Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-10-16

" of roEe-Is possiJic that y3neyica rcoud send here
mho rG6ies in GiOod and is disgrace to human
naure9-Ih0pe The assertion is untrue; Tut utS TSM TO
" speak out"
On Mr.. Stevcnson's demanding 10 know Of MIR
O'ConneIl whether the above a correct report Of
what he did say the occasion in question: in alusion
TO himself he received you aware, the following
reply from Mr.. o ConneIl
No. 1G, PAIL MALL, August 10, 1S3S
Sir-ln consequence Of your letter OF yesterdays
date, examined The report Of my speech IN the Spec
a,or Of the 4h and have hesitation III saying, that
the paragraph you have selected is not correct report
Of rhat said on the occasion.
The very next sentence does, 10 my mind, show that
this report could not have been correct and having
amined another report since, as well as from distinct
recollection, repeat that the report is not correct
have the honor 10 be- Sir,
Your obcdient servant
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
To this note you are aware, tha. Mir. Stevenson
piled follows:
Presuming tina. you intended your reply denial
" Of The offensive expressions in that part of your re-
ported Speech which had allusion TO myself, am 81
% tisfri with the answer you have given.
Now, il is quite manifest among gentlemen that after
Mr. Connels denial Of the correctness Of the report
Of his remarks in relation 10 NJ. Stevenson he was under
the hghes, obligations Of truth and honor 10 correct any
erroneous inference which Mr.. S might have made Of
his intention to wound his feelings. MIR O'ConnclIs
silence, after Mr. Stevenson had announced his intention
to make their correspondence public confirms and JUS
nell's disuvowal plenary and decisive.
must, however, confess, if We had had any other
gonsl deal WITH should not have seized on tins
point in the peadings 10 drop the correspondence. II
had had reasonable subject, If il had been MIR.
Stevenson fortune to havo opened his correspondence
with individual who, entertaining scrnpes in rela-
ton 10 such obligations, las they understood anong
gentemcn) but who, nevertheless, having perpeiIated
unprovoked wrong against individual would have
felt by ITSELF the moral obligation IF making him atone
ment would have consented, that Mr.. Stevenson
should have gone step further and demanded oil Mr.
O'Connell explicit declaration Of That he had said
in relation 10 MIR S. But | knew, from what had
heard Of Mr.. OConnes character, such an appeal
would have been hopeless With this view OF the SUBJ
ect my friend, Capt Perry not only entirely concur.
red, but suggested The that finally adopted
And believed that, every body was aware oil The
extraordinary accuracy Of the stcnographers OF England
the conclusion would be readily formed that Mr. Y Con-
nell had resor,ed 10 disngenuous arce, not pnl
pabe unrul 10 sneak Of The difficulty, and THIS, al
ter ALL the only triumph which could be obtained
over The reckless libeller of our country.
That this untruth was uttered, | will now prove
About fortnight three wrecks after the corIesPon.
dence between MIR O'Conncll and Mr.. Stevenson had
been closed business carried me 10 Birmingham, where
met with several individuals, who oil concurIed in de.
clarng that the report in the Sun almost 1t not en-
trey uerbdtim what Mr. OConncll had said in relation
to the American Minister, in his speech OF The lst oil
August; ys, unwilIingness was felt to give ceri.
Gates of The very fact they GUcred from the state OF pub.
lie opinion, q presume, the slave question IN Biz
mingham) was therefore, without this testimony in
authentic shape until had the good fortune 10 meet
with highly respectable gentleman, resident Of Dir.
mingham who, without the ghtest hesitation, address.
ed 10 the folio wing note, in reply to which wrote
him, and whose authority have to use it, as may deem
proper:
SEPTEMBER q, 1888.
NY dear Sir-I heard Mr.. o Connell deliver his cce.
brated anslavey speech at Birmingham on the LIST ul
limo His illusions TO the American Minister, reported
in the Sun and Spectator not only correctly, sub
stanfiaHy, but 1 believe literally, what MIR. OConneIl
uttered
He was, likewise guilty Of the remarkable ndecorum
Of making q fling at the memory of Gen. Washington,
by asserting that lie not only Shareholder but that
he had never manumed his slaves until his death,
when they could be Of no longer service TO him.
remain, dear Sir, with much respect,
Your obrdlent servant,
HENRY VANwART
Cen HAMILTON.
Mr. Connell, unless by his own seeking have re.
deemed my pledge. have convicted him Of being
wanton and vulgar lbeer, not only Of my country but
Of the most precious memory embaned IN It's history
have convicted him of palPable unlruth TO uvold
Just alonemen mt towards gentleman, against whom he
hodibeen guilty Of unprovoked Outrage; gentleman
who did him wrong and whose official, 1t not his
personal, station ought TO have entitled him. not TO the
abuse but TO the protection and hosPltayoi every man
in the British nation.
1t is not part of my purpose, Sir, to enter into de-
fence Of American slavery in the abstract or in Ills Pac
tical manifestations among ourselves, although iu,y
concur in the opinion expressed by one OF the most PHI
losophical Of public writer's that American slavery
had done more cvize the African, than all that the
missionaries have been able 10 accomplish from the COM
mencement of the Christian dspensaton, 10 the present
time in the benghted regions Of that vast continent
Nor could sustain this position with better authority
than British authority In the admirable journal OF the
expedition of Capt Owen The Western coast of Africa
in 1922 find these just reflections, which recommend
the special notice of MIR. OConne and his great &C.
cesiss,icul Judge: "The wild savage is the child OF
passion, unaded by array ofrelgon or morality 10 direct
hi, course in consequence of which, his existence is
stained with every crime that can debase human ma
iure 10 level with the brute creation. Who can say
that the slaves in colonies such? Are they not
by parison with their still savage brethren enlgh-
ened beings: Is not the Yves, India negro therefore,
greatly indebted TO his master, for making him what ne
having raised him from state Of debusemen' 10
which he born, and placed him in scale OF civil
lied socety?-The who has seen the wild African
roaming in his native woods, and the we'll fed happy
looking negro of the West Indies, may perhaps be able
10 iud pc Of their comparative happiness The former,
strongly suspect would be glad to exchange his stale
of boasted freedom, starvation and disease, and become
&c the slave Of sinners, and commiseratlon OF saints
might on this point, say much. might, with srra'
truth saw that habits of labor md industry were Tue
frs, treat lessons Of civilization, which American slave
~ has laugh, the African savage-l might, moreover