The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-18
The Cause Of Enmity Between the Irish
men and Africans.


too many of our countrymen unreasonable and
foolish antipathy against the African race. The
fact, we repeat, cannot be denied, but we protest
against the popular idea that Irshmens prejudices
against the negro are stronger than those of the ma
tive American, or than those of other people. We
have known hundreds of instances of acts of kind
liness and generosity being done by Irishmen to
negroes, and done, too, SO secretly and quietly
as to be known to few. We protest against the
too common assertion that our countrymen are the
only people who carry their animosity of the black
man to extremes; but we do lament that there
should be amy foundation for the fact and will pro-
coed to show that like almost every misfortune of
our race, it had it's origin in the curse of curses
English connexon and English rule.
One of the strongest evidences in support of
argument is that antipahy against color exists only
in those countries where the English language is
spoken, and where the English either rule or have
ruled. Tn Spain in France, and in Mexico there is :
no prejudice whatever against color; Juarez, the
president of the Mexican Republic is a ful-blooded
Indian and one of the ministers of the Emperor of
Brazil is full booded African. This last instance
is we'll worthy of our attention, because slavery
still exists in Brazil Just imagine what our " chiv
alric' Southern friends would have said-before
they made Phil. Sherdan's acquain1 ance-if they
found African occupying position fully as dig
nifed as that of vicepresdent of the United States
Any one who has been in Paris may have noticed
how popular the Turcos with the French peo-
pie. The Turcos nominally Arabs but most
of them are in reality negroes black, woollyhead-
ed, and frequently thick-lipped; no Frenchman
imagines that they are to be snubbed or insulted
because the Almighty made them with dark skins.
Very likely if the French had the blessing" of a
few generations of British rule, they would become
advanced enough to call the Turcos and Africans
damned niggers,' and hang them to lamp posts;
but in their present benighted state they allow the
Turcos to live amongst them without molesting
them
It may be asked, How has English teaching been
so aptly followed in Ireland where people are so
averse to everything English, and what has caused
England to be such sanderer of the black race ?
To the first clause of this question we will reply,
that men will at last believe what they hear eter
nally dinned into their ears, no matter by whom;
and the last we will answer by saying, that England
is the sanderer of the Blacks simply because she is
their robber and oppressor. Until the end of time
men will not know all the atrocities committed by
England in India, China, New Zealand, and Africa
they have been so enormous and so uncalledfor
that they had, for the sake of common decency, to
be in some measure justified, and the consequence
was that the unfortunate people were not only
robbed but beed. The Chinese and Indians
called savages and barbarous after they had been
plundered and conquered, although evidences of
the highest civilization had existed amongst them
from remote antiquity; and the African race, less
civilized than either the Hindoo the Chinese, less
plundered because less rich, none the less SLAM
dered because it was blacker Like ourselves, the
poor African has become the victim Of the great