The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-16

and fearlessly express them, whether or no.
they be pleasing to any one section OF VIC we
community. never have done, nor nor
and prejudices of any party. l shall al Says
give free utterauCe to what my couscience
whispers to me is just and rlsht, while shall
willingly accord to every other man the same
privilege. | characterize him as moral
coward who is afraid TO express what he thloks
lest 1t might give oaense 10 faction. O0on
principle / would express my opinion against
ibat OF millions, so long rs believed in the
justice of entertaining such an opinion. am
ready to listen calmly and dispasslonately To
the Arguments of others, and expect the same
federation on their part. II I anI wrong II will
take something more logical so convince me OF
my error than the reasons employed by a
cudgel or fist. / shall not be drag oned into
the opinions of any man, or allow intimidation
TO swerve me from the path of rectitude, or
that which in my own judgment believe to be
the true one.
home, but here l should be no tyrant. The true
patriot must be an advocate OF freedom for all
mankind, and in this high, this noble and sacred
feeling, be prepared to trample upon all nls
preiudices; otherwise he deserves not the name
he processes. None but a narrow and biased
mind could deny liberty, In Its fullest aud most
extended sense, to any particular people or race
/ do not desire the negro to rule the white man,
nor do l wish the white man to enslave the
negro. / am quite satisfied with what is em0o-
died in the declaration OF American rights upon
this matter, and which is, guess"
and religions, stand equal before the
law. 1, as an individual may, in the abstract
sense of the word, think myself better, as the
common phrase is, than some black men, and
may think the same as regards some white men
too. The ld,0, however, does not interfere with
a mans private opinions. 1t does not obage my
sister to marry negro, nor can the tGl1 oblige
her marry any other who is not her choice.
Now, came across, in my lifetime, several in
telligent and well-educated negroes, whom
| considered infinitely superior TO many white
I al W m Them
| selves upon an equality? DO the white and
| pampered aristocrats OF England consider the
people of Ireland, for instance, their equals No
| one will say they do. On the contrary they
| look down upon the Celts as very inferior race
| to the Ssxons, as composed, in fact of far
| grosser metal than that of which the latter are
Of tG'Ti England O believe THAT that our f''Gp peo.
pie are not fit to govern themselves,
or even exercise, with discretion, the right of
universal suffrage; Do we, as Irishmen,, con-
| or in other words the superior British people,
| justified IN these opinions, and in acting upon
| them! Decidedly not. Our history show VS. a
continued struggle TO resist such injustice, such
| tyranny and despotsm. Let us, then, apply
| the same arguments we use in vindication OF
| our own rights, or in protestatlons against the
| wrongs our country has and is still suffer-
| ing, TO other people also struggling for the
same rights and battling against the same
wrongs. Let it not be said that, unwilling slaves
| at home, we are the enemies of freedom abroad.
| Let reason ANU JuuentuI ldhc tue pltce Ol
| passion aud prejudice, and let us no longer be
| blinded by the hollow sophistry of those who
| would perpetuate slavery.
As purpose in my next letter saying some
| thing more upon this subject, and as l have
| already lrangTessed the limits l at first pre-
scribed myself, shall finish by expressing the
hope that all countries, and all people in general.
and those of my own little island in particular,
| groaniBg under oppression and misrule, may
| Speedily enjoy the blessings Of freedom.
| am, sir, respectfully yours.
| B. McGUlNNEss.
Philadelphia, 14th October, 1868.