Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-14
. THE CITIZEN


This is the title Of new weekly paper at
New York, edited by Messrs. John Mitchell
and Thos. F. Meagher. The latter gentleman
however, is on his way to California, and we
must regard the sentiments at present uttered
by the Citizen as those of Mr.. Mitchell. They
may be learned upon one important subject
from the following extract from the I'd mum.
Der of that paper
"James Haughton is merchant Of Dublin
worthy and sincere man. but an amiable
monomaniae. He has published letter, ad.
dressed to Thomas Francis Meagher,' to whom
he wants to say few solemn words across
the Atlantic The purport of these solemn
words is all contained in the extracts here fol-
lowing:
- Is liberty less tho right Of the black man
than Of the white man IL it be 80, prove it.
49,. Be consistent, then, and,
while you are in land Of slave-drivers, sane
ton not their denial Of civil and social rights
to the colored people by your silence or you
will become q participation in these wrongs =
But what right has this gentleman to ex-
pect Thomas Francis Meagher, or the others
whom he has named, to take up his wearisome
song, which they always refused to sing at
cious friend, IL possible, by little plain Eng
lish. We are not Abolitionists-- moro Abb
olitionists than Moses, or Socrates, or Jesus
Christ. We deny that il is a crime, or a
wrong, or even peccadillo to hold slaves to
buy slaves to sell slaves to keep slaves to their
work by fogging or other needful coercion.
BY your silence says Mr.. Haughton, you
will become participator in their wrongs
But we will not be silent when occasion calls
for speech and, as for being a participator in
the wrongs, ioe, for our part, aoish aDe had a
good plantation, acel! stocked qpith healthy ne
groes, an alabama. There, now--is Mr.. Haugh-
ton content?
What right has he to call upon Mr.. Mitchell,
the moment he sets his foot in America, to be-
gin crusade for cause which, rs Mr. Haugh-
ton knows, was always distasteful to him in
,Irelanda Are we a Jonah, that we should do
this thing--that we should take up whether
we will or not) Mr.. Haughton's outcry against
Nineveh, that great city? Have we escaped
out of the whales belly for this
" Mr. Haughton is a good sort Of man,
though monomaniac. Why will he persist
in making himself an object of terror to his
acquaintances Why will he compel his
friends to wish that some monster 10 human
form had plundered his cradle when he was a
baby?n
All this may be very pertinent, very elo-
quent very philanthropic, and very revcren-
tial, though ye do not think So But we are
only concerned in 80 far rs that The Citizen
has revealed itself as it is to the people of this
country, and impressed upon their minds a
conviction of the genuineness Of the devotion to
the cause of universal freedom that led these
patriots" to put their lives in jeopardy in
their native country.
The Citizen may prove o profitable business
enterprise; and, if SO, Mr.. Mitchell will no
doubt DO satisfied. Should it prove otherwise,
however, there are many wide fields in the sun
ny South, whittier oil such patriots and
champions Of freedom" may 20, to realize the
liberty they love SO well--the liberty to hold
slaves, to buy slaves to sell slaves to keep slaves
to their [hisl work by fogging or other needfal
correction
Have the friends Of freedom in New York no
new and still more expressive testimonial Of APP
proval and admiration in store, for this recent
ly belioned refugee from British thraldoma