New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-19
DARCY MGEE ON SLAVERY AND THE
IRISH ELEMENT.
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Frca TIE Mortroa! TSursevpt.
TLo introductory lecture of the Third Annual Course
before the St. PsiIick's Literary Association drew
Lrge male audience TO Seminary Hall on Thursday
cvenipgtbe state of the streets preventing the usual
full attendance Of The ladies. Mr.. McGee, who on
picen,ing bimeelf WIS received with wnrm applause,
before proceeding 10 the suboctratier Of his lecture.
gave short account OF the Socetyu progress for the
rect ycer and announced the programme for the pres-
ent lecture season. We bhye not full note Of the
lecture or addess es il was delivered but we under
stood s fri object to be to show tha, tho Celtic ee-
n.ent rs the white population Of the United States
was much larger than il usually exhbited-thai tho
country might be called almost accurately Celto-
American except in the rather important matter OF
language alone.
Tie Celtic element, tie lecturer asserted, the
Irisb, Welsh Highland Scotch, Scotch ILh from the
Province Of Utter with ncture Of French or Span
inrds chiefly 10 be found in the South. lie oonirsted
the dominant Anglican element in Massachusetts asd
Connecticut with the Celtic element in some Of tho
Midland and Westcrn Stnies, and more particularly in
Georgia and South Carolina, Of which latter olsSs be
preeentcd the Lynches and the Ruiodgee Of the Reyo
Iutray era, the Jscsons and Calhouns OF later times,
and the Mngraths Stephens, and Howell Cobbs Of tho
present time, ~ representative men. Having next
skeched rapidly the wonderful growth Of the Republic
flom 1890 till the Of 1880 in territory, popua-
tion trade and wealth. the lecturer arrived at the second
part Of his subjec-thc preseu, Slavery crisis His re-
marks under this head, which listened TO with the
greatest interest," We have endeayored 10 report at least
substantially.
Having sIoken Of tie original AntiSlavcry party as
continuation Of tie same grea. movement which VIII
bcrforce and ClnTkson led in England, he proceeded
nearly us follows:
Bat the dsys when the fIst AntSlsyery men mainly
derended for sanction If not for existence, on the
moral support of Exeter Hall, have for sOme years
been pas, and gone When thht cause began 10 lind
unususl expression within the walls OF Congress from
Mr. Giddings in the liouse, and Mr.. Seward In the
Senate; when IL found free 10 the columns Of
The TRIBUNE, aud the benches Of the Tabernacle IN
New York; when an av0wed Anti-Sayery organ could
be published in WashinHOn City, when the gallant
Csseips Clay could challenge it's opponents to open do
bate on the platforms Of kGnucky-then II became an
essentially American causc-it could no longer be
looked upon the eXclusive offspring Of either New
England or Old England. Citizens Of lrish birth, Ike
al others ought then 10 have given it, at least fair
heaire The Irish hould have been, from their auto
ctdes among the FRET TO feel for the woes oil the op
pressed and TO do,iic that the bondman might be set
free; lut rst unavoablo impression l. hard 10 be re-
moved snd tho suspicion Of its paternity still ciung to
tie caule and froDo up their flowing sympathies.
viii hazard enc remark before passing from this
subject; il is tis, that whatever connection the IN
and MR. Stowe, may have with the advanced Anti
Slavery pecple IN and about Boston, nothing can be
clearer than the Imperial policy Of ngand h these
latter days much more interested Ia the PreoerVaon
of the American Union than in iis dissolution. III -
hard to pagne how The commercial and industrial re-
atione existing between tho two countries at this
moment could be improved, for England, by dissoin-
ton. have eeen the views TO tho contrary OF Mr.
Secretary Floyd and of the Governor OF Arkasas IN
Lis late message but cannot regard those views as
ar sighted or accurate. II IL eminently TO Engands
nterest that the great English speaking Republic OF
the West should be united; at ponce ut home, and
no,ycrful and respected abroad III it splits into two
rowers England can only hope 10 be the trusted ally
of one Of them, aud whatever rival sho may have In
Europe, will always be sure Of o second North Amen-
can interest to play of against her on this continent
merely indicate nv own conviction in this matter,
bnt feel IL 10 be 70 well founded in reason and OBJ
seryation that don't hetate TO assert that those who
pay they zee an English intrigue IN the present Amer
lean agitation haunted by chimeEa, which exists
only i their own weak imaginatons. Individuals In
Ersland like Lord Brougham and Lord Shaftesbury,
who have devoted their hves 70 the Anli-Sayery
cause naturally sympathzc W. she present American
struggle against Slavery; but the foreign policy OF the
empire is not guided by msxims Of mere bcneyolence
and 10 no Court Ia ChrstCDdom would the tidngs OF
the dissolution OF the American Union be more unwel'
cone al this moment than to tho Court oil 81 james
have emphasized this point because intend 10 appear
i think In tho inercsts Of common reputation
am entitled 10 appeal TO the Irish in the United Sate
in the name Of their original countrymen in CANADA,
that they will not by any artiul nsgetion OF ancient
aninosines-thst they will not out OF any supposed
antagoniem to EngRsh diplomacy in America, suffer
themselves to be enlisted with the for9rn hope o.
human Slavery in the Northern states. seiPo"Yeisi
manufacturers and merchants Of Boston, Nsw-fork
and Philadelphia, viii invite them az work.
ing men and as Irishmen TO sustain what they
call their conservative THAT b, their seinsh
pccuniary principles, by their numerical and ardent
enthusiasm. They may be deluded into taking that
position; they may, under falsely interpreted sense
Of duty to the Constitution, become the active instri-
ments Of the last Proslaycry struggles but let them
take II from me, frankly and while y Is yet time they
will fail and their leaderswil TAIL Not all the sopni
trv of Ibe edyocates not all the money Of the mer.
chants can ever again bury the wrongs Of the ensaved
out Of sight on this continent. There is black cloud
over the South, from the Susquehanna to the fio
Crspde; and IL will not pass away till four millions OF
hands from which the napacles have been knocked
of are raised in prayer to their Father in Heaven 70
pardon the oppressons Of the past for the sake OF the
tardy Justice which at length has been dons to them
ApplsUso .o,a
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