Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-02

at' lhey learned TO their sorrow that Ire
lands truest friend, was no less the friend Of
their W degraded bondmen. They knew
that flattery would not win him, that arpu.
ment would be powerless against him, and
that opposition would but give him strength.
Finally, they sirove 10 bride him by their con-
iributions the to Repeal Fund. The very men
who would have denounced as reasonable
even a whispered proposition to dissolve the
Union between the Northern and Southern
States of this confederacy,. $50 that the slave
might be free from his chains; who would
have been thrown into paroxysms of fury had
meetings 10 effect this object been called in
England or in Ireland, and have talked in a
strain OF lofty virtue OF 'British gOid," be-
came suddenly seized with an intense SYM
pathy for the Irish peasantry, held Irish Re-
peal meetings, and organized Irish Repeal
Societies, declaring iha, Ireland could never
be redeemed, regenerated, and disenthrall-
ed" until the unjust political Union existing
between that country and England had been
dissolved. To effect this, they made speech
es, wrote addresses, and sent over to O'Con-
nell thousands if not tens of thousands Of dol
lars worth of ".4mericon silrer :" But the
man who had refused to cease his Repeal ag-
itation although proffered an office which
would have yielded him an annual income oil
100000 for life, or a higher station which
was worth $4,000 a year, was not to be brib-
ed into silence and sanction of the American
shareholders enornities by their contribu-
tions TO the Repeal fund The manner in
which he received the offer, abundantly sat
isled them that his influence and endorse
ment, unlike that of the Free Church Of Scot
land, could not be bought with the sldvehol-
der's money. The result was as might be
expected; Irish Repeal became unpopular
in the South.
O'Connell never felt any respect for the
STAKEHOLDER, and never pretended any. So
averse was he to treating a man-stealer with
courtesy, that he would not give his
hand to one whom he suspected was an en-
of his race. When an American was
II him, his first question would
frequently be, Sir, are you one of the hon.
,st men, or one of the thieves :" If he be-
onged to the latter class he would be treated
ccordingly. Like The rest of unameric1n-
zed lrishmen and other foreigners, he had
10 prejudice against IA colored skin, and felt
he utmost contempt tor those whose aristo-
ratio pretensions were based on complexion
4 distinction. "Let the proud American
he in one of his speeches, 50 learn that
he worst of all aristocracies is that which
prevails in America-an aristocracy which
lad been aptly denominated that of the hui
nan skin. The most insufferable pride was
hat shown by such an aristocracy." Those
If our colored counlrymen who have from
line to time visited England, he has ~invaria-
'ly treated as men whose claims to consider
'iion were founded upon something more I'M
,ortant than the texture of their hair or other
conformation. Although in Demo-
and Christian America they were thrust
nto the Jim Crow" ~rail-car, and crowded
nto the I" Negro Pew" they stood as equals
lpon the same platform on which Ireland's
stood, who delighted thus TO bear
IN open and practical testimony in favor of
IRISH equality, and against the oppressive
'pirit Of cast, which in America tramples the
,olored man into the dust.
The effolts of O'Connell for the removal of
he disabilities under which the Catholics la
,ored, were attended with the most happy
consequences. "He was The first Roman
Catholic" says a writer in the Tribune"
who had occupied a seat in the House of
Commons of England for centuries, and the
irst Lord Mayor of Dublin of that religious
in three hundred years." Pos
the confidence both of the Catholic
and laity, and The sympathy of many
his influence over the Irish peo-
pie was extensive, and as we believe, invari-
IDLY exerted for good. The writer above re-
to, In speaking Of his labors, says,
"He was the life and soul of the Catholic
Association, by means Of which very many
disabilities affecting the greater portion of his
,ountTymen were removed, and without the
lid Of his %eloquence and influence, ii is very
doubtful if the measure Of Parlianer tary Re-
form would have been carried in 1882. He
Protestant dissenters as well as Catho-
les, by supporting efficiently the repeal of
he Test Act, the repeal of the Vestry Cess,
ind the reduction Of the 1.-THE Charge, by 25
per cent. all over Ireland. He succeeded in
obtaining various enactments for improving
Irish municipal corporations, for aid from the
State to educate Catholics in Catholic COL
Ieges, and for "A better political administration
Of affairs, and a more equal distribution of
power and patronage"
His great intellectual strength, his soul
eloquence, his biting sarcasm, his
deep Pathos, his native d%rollery, his generous
heart, and his bland and winning manners