Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-18
from The Albany Atlas aud Argus.l
upOn n New CruSnde.

No sooner had the New FORK Tribune con-
cluded its campaign of defamation and de-
nunciation against its political adversaries,
which it had conducted with all acrimony
without example, and bitterness that re-
vealed the intensest spirit of bigotry and of
hate, than it opened another. 1t has given
the hallo and commenced bounding on
| its followers against class of its fellow citi
zens on account of their religious creed. 1t
has discovered a new "irrepressible con-
flict," and eXults at the prospect of glutting
its cruel and vindictve appetite upon fresh
victims of its hate. The picture which the
Tribune used to draw of the Southern plant
er-hunting his flying slaves with blood
hounds-was taken from its own ideal, and
colored from its own heart. 1t is what q
Tribune man would do in the same situation.
1t is denied that privilege, and 80 INDUCES
its nature, in the field open to it, by light
ing the fires of sectarian hate, and inilam
ing the bitterness of the powerful and
prosperous against the comparatively weak
and defenseless.
OF course the basis of all this wicked SUI
perstructlire is false! Neither the Clergy
nor the laity of the Church assailed, are
champions Of slavery. If they do not make
the question one of State authority, but ra-
ther one of individual conscience, they can
probably justify themselves before some
other tribunal than the Theological In
QUESTION of the n. Y. Tribune. They de-
prrcate empirical revolutions, and were
almost unanimously in the North, opposed
to the Southern secession. They contrib
uted as many men to the army as any class.
They do not probably follow Horace Greeley
throug the vagaries which, after eXhausting
Fourrierism and Free-love, now occupy his
fantastic mind. But no class love the Union
and the Constitution more, or dread to see
it destroyed by the fanatic hands Of the
foolish experimenters who are now prob
ing the sources of its life with the steel.
As to the illustration of the Irish spirit
which the Tribune sends abroad, it only
need be said. that when 0'Connell was writ
ing his crude letters upon slavery, he
was receiving from his compatriots here,
North and South, tens of thousands Of dol
lars to aid him III his political struggle at
home.
But we will not detain our readers longer
from the e'I'riJune's new proclamation of
outlawry, and signal for persecution:
''For reasons which to them are sufficient,
the great body of the Roman Catholic
priesthood of this country are the ardent
and active partisans, and upholders of HUI
man Slavery, and do not sympathiZe with
the Republic in the war which the Slave
Power has wickedly waged against it for
the overthrow end dissolution of our Ma
tionalty. Those of them now resident in
the loyal States do not desire Disunion per
Sc. but they do desire reconstruction
based on the establishment of power and
perpetuity of human bondage. And their
influence over the laity, coinciding with
that of the grogshops, wherein hate and
scorn of the naygurs' is Systematically in
culcated as a source of political influence
and power, is so potent and pervading that
it is utterly idle to seek to indoctrinate the
great mass of our Irish born voters with
those ideas and sentiments touching our
great struggle and the facts underlying it
which seem to us just, Christian, generous
and humane.
I'VE make this explanation to our friends
in Ireland who have acted in the presump-
ton that the Irish-born voters Of this cOun-
try might be moved by such appeals as
could not fail to be influential If addressed |
to Christians of any faith in any other part |
of the world. Those friends seem wholly
unaware of the state of facts existing on
this side of the water. Had Daniel O'Con- !
nell visited this country in the plentitude of
his power and renown, and here discussed |
Human Slavery in the spirit of his letter to |
the Repealers of Charleston, S. c., he would |
have been retten-egged and stoned from
city to city, and the great body of our Irish
Americans would have Joined In the hunt, |
or in shouting, 'Welldone! Giveit to hinl!"