Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-05-13

| Our readers will find in another pat Of our
| plper, some remarks Of Dlnicl O'Counell,
nude at a late meeting Of the Dabl!n Repeal
Association. Many of eur readers not init
mliely acquainted with ibis gcnilcman's pc.
culiar proJId.ccs, viii be surprised at The
ch@acier of these remarks; those who know
him VIII not. Some time ago he made the
remark, in one of his spec aes, that the Bfi-
fish throne must be sustained at all hazards;
this led us to d;stryst either his honesty OF
wisdom, for il was plain 10 us, as we doubt
not TO others, that this institution, mot lis
abuse, but the thing tself) was the cause oil
speech reveals him IN the light of flnatical
abolitIonst, with the true abolition features,
a great deal of zeal with very little iudg-
ment, seeing slavery only in statute books,
and snpposing there will be no slavery when
the books are altered. What shall we think
OF the wisdom of man who, holding him.
self up as the great champ on OF his couniry's
liberty, avows an anxiety to league with the
oppressor TO war against us, because of our
peculiar institution. 1t is charity to call hm
fool. The tendency of our Institutions is
TO most exalted independence: true we
have Institutions derived fom cur British an
ces;ors, repngaant to the idea; but the gem
eral elevation OF the mass, their general hap
pness AID comfort, and their progress, are
undoubtcd indications that our institutions
are working oat the great end iol which they
we've desIgned-ihat they are gradually IN
dermnng even this last vestigc of British
| ranDrItV on nd. 9,
And what is the character of the government
which O'Connel proposes 10 sustain in oppo-
stlon 10 ours, in his great zeal fer human
rights. If there is any thing which stirs our
indignation from the very fountains il is the
dainnaole hypocrisy of the Rrti=h Govern
mcnl, which forever caHting about liberty,
YET has established and lives upon system
of the most AFFECT slavery, that the race of
man is capable Of sustaining. What pre-
tcnce was hers of abolshns slavery in her
colonies. Why, it died out; i, was too dear;
they could get their work cheaper than food,
| ramont, and lodging; and now the lordly En-
glshman would no, suffer the establishment
of a law which would compel him TO supper;
his laboer. for he now works for nothing
and supports himself All, but he is never
thelcSs irec--he enjoys the nestimable L.
berty of thinking and acting for himself
Most esiimable privilegc-oQual TO the L.
berty of the French soldiers, who were per
mitted to declare for the Emperor or not, as
they pleased, with the alternative of being
shot in five minutes ii they did not. Talk
of man at liberty TO think and act, who
with his family is forever under the nhu
enco of want. Such condition brutalizes
a man; virtue nor any of the attributes Of
humanity can survive under it; the man be-
comes the property Of him who will give
him food. And such is the condition of a
great share of the British population, and
particularly is il the case in Ireland, where
the hand of the oppressor is most severely
| laid And this is of necessity, the tcnden
cy of British institutions. The throne, says
! O'Connel, must be sustained at all hazards,
and yet the throne is the fountain head of
the degradation Of Ireland. What is par
lament in College Green TO effect, if the
source OF The evil remains untouched; no.
thing we imagine, except driving away one
swarm OF blood-suckers, To give place TO an
other still hungrier. After all, what has o.
Connel effected; millions have poured into
his hands from every quarter Of the world,
but in what has 1t resulted? We hear that
the LibeFator is enjoying himself vastly in
his mountain home Of Derrynane, that be
pres DIES over meetings, delivers speeches,
and cats splendid dinuers in Dublin, and
has suffered martyrdom by incarceration in
we'll carpeted, luxuriously furnished pri-
soa, where his friends passed in and out
without reserve; we hear and have heard all
this, but repeal ceases 10 be even talked
about, and we can sec no evidence whatev-
of lis progress, except what we see in the
general onward progress of the human family
ia the principles Of freedom and human
rights.
We can never feel other than the most
ardent sympathy for the oppressed, of what
ever nation they may be, but aid for Ireland
which passes into O'Connel's hand may as
we'll be sunk in the sea for assuming it will
be applied 10 the pfolessed purposes, what
can be expected from a source of such fana-
teal bigo:ry.
One hundred and fifty lots, it will be per-