Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-20

macy, very many OF them are honest and noble
hearted, but too many, alas are found wanting.
| do not accuse the Irish in America Of any
vicious proclivity,' any innate love Of slavery.
l believe they left their home with far different
feelings but they have given a too ready adher.
ence to wrong they have not spoken boldly for
the right.
did not feel under any necessity to answer
Mr.. Parks che !lenge, in the way you refer to,
for every freshman residing in a slave state neces.
assists in keeping his fellow men in bondage, and
in reducing them to that condition.
Soldiers are, 1 suppose. bound by their oath to
obey their orders, if it can be truly said that any
man is bound to do wrong, which l cannot admit.
The original error lies in becoming a soldier, and
taking any such oath as you refer to. By this de.
vice, ..tyrants everywhere have contrivcd to repress
liberty. If you refer to the conduct of the Irish
militia in Boston. who carried Anthony Burns Il
think it was) back into the hell of slavery, their
conduct was infamous, and not as l have under.
stood, necessitated on their part by the rules Of
their service but | am not certain on this point.
believe you are in error as to the feelings of
all political parties in America-at any rate, / see
them in a different light. They pretty nearly
alike dislike England and | don't think any of
them care a straw about Ireland. Contempt for
us is there the general sentiment, and Ir egret deep.
ly that we owe this feeling to the conduct of our
own people, who have so generally been false to
their own convictions. An Irishman who is not
the foe Of slavery must be despised.
My intercourse with Americans has been con.
fined to the thorough, the true.hearted anti slave.
ry party and | never in a single instance met
one of them who did not warmly sympathize with
tue misgovernment of Irishmen at home. | be-
lieve this to be the hearty feeling Of every genu.
inc anti.slavery man and woman in America.
II Irishmen have any vengeful feelings against
England, l think it a wrong feeling. l would not
even ask them to hate the STAKEHOLDER, or to do
him any wrong ; the utmost length l would go is,
to beg Of them to have no fellowship with him,
while be continues in his ~iniquity.
To my .ountrymen at home, l would say, be
bold and firm and uncompromising in your love of
liberty abate not one jot in yonr determination
to secure its blessings for yourselves and your
children for ever and let every friend you have
in America know and feel that you have an hon.
est. manly, true hearted adherence of slavery and
NPpiSooiOh O'S' y"hSiSj "hOhpOA ~ hOhiO VI aDiOhu.
Be true to your own convictions Of dut, respect
yourselves, and the world will honor and respect
you. | have lived and labored long among and
with you, and my great desire now, in the de-
cline Of life, is, to see my countrymen striving
after every virtue which can dignity and ennoble
our nature.-I am, my dear sir. yours respectful
ly. JAMES HAUGHTON.
So Eccles street, 18th October 1858.
The Editor of the Nation. disputed some of Mr..
Haughtons statements. but John Mitchell of the
Knoxville Citizen, fully %sustains all that Mr..
I~laughton has said in reference to his countrymen
in America. lie says;
First Every Irishman in the Southern States
without exception, who cat afford to buy negroes,
straightway buys them.
Second Some Of the largest and most success,
full planters in the Southern States are born Irish
men and the finest plantation that has been pur
chased in America sor many years, with $50 ne.
groes upon it, was last winter sold in Louisiana {:
the purchaser was an Irishman.
"Third: Not only is there q largo npmber of
Irish, born citizens at the South who own Slaves
but most of the Southern planters and slavehold'
er,, we are proud to say, are Irish By descent.
Fourth Our acquaintance with lrish.born cit
liens at the South is very extensive and we new.
err met with one of them who is not in favor OF re.
viving the slave trade with Africa save one and
be is a very large stakeholder already, and wants
no more.
"FifM Irish citizens at the North, though
they have no personal interests in slavery, almost
universally give their votes to let il alone (Which
is all that is asked of them), because they have
no business with it, no responsibility for it be
cause it exists under the Constitutions; by which
same Constitution their own rights and liberties
exists and because its enemies have proved them
selves to be their enemies"
This witness is true, and The Nation, instead Of
trying to break the force of Mr.. Haughton's we'll
timed rebukes, should, for the cake of humanity
and the honor OF Ireland, unite with him in de-
nouncing the brazen bypocracy Of those who,
after fleeing from oppression in their native land,
lend their influence and their votes to sustain sla,
very in the United States,