The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-11-07

turn to Ireland The volunteer defenders of slavery
rounded by thousand crimes would find neither
pathy nor support amongst native unconamnated Irish
men.
"You tell u.s. with On air oftrumph that public opinion
IN your country is the great lawgver. II be So how
much does enhance the guilt of your conduct that
seek to turn public opinion against and
oil the ssveholder!-tha You laud the master gene.
rous and humane dspsrsge mucn as YOU can the
unhappy slave instead Of influencing az Irshmen Dug
to do, the public mind in favor of the oppressed You
carry your exsggeratons TO ludcro,s pitch denotng
your utter ignorance Of the history of the human
You say shat tue negro is really inferior race; that
slavery has stamped its dsbasng influence upon the A
cans; that between him end the White almost century
would be required to elevate the character the one
to destroy the snpahes of the other You add-we
your words The very odor Of the negro almost ins
jera6elo the Vhite, and, however much humanity may
ment It, we make no rash declaration when we say the
two races cannot exist together equal terms under
government and our institutions'
"We quote this paragraph at full length because it is
repete with your mischevous errors and guilty mode Of
thinking.
In the first place. the odor OF the negroes,
quite aware that they have yet to much
Of the otto of de Cologne. But impore OF
your iasdiousness to recolect that muttudes of the
children OF white men have negro women for their mo-
TIERS and that British travellers complain in loud
and bitter terms of the stencil OF stale
bacco spite as the REVEALING odor amongst the native
free Americans Il would be, perhaps better to check
that nasal sensbilty both Sides the part Of white
well as OF blacks But is indeed deploable that on
should udcrous assertion OF that description one
Of the Inducements to prevent the abolition OF slavery
The negroes would certainly smell at least when
free as they do now being slaves.
you to ask what it is we require you to dol is this =
Firs-We Call upon you in the sacred name humanity
never asah 10 Voiuoeer on pehsH OF the oppressor nor
even for any self interest to vindcae the hdeous crime
OF personal slavery.
"secondly ask you to assist in every way you
Can in promoting the education Of the free OF color
and in dscountenancng the foolish feeling OF selfshness
Of that criminal selfshness which makes the white man
treat the man Of color as degraded inferior being
Thirdly ask you to assist in obtaining for the
free men OF color the full benefit of all the rights and
irancni OF freeman in whatever State he nay inhs
Fourthly-We ask you to exert yourselves endsavor
to for the man of color in every case the be-
net OF trial by jury, and especially where man insist
ing that he Ia freeman is claimed to be slave.
Fithy-We ask you to exert yourselves in every pos
sble way to induce saveowners to emsncpate as many
slaves as possible The Quskers in America have seve
raj societies for this purpose Why should not the Irish
Sxthly We ask you to exert yourselves in all the
ways possibly put end to the internal slave
badly the most immO al and debasing practice ever
known IN this world crime OF the most hideous
kind and there were no other crime committed by the
Americans this alone would place the advocates, sup
ters and pracsers OF American slavery in the lowest
grade OF criminals.
seventhlyWe ask you to every exertion in your
power to procure the abolon of slavery by the Con-
gress in the District of Columbia.
Eighthy-We ask you to use your best exertions to
compel the Congress receive and read the petitions OF
the wreched negroes and, above ALL the petitions OF
Ninthly-we ask you never to cease your efforts
til the crime of which Lord Morpeh has accused the
Irish in America of being the worst enemies Of the men
OF COLOR shall be atoned Tor and boted out and eaced
for ever.
"You will ask how you 10 all these things You
have already answered that question yourselves or you
have said that public opinion the law oil America Con-
tribute then each of ysu in his sphere to make up that
pubic opinion Where you have the electoral franchise
votes to none but these who will assist you in
40 holy a struggle.
| We wish we could burn into your souls the turpude
attached to the Irish in America by Lord Morpeths
charge Recollect that reflects dshOnor only upon
you but the land OF your birth. There but
way OF e.cing such disgrace and that is by becoming
the most kindly towards the colored populations and the
most energetic in working in detail we'll in ge
neral principle the ameoration OF the state OF the mise
You tell us, indeed. that many clergymen, and
cially the Catholic cergymen ranged the side Of
the slaveholders. We do believe the usation.
THE Catholic clergy may endure, but they assuredly
heard it said that some Catholic cergymen have slaves
of their owns but it Is added, and assured posi-
lively that no Irish Catholic Clergyman slave owner
At all events every Catholic knows how distinctly slave
holding and especially slave trading, is condemned by
the Catholic church. That most eminent his Hoii
throughout the tcorid condemned dealing traffic
slaves Nothing can be more distinct pow erfu
than the tPopes denunciaon Of that most abominable
crime. YET it subsists in abominable form than
his Holiness could possibly describe in the traffic which
to another. What them to think of you, Irish Ca
tholcs who send elaborate vndication OF slavery
without the slightest censure of that hateful crime
a crime which the Pope has 80 completely condemned
namely the daboical raising OF slaves for sale and SELL
| ing them to other states.
of you be Catholics you should devote your time and
best exerons to working out the pous intentions of his
Holiness Yet you prefer!-oh sorrow and shame!-to
volunteer your vindcasion of thing that belongs to
ave conclude by copjuring you, and all other Irish
men in America in the of your the
name OF humanityn the name of the God OF mercy and
charity we copjure you, lrishmen and descendants OF
rishnen to abandon for all defence Of the hdeous
negro slavery system Let more be said that our
feelings made soobtuse by the air Of America that
cannot feel Catholics and Christians ought to feel this
property in another There is not Of you who
does not that principle in his person; yet
we perceive-and this sgonzes us almost to madness
that you Boosting Irish descent Should witheut the
ing ton of any pecunary interested motive but out
Of the sheer and single love of wickednes and crime
come forward as the volunteer defenders Of the most de
| grading species Of human slavery. Woe woe woe
There consolation still amid the pulsaiops Of
our hearts, there there must be, genuine rsbmen D
Amerca-men Of sound heads and Irish heartswho will
assist us to wipe Oft the foul stain that Lord Morpeth's
proven charge has inflicted on the Irish
will hold out the hand of ieo ship with heart in that
hand to every honest every caste and color who
will sustain the cause of humapty and honor and scor
he patry advocates Of slavery who will show that the
Irish heart is in America as benevolent and rept.
with charitable emotions as in sny other cline on the
We conclude. The spirit of democratic liberty is de-
fled by the continuance of negro avery in the United
low the most uncivzed nations by the atrocous incon
stency Of talking OF liberty and practising tyranny in
nquity by the futile of Interest," but the
Irish who have not that futile and yet just
| fy slavery, are utterly indefen'ible.
"Once again. and for the last time call upon to
come out OF the councso the slaveowners, and at all
events free yourselves from participating their guilt
"lrishmen call on you to JOIN in crushing slavery,
and ia giving liberty to every man. OF every CASTE creed
and color DANIEL OCoSNgLL,
Chairman OF the Committed"
OcroBcR 16-The usual weekly meeting OF III.
Repeal Association took place on Monday, al IN.
Cora Exchange The room wss greatly crowded
10 the advertisement announcing the meeting, the
hour named tor commencing the proceedings wa
one O'Clock; but at twenty minutes before thai time
o'Neill Daunt moved A O'Ne, Of Bunown
Castle, into The chair, which he took amid grea, |
cheering.
ONEL after returning thanks for the honor conferred
on him. said that he had been led to suppose that by a
king the chair on that day, he occupying post OF
some dapgerthereiore he offered himself for It, loud
cheers Inspector Mayer OF the Metropolitan Police
here entered the room, and accommo lated with
hnn