Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-05-27

, still higher stand in the affections of th'
. people. We can easily account for these
attemps to decry Mr.. Polk, when we conside
that the alternative is the popularity of I
! southern President. They would not have
it that any good should come cut of Naza
reth.
, We argued against the honesty Of O'Con
nell because ofhis declaration that the throne
of England must be sustained, which we con
, sidered the source Of The oppression of Ire
land. True, we would no, have had O'Con
nell proclaim design to overturn the Bri
fish throne, but certainly TO boldly proclaim
at the outset Of crusade Tor liberty, tha
the enemy of that liberty must be sustained
looked to US very much like dishonesty OIL
rank folly. Against this the editor cites the
whole life of O'Connell. who, he says +" has
grown gray in an elevated and arduous course
Of political labor, in which success had i'm
mortalized him, before the editor of the Te-
legraph was born" Men sometimes grow
gray al the close of q life arduously devoted
to hypocrisy and folly, and success is quite
as apt TO wait upon bad measures as good,
but doubtless the editor meant that O'Con-
nell's course had been one Of honor and pa
triotsm; yet an intelligent Irishman at our
elbow says, that in 1925, when the people
of Ireland were seeking reduction of a free
hold qualification Of voters, and the object
was in fair way of being attained, the cause
was betrayed by O'Connel. For this be
was degraded from public favor and attained
standing again after probation of repen-
lance. Did not this evidence the nature of
he man? How stands the case now? He
has been clamolous for repeal Of the union
between England and Ireland; in this Anne
RIGA ardently co.operaied with purse and SYM
pathy, yet when the oppressor throws him
miserable bone in the shape Of grant to
Maynooth college, which even the people Of
Ireland did not desire, from the alstocra,ic
nature Of the concern, lie shouts hosanna to
the oppressor, and offers TO lay Ireland at his
feet 10 be used in crusade against Ameri-
ca and her institutions. O'Conncll desires
TO betray Ireland as he did in 1925, and his
advances 10 Peel are simply experiments on
the temper and disposition of the Irish peo-
pie. But the same feeling awaits him now
as did then, for the press and people of his
own country show no disposition 10 sustain
him either in his advances 20 Peel or his at
tack upon America. We have said and say
again, that his course in repeal and towards
America, show him deficient in common ho-
nesty Or common sense; quite as much, we
think of the latter as the former. That o.
Cornell, like IN: j'rity OF the jealous aboli-
tionsts, has no rational views Of liberty or
freedom, is plain. For ourself in estimating
the question of liberty or human rights, we
recognize no distinctions of color or condi-
ton, blu, look upon the whole human family
as occupying common ground Nor do we
attach importance 10 the names by which
things are known; but where we find the
most general suffering; where industry has
the least reward and idleness most revels in
affiuence, in short, where the human mind
is most constrained by vic is laws to turn
from and forego is natural Ii III and holy i'm
pulses, there is the most slavery, and when
the editor Of the Freem9n lauds the British
government as possessing equal TO any 60
vernment in the world, ''what is requisite to
h.,
clule that her ridiculous assertion that no.
slave inhab,s her soil and her miserable
farce of abolishng slavery in her possessions
has tckled him quite out Of his propriety.
England enbodes in her government every
vice Of the most barbarous nation, and is to
the degree more reprehcnsibe than that ma
ton, that she has greater intelligence. Vii
lannon's oppression at home, robbery, rap:nc,
pilage, and murder abroad, are her leading
characteristics; yet the editor asks US TO SHOW
him government, in any wise equal to it i'll
all the requisites of ii great and good govern
mem! We think her army and navy embo-
dies system Of slavery not far short in its
results TO American slavery. Neither her
soldiers or sailors are any less slaves than
the southern negro, and in mos, cases they
were procured for the service by a species
ofkidnapping about on par with negro sea-
ling. This alone, without looking a, the
degradation and misery which testers over
the whole base Of her institutions. We are
no apologies for whit OF evil we are in the
practice Of as government. We are we'll
aware that we are not perfect; but we have
said and do say, that the tendency of our in
iiuticns is to universal and exalted freedom
Wills, those Of Great Britain are, as we wit
ness, TO the opposite; and this in spite Of the
opinions Of Calhoun and McDuffie Oh one
side, and C'Conncll and tho editor cf the
freeman on the other.
We have moi replied TO the article of the
Freeman in the several points it raises. Dis
cussion of them would be little short of USE
less; we did not commence our article TO re-
ply to it, and as il has already extended be-
yond the desgned limits, We leave the sub
IJect-
FOR BUFFALO.
The St. Louis goes down tomorrow az