The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-05-23
NEW YORK HERALD.
New York, Thursday, May "a, 1874.
Bi.hop Hughes,. Letter-Another In.talment

lalve to the position which Bishop Hughes ha
heretofore occupied in various matters and thing
connected with the recent events in this city ant
Philadelphia This portion OF the letter contains
the material part of the whole production; although
by the help of his logic and dialectcs, he spins !
out another column and half, tor which we shal
probably be able to make room tomorrow
One of the principal statements IN this letter
which we shall notice now, and fully explain, Ii
that which refers to Daniel O'Connel and an attack
alleged TO have been made by us in the Herald OF
Mrs. O'Connell. We have already made some
general aluslon 10 this portion OF the Bl
shops chaiges against us. We have already
given the most unequvocal denial Of having eve
conceived or penned any attack on Mrs O'Connel
or even OConnell himself, and we reiterat,
more emphaticay than even that denial, and tina
in the face of few lines which have been paradet
in some of the papers as constituting the principa
ground of the statement which Bishop Hughes re-
presents O'Connell to have made to him in London
But in order to give our readers sufficient insight
into the accuracy of our statement, and TO SWEEP
away entirely the plausibility of the little extract
which has been paraded in the public prints and at
tributed TO u.s. we had better give history of the
whole OF that affair.
In the summer of 1893, visited England ano
France. When in London I introduced tc
Mr.. Maurice O'Connell Ii, the of Daniel O'Con-
nell, and received from him some very fiaterns
attentions with a very friendly and pressing lnvI-
tation to visit Derrynane Abbey in the ensuing au-
tumn As editor of the Herald, and during my
connection with many other journals in this coun-
try, had invariably maintained and expressed the
greatest friendship for O'Connell, and all those
connected with him in the cause in which he was
so warmly engaged the extension of the civil and
religious liberties of his counr,men. On my re-
turn from Europe in October 1888, letter addressed
by Mr. O'Connel to Mr. Stevenson, then American
Minister in London, was republished in the Herald
II was day or two after my return, and as from
a variety of circumstances incidental my arri-
val, after an absence of some time, was prevented
from Immediately resuming my editorial duties to
The full and usual extent, | entrusted the work OF
introducing this letter with few remarks to the
individual who had had charge of the paper for
some months previously To my great surprise
and establishment, these remarks were OF an Often
sive character and such it never could have en-
tered into my mind to conceive. | knew nothing
of them whatever till I read them in my own paper
the next morning. Twas, indeed, exceedingly cha
grined at the time and demonstrated severely with
from the Herald of October IL, 1882
IMpupEScE USr,RALLELEp-O'Connell not satisfied
with his abuse of Mr. Stevenson and other excellent
from tn South has thought proper to publish the follow
ing most scandalous concostion OF abusive filth. We
worll advise O'Conne make the tour of the United
States for the sake of his children and
hines who might bs Lett faherless and comfortless Will
readers believe that this same moral rascal O'Con
nell once made public boast that he never spared
in his anger or woman in his lust His wife once
in order TO shame this scoundre collected together six
young women. whom he had seduced and employ ed them
about his house in varons mental capacities Yet this
heartless, unprincpled, cowardy wretch had the
blushng ehrontry to plblish the following -
To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle
DARRYNANE ABnEr, Sept 10.
Sir-Ater my departure from London you published at
the instance of Mr. Stevenson, the American Ambassador
q species almost onesled correspondence which took
place between us have been prevented by other more
important matters from making few observations
upon that publication and now, as you gave it circula
ton think may rely upon your courtesy to insert my
remarks
In the first place. there had appeared in the Examiner
report OF speech of mine, at the great Birmingham
meeting the LIST Of August which contained the follow
believe their very ambassador here ia slavebreeder,
one of those beings who rear up slaves for the purpose
traffic. Il il possible that America ould send here
who traics in blood and who disgrace human
ture9 Ibope the assertion is untrue bu! right to speak
out"
The real paragraph il this -
Il is assorted that their very ambassador here is slave.
breeder of those beings who and breed up slav
merely for the purpose Of traffic Ia possible that Anne
0hedo would be disgrace to human nature hope the
assertion is untrue but it is right to speak out"
such was the real passage in my speech desPise
but do hone that as Mr. Stevenson has already rushed
into print he will give the report which have above al
luded to a distinct contradiction
utterly impossible that any thing should exist more
horrible than the American slave breeding The history
Of this the Americans abolished the foreign slave
trade earlier than England but with this consoation-no
small comfort to money-lovipg n the slave.
hoiersthat by such abolition they enhanced the price
oil in Ann hy
il the home market of the supply Of newly imported
slaves Why otherwise not the home trade stopped
as well as the foreign The reply is obvious
To supply the home slave trade an abomnable, most
hideon most criminal and most revolving practice OF
breeding negroes exclusively for sale has sprung up and
especially told in Virginia There are breeding
plautat for producing there with
breeding farms for producing calves and lambs. And
calf and lamb breeders calculate the males
10 the flock Of females similar calculations by
trafickers in human flesh One instance mentioned
to me of a human breeding farm in America which
supplied with two men and twelve why should
pollutc my page with description Of all that immo al
and infamous in such practices But only think of the
echei mothers whom nature compes to love their
childrenchildren torn from hem forever just at the
period hat they coud requite their mothers love- The
wretchei, wretched mother! Who can depict the mo-
theirs distraction. her Madness But their maternal
feelings are" says modern writer, treated with
much contemptuous Indifference those Of the and
whose calves and lambs are sent to the English
market"
This il is which stains the character of the American
STAKEHOLDER and leaves the breeder Of slaves the most de-
testable OF human beings especially when that slave
breeder Is Republican, Boosting of freedom shouting out
for liberty and declaring the charter OF his liberal in
situations these self evident truths that all
created equaifhat they endoed by their Creator ih
certain inaienahs righstha those rights
LIBERTY. and the PURSUIT HAPPINESS"
My sole object in my speech at Birmingham and my
present object is to the attention of England and of
Europe to all that is cruel criminal and in every sense
Of the word infamous in the system Of negro slavery in
North America. My deliberate conviction is that until
that system Is abolished American STAKEHOLDER ought
70 be received on footing of equality by any of the civil
Iized inhabitants of Europe
have the honor to be, sir, your obedent servant
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
These remarks, as ! have Just said, annoyed me
very much But still, although very severe against
O'Connell, they do not contain any attack on Mrs
O'Connell. They do not contain anything that can
be tortured into an attack upon Mrs. OConnell-
not even so much ~ as that of Bishop Hughes on
d.. L. III