Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-10-24
AN ADDRESS TO EMIGRANTS.
ABOUT TO PROCEED To THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, ISSUED BY THE DUBLIN ANTESLA-
VERY SOCIETY.

VERY SOCIETY
Countrymen and CONFERENCE.-The mem
bers of the Dublin Anti-Slavery Society appea
to you in reference to the infamous system OF
Slavery which exists in the land you are about tc
to make your future home. America is fine
country and offers many inducements to the en-
igrant; but it is cursed with Slavery.
Three millions ofour fellow creatures are hello
in cruel bondage in the United States of Amer
ca, and are regarded as mere property-as much
SO as horses, pigs or cattle. The ancestors of
these poor people, for no fault of their own, were
carried away by force from Africa, their native
county, and sold into slavery to America, and
now their descendants to the remotest posterity
are condemned to the same miserable condition
Yet these victims of the cruelty and avarce OF
the Americancs are equal in Gods sight with our.
selves. They have the same feeling of pleas.
ure and of pain that we have, and are fully emit
tied as the rest of mankind to all the blessings
of freedom of which they are now unustly de-
prived.
This great Empire is divided into two sections
the Free States and the Slave States The North.
ern or Free States are Maine, Vermont. New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, lndi
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and
California. The Southern or Slave States are
Delaware, Virginia, kentuckey, Missouri, Ten.
nessee, Maryland, North Carolina, South Caro-
Ina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Miss
issippi, Arkansas, and Texas.
In the Northern States, to which the greater
number of emigrants direct their steps, you will
not see your feIlow-creatures placed on the auc-
ton stand, and sold to the highest bidder, as il
they were brute beasts You will not see the
husband and wife torn asunder, nor the children
ruthlessly separated from their parents, at the
will of monsters who impiously call themselves
their owners. But these atrocious acts are OF
daily occurrence in the Southern States, where
the unhappy slave is made no more account OF
than the beasts that perish.
But although actual slavery does not exist in
the Free States, YOU will find most unchrstain
and unhuman hatred of the colored race pre-
vaiiing in all parts of the United States. No in
qury is made whether the coored man or wo-
man be honest or rogue; they are simply ha-
ted because they have the blood of Africa run
nng in their veins. We know that :" God has
made OF one blood all the nations of men that
dwell upon the face of the earth :" but He has
seen fit TO color the African black, the European
,chue, and on the American Indian tie has stamp.
ed copper color, so that the native Indian tribes
are called red men.
Now, Irishmen and IrishwOman, we ask YOU
is it right in the sight of God that we should de
spisc the colored man Do we not insult oul
Creator when we spurn and persecutc those
children of his love whom lie has stamped with
darker color than our own? You will at once
say that we do and YOU will wonder that men
dare to offend the Almighty by such an act of
rebellion against His VIII. But you may per-
haps say, Surely Christian men would not be
guilty Of such mpicty." This is very true but
Americans are thus guilty, and yet they call
themselves Christians.
Now we ask you, will you too, when You set.
tie amongst them, become haters of your coored
brethrenf! or will you carry outin practice the
noble sentiment contained in the American Dec
laration of independence, which says that " al
men are born free and e4ual, and are alike enti-
lied to life, liberty, and the pursuit of haPpi.
ness"
When you land in America, you will also very
soon find that slaves who have had the courage
to run away from their masters, are hunted
like wild beasts throughout the length and
breadth of the United States, and that YOU will
be liable to be called on to Join in the capture to
seize the trembling fugilives, and to assist in re-
turning them to their enraged masters, by whom
they are almost flayed alive as punishment foI
having attempt their escape.
This iniquity is perpetrated under the sanction
of late law called q" The Fugitive Slave Bill,
which has been passed BY the United States Con
gress or parliament, and which provides that nC
spot of their territory Shall be sacred TO freedom
but that the Colored man who Is claimed
slave NAV be seized anywhere, and carried bach
into bondage and that every other man may bt
compelled to degrade himself by assisting in car
rvng into affect this abomnable enactment.-
I'D, further, if any one Is discovered giving
nourishment or assistance to the poor painting
fugitive. that man or woman is liable TO a fine oil
| TWO thousand dollars and To six months mpris
onment in the common Jail, for the performance
of an act of charity and Christian duty.
Countymen and ConutryWomcn, viii you b.
guilty OF aiding in the enforcement OF this cruc
law? If so, itwoud be better for you to starvt
and die, if need be, in your native land, than to ap
pear before your Creator with your brother ) bool
upon your soul.
We warn YOU of these things, for we know
| YOU will be stongly tempted TO join hands witt
The opgressor; for the American clergy and PEG
/ pie, with some noble exceptions, are banded to
! gether to keep the colored race in a low and de
! graded position and we fear that lri>hmen wht
sincerely love liberty al home are too fond offer
I induced bv the hope of gain or the force of eX
[
In the Free States of America, however, ther,
are some genuine lovers OF liberty. both men am
women, who take part with the slaves: who
maintain that Il is Il sin To hold human being
as property, and who are strenuou>iy endeavor
( ing by all lawful and righteous means 10 procure
( the abolition of slavery. These are called 40
o'Uion:S,s and we earnestly entrcat yon 10 as
sIst them, and to show By your acts, that in emf
grating to America Won have not forgotten tha
love of liberty and Of Christianity hIch you pro
fcssed at home.
PLEASURE OF REAp.xG.-Of all the amnse
ments that can possibly be imagined for work
ing man after his daily tolls, or in the intervals
I there is nothing like reading newspaper or
book. 1t calls for no bodily eXeri!on, of which
already he has had enough perhaps to much
( Il relieves his idlcness AMI samaucS. Nay, i
accomplishes him to his mex; day ; work, anC
gives him something to think o; besides the mer.
mechanical drudgerv OF his everyday occupation
something ne can ENJOY while absent and looE
forward to with pleasure Ii were to pray 70,
q taste which would stand By me under every
variety of circumstances, and De source OF hap
pineSs and cheerfulness 10 me through lie, anl
shield from all its ills. however things nigh
go aTnlss and the world tro'Tn on me, II woulc
be taste for reading.
Harry Erskine. of faceiious memory was re
tanned for female named Tickle, against whom
an action had been tro't On the trial, he com