The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-09-24

REPEAL IN IRELAND AND ABOLITION IN AMERICA
The attempt TO enlist the Irish in America in q
crusade against southern institutions has had a
miserable overthrow. The Grand National Re-
peal Convention" was a most unfortunate specula
ton. The mass Of the Irish people amongst us
have strong affection for the land of their ances-
tors, and pure devoted attachment to the principles
oil liberty and to free institutions but their honest,
guileless hearts, are practsed upon by the arliul
demagogue, and the produce OF their arduous and
incessan toni is seduced from them, avowedly to aid
that cause which they much desire TO see trlum'
phant, but as experience proves, TO be squandered
by the aspiring, who make the people the means by
which they rise into notoriety, and give impetus 10
designs which their victims do not approve Disas-
ter however, has attended the efforts of the dema-
gogues. They failed TO create an interest in their
magnificent scheme, but the loss TO the honest re
pealer is the same; for the funds which they con-
tributed with unsuspecting benevolence, have been
suandered TO deiray the expenses OF these delegates
10 crafty whose vain and ambitious designs the
convention was convened.
But, we repeat, they have betrayed their weak
ness. AT the outset they resorted TO fraud to give
importance 10 their assemblage-they received men
as delegates from towns and States to which they
were strangers, and from places where no societies
existed TO represent-but they had no adhesive
power amongst them, and they naturally tumbled
TO pieces. Give what complexion then they may to
this affair in their communications to O'Connell,
here it is perfectly understood TO have been vain
and hopeless attempt TO give vitality TO the most hi
deous abortion.
So long however as O'Conne can receive con-
rbutions TO his rent, single disasters will not abash
him. Hear his language delivered on recent &C.
caslon al meeting of the Repeal Association at
the Dublin Corn Exchange
Mr.. O'Connel read communication from Repeal So
cieties various parts of America enclosing money
from New York, ELS; from Utica, f23 from Harper's
Ferry Virginia f25 IS lod from the Falls River Asso-
citation, ESQ; and from New York, Eos. He considered
the contribution from Virginia to be very important
Goring Proc that the part taken by the Repeal .4ssoca.
sion IN reference TO the question Of .4merican sauery had
not diminished the sympathy of the real friends liberty
IN America He was delighted to find that there
much just feeling amidst the communicating influence Of
the slaveholdng institutions.
Mr. OConnel took occasion to make some further OBJ
servaons the subject of slavery the United States
He had proclaimed there the sentiments othe association
and their adherence OF negro slavery and slavery of
every kind matter what the creed color
and loud cheers) He 6uiled the indignant feelings
of his soul against those who in America practised
hdeous and unchrisan custom of holding their fellow
men as slaves II he did not harsher language in
reference to them it was because he did not know
stronger than he had used and he reracted nothng
he shrunk from nothing he had said, and he would
not be the advocate OF liberty in Ireland il he
not the advocate Of freedom for every human being in
every portion OF the globe. Cheers England possessed
this advantage, that her flag could iutter the
head of slave and practical domestic slavery put
end wherever the British flag vas predominant He
r. oConneD had spoken of the stain upon the Ameri
can flag the dark stain OF negro slavery and he would
neither retrsct that nor shrink from its
ton He also spoke ofthe hideons in which the
slave must be treated the mpossihy of his getting
play or justice when he had no command of his per
nnr had with hn COLL b,t
by which he was animated. (Hear) He had been met
from America with extreme degree OF abuse but he
delighted in that abuse because il showed their sensitive.
ness to his charge it showed they sensible it
degradation to have such things said Of them. They had
oConnelD and his principles, and ned themselves
by the consciousness they thus exhibited of their
II Loud cheers They had called him a slanderer and
base malignant traducer and what proof had they ad
negro human being born in the hope of redemp
ton eDdued with the same immortal SOUL and destined
for eternity aa they were They treated as slaves the
in every tie OF humany and he would remind the Anne.
rcans OF this that there qualities which the negro
possessed in higher degree than any other class and
these the qualities OF affection and gratitude ear
Let not the Americans suppose that the spirit of repub
could the enormous guilt Of human slavery
(ear) 1t not to be mitigated. (Hear) 1t idle
to think, that, by calling an institution, they could get
rid Of the atrocity OF the system 1t was much the
worse to have it an institution. (Hear)
Thus while avowing the double purpose of the
Repeal movement to be to discover Ireland from
England and to emancipate the slaves in America,
he derives consolation from the contribution from
the Repealers of slave holding Virginia. He con.
sldered the contribution from Virginia to be very
important, as afordng proof that the part taken by
the Repeal Association in reference to the question
of American slavery had not diminished the sym
patty OF the real friends Of liberty in America" OF
this he boosted proof OF the existence of wha,
he was pleased to call Just feeling amidst the con
terminating influence of slave-hoding institutions
OF the extent OF this Repeal movement then 1t il
clear that we entertain mistaken views We
hear them from the " Liberator"-and we had them
as plainly expressed by delegates in the Grand
National Convention here, and thus ii is that we
fellcitate ourselves and our Southern brethren on
the abortIve attempt to establish a foreign inter-
ference with American institutions. H. however,
single doubt should remain, let ii be dlspeIled by
the following emphatic language, used by the Die
tator which we trust will stand as a beacon light
10 warn the South of the threatened danger:-
Let Ireland have her legislative independence and,
thep she will have her missionaries TO preach freedom
IN every region where slavery degraded the human
II has been said by an ancient writer that where
there is shame, there may be vrtue and may we
not then In charity hope that the son and private
Secretary Of the President OF these United States
has some compunctious visltngs' Why was il that
Mr. Robert Tyler, whose family boast is that it il
wholly and essentially VirginIan-slave-holding
Virginia. State in which he first saw the light O
heaven, in which he nurtured, and in which are
all the associations of his infancy and growing man
hood-why, we ask, did he shrink from the avowa
OF his Virginian origin and appear in this Conven
ton as delegate from the State OF Pennsylvania
To be the position OF his parent has exIed him
from Virginia temporarily, but still he resides with
IN what was once the boundaries of that State
he slave-holding district OF Columbia.
This Incident is of as much import as the
contribution to O'ConnelPs rent from the Repealere
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