Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-20
1R1sHMEN AND SLAVERY.

In another part of the paper will be found
two very significant articles,-one from the
New York Tablet, and the other from the Bos-
ton Pilot. They relate to certain recent vic
tins of the terrorism which slavery has estab-
lshed in the south, and express considerable
wholesome indignation. These two papers
are among the foremost Irish Catholic papers
in this country and the public interest will
be served by their influence, if they maintain
faithfully their present position on this point;
for they have great constituency, who need
to understand what slavery is doing with free
dom and free labor. They have never studied
Senator Hammonds "mudsil speech" nor be-
come fully initiated into all the mysteries of
southern Sociology" else their astonishment
would not be SO great.
Many of our naturalized Irish fellow citi-
zens re greatly surprised that some of their
countrymen residing in the Slave States, have
been made victims of the reign of terror
which prevails there. They have supported
the Democratic party they have done what
they could in politics to maintain the ascend
ency of the slave power; they have made a
cry question; and they, if anybody, should
have the freedom of the South Why then
are 1rishmen, in the South, scourged, tarred
and feathered, robbed, and banished, at the in
stance of any evil minded person who chooses
to represent that they are abolitionists ? 1t is
surprising; they cannot understand it, because
they have never allowed themselves to under
stand the true character of slavery, that relic
of brutal barbarism, which they support by
supporting the democratic party.
Those whom slavery has outraged in South
Carolina and Georgia, and then banished, will
be likely to infer that the 'irrepressible con-
fict'' is a reality. More than one southern Or
acle has declared that "free society is fail
ure,'' and that all poor, laboring white men
should be held as slaves. This is the modern
democracy of the party, which has persuaded
so many Irishman to give it their votes,-a
party owned and managed by the shareholders
through the well paid agency of countless
horde of federal office holders. 1t represents
slavery, flibustering. slave hunting, and land
stealing, and it has tar and feathers in the
South for freemen but nowhere does it repre-
sent the people or cherish the rights of free
labor. 1t upholds slavery, while its leaders
draw pay from the federal treasury, and that
is all. Why should Irishmen, to whom the
rights of free labor should be especially DEAR
support this party2 AS to visiting the South
no man should undertake such an enterprise
without knowing what qualifications are me-
cessary to secure federation in that quarter
The matter is stated very concisely in a recent
number of the Atalanta (Ga.) Confederacy, as
follows -
eve regard every man in our midst as an en-
envy to the institutions of the South, who does
not bodily declare that he or she believes Afri-
can slavery to be social, moral, and political
blessing. Any person, holding other than
these sentiments, whether born at the South
or North, is unsound, and should be requested
to leave the country"
1t is not necessary to be an abolitionist, to
become exposed, in the South, to scourging,
tar, and feathers. The scourging, and all the
other outrages, are sure to overtake any man
who fails to believe that slavery is "a social,
moral, and political blessing" 1t may have
been worse in Naples, under King Bomba it
may have been worse in Hungary, under the
administration of Haynau; but, we doubt it.
If there were no latent anti-slavcry sentiment
in the South, slavery might not be SO fierce
and relentless in its brutaties.