Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-12-05
MR.. CoNNELL,s LETTER.

The Letter of Mr.. O'Connell to the
Irish Repeal Association Of Cincinnati
will be found on the first and fourth pa
ges Of this paper. It occupies more room
than we expected, but as all that comes
from the distinguished author is now OF
general interest, and particularly SO to our
irish friends, we give the whole. We
believe that the Irish adopted citizens Of
America are too much attached 10 demo-
ocratic principles and our republican gov-
ernment to be swerVed by this epistle Of
mistaken philanthropy, from their Princi-
pies or to beinduced:to oppose tho consti'
tuition they, at the time oS their natura>
lization, swOre to support. The letter
Of the Cincinnati Repeal Association to
Mr.. @ 'Connell is a sufficient Vindication
OF the course Of Irshmen in America on
this subject. The following remarks of
The Cincinnati Enquirer upon publishing
the letter are cOmmen 6ed to the auen.
Of the reader.
MR.. O'CONNELL'S LETTER.
The entire communication of Mr.. o..
Co0nell to the Repeal Association Of this
city, is published in our columns to day.
A mutilated and abridged copy Of it has
been inserted in some Of the city papers,
but our readers may depend that this is
entire and correct.
We spoke Of this letter yesterday as
unjust in sentiment and intsmperate. in
language. That it is so, the reader will
be satisfied upon perusing it. No dis.
tinction is made between the free and
the slave StateS-between our condition
and that Of alave holders, but assertions
and arguments are applied to US, which
would be Palpably unjust even if applied
exclusively 10 them. Ia conclusion, Irish.
men are exhOHed TO Observation-Disclosures
and 10 do all in their power to put free
blacks upon an equality with the whites!
Why! In order that the free negro race
may enter into competition With their
labor, and vote down their votes OF the
polls! Certainly Mr. O'ConneIl can have
no correct conception of the actual con.
diton or relation of things in this coun,
try. With slavery, in its inception, or
its continuation, lriShmen, as citizens of
the free States, have nothing to dos
they cannot interfere and meddle with
it in other States without causing iEternr
al broils and mischief they cannot see
the blacks Of the South turned loose mp.
on them and admitted to an equality Of
rights, social and political, without being
themselves impoverished and degraded
We do not propose, however, to dis
Cuss this matter. We have referre d to
these considerations TO show that the let.
ter is written without reference 10 the ac-
tual condition Of things in this country
And while we resent its injustice and q.
buse, as an American should we cannot
forget that its distinguished writer is in
bonds, and to be tried to the death, for
his exertions in the cause Of Irish liberty!
Enough that he is TO be so tried-we
could not indulge resentment at such a
time. Nor should we forget that that
cause itself is thing entirely distinct
from the opinions Of O'COnnell and his
friends, upon the subject Of slavery in
some of the Unitsd States. We must
differ with and repudiate the latler-.Ve
are bound to sympathze in and assist the I
former. Such, BY reference to the pro-
cesdings Of the Repeal association, il
will be seen, we're the views Of Irishmen,
who, BY adjournment, quietly laid this
letter upon the table, and yet went into
renewed collection Of funds, TO be sent
whenever the crisis Of Treland's struggle
for freedom should demand the aid Of her
sons and her frienGs.--Cin. Eng.