Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-28


humble son of The green Isle of the ocean-it was
with feeling of joy that saw it announced, notlong
since through the press that ten lrzh regiments in
the Abolition States had offered their services TO
President Davis, to fight against Northern Adolf
| tonists, and for Southern independence. was
pleased to see that those born in the land with
myself had the intelligence to know that the North
was the invader and aggressor, and that the cause
of the South was the of truth and ustiee and
that in defending their homes and fresdes, and the
institution of slavery, they were defending those
| rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution OF
the United States they were defending those rights
rights which they were not privileged to ENJOY IN
peace by their unprinciped neighbors OF the North
/ But alas! how eyanescent was my feeling OF JOY!
l had scarcely enjoyed the pleasure Of this state
ment when to my surprise and sorrow, learned
| that my eountrymen at the North were arrayed
against the South, whose they know, or ought
| to know, is that of truth and justice.
| Ihave ascertaned that when the Prince of Wales
! arrived in New York, Colonel COrcoran declined
| the request of the authorities to show public re-
spect to that individual, by parading at the head
of his Irish regiment in the military and CIVIC pro-
cesson. For this act of his | hOnOred him. He
| declined to show respect to a descendant OF kings
| and rulers who had from Henry the VIII, IN 1888,
nearly down to the present time, crushed the people
of Ireland by confscating their lands, plunderlng
their property and enacting cruel penal laws which
hurled Ireland from her prosperity and intelligence
| to misery and degradation For this act Of disre-
| suect Colonel COPeoran was threatened with pun
;shuent and the Aboitonists abused him, while the
South and particularly South Carolina, applauded
him for it. / wonder how Col. COrcoran feels now,
in arms with the same party who threatened to have
MIN punished whose cause is unjust, and against
tIe South whose cause is just and who appreciated
him when his new associates spurned him! L do
not know how he feels, but he should fight as many
battles as Napoleon Bonaparte, and escape them al
he will find a tarnish upon his laurels, and blight
unon his fair lame, He will be respected neither
bv the South who have defended him, nor by the
Abohtoniss at the North, whose hatred Of the Irish
is too well known.
| With regard to Thomas Francis Meagher, Cap
tain of a company In the same regiment he may
think that he can immortalize himself in this an
kee crusade against the South, as he did in distur-
bng the condition of Ireland by his premature, inn
prudent and abOrtiVe attempt with other patriots,
tn reyolutoniZe my native land in lo4S. shall not
he 80 unkird as to dispute his talent his intelligence
and his patriotism but shall ever believe that, on
the occasion referred to, he was rash and lmpru-
dent in attempting to counterfeit the pohcy OF Dan
| iel O'Connell, who had done more for the welfare
| of his country than any other man for three hun
: dred wears previous. He had done much for her
when YOU SIR with other rash patriots insulted
that great kind and benevolent OConnell. SANDER
ed his memory by upsetting his policy, and wrench
ed the bark of Ireland from her safe moorlngs, tc
be drifted out upon the stormy pillows Of British
mower, tyranny and persecution. But with all tnli
rashness and imprudence, you still have claims up
on your country, and upon your countrymeni buE
= know not how you can associate yoursen Win
horde of Abolitonists and vaHdals who are engage
in an unjust and unrighteous crusade against the
= South.
When YOU arrived in this country from Van Die
mems land and commenced your lectures on th'
Volunteers of 49, and Australia. you had no pat
rons in Yankee land but your own countrymen; 0u
, when YOU came South, you were listened to ant
apprecIated as gentleman by the most refined cir
Giles of society. know not how you can be tount
in arms with band of oporessors and loW-mlndeC
IL ], -, lodi ma CTnn n n
people of the South. l always looked upon you a
! a patriot, but rash and imprudent others OF your
countryuien viewed you in different ght put res
:, | assured that whatever of laurels you may gain
the North, your character for rashness ana lmpru
o dence will again be established against you.
