The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-02-20
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John NIitchei-rSIayesrry,, &c.

John Mitchell, one of the Irish ,exiles who
recently escaped from the Britishpenal col
ony to this country, has commenced the pub
LEGATION of paper in New York, in connec-
zion with Mr.. Meagher. Not long since
the latter gentleman received letter from
an old acquaintance in Ireland, named
Haughton, in which the subject of negro
slavery in this country was commented
upon. In this letter Mr.. Haughton uses the
following language :p,ray5e rsGL ofttl
Is liberty less the right of the black man
than of the white man? If it be So prove
1t. Be consistent, then; and,
while you are in land of slave drivers,
sanction not their denial of civil and social
rights to the colored people by your silence,
or you will become participator in these
To this Mr.. Mitchell replies in his paper
as follows:
g But what right has this gentleman to
expect that Thomas Francis Meagher, or the
others whom he has named, to take up his
wearisome song, which they always refused
to sing at home! Now, let us try to satisfy
our pertinacious friend, if possible, by lit
tie plain English. We are not Abolition
ists-no more Abolitionists than Moses, or
Socrates, or Jesus Christ We deny that it
Is crime, or wrong, or even peccudillo,
to hold slaves, to buy slaves, to sell slaves,
to keep slaves to their work BY 1ogging or
other needful coercion. BY your Silence, ,
says MIR. Haughton, you will become par
tIcipator In these wrongs But we will not
be silent when occasion calls for speech :;
and, as tor being participator in the
wrongs, aDe, TOR our part, acish ace had a good
plantation aOeu stocked 1cith healthy negroes
IN Alabama. There, now-is Mr.. Haugh-
ton con ntent!" .e
a3ihis strange language, for one who claims
TO have suffered next thing to martyrdom
for his devotion to liberty, has called forth
many severe structures from the American
press. Among Others, Rev Fl. w. Beecher
has. taken Mr.. M. up upon his avowal of al
desire to be STAKEHOLDER. The following is
the close of Mr.. BIS article: qa~o
when Mr.. Mitchell sends greeting to the
South, after the fashion of the extract with
which we pollute little spot in our paper
he may be praised by few who have pur-
pose, and are willing to use unprincipled|
men; but among the sober, the considerate,
the honorable men of the South, such sud-
den aud gross revolution will be received
with disgust. If there must be defence of
slavery, men will feel-and nowhere more
than al the South-that he should not vol
unteer who has himself tasted the cup of
bitterness, and whose frantic outcries under
oppression are still ringing in the ear.
rs g If this was the thistle that was growing
in Ireland, and preparing to shake forth its
seed for universal crop, then England has
put the world in debt to her by cutting it'll
up by the root, and Divine Providence has
saved the Emerald Isle from one who only
needed power and opportunity to be domes-
.saia; Here comes to thee, 0 Alabama a weary
riigriaa; whose life had been spent in war
fare with oppression! Those scars, they are
the memorial of liberty; that pale cheek it'll
is wasted in the weary strife for human
rights; that sunken eye, it pined away in
long confinement borne for liberty's sake
And now this consecrated life he bears toI
thy soil, 0 thrice fortunate Alabama and
that breath that has blown the trumpet
against kings and tyrannics, is heard in soft
whispers along thy streams asking for fat
plantation. That resounding voice that.
awoke the sympathy Of the world for free
dom, now sends terror through the cottonI
field: or yocforates triumphant bids for
comely girls and healthy boys of diyidedI
families. among squabblng Lagrees. around
the auction block. A poor chance hath any
other bidder whose voice hath not been