The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-16
IRISH REPUBLICANISM.
Letter of B. McGuinness, an Irish Reru-
gee, Etc.

Letter of B. McGuinness, an Irish Reru-
gee. Etc.
To the Editor Of The Evening Telegraph
SIR:-One of the principal reasons why my
sympathies tend towards the Republican party
is, that upon its banner is inscribed uniuersdl
liberty and equality before the law, of all
peoples, no matter of what race, religion, or
color. Being myself native of a country where
despotism exists, and is carried out to such an
extent as invests the few with an arbitrary and
irresponsible power over the lives, liberties,
ay, and consciCnces of the many; where
grinding arstocracy are privileged by ''rights of
property to crush, trample down, oppress, and
stGrUe 0w Of The land the people whom they
regard as belonging to an inferior race; and
where all have for ages been convulsively but
Intellectually struggling to free themselves from
worse than Helot state of bondage-being,
/ repeat, a native OF such a hapless land
would consider 1t unjust, inconsistent, intole-
rant, and entirely at variance to the principles
which l always, entertained, with deny to any
other portion of humanity those heaven-bo
rights and liberties for which my ancestors
fought, bled, and died, and for which have
INCREASINGLY struggled in my own humble way,
from the first dawning OF reason up to the pre-
sent period, and for which shall continue to
struggle while life remains. 1t is my firm be-
let that & cd never placed any distinctive marks,
as some might be 60 absurd as TO argue, upon
any portion of the human family, to indicate
that such portion should be kept in slavery or
denied equal rights with their fello " man.
Those who promulgate this doctrine are guilty
injustice. Some, as a last resource, and IL IL
order to justify themselves for their
rampant and tanatical hatred against
mark upon Cain, that he mig hit be kno wn as tho
murderer OF his brother Abel, and stunned; and
didn't He also mark the Niger, as every one.can
On hnll IA
can be called, is hardly worth a moments
notice. God marked Cain as trdtricide, GER
tainly; but II Cain had not been guilty of this
terrible crime he would not have been stamped
with any Distinguishing mark; and in this case,
what would the negro haters do for a compari-
son 10 which to refer? By the wav, was Cain a
black man? Now we all know that there are
many Dhae fratricides, parrcides, aud nume-
rous other cides-ergO, all t1hle men should be in
sIdUeTy! Tor humanity must abhor such fearful
criminals, who, If discovered, would assuredly
appear to display upon their features some
peculiar marks characteristic of their debased
natures.
la speaking to some of those very logical and
philosophical Democrats about negro rights
seldom get any other reasons out of them for
their enmity towards the Oldok man than the
mere expression of their deep-roOted and unjust
prejudices. II you ask Democrat why he
entertains those feelings Of dislike towards the
rights which naturally belong to every human
being, and which God never intended should
exclusively appertsin to any particular race, he
will generally reply by putting to you series
sister TO be married to a black man ?" "Do you
think black man is as good as you are Gn
Would you like your children TO go to school
with niger children" 'Would you like the
black man to rule the white9n ''Are you going
to standI up for the Know-Nothings, the church
burners, the Black Republicans? Now l beg
leave to put few other queries to these argu-
mentaGve hn0lo-s0nnelhiag Democrats.
Would any of you like your sister to be mar
derer?
Do you think one of those characters superior
to an honest, simple quiet, though black man !?
Would you make them your associates; eat
with them, talk with them, sleep with them, or
allow your children TO go to the same schools
| with theirs?
Is an ignorant. besotted, degraded, low
| browed, taveTn-brawllng, cut-skuiled roWdy
ever practising the ruftian, and exhibiting un :
| mlsakable facial evidence of a life devoted to
nothing but dissipation and crime of the deepest
| dye-are such white men, and there are plenty
| OF them to be found, better than an Industrious
lntelllgent, peaceabe, and mayhap educated
| negro?
VIII the color of the one couuterbalance the
| ignorance, the vices and IniQuties of the other
and so place him lower in the social as well as
| political scale? Is that man there, with fear.
| I1l cut over his eyebrow, a pair OF manufactured
black eyes, and nose OF the composite orler,
| owing to the amount of punishment, to use a
sporting % phrase, it has received during it's
owners various pugIlistic encounters, and who
Is rolling drunkIthrough the streets, roaring out
IKE some wild beast seeking whom he may
ueVo9t-is he superior to yon harmless negro
qule.y sitting at his door, and, perhaps, for
oOght we know, saying to himself "Am not as
good member of society, both morally. social.
~, and politically as this man coming stagger-
ing up, cursing me and my race YD
Wouldlyo GU wish the poor despised bpt not hv
God, negro, 10 be back again with his crncI
slave owner, 10 be treated like mere beast ot
burdenY Would you like to see his back bared
and the nhuman lashes of the slave -whiDper
entering his flesh and tearing the skin off bis
bones Before God and thu world. denounce
the man who would not only wish to see this
barbarous state OF tbingsi returning as O tyrant,
also he who would in any shape, either directly
or indirectly and towards the establishment OF
those principles which tolerate the existence Of
such oppression aud woe, and such ruthless
persecution OF beings formed after the image OF
their Creator These are MY sincere sentiments,