The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-05-12

that
have followed the example OF New I ork, and
long ago abolished slavery, but for the dla-
boIicai practice of raising" as you call it,
slaves for the Southern market OF pestllence
and death.
Irishmen, and the sons of Irishmen, have
many of them. risen to high distinction and
power in America. Why did not Irishmen,
and the sons of Irishmen, write their names
in the brightest pages Of the chapter Of hu-
mainly and beneYoIence in American his
tory ?
Irishmen Our Chairman ventures to
think and we agree with him, that he has
claims on the attention Of Irishmen in every
quarter Of the globe
The Scotch and French philosophers have
proved for many years Of experience that the
| lrishman stands first among the races OF
man in his physical and bodily powers
| America and Europe bear testimony to the
intellectual capacity of Irishmen. Lord Nor
Meth has demonstrated i'll the British Parlia-
lnent the superior morality Of the humber
classes of Irish in all social and family rela-
tions. The religious fidelity of the Irish nation
is bIazoned in glorious and proverbial GER
tainty and splendor. .t.. is.
Irishmen Sons of Irishmen! descendants
of the kind of heart and atfectionate in dis
position, think, oh think, only with pity and
compassion on your colored fellow 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 against the OPP
pressor; in one cry Of sympathy with the en-
shaved and oppressed:
It'll prone in the dust Slavery shall be hurld d.
Its name and nature blotted from the world
We cannot close our observations upon
the unseen,Iy,as well as the silly attacks you
make upon the advocates of Abolition, with
out reminding you that you have borrowed
this turn of thought from the persons who
opposed Catholic Emancipation in Ireland,
or who were the pretended friends Of the
Catholics
Some of you must recolect that it was the
custom of such persons to allege that but for
the evidence" and misconduct" OF the ag-
itators, and more particularly Of our Chair
man, the Protestants were about to emancl-
pate the Catholics gradually. 1t was the
constant theme Of the newspaper press and
even of the speeches in the House Of Parlia-
ment. that the violence and misconduct OF
agitators prevented emancipation. 1t was
| the burden of many pamphlets, and espec-
iallv of two which were both written under
the title of 'Faction Unmaslled, by Protes-
tannts of great ability. They asserted them
selves to be friends Of emancipation in the
abstract; but they alleged that it was inn
possible to grant emancipation to persons
whose leaders miscondncted themselves as
the agitators did. They gratified their ha-
tired to the Catholics as you crafty your bad
feeling towards the negroes, by abuse ofthe
Catholic leaders as virulent as yours is
against the Abolitionists. But they deceiv
ed nobody. Neither do you deceive any
body. Every human being perceives the
faIsity and folly Of your attacks upon the
Abolitionists, and understands that those at
tacks are but the exhibition of rancor and
malignity against the tried friends ofhuman-
ity.
You say that the Abolitionists are fanat-
les and bigots, and especially entertain a vir-
uIent hatred and unchristian zeal against
Catholicity and the Irish. Wee do not mean
to DENY, nor do we wish to conceal, that there
are amongst the Abolitionists many wicked
and eliminating enemies Of Catholicity and
the Irish, especially in that most intolerant
class-tbe Wesleyan Methodist but the best
way to disarm the malice is not by giving
I'D to them the side ofhumanity, while you,
yourselves, take the side Of Slavery. But
on the contrary, by taking a superior station
of Christian virtue in the cause Of benevo
Ience and charity and in zeal for the free
dom of all mankind.
We wish we could burn into your souls
the turpitude attached to the Irish in Amer
lea by Lord Mcrpeth's charge. Recollect
that it reflects dishonor not only upon you,
but upon the land of your birth There is
but one way of effacing such disgrace, and
that is by becoming the most kindly tow
ard the colored population, and the most en-
ergetic iii working out In detail, as well as
in general principle, the amelioration Of the
state of the miserable bondsmen.
You tell us indeed that many clergymen
and especially the Catholic clergy, are rang
ed Oh the side of the Shareholders. We do
not believe your accusation.
The Catholic clergy may endure but they
assuredy do not encourage the slaveowners.
We have, indeed, heard it said that some
Catholic clergymen have slaves of their own;
but it is added, and we are assured positive
ly, that no Irish Catholic clergyman is a
slaveowner. At all events, every Catholic
knows how distinctly slaveholding, and es-
pecially. slavetrading, is condemned by the
Catholic Church. That most eminent man,
his Holiness the Present Pope has, by Allo-
cution published throughout the world, con
demned all dealing and traffic In slaves
Nothing can be more distinct nor more pow
erful than the Popes denunciation of that
most abominable crime Yet it subsists in
a more abominable form than his Holiness
could possibly describe, in the traffic which
still exists in the sale of slaves, from one
State in America to another
What then, are we to think of you, Irish
Catholics, who send to US an elaborate vim
dication of Slavery, without the slightest
censure of that hateful crime? A crime
which the Pope has so completely condemn
ed-namely, the diabolical raising of slaves
for sale, and selling them to other States
If you be Catholics, you should devote
your time and best exertlOns to working out
the pious intentions of His Holiness. Yet
YOU prefer-Oh, sorrow and shame!- to vol
unteer your vindieation of everything that
belongs to the guilt of Slavery.
If you be Christians at all, recollect that
Slavery is opposed to the first the highest,
and the greatest principles of Christianity,
which teach us ito love the great and good
God above all things whatsoever; and the
next, ito love our fellow man as ourselves -
which commands us ''to do unto Others as
we would be done by" These sacred prin-
ciples are inconsistent with the horrors and
crimes of Slavery; sacred principles which
have already banished domestic bondage
from civilized Euoope, and which will also,
in Gods own good time, Danish it from Amer
lea, despite the advocacy of such puny de
Chalmers as you are.
How bitterly have we been afflicted at
perceiving by the American newspapers, that
recently in the city which you inhabit, and
opportunity was given to the Irish to exhib-
it benevolence and humanity to all colored
fellow creatures, and was given in vain
We allude to the case of the girl Lavina,
who was a slave in another State, and brot
by her owner into that of Ohio She by that
means became entitled to her freedom, if she
had but one friend to assert it for her. She