Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-07-30

IHE iOllOWlDg communication appears
in the Cleveland Herald of Tuesday. Mr..
Patrick O'Brien, business man on Superior
street, whom some supposed to be the writer
of the article, denies the authority in a card
in last evenings Plain Dealer This, of
course, relieves him from all responsibility
in regard to it. But may there not be
another Patrick O'Brien in the city or vicin
ity?
The Plain Dealer intimates fraud and for
gerry in the matter. This we can hardly sup
pose to be the case. No man would have
been SO short-sighted as to attempt to palm
the production off as that of Mr. Patrick
O'Brien of Superior street. We have no
knowledge Of the suthOr, but charitsbIy be-
lisving it to be genuine, as well as loyal and
patriotic, We here print it:
A CATHOLIC IRIsHMAN's APPEAL TO THE
IRIsH CATHOLIcs.-EDs. HERALD:-YOu will
excuse me for the liberty take in trespass-
ing on your valuable columns, but feel it
nv duty, as an Irishman and a Catholic, to
reason with my countrymen in regard to the
riot which has just disgraced the city of New
York. As near as can learn, that riot was
composed, much to their shame and disgrace,
of Irish Catholics. tits needless for me to
argue with my fellow Irishmen the unjust
ness Of that disgraoefnl resistance to the laws
of the land that gave us protection from
tyranic power. We have witnessed the pro-
ceedings Of the riot from the be ginning to its
ending, and what did we seer We saw
deeds enacted that every true hearted Irish
man should feel ashamed of. I for
one denouucs those Irishmen who
were engaged in that riot as rob
bers and vagabonds, and uudessrving the
name Of Irishmsn. But while there were
Irishmsn who took part in that riot, there
were others who opposed it.
Look at Colonel 0'Brien, who, seeing his
countrymen join in such, .,disgraceful proceed
ings, volunteered.shis services to put the riot
down, and, as We all know, lost his life by
it. Let us look on him as a martyr in behalf
of us, his felloWIrishmen, and, while we
deeply lament his loss, let us condemn in
bitter terms his heartless murderers, who
were also Irish. Oh, Irishmen Irishmen
how could you be so savage as to take the
life of your fslloW-man because he was in
favor of law and order, and therefore against
your mad proceedings? I denouncs the
leaders of that unlawful gang as the most
black hearted villains on earth, and hope
that they will get their reward, which is
death. I still more heartily denounce the
political scoOndrels, who excited my country
men to such unlawful proceedings, as deserv-
ing death, and, if had my wish, would
hang them on the first tree or lamp-post, and
consider it just act. Oh, Irishmen when
will you learn to think for yourselves and
not be led astray by those miserable politi-
clans who talk to you every day? Hereafter
when they undertake to speak to you, do not
listen to them. Tell them that you are capa-
BILE of thinking for yourselves. Has not God
endowed you with thinking powers, as he
has any other man therefore have you not
the same power of thinking as those very
men who talk to you and drive you to the
polls as though you we're so many sheep !?
Irishmen do not exercise the brain which
God has given to them. They bow down to
political demagOgues, whom it is a shame in
manhood to submit to. Americans use them
right, and they occupy their proper position.
Oh, Irishmen in this land, wake up and work.
Think, educate, and cease to allow doma-
goguss to think and reason for us, much to
| our infamy and destruction. Let US conquer
a respect, and insist upon an appreciation
which is withheld only because we are so
easily led away. The burning Of the Color
ed Orphan Asylum in New York was the
most inhuman act known to modern history.
I would to God that every Catholic who took
part in that disgrsceful proceeding had been
burned to death at the same time. There
we're one thousand orphan children rendered
homeless to crafty the passions of an igno-
rant people. Win God orthe world ever for
/ give them for committing such an act of in
/ humanity? Is not the black man a human
being, and therefore entitled to the same
rights and privileges as the white man
Then why do Irishmen oppose the freedom
of the black race for one would like to
see every slave in bondage set free, because
by setting the slaves free the whole United
States would be open to free labor. 1 know
that If Irishmen were allowed to think for
themselves they would come to the same
conclusion. The Irish population are becom-
ing more enlightened every day, and will
by-and-by, denounce their present political
leaders and commence their journey on the
path of freedom, a path which all honest
men should travel.
One word to my American felloW-citizenE
and have done. Do not allow yourselves
to become prejudiced against the Irish race
because few of them allowed themselves t:
he led astray by more experienced and un.
principled raseaIs, such as Wood, Brooks 4
Co.
Once more appeal to my felIow-country
men net to resist the. draft, in any form
WhateTer, Fhstber in words or in open insur