The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-24
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ORa regent sccasion' In thS Ohio Hons
Of Representatives,, an ignorant Republica,
FNemher by the name Of Fulton instituted
. comparison between the Irish and th,
ERegroes, and said in q sneeriHg way, "Ds
lyon take Irishmen into your house or socie.
tys No, because they have neither virtue
Intelligence nor education.n" Hon. d. q
callen, an Irishman and q Democrat, replied
to sthis base insinuation in the following
| words
But would call attention to the remarks
he Mr.. Fult0n) made upon a certain part
OF shis question, and for this obtained the
ho0r this evening. don't wish to misquote
w6rdss = was then in the chair, and he adj
dressed his remarks to me. d Mr.. Chair
man, said he, I" do you take Irishmeu into
your house or society I No, because they
nave neither virtue, Intelligence, nor edu-
cation. 80 have taken q good many Irish
reared by Irish parents, and base my devo-
tlon to the Constitution and Federal Union
on this nQblest of all Roman maxims.
Never despair of the republic" which /
was taught by my Irish mother. The day
Will come, sir, when the gentleman wifi
piush TO think that he rose up in his seat,
as . representative of the people Of Ohio,
and declared that the Irish race were des-
fltnte OF virtue. think, gentlemen, that
their history will show that they are a peo-
pie who regard morality. and that they
have produced ADLER men than the gentle
man ever thought of; men who can get up
ana produce Argument, and not cast cal-
umny on any race or people; men who can
produce an argument that can be commit,
ted to print without employing q tyne.
foundry to manufacture quotation marks
Tor the occasion. I did NOT wish to refer to
this matter, for, as I said, I have no preju-
dice whatever.
The gentleman labored here to have us
believe that for humane principles he would
extend the right OF suffrage to q people
who, IN the past, have been one of the most
ignorant on earth. The grand division Of
the earth, Africa, has been blot upon the
earth's surface. All the history we have in
regard to it shows that it has made no pro-
gress. The same seas are spread before
them; the same skies are above them; the
same winds would have waited African
vessels to distant shores, and invited her
sons to plant colonies; yet she has been an
idle spectator in the march Of civilization.
Ihe African of six thousand years ago is
the African Of to-day. That race is like
unto Byron's Ocean:
thine writes wrinkles on thy azure brow.
Such as Creations dawn beheld, thou roliess now"
Who is the colored man whose claims the
gentleman pretends to advocate here this |
"t5, Snoo IL CAo ADVOCACY OF these
claims he must throw a slur upon a peeple.|
OF whose history he must be ignoranSf
Mr. Chairman, look back to the history !
OF this people who have been assailed here
to day, and see what has been their nd |
vance in the cause of education, and their |
advance In the arts and sciences. You will |
recoliect that in the eleventh century their
school system was abolished, and it was
felony to teach an Irislman to read or write. !
You will recollect in all that seven CEN |
tnrles they have struggled on in defense of |
their rights, yet they have produced as |
great scholars, as eloquent oratogs as any |
country on the face OF the earth. Why,
SIT, you have ouly to refer to GrattaD. |
0'Connell, Smith O'Briea, aud when Won
come to this country, a Brady, of New I
ork, or an O'Gormau, and an O'Conor-
names OF men that loom up as the bright
stars In the legal profession at the present
lay. And not only is this the case i'm this
country, but you may look at Spain, and
the very man who has the power i'm his
lands there, and who can elect the Prince
d Genoa, or any other man he may name,
rs the monarch OF that country, is a man of i
IRISH biood%a man whose father WIS com
1elled to leave the country, on account of
oppression. Yet>amid all this oppression
his people have struggled, and will
struggle, until they gain the God given
lghts to which they are entitled under
heir own government. Struggling as they
AVE, and will, it would have excited sym-
'athy In the breast of any man who is sin
ere In preaching up human liberty but
IN forced to believe that the man who
would cast contumely and calumny upon
'eople of this kind, is insincere in his pro-
esslon of love and feeling of pity for the
oppressed of this country.