred principles which have already banished domestic bundage from civilized Kurope, and which will aIo, in God's good time, banish it from America, despite the advo cacy of such puny declatmers as yon are. The Catholic clergy may endure, but they assuredly do not encourage the slave owners. We have, indeed, heard it said that some Catholic clergymen have slaves of their own, but it is added, and we are assured positively, that no Irish Catholic clergyman is a slaveowner. At all events, every Catholic knows how distinctly slave hclding, aud especially slave trading, is coudeiuned by the Catholic church. That most eminent man, his holiness, the pres ent Pope, has, by an Allocution published throughout the world, condemned all deal ing and traffic in slaves. Nothing can be more distinct or more powerful than the Pope's denunciation of that most abomin able crime. Yet it subsists in a more abominable form than his holiness could possibly describe, in tbe traffic which still exists in the sale of slaves, from one State in America to another. What, tiien, are we to thiak of you, Irish Catholics, who send us an elaborate vindication of slavery, without the slightest censure of that hate ful crime ? a crime which the Pope has so completely condemned namely, the dia bolical raising of slaves for sale, and selling them to other States. If you bo Catholics, you should devote your tim an J best exertions to w orkiug out, the pious intentions of his holiness. Yet you prefer Oh, sorrow and shame! to voluntreryour vindication of everything that belongs to the guilt of slavery. BLACK IXFEHIORITY DISCUSSED. Your important allegation is, that the negroes are, naturally, an inJerior race. That is a totally gratuitous assertion on your part. In America you can have no opportunity of seeing the negro educated. Ou the contrary, in most of your States it U a ctime sacred Heaven ! a crirn-e to educate even a free negro! How, then, can you judge of the negro race, when you see them despised and contemned by tbe educated clashes ; reviled and looked down upon as inferi'jr? The negro race has, naturally, some of the finest finalities. They are naturally gentle, generous, hu mane, aud very grateful fjr kindness. They are as brave and as fearless as any other of the races ot hutnarr beings, hut the blessings of education are kept from them, and they arc judged of, not as they . u I.. . L I,- .- . J uuiu uu wiiu proper cuiiivauon, out as they are rendered by ciuel and debating oppression. It is as old as the days of Homer, who truly asserts that the day which sees a man a slave takes away half his worth Slavery actually -brutalizes human beings. It is about sixty years ago when one of the Sheiks, not far south ot Fez, in Morocco, who was in the habit of accumulating white slaves, upon being remonstrated with by a European Power, gave for his reply (hat, by his own experi ence, he found it quite manifest that white men vere of an inferior race, intended by nature for slaves; and he produced hi own brutalized white slaves to illustrate the truth of his assertion. And a case of an American, with a historic name John Adams is quite familiar. Some twenty five years ago not more John Adams wac the sole survivor of an American crew wrecked on the African coast. He" was taken into the interior as the slave of an Arab chief. - He was only for three years a slave, and the English and American consuls, having been iuformed of a white man's slavery, claimed him, ana obtained his liberation. In the short space of three years he had becomti completely brutalized ; he had completely forgotten the English language, without having ac quired the native tongue He spoke a kind of gabble, as unintellectual as the dialects of most of your negro slaves, and many months elapsed before he recovered his former habits and ideas. It islso a curious fact, as connected with America, that the children of the Anglo-Saxon race, and of other Europeans born in America, were,' for manj years considered as a degraded and inferior class. Indeed, it was admitted, as if it were an axiom, that the native born Amer ican was in nothing equal to his European progenitor ; and, so far from the f.ct being disputed, many philosophic dissertations were, published,, endeavoring to accouut for the alleged debasement. The only doubt was about the cause of it. "Nobody doubted," to ue yoar owu words, "that the native born Americans were really aoj interior race. Nobody dares to say so now, and nobody thinks it. Let it, then, be recollected that you have never yet seen the negro educated. - An English traveler through Brazil some few years ago, mentions having known a nero who was a priest, and who was a learned, pious and exemplary man in Lis sacerdotal functions. We have been lately informed of two negroes being educated at the Propaganda, and ordained priests, both having distinguished themselves in their scientific and theological course. Tbe French papers say that one of them cele brated mass, and delivered a short but able sermon before Louis Philippe. It is believed they have both gone out with the the Right Ilev. Dr. Baron on the African mission. . .We repeat, therefore, that to ju-.ige properly of the negro, you should see him educated 3nd treated with respect due to a fellow-creature, unir.sulted by the filthy aristocracy of the skin, and untarnished to the eye ot the white by any associations connected with his state of slavery. THE NET.ROES A GOOD AND KINDLY BACK. We next refer to your declaration that the two races, viz : the black and white, cannot exist, on equ-il terms, under your Government and your institutions. This is an extracrdinar' assertion to be made at the : present day. Yon allude; indeed, to Antigua and the Bermudas. t Bat we will take you to where the experi ment has been successfully made upon a large scale namely, to Jamaica. There the two raees are ou a perfect equality in point of law. The law does not reeognue the slightest distinction between the races. You have borrowed the far greater part of your address from the cant phraseology which the Wet Indian slave-owero, and especially those of Jarsaica, made use cf before emancipa tion. They used to as.-rt, f.- yvi dr that 'abolition meant destruction ; that to give freedom to the negr. would be to pronounce the a3a"i?ation of the whites ; that the ncirro. as toon zz free, would j massacre their former owner--, and uestr y their wives' ar-d families In shrt your prophecies nl tbe de-truc- live effects of cinsrcipa'in aie but faint and foolish echoes of the pioj.betic apprehen-ions of" the British duVo onis. They ni'gat, perhaps, have believed their own assertions, Vea'ise the einu'icipation of the negroes wi' tiiei'a unrr'ej expe limcnt But you .vc'i are deprived of :ry exeu-e for the reasserMon of a dis proved calumny. The cmu'ieipatioa lias taken place th compensation civen by England wu3 :'i ivcu to th? reroes, who were, the only persons that deserved com pensation. 