The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-11


labor goes, but if comfort health and happiness
are worth having, we would a thousand time,
rather be black slave in Georgia than black
freeman in New York or Oregon.-Day Book.
sV~ FATHER MATHEW left our shores Oh
Saturday last in the Pacifc--his mission of phi
anthropy having been performed most fully and
faithfully. Were the emissaries from the old
world all kindred in character and in purpose
with this genuine philanthropst, relations of the
most kind and cordial character could not fail
to be established between the citizens of the
two great countries Boosting the same mothe,
tongue
But if England has sent us croakng raven
in the person of THOMPSON, Ireland has sent O
dove in the person of Father MATHEW, who
will not fail to bear back his olive branch.
We extract these, his parting words, from the
New York Herald. They are characteristic OF
this good and great man:
Father Mathews Farewell Address.
! TO the Citizens of The United States.
DEARLY BELOVED FRlENDs:-
My mission amongst you closes to-day. ]
cannot take my final departure from the shores
of your great and prosperous country, without
publicly recording my deep and grateful appre-
citation of the generous sympathy, the delicate at-
tention, and the unremitting kindness which
have experienced in every section of this vast
Union. The noble reception which you have
spontaneously rendered to stranger, known
merely as an humble missionary in the cause of
| of tha 1auotiop nf
pie to the interests of humanity, however feebly
championed, and has endeared America and her
people to me by thousand ties too sacred for
utterance Though the renewed attacks of a
painful and insidious malady, have rendered it
impossible that could (without imminent dam
ger to my life,) make those public exc tons
which were never spared by me in the days of
my health and of my vigor, yet thank heaven,
have been instrumental in adding to the ranks of
temperance over 100000 disciples in America.
| have been much cheered during the past week,
by the receipt of letters from all parts of the
States bearing unimpeachable testimony to the
strict fidelity with which this voluntary obliga-
ton is observed. need scarcely add, that virtue,
and the duties which religion incucates together
with peace, plenty, domestic comfort, health,
and happiness, have everywhere followed in its
train.
| cannot omit this opportunity of bearing my
grateful testimony to the generous and valuable
cooperation which have received, in the prose
cuton of my mission, from the public press of
America. Whatever may be the party or sec
tional differences that separate those influential
expositors of public opinion, all recognized in
the simple principle which enunciated, com.
mon ground of paternal union; and acting in
that Christian spirit, have, with scarcely an ex-
| al,, ,ba,.
port and advocacy to the cause of temperance
emphatcally the cause of virtue patriotism, and
morality. If the affectionate sympathy and
kindness of the American people have at all
times been generously extended to me during
my tour, how much more intense has this noble
/ feeling become as the period approached for my
departure How can | find language to thank
/ the generous, the hign-souled, the roble Henry
Clay, my disnterested advoca'e-my dearly cher
ished friend? How can | express the measure
of my obligation to the benevolent VIM. Cor.
coran, of Washington? to the public-spirted
and philanthropic Henry Grnnel? to your mer.
chant princes, f. X. Collins and Robert Kermit?
to the amiable and gifted archbishop of Ne
| York. whose delicate and unremitting attention
will never be forgotten by his honored guest
| to the host Of kind friends in this city, in Pha
delphia, Boston, Albany New Orleans, ST. Louis
Cincinnati, and through the Union, who have
responded to Mr.. Clay's appeal, and in their fare
we'll present have furnished memorial of graft
tude and generosity too highly appreciated by
the object of their sympathy and solicitude-too
deeply engraven on his heart to be acknowledged
in the hacknied phrases sanctioned by conven
tonal usage.
There are emotions of gratitude too intense
for language to convey; were it otherwise gled-
ly would | attempt to give expression to my
profound thanks to my gifted and amiable coun-
trywoman Miss Catharine Hays. Never will
forget the sympathy felt by that noble uinded
lady, or the spontaneous generosity ESQ charac-
teristc Of her Irish heart) which prompted her
recent grateful and substantial compliment
Never will this noble act be forgotten by Father
Mathew, and when his earthly pilgrimage is over
when his stewardship ceases, aad he is called to
state of future existence, where even the en-
venomed shaft of the slanderer cannot reach
| long may her honored name be pronounced with
gratitude and respect by the sons and daughters
of that beauteous isle she loves 30 well. To
nv own beloved countrymen most affection
ately tender few words Of parting advice. You
! have, my dearly beloved friends, relinquished the
| land of your birth, endeared to you by thousand
| fond "reminiscences, TO seek on these distant
shores that remuneration for industry and toll
too often denied you at home. You are pre-
scented here with boundess field of profitable
employment, and every inducement held out to
persevering industry You are received and
welcomed into the great American family with
feelings of sympathy, kindness, and friendship.
After few years you become citizens of this
great republic, whose vast territorial extent
abounds in all the materials of mineral, agricul-
ture, and commercial wealth. the avenues to
honor and fame are literally thrown open to you
and to your children, and no impeachment (saye
of your own creation) exists to prevent you at
tanning the highest social and civic distinction,
and will you any longer permit those glorious
opportunities TO pass unimproved, or, rather, will
you not, by studying sef-respect, and acquiring
habits suited to your new position, aspire 20 re
feet honor alike on the land of your birth and
Of your adoptionl implore you, as | would
with my dying breath, to discard forever those
foolish divisions-those insensate quarrels-
those facIious broils (too often, alas, the fruits
Of intemperance) in which your country is dis
graced, the peace and order of society violated,
Snd the laws ofheaven trampled on and outraged