Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-10
Coax ExoHASGE RooM.. I
DuRLIN, llth October, 1873. {


Gentlemen We have read, With the
deepest atfl,ction, lot unmiKe,i With some
surpriss and much Indignation, your de-
tailed aud anxious ViDdication of the most
h,AHnos 1890 thas has ever 6tained bu-
...-.'r Vue oInVrTy men OF GUIor in the
UaiIed States of Am rica. We sre lost 10
utter amaEemenT at the PerVersion of mind
aud deprnVIty of heart which your address
evil Ger. How can the generous, the chari
table. the humane, the noble emotions of
tho Irish heart, have become extinct
amongst you2 How can 5 our nature be 30
totally changed rs that you should become
the apOlOgists and advocates of that exc
Crahle system. which makes man the prop.
cry of bis fellow man-destroJp the fouu.
d1liOn of all moral and social virtues
cord mns to ignorance, immnrnltJ AID ir-
religion, millions Of our ftllow -creAtures-
renders the slave hopeless OF relief, aud
prIpetuatts oppression by law; and, in the
name of what you call a Constitutional
IL Was not 10 Ireland you learned this
cruelty. Your mothers we're gentle kind
and humane. Their bosoms oveGd lwed
with the honey OF human charity. Your
sisters are, probably, may of them, still
amonst us, and participate in all that is
good and benevoleut in srntiment and ac-
ti"n. Hor. theE, csu you have become so
d prnEed2 How can your souls have be-
cOme stained with darkness blacker than
the uegro's skin2 You say you have no
petuniary interest in negro slavery. Would
that you had tor it might be SOme pallia-
tiUu of your crimel but, alas you have
j, fltcIed upon US the horror of beholdInR
you the VOLUNTEER advocates of depOtism,
in IT'S most frighTtul state; of Slavery, in
its most loathsOme and unrelentiug form
We were, uuhappily, prepared to expect
Sat l. ~, 4
Tuere has been testimony borne against
the Irish, by birth or descent, in America,
by person 80 fully informs d as TO The
facts. aud incapable Of the slightest mis-
representations; noble OF nature more than
of titled birth; man gifted with the high
est order of talent and the most generous
emotions of the heNrt-the great tue good
Lord Mofpeth-he who. in the House of
Commons, boldly asserted the superior
social morality of the poorer classes OF the
Irish over any other people-hs, the best
irieud OF any of the Saxon race that Ire
land and the Irish ever kLeN; be, amidst
the couRreRated thousands at Exeter Hall
In London, mourniully. but firmly, de-
houuced the Irish in America as being
amongst the worst enemies of the negro
slaves and other men of colcr.
At is therefore, our sOlenu and sacred
auty TO warn you, in words already used,
ana much misunderstood by you-''to come
out OF her-not thereby meaning to ask
Soh to come out of America, but ont ofthe
councils Of the iniquitous, and out of the
congregation of the wicked, who consider
man ehattel and pr. perty, and liberty
an inconvenience. Yes, We tell you to
come out of such assembiage.; but We did
NOT ana DO not invite you to return to Ire.
Ano. The volunteer defenders of slave
Fy' surrounded By one thousand crimes.
would hnd neither sympArAy nor support
mru.
Your advocacy of slavery is founded upon
gross error. You take for granted that
man Can be the properly of his fellow man.
Lou speak in terms of indignation of IboAe
VINO would deprive white men of their
properly" and thereby render them less
S,'p'o'e et supporting their famili. in af-
nHence. You forget the other side of the
picture. You have neither sorrow nor
sym pathy for the suferinRs Of those who
"otk vi hout wagts-Who toll without
Fecompense-who -pend their lives 10 pro
curing tor others the splendBr and wesllh
10 %hlrb they do not participate You
C'Slty forget the sufferinHs of the wretch
Gu oI"cS men, who are deprived of their
Az without anT compensation or redress.
you' yourselves, all of you-or if any
Oue VI you, we're without CRIME OF ofFense
CON mitted by you, banded Over into per
Pt'Gai siaS'ry If you were compelled to
VIVA F0m sunrise 70 sunset without wages,