Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-05

to DANIEL o. CoxxELL, Esq. treats, with merit
ed severity. that uPRoRIous" orators sla'ul-
tous interference with OUR concerns:-
Charleston S. C. Dec. 8. 1880.
"Should any one have told me that day
would come when sense of deep and awful du-
tv, would require of me to address you, as Athis
day do, would not have thought it possible
II wrote few weeks since from Baltimore.
letter which YOU cannot, | suppose, have yet
received: in which alluded to the injustice
which YOU thoughtlessIy did to people, OF whom
YOU know so little as-you do of the slavehoidin5
Americans. But this day, have had an lmper-
feet view of letter which you appear to have
written from Derrynane in last September, upon
the subject of our cruelty and injustice. mat
view: imperfect as it was, was to my eye more
blasting than any which have for years oeheid.
81 now tell YOU that more wanton piece OF
Injustice has never been done to brave ana gen.
erous people, than this which you, ignorant OF our
situation of our history, of our aws.sot our Gus
toms, and of our principles, have dared TO perPe-
trate. You have not only been guilty OF gross
injustice to a people whom YOU know not, and
who aided YOU with noble and dislnterested en-
thusiasm, but YOU have heaped shame and coniu-
sion upon your own countrymen, and those VINO
were once veur admirers, and would SILL, II you
permitted it, be your friends.
"Do YOU believe that we, who love freedom
and our fellow-men. are the heartless wretches
! that YOU describe, because we cannot at once do
all that your imagination conceives to be perfec-
ton. and which we who have the experimental
knowledge, have irrefragiDle evidence to be des'
tructive follys You have in the unfortunate mo-
ment, when you sent forth that document, Gfitbe
yours done an evil, which no contrition can
repair, no service can redeem. As a Carolinlan.
| cannot reason with you upon facts of which you
are ignorant. As an Irishman, bswail your in
fatuation. And whilst am doomed to meet a
variety of trials one of the keenest and btterest
of my feelings will be, that the most contume,
lious insults, which was flung upon the land of my
adoption, was ungratefully and wantonly given
in the moment when she was flushed with VIC
tory won by American aid, by one whom once
valued as dearfriend in the country of my birth.
"Should the Derrynane manifesto against the
proud American and their slave-hoding States
be forgery, should rejoice to learn the fact
from yourself. Should it be your production,
would. say. in me you shall find one amongst
thousands of your countrymen, who will not sue
cumb to your insult, nor quail before your threat
81 shall make no parade ofmy love of liberty.
nor send you homilies upon my humanity. But
whilst with every Caroinian that know, la
ment an evil which Britain mas superinduced,
and which we cannot at once remedy. deny
your right to interfere; and l pray you might
succeed in raising the ruined population of Ire
land to the level of the comforts of the Carolina
an slave. Should you live to behold this result
of your labors, you will have accomplished more
than is expected by
JOHN, Bishop of Charleston.
To DANIEL 0'CoyNELL. ESQ"