Again. with regard to the editor OF the BostoI
l. Pilot, who has been an able advocate of Catho
| licitv and the Irish. | wonder how he can encOur
= | ace his countrymen to fight in a cause so unJus
| and oppressive as the waged by the Aboh
!. tonists against the South. l wonder how he ca
| sustain that party whose persecution OF CathOhc
| and Irish he has witnessed; whose burning o
= Charlestown nunnery, at the instlgauon
such men as Beecher, he had seen; who's
n women of that institution he had heard
=, He had witnessed the nunnery IN flames, and IN
!. | noble inmates-hOly women and innocent chldren-
ID driven into the streets on cold December nlgn
e without clothing house to shelter them from IN
petipgs of the pitless storm, creeping INTO the CIT
:: of Roston at the hour of midnight. he mad see
ii all this cruelty and oppression practced' Wnll
Rurker Hill Monument stood firm, and the stars an
10 stripes oated as embems of freedom and OF reLe
e ions liberty He had seen and heard all this an
had netitioned the Massachusetts, Legislature to II
build that nunnery, in vain; near that nag Wlic
- foated above the doomed convent. andyet gave
no protection, floats above his office now.
Again-he must remember the destruction VI .
Augustine Church, in Philadelphia, by that sam
party-who stood frantic with JOY as the flames eI
rs veloping the sacred edihce soon lett nOtnEg OF
but its blackened walls, and the words stlll vlsio
which the fury of the eon1lagratIon could not OOH
erste-the words: God sees'-which stand as a
indellible evidence Of the handwriting Oh Uo
against them for future judgment.
., You must remember, too, that Know Nothlnglsl
Os first had its origin in subterranean passage IN IN
ri same Philadelphia--this city OF Brotherly Low
IN Their ayowed object you remember, was an eNlcl
's sion of the Naturalization laws, but in reality Il
~ determination of the Catholics. But when the
came to the South they found that they were eXO
in an ungenial cline. They found our statesme
against them-they found thegallant and gu :euaie
andtr Stephens battling against their principle
- in letters and in speeches-exposlng the eVh cons
ouences of sscret associations, dlscomhung theI
and scattering their doctrines to the winds
With al these evidences of persecution IN u
North, how can you, sir, sustain that party "hIC
is not only the enemy Of the South but is the pc
secutor Of the Irish and the Catholic? would nc
- sir do you any injury, if it were IN my power o.
warn you now that your rash and lmprude
course will tell against you in the future wnen yc
shall be left to the cold charity of the North II
his support. r
ale Ii is true that the first blood for American FIRE
dom was sheu at Lexington; but 1t IS equally tr'
that there was scarcely battle fought IN the WI
which followed, IN which the South was not T
vs presented. Her immortal Washington her Mario
he her Sumter and other distinguished sons OF
South. with her yeomanry, participated Tree
in that struggle and aided materially IN deteatll
the foe and achieving our independence
, In 1872, the British again commenced WI
= against u.s. and for some years it was waged WI
nd varying fortunes, until peace was conquered I
in, the Southern General, Andrew jackson, at New
,ns leans, on the 8th day of January, 1915
TO In the struggle for independence in Texas, q
me- North took but little interest; the South on t
contrary, took an open and an active part 90
lS' was with the Mexican war. The North was oppc
in ed to that struggle and the fighting principal
done by the South.
ep' Scarcely had the victory here been achieved
DC scarcely had the smoke of battle cleared away,
. the honored dead cOnfded to their last restl
I'm places when the Abolitionsts OF the North pour
into California despite the fact that that Terrific
- had been conquered principally by Southern valC
declared that it should be free State, and !
a, South should have no share part in its lnstI
and lions and products.
,to Fellow countrymen, 1 will give you brief VIC
cap of slavery. it is unnecessary for me TO ten you
is of divine origin. The Patrarchs of old had thl
Ito servants and domestics, who belonged to them
ring life. Our Saviour when on earth, had new
SAID anything to abolish the distinctions OF NE,
the degree ofservitude which is equivalents to sa'
D nv. He told the servant to obey bis master, a
n the master to treat the servant with mildness
IDENTIFY inculcatinga maxim acknowledging uegl
of servitude subject to master. When the STA
z repaired to ST. Paul for protection in that part
D, italy where he then was, he wrote to the master
remember he had Master in Heaven who wo'
exact an account of his conduct; to treat the SIS
vvith christian miIduess and then told the sery
to discharge his duty faithfully to his master.