The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-19

the sweet comfort Of having endeavOrec
to promote benevolence aud charity.
Ii is no excuse TO allege that the Con.
gress is restricted from emsncipsting the
slaves by one general law. Each par
ticular slave State has that power with
in its own precincts and there is every
reason TO be convinced that Mary land
and Virginia would have followed thC
example of New York, and long age
abolished Slavery, bat for the diabOiica
practice of ''raising" rs you call it slaves
for the Southern market Of pestilencC
and death.
lTishmen aud the sons of Irishmen
have, many of them, risen 10 high dis.
tinctiOn and power in America. Why
should not Irishmen and the sons Of
lrisbmen write their names in the bright
est pages of the chapter of humanity
and benz violence in American st1ry2
lrishmen our Chairman ventures tC
think, and we agree with him, that be
has claims on the attention of Irishmeu
in every quarter of the globe. The
Scotch and French philosophers have
proved by many years of experiment
that the lrishman stands FIRST among the
races of man in his physical and bodily
powers. America and Europe bear tes
timony to the intellectual capacity OF
lrishmen. Lord MOrpeth has demon
strated in the British Parliament the
superior morality of the humber classes
of Irish in all social and family rela-
tions. The religious fidelity Of the
Irish nation is blazoned in glorious and
proverbisl certainty and splendor.
lrishmen! sons Of lrishmenl descend
ants of the kind heart and affectionate
10 disposition, think, oh think only with
pity and compassion on your colored
ielljw creatures in America. Offer them
the hand Of kindly help. Soothe their
sorrows. Seattle their oppressor. Join
With your cOuntrymen at home in one
cry Of horror sgainst the 6ppressot in
one cry of sympathy with The enslaved
and oppressed
IT N prone in the dus' slay'ry shall be hud'd,
Its name and nature plotted from the world ="
We cannot close our observations upon
the unseemly, % well as SILLY attack you
make upon the advocates of abolition,
without reminding you that you have
borrowed this turn of thought from the
persOns who opposed Catholic emancipa-
tion in Ireland, or who were the pre-
tended friends of the Catholics. Some
of you mus treeollect that il was the Gus
tom Of such persons TO allege that but
for the violence" and misconduct of
the sgitatOrs, and more particularly of
our Chairman, the PrOiestsnts were about
70 emaucipate the Catholics gradually.
10 was the constant theme Of the news
paper press, aud even of the speeches in
the Houses of Parliament, that the vie-
lence and miscopduct of agiiators pre-
vented emancipation. 1t was the buriben
OF many pamphlets, and especially of
two, which were both written uuder the
title of Factions Unmasked," by Pro-
testants of great ability. They asserted
themselves 70 be friends of Emancipation
in the abstract; but they alleged IL was
Impossible TO grant Emsncipation to
persons whose leaders misconducted d
themselves as the Agitators did. They
grAtitied their hatred 10 the Catholics as
you crafty your bad feeling toward the
negroes, by abuse Of the Catholic leaders
as virulent as yours is against the Abo-
liliOnists. But they deceived nobody.
Neither do you deceive any body. Every
humane being perceives he futilitY and
folly of your attacks, upon the Aboli-
tioDists, ana understands that those at
tacks are but the exhibition of rancour
and malignity against the tried friends
Of humanity. .....I.
You say that the Abolitionisis are
fanatics and bigots, and especially enter
tain virulent hatred and unchrislian
zeal against Catholicity and the Irish.
We do not mean to deny, nor do we wish
to conceal that there are amongat the
AbOlitionists manY wicked aud calumi-
mating enemies of Ca,holieity and the
Irish, especially in that most intolerant
cIass--the Wesleyan MethOdists; but the
best way to disaIm their malice is not
by giving up to them the side of humans
~, while you, yourselves, take the side
OF Slavery. But, on the contrary, by
taking q superior station of Christian
virtue in the cause Of benevolence and
charity, and in zeal for the freedom of
al mankind,
We wish we could burn into your souls
the iurpitude attached to the Irish in
America by Lord Morphet's charge
Recollect that il fleets dishonor not
only upon you but upon the land of your
birth. There is but one way Of efacing
such disgrace, and that is by becoming
the most kindly toward the col ,red popu-
lation, and the most energetic ia working
out Of detail, as well as in general prin-
ciple, the amelioFAtion Of the state Of
the miserable Bondsmen.
You tell as, ind ed, that many clergy
men, aud especially the Catholic clergy,
are ranged on the s.do Of slAveholders.
We do not believe your accusation.
The Catholic clergy may endure, but
they assuredly do not encourage the
slave owners. We have, indeed, heard
il said that some Catholic olergymen
have slaves of their own; but il is
added, and we are assu ed positively,
that no Irish Catholic clergyman is
slave owner. AT all events, every Cath
oio knows how distinctly slavehold
and especially slave trading, is c,n-
demned by the Catholic Church. That
most eminent man, His Holiness, the
present Pope, has, by an Aliocution pub
lished throughout tbs world, condemned
all dealing and traffic in slaves. Moth
ing can be more distinct nor more pow
erful than the Pope's denunciatiOn of
that most abominable crime. Yet it
subsists in a more abomiuable form than
His Holiness could possibly describe,
in the traffic which still exists in the
sale Of slaves. from ono Stale ia America
70 another What then, are we 20 think
Of you, Irish Catholics, who send us an
elaborate vindication Of slavery without