1c was given to the so called "owners." It was au additional wros; au additional cause of irrlt-ition to the negroes; but. gracious Heaven! bow no bly did that good and kindly race the negroes falsity thecaluniniouj apprehen sions ot their usk-musiers ! Whs there one single murder consequent ou the emancipation? Was there one single white person injured either in person or property ? Was there any property spoiled or laid waste ? The proportion ot negroes iu Jamaica to white men is as 3J0 to GO, or 80 per cent. Yet the most perfect tranquility has followed the emancipation. The eiiminal courts are almost unemploy ed ; nine tenths of the jails are empty aud universal tranquility reigns. Although the landed proprietors have made use of the harshest laudlord power to exact, the hardest terms by way of rent from the negroes, and have also endeavored to extort from him the largest possible quan tity of labor for the smallest wages, yet the kindly negro race have not retaliated by one single act of violence or of veng eance ; the two races exiat together, upon equal terms, under the l'riiish Goveru- ...... . . UitUL auu uuuer jlhiis.i lu-iiiuuous. AS appeal: Have you enough of the genuine Irishman left among you to ask what it is that we require you to do ? It is this : First. We call upon you, in the sacred name of humanity, never again to voluu teer on behalf of the oppressor, nor even for any self-interest to vindicate the hide ous crimo of personal slavery. Secondly. We ask you to assist, in every way you can, in promoting the edu cation of the free men of color, and in discountenancing the foolish feeling of selfishness of that criminal selfishness which makes the w.hite man treat the man NUMBER 49. of color as a degraded or inferior being. Thirdly. vVc ask you to assist iu ob taining for the free men of color the fall benefit of all the rights and franchises of a freeman in whatever State he n,ay in habit. -; Fourthly. Wo ask you to exert your selves ia endeavoring to procure for the man of color, in every case, the benefit r,f a trial by jury, and especially where map insisting that he is a freeman xj claimed to be a slave. Fiftldy We ask you to exert yourselves -in every possible way to induce slave owners to emancipate as many slaves as possible. The Quakers of America have several societies for this purpose. Why should not the Irish imitate them in that virtue ? SUtJJy. Wo ask you to exert your selves iu all the ways you possibly can to put ao end to the eternal slave trade of the States. The breeding of slaves for sale is, probably, the most immoral and debasing practice ever known in the world It is a crimo of the most hideous kind, and if there were no other crime committed by the Americans, this alone would place the advocates, supporters, and practisers of American slavery ia the grade of criminals. - Seventhly. - We ask you to use every exertion in your power to procure the abolition of slavery by the Congress in the District of Columbia. Kijhthfy. We ask you to use ypur best exertions to compel the Congress to re ceive and read the petitions of the wretched negroes; and, above all, the petition'" of their white advocates. Ninthly. YtTe ask you never to cease your efforts until the crime of which Lord Morpeth has accuse I the Irish in America, of "being the vrcrst enemies of the men of color," shall be atoned for, and blotted out and effaced forever. You will ask how you can do- all these things ? You have lcady answered that question for yourselves-, for you have said that public opinion is the law of America. Contribute, then, each of you in hi r-phere, to make up that public opinion. Where 3 ou have the electoral franchise, give your yote to none but: those who will assist you in so holy a struggle. , -CSFA Confederate officer, wh? is wri ting a detailed account cf what took place inside Port jfudson during its beleagucr raeut, says tbftt when, .on the 29th of June, the hst quarter raticu of beef had been given out to the troops, on the let of July, -at the request of many officers, a wouJeJ mule w.ms killed and served for experimental .eating. All tho?e who par:ok of it spoke highly of theiish. The flesh of a mule, the writer describes jis being of a darker color ihau beef, of finer grain, quite tender and juicy, and a having a flavor something between that of beef aud venison. There was an immediate-demand for this kind of food, and the number of mules killed by the comiiilssariat daily increased. Some hcrscs were also slaughtered, and their flc;-h was found to be very good eating, but not equal to mule. Bats, cf which there were plenty about the deserted camps, were mIso caught by many officers and mcu, and were found to bo quite a luxury ; superior, in the opinion, of those who ate them, to spring chicken. 5?rA,An anecdote is related of Gen. Logan. When he was a colonel at the commencement of the rebellion, six com panies of his regiment became airsrieved at something, stacked arms and refused to do duty. The Adjutant inorined Colonel Logan of the difficulty, who, on hearing it, exclaimed : "Stacked arms ! The devil they have !' Then pausing a minuto as he considered the emergency, he continued : "Well, Adjutant, I'll give 'em enough of stacking arms." Accordingly, he formed the remaining four companies in line, with loaded muskets, and stood them over the malcontents, whom he compelled to stack and unstack arms for twelve hours. They didn't want to stack arms after that without special orders. . Among the peculiarities of the drr.ft in Pottstown, this State, were tha following: Five pairs of brothers were drafted out of the forty-six persons drawn. Of the bachelors in town, three, all of them over thirty five years of age, were drawn from the box in succession. The only colored man in the place subject to the first draft was taken. Out of a com pany of fiftcfen who had joined together as a kind of draft insurance association, each paying in $100, five were drafted, thus exactty "cleaning out" the company's treasury. An old woman being asked what she liked best, oxygen, hydrogen,' or ni trogen, said she liked London gin hotter than Any of them. r j v ) ; i ; ,1 ' . . . . v ?. : "A : "ii
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