The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-03

ADDREss-TO THE IRISH AMERICAN CITI-
zENs OF RIcHMoND.-Friends and Fell0,o- Citizens:
1t is with exceedingly great pain that bid you fare.
we'll, as the declining state of my health compes
me to seek more congenial climate. Short as
has been my missionary career among you, have
experienced at your hands the most uniform kind
ness for which and for the last expression of your
generosity, return you my most sincere and heart
felt thanks
Permit me to say few words to you at nv de.
parture. On the point of Religion, you require no
further advice from me. You cannot now straw
from the beaten path, tracked it is In the blood
OF your Fathers for more than three centuries of
ruthless and grinding oppression. Remember
your preates who have spoken to you the word Of
God, and initiate We their faith
In political matters, would that you were as |
am myself neutral, that is annexing yourselves to
no one particular party, let them call themselves
Wing or Democrat, but supporting and casting your
votes for that party that intends and proposes most
good for our common adopted country. Neither
must we attach ourselves to any OF these fanatica
isms which agitate and distract the political surface
of this country "Exes, from the land which con-
tains the bones and ashes of our Fathers we have
and Jefferson-illy, then, would it become us
to join any party that would seek to sunder
or dismember this glorious Union much less
will you join any such party, when you under.
stand that such political incendiaries are urged
on by your and their sworn foesmen | mean the
thrice accursed British Aristocracy There is no
part of this great Republic that sympathses more
deeply and feelingly with the Affections OF the
Irish people, than do the generous and noble heart
ed people of the ''sunny South You must then
disconneet yourselves from. discountenance and
frown down that canting hypocrtical set, which by
means OF violent agitation and the lying publications
of crazy-headed women, (such as those OF Mrs Har-
riet Beecher Stowe aims at the destruction of the
institutions OF the country. Nor must you forget
that in the supporters OF her party to be found
those, who treated you as ''serfs" In your native
land, and who still goad, lash and torture to death
their Irish white slaves No, my friends, the insti
tutions of this country not to be amelorated
changed by violent means--this work has to be
done by suasion, by healthy and deliberate action
in the councils of the Nation.
Iwould also caution you against forming "dis-
tinct natonalities" in this country, some would
do We must become blended, fused into the Re-
public-n word, we must become bona fde citi-
zens--he who acts otherwise is simply traitor 10
the country and to the duties of American citizen
ship.
Ihavc also to say few words about divisions or
dissensions amongst ourselves. Alas that it should
be written the cause of Erfns long night OF bond
age and oppression may be read ia that single word
division Let me repeat 1t over and over again
even at this hour-even at this side of the Allan.
tic, the lesson has mighty moral May we learn
TO appreciate IT, Dissension and petty Jealous
les Loot Ireland. and from that hour, when Strong
bow, with fie Anglo Norman robbers, scaled the
walls OF Dublin, date all the sorrows, famines
plaques and misrule, that with four-fold scourge
have dashed that wretched and degraded island.
',And throughout our desslaton, mark ye not Gods
holy hand, z
Smiling With subtle vengeance for our sins against
~ this landi
sordid lust -
trustr' 800
Shall this state of things continued Gracious
Heaven forbid By all the memories of the past /.
would conjure lrshnen to sink all petty jcaousiss,
which have cansed them to forget their duties TO the
land that bore them. which have been the aJsms Il
Virgo omainm Maiorxm.. and which still serve 10
petpstuafe their CALLING bondage. 81
How well did one Of Erin's Saints and patriets
toresee the miseres consequent on such dissensions