Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-01-25
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"WEDNESDAY. JANUARY rs. 1854.

hero Of rebellion that fourteeen English police
concerned in which, John was sent to Botany
Bay, or some such place, on conviction. ~
Jury of his peers for the term Of his natural life,
cuts very sorry fgura % the editorial chair
Every successive number of his paper, thus far
ehsws HIM to be as destitute Of ali the attributes
Of patriot, as the meanest Irish bailiE that
ever exto!ted rent from the starving tenantry Of
bis employer. Had Mitchell been content to
remain in the condition to which his crude
notions of government and popular rights and
his want of common sense, consigned him, he
might have ended his days with some small repu-
tation as martyr, or at least as a man of sense
and feeling, and his name might have been hon.
ored, by men who did not know much about him,
even beyond the boundaries of his native, or his
adopted island home. But having made his
escape, and planted his foot upon these shores,
Mitchell seeks to curry favor with those whom
he fancies can best subServe his purposes, and
begins his career of freedom by expressing, Ii the
most unfeeling terms, his sympathy with chattel
slavery. and with the whole of the vast machin-
cry of wrong, by which mat institution is
strengthened and perpetuated.
The press Of all parties and especially the reIig-
ious press, has very property taken him 10 teak for
abe g1oveins hearlless selfshness displayed in the
following paragraph;
. We deny that il is a crime or a wrong, or even
peccadillo, TO hold slaves, buy slaves, TO sell
slaves, TO keep slaves to their work by fogging or
other neediu coercion. For our part, wish
had good plantation well stocked with healthy ne
grues in Alabima."
But a "eOlOred American" has put it 10 this imam.
ous sham patriot, through the columns oi the New
York Tribune, with much more cogency and jus
tice than any Of his contemporaries, that cannot
forbear presenting it to readers:
Is il because they black, that you would do
this thing? And because they are black. is liberty
to them less dparl Because they are black ARE they
less fitted to have and enjoy, or exercise its priv
leges? Comparisons between the black and Irish
populations dsIasieiul to as the subject OF
American iIeedOm is TO YOU; but since you lmce il
upon me, then listenl Who better than you, Sir,
knows, that notwithstanding he powerful Influences
of the Press, and every other human machinery con-
ceivahe sci in operation to aid and buost up the
Irish in America, the veriest slave in Alabama, or
the lowest fee black that basks in the shades of the
North, is not so low sunken thousands Of
this same Irish population, this day, here in demo
cratic America do The instincts oil degradation
cling To them; while, on the other hand, thousands
OF colured Americans have lar higher apprrcia-
ton OF liberty, and justeT estimate Ol true man
hood, than The most cultivated OF IIishmen, if he
sentiments have quoted from your paper be taken
az a fair criterion!
Go visit the dens and novels &c your countrymen
here in Tree America; though with all the advanta.
gees OF her instiluiions with friends at every dour
10 help thenl-persuade thrm--nay, even pull them
up; aud observe the pnVe'ty and filth in which they
still wdlGw ! have seen more WTelchedness aud
misery beneath one Irish root, than you, Sir, can
find within any twenty abodes Of courcd people in
either Of the cities ol New York, Brookbn,or VII
liamsburg.
Go to our Aims Houses and Prisons, to our So
cietes for relief, to the cold and dreary Aaes Of our
cities, and eil il you will, the result Of your
animation. The occasional shrunksn blark YOU will
chance to meet, whose whole long life has bSen one
of brer serviInde and ueee will hardly compen-
safe or the numbers OF y0ur own miserable country
stumbled over at every turns nor yet answer as
an offset To the thrifty casa Of the couTed popula
ton fast rising in these cities.
Go, cuunt the innumeraLle gros gerieg-those sinks
OF death uha, imfest certain localities Of our cities,
aud the hoated forms you shall there find; follow
them their abpdes, and witness the bruised limbs
and bIackened eyes OF their wives and chiidren--
behold in yondeT shanty the cloited bloud pool, and
listen to he sliHed death groan; follow thence 10
the very jaws of the gallows, aud then write with
the same pen you did the notorious paragraph
have quoted, what manner Of men ihese are.
Are these the ones whom you would own, buy, sell,
and fog in America? Ipray You, go back, Sir, il
ynur parole Of honor privilege aIDw you, to yonr
naughty English oppresrors, and get them to change
their forms 4 Tyranny, il they can; aud you may
perchance, buy, sell. aud fog there, class. as yet
far lower dawn ia the scale of humanity than the
coored people OF America, whom yuu 40 wantony
upon, yeI no nobIy struggling TO throw Of
the yoke, aud break their chains; and who, when
this is done, will be ready, if need be. assist the
struggling millions Of Europe, whether they he
found in The dungeon, ON the auction block, I've.
meath The lash on the potato plantation Of some Irish
oppressOr.
Did We not suppore that good advice would be
lost upon such subject. we would ask John Mitch.
ell TO look back upon his Of rebellion and
dign punishment, and apply to his own country and
cause those truthful words that old John Forlescue,
in The 18th century, applied the French, viz: ait
is cowardice and lack Of Aartss and courage, that
keepi,h the Frenchmen Qrishmen) from ryslng, and
not poverye." 1t is because freshmen have CON-
fded in men with such groveling souls, that the
phrase of liberty for LELAND has become byword Of
contempt
LECTURE The last lecture of the prorniscu.