The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-07
Sir Henry Bulwer and the Indignation
Meeting.

The Phindelphia Ledger, journal that we think
has never been suspected of unfriendliness to Ire
land and the Irish people, makes the following re-
marks; in presenting which may take occasion
to say that few or none Of the leaders and strong
men of the Irish population in New York appear
to have had any thing to do with the late indigna-
ton meeting in that city:
Sir Henry, in contradicting a story about an
intercepted despatch which he never wrote, which
story first appeared in Newspaper in Boston called
the Cell, made some allusion to the Cells semi
barbarous and semi-clad somewhere about Julius
Cesars time, and TO the story teller of their
descendants. Upon this all the Irish citizens, if
we may believe the newspapers of New York, rise
up In high dudgeon against national insult. by
Cells he means the Irish! By semi barbarian he
means that the modern Irish semi savagcs. BY
semi-clad he means that the Irish peasantry are
ragged! So he abuses their ancestors, reproaches
them with their birth, and insults them with their
misfortuncs! Anindignation meeting iscalled; Mike
Walsh addresses it, says that his grandfather was
Irishman, his father lrishman, he is an Irish
man, hsson Is n Irshman; and Sir Henry hasins
ed the whole family. The chairman Of the meeting.
who when the speech appeared in print wrote to Sir
Henry for an explanation, read Sir Hsnry's reply,
in which he disclaimed any intention Of insulting
the Celts, saying that he should not have thought
of such a thing, especially as he of the
breed, his own family being Scottish, which il Gel
did not satisfy the indignants, who had no nolon
of letting off the bloody Englishman, because he
had married an Irishman.' So they actually pre-
pared memorial to the President of the United
States, in which they request him TO demand the
recall of the British minister, for having violated
the laws of hospitality. insulted large portion of
tho citizens Observation-Disclosures the stability of
the Union! 'Welln as Goldfnch says in the play.
sf this amt prime, the DEVILS in t!' memorial
to the National Executive, asking for the recall Of
foreign minister because he said the Cells once
wore no pantaloons!
eve did not suppose that bombast could take
high flight But Solomon did not know this coun-
try when he said there nothing under the
sun. Now, who does not see in all this the most
barcfaced attempt to make little political capital
for a few city politicians, had better borrow
Epectacles We go rs far any in denouncng the
low abuse which the English heretofore hcaped up
on the Irish; but cannot adpise the President to
demand the recall of the British minister, because
in jocular dinner speech he made allusion to the
bare legs of his own ancestors. Nor do think
that the Irish portion of Yankee Doodlcdom, a nu-
merous and respectable portion too, immigrant or
descendant, are insulted by being told that their
ancestors in Ossion's time wore no pantaoons.'
'This ridiculous fuss reminds US of Congress
sional debate in John Randolph's days. John,
laying it on to defunct celebrity was rebuked
for assailing the dead. He replied that he should
speak his mind ofNero and Domitian. even if they
were dead. Sowe advise all politicians who seek
votes by playing backgammon to national preu-
dces, to keep COOL even if they told that Hepgist
and Horsa pirates and that the contemporaries
Of Caractacus dressed in fashion that would not
be decent in our day.