Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-07-28
REPEAL MEETING IN MISSOURI.

REPEAL MEETING IN MISSOURI
A enecial meeting OF the ST. Louis Mo. Repeal Asso
f cis,on was held at the Courthouse, on Wednesoa.
evening" the 18th inst The President Jas Clemen
Jr, Esq being absent FROM ndisPosItion, r. s. Bien
nerhasset Esq presided. Inc minutes OF .ne 'a =,
Gruce. ESQ. Chairman Of the Committee appointed 10
the purpose OF considering The action proper TOR th
Association take, in regard 10 the abolition sPeee'
said 10 be delivered by Daniel Cornell, as reported
in the Dublin Frcemans Journal, OF the llth oil Ma
last-repored as follows
The Committee appointed at the last stated meeting
Of this Association, for the purpose of drafting resoiu
lions expressive of the sentiments OF the Association u
regard to the late speech oil Daniel y Conne ESQ., OF
the subject of American slavery beg leave 10 repor
The followin preamble and resolutions
WHEREAS: 1t with the most painful concern, tha
this Association has observed in the public prints
among the reported proceedings OF a meeting OF ths
! Loyai National Repeal Association of Dublin held a
the Corn Exchange during the month of May Inst
speec upon The subject Of American slavery purPort
inG 10 have been delivered by Daniel OConnell, Esq
in connexon with the reading oil an address from ths
! Pennsylvania Anli-Slavery Society of Philadelphia
And whereas, the sentiments ana opinions espresso
and advanced in said speech, unlus;ly and wantonll
assailinp and traducng the institutions Of This country
incorporating aud viying the great maturity OF tht
people Of The u. s.. denouncing all the free citizen
of America whether native or adopted, who IN any
way tolerate or palaie slavery as il exists this cou
,rv or who do not aid the Northern Abohonists il
their unhallowed designs, as "taiMtesS misereants,
and assmlatinu them pckPoekets and petty Larceny
scoandres," are proclaimed by The said Daniel . Con
nell to be the sentiments and opinions of the Loya
National Repeal Association OF Dublin, and OF lne
great body of Repealers in Ireland: Therefore, be II
Resoiped That this Association most solemnly pro
tests against this wholly unjushabe attempt on the
part of The said Daniel Conne to connect The sub
iect OF the abolition of negro slavery with the cause Of
| Irish Repeal in this country.
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nation of this Association and it shall continue TO be
ITS uniform policy avoid connexion with asuhJects
political and social, pertaining to this Republic
Resolped That the continuance of slavery the re
suit of system of policy solemnly agreed by the
people of the u S. in The formation of the Federal
Constitutions and that with the people of The several
States in which slavery exists alone rests the power 10
alter abolish The nsltuton but that SO long as the
Federal Constitution retains It's present urm and Prov
sions there authority to Justify any interference
with the existence of slavery, by any power nation
domestic foreign.
Resoired, That whilst the friends of Ireland in St
LOUIS, duly appreciate The signal services which Mr.
Cornell has rendered his country IN the just cause
in which he is engaged, and whilst they yield TO
him the warmes admiration tor his patriotic exertons
they do not acknowledge IN him. or in any other man
the right represent the Irish Nation in the expression
of it's feelings and sentiments IN regard TO the subject
of slavery these States; and believing the Irish PEG
pie to be friends 10 this country, and knowing that
shores nave 0een, anu VIII ever 10 asylum
from oppression and tyranny, this Association will no,
dee N them capable of deliberately sanctoniDg the at
tack which has been made upon America. of echong
The insulting epi,heis with which Dir. OConnell has
soueh, TO stigma,ize the freemen of this country.
Resolred, That in the same proportion as the exer-
lions of Mr. O'Connel in Ireland, in forwarding the
Repeal of the Union, command our appreciation, his
speech in regard 10 the question OF Abolition OF
Slavery America, merits, and hereby receives our
most unqualified condemnatIon-that that speech be.
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and vulgar inveclve, evidences total disregard of the
obligations By virtue Of which, every rishman is pro-
foundly indebted TO the dsinteesed and gallant SYM
pathy of proud America.
Resoired, That the Irish born members of this Asso.
citation owe their first duties TO America and her fnsti
tutons-that language fails to tell their devotion 10 her
sacred righs-that they yield to other citizens of
this Union pure and unaoyed loyalty 10 every doc
t.ine contained in the nations charer-that no man
upon earth has ght influence with them, IN OPP
position 10 American lnsttutons-and that they take
II as the insult which ignorance and ingraude alone
in their blindness offer, for Mr. o Cornell TO address
them in language such that which his speech
,ans and which they hereby reject with the calm
of American F'cemen.
Resolred, That ihi. Association can never be made,
induced to unite in, 10 coun,enance, or 10 pafidfe,
tactly otherwise the traitorous attempts OF any AS.
socation of any man, of any set of men, who. in
the madness Of their schemes care interfere with the
civil rights ard political relations OF these States, and
thus impiously involve the existence OF our sacred
Union in their unrgh,eous and infatuated designs.
ResolUed, That the object contemplated by this AS
soc alion 10 aid in legal and constitutional man
ner the Irish people in their legal and constitutional
exertions for the Repeal of the act of Union between
Great Britain and Ieland and that 50 long as the Re
peaers of Ireland shall continue their eIerons to &C.
compsh that end or until there shall he satisfactory
proof that Daniel . Connell has spoken their senti:
me n,s in speaking his own, touching The subject OF
slavery in America, this Association will continue
its ardent aid in the great of Old Erin, I'M
mpeded by the base efforts of the Northern Abolition
lsts though aided and abeted by Daniel . Connell
Resolved, That copy of the foregoing olutons be
transmitted by the Cores bonding Secretary to Thos
Steele, Esq of Ireland and that he be requested 10 lay
The same before the Loyal National Repeal Association
oil Dublin, for their conside ration.
(SignedD PIERCE Z. GRAVE, IN H.
Thomas S. Nelson, Mr.. Knott,
T F. RISK, John Ennis,