Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-09-05
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MARTINsBURG. September 5, 1888

Mr. o. Cenneu.-This gentleman has of late
mounted high horse. He has arraigned The
Americans upon the floor of the British House Of
4 Commons as a band of political hypocrites, who
talk of freedom and continue slavery in its most
hateful foFm- A letter to the Editors Of the New
York Commercial Advertiser, represent him in
company with Mr. Garrison of Boston, in atten-
4 dance upon public meeting in London, denounc-
ing the American Colonization Society, abusing
the Americans as robbers and sheep stealers, and
assigning the BLACKLIST place in Hell their pro-
per abode. For the honor Of the cause Of Irish
Liberty, we regret this impudebt insult to our
country, from one who has been looked upon as
B the champion Of Irish Rights. Every Irishman
E in America viii rcpudiate and spurn the senti-
q ment, as unworthy the Irish character, and in
1 compatible with the gratitude which is acknow-
b lodged to be due to America, for the hospitable
welcome which she gave to the noble, chival-
rOus sons Of the Emerald Isle, in her darkest
days, when storms of oppression and tyranny
drove them from their native land to seek an
asylum among strangers.
Independent Of Considerations such as these.
there are abundant reasons why citizen of Great
Britain should speak modestly Of slavery in A
nerica, and in lieu Of our own reflections upon
this point, we extract the follow ing shrewd and
sensible article:
FeoM NILES REGISTER
Mr.. O'CoNNELL. In a recent discus.
sion ofthe slavery question in the Bril-
fish house of commons, Mr.. O'Con.
nell is reported as having said
ale would speak of the Americans
as those political hypocrites, who,
while they talk of the glory offreedom,
still unblushingly continue the hate
full system of slavery in its most
hateful form. He hoped that Great
Britain would set the Americans
an example of true freedom, and stig.
matise their conduct in continuing sla-
very as tyranny and robbery"
GIVE regret that Mr.. O'Connell
should thus, an once, have made such
ignorant and i1l-natured remarks. He
ought to have known, that, long before
the American revolution, the traffic in
slaves was denounced by our ancestors,
and that "his majesty of England, "then
our king, was most humbly and ear
nestly entreated to forbid the casting
ofiiuing merchandise upon our shores
wrecked negroes, feloniously obtained
in Africa. And he ought also to have
known, that, at the earliest practicable
period, we prohibited the slave trade,
and soon after rendered it piracy. And
in his sweeping denunciations, he
should have recollected, that a large
majority of "the Americans" have
entered a solid protest against negro
slavery, by abolishing it within the
limits of their several states; and that
a majority also of the members of this
union are "free states;" that there is
no power in the general government o.
yer this subject-and that, if there was,
there are peculiar difficulties that would
attend its execution, not to be settled
by mere appropriations of money, as
contemplated in England with respect
to her West India colonies. To esti-
nate these difficulties, Mr.. O'Connell
should have imagined the existence of
three millions of black slaves IN Great
Britain and Ireland-and then have
told us what he would do with them.
We repeat what we have oftentimes
said-that it is "unblushing" impudence
IN Englishmen to abuse us because of
our slaves--for it was England herself
that blackened our land with the des-
cendants of the African race; whose
predecessors were bought, or stolen, in
the way of lawful trade, and sent hi
Their against the remonstrances of our
colonial legislatures, a hundred years
ago.
The following paragraph was con-
tanned in the original draft of the De-
claration of independence of July 4,
1776, and shews the feeling which pre-
vailed at that time--though for reasons
which might be easily suggested, per-
haps, the paragraph was not incorpo-
rated into the "great paper"
ale has waged cruel war against
human nature itself, violating its most
sacred rights of life and liberty in the
persons of a distant people, who never
offended him, captivating and carrying
them into slavery in another hemis-
phere, or to incur miserable death in
their transportation thither. This pi-
ratical warfare, the opprobrium of in
fidel powers, is the warfare of the
Christian king of Great Britain. De-
termined to keep open market where
MEN should be bought and sold, he
has prostituted his negative for sup
pressing every legislative attempt to
prohibit or to restrain this execrable
commerce: and that this assemhlape of