The North-Carolina standard., 1845-11-12

man in the South knows 10 be true. But some
one may answer, these agitators and MIR. OCon-
nell are well-meaning persons they are pain
cd 10 think that domestic slavery exists any arhere
and they would get rid of it by moral agencies.
Such men know not what they do. They are not
only postponing the Accomplishment of the object,
but they are injuring the slave, by causing the
master to be more rigid with him, and to put
more guards about him. Moral agencies will
neither free Ireland nor emancipate the Southern
slaves. skgss ss%t -
But, as Mr.. OConnell has so much philan-
thropy to spare from his Irish friends, he might
do we'll to look across the channel to merrie
England" There is mass of serfiom and slave
ry large enough to fill his whole heart Mr..
D. Israeli, member OF Parliament, says there is
more scrfdom in England now than at any time
since the Conquest. 81 speak," says he, ''of
what passes under my daily eyes when say,
that those who labor can lille change thesr
masters mo,p as aohem they acre barn thraHs
There are great bodies of the working classes OF
this country nearer the condition OF br~tes than
they have been at any time since the Conquest
Indeed, 1 sec nothing to distinguish them from
brutcs, except hot their morals are inferior. In
! test and infanticide are as common among them
as among the Io,oer animals" The civilized
world has read with horror the report of the
Commissioners appointed by Parliament to exam
inc the condition of the poorer classes in En-
gland; and the facts which that report developed,
will, if History prove true to ITSELF stand forth
forever among the blackest spots of England's
shame And yet Mr.. O'Connell talks about his
disinclination to accept sympathy from slave-hold-
ers in America, lest he might be wanting in duty
10 his sovereign!
We offer him no sympathy, but the cause of
Repeal shall have ii. He denounces the South,
but his dcnunciations pass US as the idle wind.
Should the scafold claim him as a martyr TO Ire
lands liberty, we shall lament the deed which de-
prives great people Of their leader, while our
detestation of his execuoners would, if possible,
be increased; but worn as he is by time anditby
years of service to his countrymen, still we would
rather see him die upon the battlefield, and go
down, like the sun, with commanding aspect,
amid whrlwinds, thunder and storms. Any other
death than this, after all that has happened. and
after all he has threatened to England and prom
iscd to ireland, would leave his reputation In un-
certainty and doubt But whatever may bc,de
him, the South, the North, the East and the West
of free America will march on together. While
we sympathise with the oppressed in Europe, and
offer them an asylum here, we laugh at the ma
chinations of aristocrats and kings against our Re-
publican institutions, and tell them by our deeds
that we ask no davors-no arbitrations, save at
the point of the sword at the mouth Of the can
non {; and that ak this broad land, from ocean 10
ocean, and from Canada to California, must uhi-
matcy own the sway Of our flag, and become
glorious, and great, and world-defying by the en-
ergics and vaIor of the Anglo-Saxon race Mr..
O'Connell and others, who are striving to array
the Abolitionisis oi England on the side of Repea!
by dcnouncing slavery in America, may go on in
their work We heed it not. AS Americans we
would see Ireland free. If Repeal will make her
so, Repeal then let it be. But if the sword be
wan,ing-if il must be drawn, who, in all Ireland,
will let it remain in the scabbard? But as Amer
cans our first duty is to the Union of the States
10 all its rights, all its fecdom to all its repnta-
ton for the future as well for the present. IN the
face of EngIand-aye and of Ireland also, with
| O. Connell for leader, and Europe to back them
! both.