The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-31

distress Is not confined to my own green
lsle. Mol Itextends itself to every corner
+ the earth. My heart walks abroad. and
wherever the miserable are to be succored
II the slave to be set free, there my spirit Is
It home and there I'delight to dwell"
Glorious Emancipation! These are noble
words and nobly spoken. O'Connell was in
his happiest mood The fire of Freedom.
was burning in his mighty heart The eln-
i quent Douglas sat like Il statue. How his
heart throbbed and his eyes flashed as the
Liberator pronounced this vivid and power
iul address
Here is another blast from O'Connell's bu-
Gle: "If there be in the huts of Africa. or
amidst the swamps of the Carolinas, a hui
man being painting for freedom, let it be
proclaimed tn him that he has friends in
Ireland A voice shall be raised in the old
Irish nation which will roll back in thunder
to America, which will mingle with her
mighty waves, and which will cause one
universal shout of liberty to be heard
throughout the world. My humble words
shall make way against the Western breezes,
they shall ascend the Mississippi, they shall
descend the Missouri, they shall be heard
along the banks of the Ohio and of the Po-
tomac till the black man would leap with
delight to express his gratitude to those who
had effected his emancipation. And Oh! !"
(But perhaps it was his pride that dictated
the hope that some black o. C0nneU might
rise among his fellow slaves VINO would cryD
Agitate Agitnte! till the four millions
learned the secret of their strength The
voice of OConnell shall be heard, l., use his
own magic words, "riding against the blast
as thunder goes, and telling the slave that
the time for his Emancipation has come, and
his oppressor, that the period of his injus-
tice is soon to terminate" How he lashes
the .villiany, loathes the hypocrisy, excori-
ates sham republicans, and spurious Chris
tians.
My fellow countrymen, think of these
words of O'Connell, Ireland incarnate.-
Think of all that he has said-think Of it
till your bosom swells, your soul is ON fire,
your pulses thrill with excitement Thomas
Francis Meagher, the most accomplished and
talented Irishman who ever made this cOun-
try his home, was the first General of the
Union army to declare for negro suffrage.
He SAID, speaking of negro soldiers: BY
their fidelity and splendid soldership, such
as ut Fort Wagner and Port Hudson, gave to
their bayonets an irresistible electricity, the
black heroes of the army have not only en-
titled themselves to liberty, but to citizen
! ship, and the Democrat who would deny
them the rights for which their wounds and
| glorifed colors eloquentTy plead, is I'M
worthy to participate in the greatness of the
nation, whose authority these DISTINGUISHED
heroes did much to vindcate."
! Right brave Meagher.
When Douglas escaped from the grip of
slavery, he went to Ireland landing at Cork
He had a triumphal reception from the city
authorities. magnificent procession was
| formed. headed by several bands of music,
and Douglas, though sitting in carriage
with Father Mathew, was taken out and car
ried to the banqueting hall ON the shoulders
of the multitude. A feature OF the ovation
was colored boy and an Irish boy chained
together, typical of the ensavemGnt of the
two races. Love of liberty is inherent in the
breast of every Irishman. The antipathy
of some of our race to the negroes has its
origin in the teaching of England. Where
ever the English have ruled prejudice against
color exists. In Spain. France, Mexico, it
does not exist. The Turcos are popular with
the French, and yet they are black
Courage then, my countrynen, for the right.
the beautiful and the true. Have we not
sworn fidelity to liberty in thousand pas
| sionate words. by our poets and orators in
the grave resolves of councils. leagues, and
considerations Stand by the Union party
the party of patriotism, the party of pro-
gress, the powerful party that abolished
slavery. squelched rebellion, and established
the integrity and grandeur of the national
domain.
REPLY TO BEECHER.
| The comic preacher of Brooklyn, Ward
3eecher, in his recent Thanksgiving Sermon,
took occasion to indulge in ironical illusions
to the Irish racc-calling the European emf
grants. particularly the Celts "a black
vomt. Though our countrymen have con-
trlbuted so much by their energy and enter
! tn ,f +I,o
country; though their blood was poured out
in torrents on every battlefield of the Union,
adding brighter lustre to the stripes, and
making the stars Of our time-honored flag
shine with keener splendor; though they
have sworn fidelity to the fortunes of the
nation in many a fierce tempest of the
Mexican and Indian wars; though their
! blood fattens every valley, and their bones
bleach on every mountain from Bunker Hill
to the city of Mexico: though they have
written vindication of their loyalty in their
hearts blood at Fort Donelson, Stone River,
Corinth, Chattanooga. Malvern Hill, Ante
tam, Resaca, Atlanta. Gettysburg, Fair Oaks,
Petersburg and Fredericksburg. where the
Irish brigade stemmed the tide of battle. and
with united Irish cheer, charged upon the
Zoe, leaving sixteen hundred dead and
| wounded in the hands of the victorious
Contederates; in the honored graves in
which many of them sleep to-day, they are
far above and beyond the fippant and sup
ercilious sneers and criticisms of the cold
blooded, narrow minded Beecher.
Emerson speaks of foreigners as courte-
ously as the Arch bigot of Brooklyn: 1.-THE
Irish and Germans come over here in shoals
| to dig our canals and to manure our fields
with their bones and leave no further trace
of themselves"
Poor Emerson and Beecher! Do they
know that Irish intellect, bodness, and in
dustry have contributed many brilliant
| chapters to the history of the two greatest
nations of the earth Three of the signers
OF the great declaration of Independence
were 1rishmen. Among the first % sympa-
thise with the oppressed inhabitants OF New
Eng gland and to express indignation at
British outrages were the militia officers of
this grand State of North Carolina, all of
whom were Irishmen. Their declaration of
| independence in 1775, one year before JEFF
! ferson wrote the immortal charter, is full of
eloquent indignation at the tyranny of Eng
land Jeferson's great document contains
many of the ideas and phrases of the Irish