Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-07-14
TRlaN REPEAL.

In short, O'Connels fearless, manly aud consistent
de nuncialion of American Slavery, has fallen
like ,hunderbolt upon The proiesscd American
friends of Liberty TO Ireland. At the South, the
Repeal Associations are dissoving; in New York
and Philadelphia they denounce O'Conne and
abolition; and even in slavery hating Vermont, nj
a Repeal meeting OH the 18th in Burlington, an ut
tempt was made by N. Is. Haswell TO procure a
similar blnck eLict, but it was eoquenlly opposed
by our friend Slansbury and others, and defeated.
The ground .aken by the pro-savery Repeaers is,
that O'Conne has no business to interfere with
American inslilutions surely very pretty argu-
ment in the mouths Of men who are openly and
avowedly interfering with British Legislation But
OConnel is in the right, and the consistent friends
Of Ireland are right. There is no law, human or
divine, 10 restrain the expression of public opin-
ion, or to prevent from being brought to bear a.
gainst any great wrong, no matter where or Ivy
whom that wrong is perperated lrishmen may
yea, cught--io condemn American slavery, as
England and France and America have once con-
dsmned the tyranny nd atrocities perpetrated in
Greece by The Turks as the christian would now
professedy condemns, and long has condemned,
The slave trade; aud if OConnel yields one iota
to the ridiculous ground assumed by the slaveoc-
racy, he very well knows that he yields the very
ground upon which he may claim the coun,e-
nance and the good wishes Of every friend Of Ire
land out Of the British doininions. But he will
never yield this ground. We quote from the
speech which has created such u flare-up on this
side OF the Atlantic:
BY way of explanation il is proper to remark
of the mir. Mooney" spoken Of by Mr.. O'Con-
nell, that he is an Irish repeal lecturer in the u
nited States, who, it seems with some Others. has
recently sent letters from this country TO Ireland,
with the design, it would appear, of sofening the
asperty with which MIR. OConnell is wont 10
speak of American slavery.
81 tell Mr. Mooney this, that ii lie ever again
ventures on a single expression in mitigation OF
slavery, RON that moment no other letter OF his
shall be ever received by this association. wish
the anti. slavery society of America should know
that this association were in no way pariicipuors
in the sentiment which he put forth (hear) ask,
was there anything as eXcusug the crime OF sa
very in the circumstance Of its being inherited IN
America from England What argument is that
to me, an lrishman? What authority is that with
me, one Of the victims OF English tyranny, TO tie
me, as n mitigation Of the crime, thai il was in
heriled from England 3? Am the less surprised AT
lis being committed, Or do lis grievances appear
one bit less oppressive on that account? hear
hear.) ] care not whom The Americans Inherited
The system from, but this know, that they not
only inherited it originally from England, butihey
have since then spread it through states that were
not in existence ut the time OF their separating
from the mother country (hear, hear.) They have
since their Independence, added six or seven new
slave States to the Union; and | would wish 10
know from Mr.. Mooney, what participation had
81.
its due, and do not wish to speak worse of Eng
land than she deserves Ia laugh.) And MIR. NJ.
cannot, in these States, apply his English excuse
for oppression and vlillany (hear, hear.)
4" but there can be no excuse for SO at,rocious a
crime as that Of keeping any man in slavery of
claiming ownership IN those who were made 10y
the same Creator, intended for The same eternity,
redeemed by the sucred blood ofthe same Saviour,
made heirs Of the same promises, and embodied
in The same covenant Of the Sun OF God. No !;
no man shall dare 10 say tia; such beings ehall be
made The property of their fellow man, and treat
ell not as human beings, but as the brute beast,
that expires and then ceases 10 have any other
existence (hear, aud cheers) No; we do not toll
erate it here. We proclaim it an evil and though,
as a member of this association, | mn not bound
to take up any national quarrel, still do not hest
tate to declare my opinions; have never fallered
in my own sentiments (cheers.) | never said u
word in mitigation of slavery in my life aud |
would consider myself the most criminal of hu-
Inan beings il l had done so (hear, and cheers.) -
As an individual, would not hold converse with
a person who keeps a slave loud cheerS.) | would
not snake hands with pckpocket; | would not
consent TO treat with familiarity the petty larceny
scouudrel and why should do SO with the man
who makes the life aud labor of his fellow man
his properly, instead of leaving it the property OF
the being whom God conferred these gifts (hear
and cheers.)
81 am afraid they [Americans] never will give
up slavery until some horrible culumity beiulls
their country and here warn them asans, the
event, for il is utterly impossible that slavery Gun
continue mach longer (hear, hear.j But, good
heaven can lrishuen he found 10 justify, or ralh
er 10 paate, for no one could dare aeinut 10
justify system which shuts out the book Of hu-
man knowledge and seeks to reduce TO the cond-
ton OF a slave 2,500000 human beings-whch
closes against them not only the ighi of human
science, but the rays OF Divine revelation, aud the
doctrines which the Son OF God came upon earth
to plant! The man who will do so belongs not
to my kind (hear, hear,l Over The broad Atlantic
pour forth my voice, saying Come out Ut such
u land, you lrishmeD; Or you relnan aud dare
countenance the system OF slavery that Is support
ted there, we will recognize you us lrshmen 10
lUnger' (hear and cheers.j But is that ali that
cun he said against slavery? Can anything be
more dreadlully destructive of morality 1 am
prevented, by the presence in which speak, from
entering as fully into this subject as nigh before
IL more select, but less pure, auditory than the
present; but, ask, can there be morality under
SYSTEM which prevents the marriage state, or
where those who are married to-day may be
forced from each other lo-murrow where the
husband is sold 10 one s!ave.owner, and the wife
10 another; and where the children may be torn
from the parents, and sent elsewhere?
"Can there be morality, where the power ofthe
master over the ienule slave is unlimited, aud
where no passion is 30 brutal that it has not the
means Of its qualification? | say the man is aoI
Chrisan--he cHnnot believe in the binding law
OF the decalogue -he may go to The chapel, or The
church, and he may tnrn up the whites of his
eyes, but he cannot kneel as u Christian before
his Creator, or he would rot dare to paliate such
an Infamous system. MOI America the black
spot Of slavery rests on your star spranged ban
ner; and no matter what 81 ry you may acquire
beneath it, the helnous, Cumming stain of slavery
remains upon you aud Just Providence will