Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-10-17
ENGLISH uMPERTINENCE.

Now that the war is over, and slavery is
abolished, and freedom is everywhere estsb
lished in America,-we cannot help asking,
with the New York Express, is it not about
time that certain English Abolition orators,
who have been, for year or more, wander
ing all over the Northern and Eastern States,
lecturing in behalf of the Republican party,
thought about returning to the old coun-
try There certainly can be no further work
for them TO do here-while good deal nearer
home-that is to say, in Ireland, there is a
pretty loud cry for ''Liberty" and ''Justice'
coming up-not from black men, but from
withstand il anything can be done to stop
that cry, if not by demanding at once the
',justice" and equality of the British
Government, at least by inquiring into the
grievances of the complainants, it seems to
US such gentlemen as the Rev. DR.. Massey
should not be now, out in Ohio, campaigning
there for the Loyal Leaguers, but in Exte r
Hall, London, or in College Green, Dublin,
or in Kilkenny, or in Skibbereen. Let us
have ''liberty'' for Irishmen, as we'll as for
the negro; or, if Mr.. Massey's government is
not ready, just yet, to grant that boon, let
him, at least, lend US pen and tongue to bring
it, fair and square, up to the mark.
This Rev. DR.. Massey, ID. D., LII. D., etc.,
on the night before the Ohio election made a
speech in the Wesleyan Chapel, Cincinnati,
we see, in the course of which he took it
upon himself to say
He came here this time at the instance of those
who have directed their efforts to what may be
considered q somewhat sectional movement, OBJ
GERS and members Of the Freedmens Aid Society
in London: not at their expense, however, but
that he might Be able to carry back to them, for
their gratihe alton, the tidiDgs of progress that
would hid them IL prolonging their efforts for the
welfare of the needy eolored people Just made
free was not his object to interfere in the least
with what were strictly the political parties of this
country, or TO attempt TO affect the election to be
held on the morrow; but he trusted that election
would result not only in favor of the Union and
be the means OF carrying out the policy inaueu.
rated by the sainled Lincoln, but that il lrOttId
also result IN the eTfrGRchiSemeHt Of the people
igho hare so recently passed from state Of thral
dom ana oppression to a condition Of comparative
freedom.
The speaker referred TO the radical sentiments
and sanguine expectations expressed in the me.
mortal OF those who commissioned him TO visit
us two years ago, and remarked that the same
friends were now looking for him to give them
assurance that We were perfecting the work then
so nooiy begun that we were e4fronchising the
people i7ho lrere then in slavery that we were
making them equal in the eye Of the law with
every other man. that we were securing 70 them
all those opportunities for social, political and
moral elevation which were the birthrights of
every man which we declare for ourselves In our
Declaration Of Independence, and which We
ought 70 declare for those who have not been able
heretofore to declare for themselves"
This might be endured, if coming from
Beecher, or Wendel Phillips, or any other
Yankee philsnthropist ;" but coming from
an Englishman, just at this time, it impresses