Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-09-22
From tfe American (phila.) Bannel
An Irishman's Views upon the A1eri-
can Question.

can Question.
An lnteligept.and learned Irishman, and
citizen of this ,apgntry, has sent US the follow
ing appeal TO his eountrymen upon the grea
Iqusslon of the day. We commend his sonnd
conservative, patrqx REPRODUCTION to the pc,
rusal of all'our q s,.and especially to tbs
BIRTH s
| 1t is well known to ev{ff1rishman,. tha. il
the many vain attemptsM shave been peri
odicaily made through the Zee of eight huns
dred years, to shake off the incubus Of British
ascendency, our only and constant cry was,
"lreland for the Irsh." This cannot bs denied.
We were even satisfied to remain an appendage
to the British crown, if they only allowed us
she privilege OF being governed by ,,atiue born
| oheers. How then can we consistently CON-
plain OF the party now organizing in this coun.
| try, named the American party-a party whose
| only OBJECT is to preserve intact and inviolats
the dearly>bought heir-looms of that crusade
for freedom, the most glorious the sun of hea.
ven ever looked upon since that morning of
creation, when the stars of heaven sung toee-
ther for Joy? Aparty which will forever re.
main the only break-water on earth between
liberty and oppression, perpetuating the bless
sings OF existence 10 remotest time, and ul.
tima'ely saving US from our worst enemy-yiz
ourselves. II we are to suffer any Injustice. it
is merely of negative character. They do
not Propose to depriveus of anything, except
so far as the deprivation is founded on the
universal law Of our na,ure--r,anely. self. pro-
lection. They do not propose to deprive YOU
OF the proceeds Of your honest toll; they do
not aim to send forth those clerical locusts to
dragoon you out OF the tenth of your substance.
Generally and hospitality they invite YOU to
partake Of the fertility of their land, but they
contend for non.interference on our part in
the management Of their domestic policy. It
is with the body polite as with the body phy.
sical, extremes are hurtful.
We cannot escape from the burning heats
OF the tord zone, and plunge Immediately in
70 the frozen streams Of the north; we cannot,
FVthout danger, pitch in the desert and revsi
The hrst spring we meet; neither can we
safety emerge from the dark and debase. |
nNraldom Of hereditary bondage, into the |
had blaze of freedom, without long and |
time. training: Gratitude has been, at all !
itnde >aracteristic of our race. The ingrat-
arorn oHn Irishman is like Juvenal's bird,
Then IN ferris, nigroque inillimo cyno."
that tb.itYs prove to the American people |
that a. wei ~e = s2tless favors are not forgotten
political parss stermIaed to seperate from the
on our impetds VINO have meanly speculated
and now, when feelings and religious fears,
true American ! crisis has come, and the
ward, they are qut is eliminating heaven
| ty, and despised az Us weakened as par.
time when the wordPeople. There was
the music of heaven y'er'can sounded like
when the generous stSuf lacerated hearts;
pathy flowed warm and aof American sym-
ling and oppressed chiittoward the perish
| When her strong men wen Of green Erin.
ands into their cofinles. eking BY thous.
America was stretched across, the arm of
noble rescued the remnant ff wave, and
annih;la,ion, and how have we re lingering
4 We have actually helped to q her!
our conduct at the ballot-box, that out, by
free governments, that the minority eism in
ern. We have aided TO ostracise frol gov
and place the wisest and bravest men swer
kcountry, and substitute in their places 4is 4
descript species of animals, who are novp.
laughlng-stock of the garteFed fools of Ed
pean cabinets. Even be, the patriot of hum |
nifty, the sage Of Ashland, whose wisdom mos,
than once checked the willy cabinet of on
hereditary foe; whose brilliant emanation
swoke the slumbering embers Of expiring liber
ty in the wild pampas Of South America; ans
whose undying eloqusnce, recited around tn,
camp-fres Of Greece and Poland, nerved tn,
heart Of Suliote and Sarmatiaa 10 dor
even he, glorious in defeat, was pulled dowr
from his high and well-merited aspirations
through the instrumentalty Of street politician
I L.. ,snA~ ,I,v IL ~:
suicidal course. which will ultimately end il
our discontinue and disgrace! Can we wisl
for a nobler, boiler termination, than wal
that Of the founders Of this heaven-favored re-
public9 What comforts in life were theirs! 4
life Of privation and toll. A grave in the bat
| tle-feld, but with the prof consciousness tha
they were leaving to their successors:
"A hope, name,
They too would rather die than shamen
But you may reply, our religion is threaten
ed by this American party. was always o
opinion that mans religion was perfectly in
dependent Of external contigences-an invisi
BE compact between the creator and creaturt
nti6sd BY approving conscience; and il foun
Ided On The immutable promises Of heaven, i
cannot b subysrted BY human agency. II
survived the shocks Of persecution for eigh
| sail it.
Besides, the grsat majority Of the America
people ars psrfectly Indifferent to the propaga
| tion Of any particular creed ln it be not con
nectsd with IL 0tsts they care not whethe
you reverence Tie Grand Lama of Thibet, th,
Patriarch Of conslantinopls, or the Romai
Ponti6 while the teachers of other denomin