New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-18
SLAVERY AND HOME RULE.

SLAVERY AND HOME RULE.
| DANIEL O'CONNELL. THE PATRIOT. CoNTR,sTED
WITH M'KINNEY, THE APOLOGIsT OF \
DEFUNCr TYRANNY.
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
sir: have been a reader Of The Tribune for nor'
than forty years. and remember nothing in all that
time that have read with keener sense OF "
rertInency and truthfunesS than III" editorial In The
Tribune Of March 30 entitled IIs0 caly Inaccurat"
On Governor McKinncys hitter to the Home Ruiz
meeting mt the Academy of Music on the previo"
sunday night.
It seems almost incredible that twcnty-eght year
after the close Of our Civil War any could he
found in this free country Of ours TO write sich
rot. much less the Governor OF great stat" like
Virginia. No wonder the managers Of that me"tin'
omitted reading the Who'll" Of Ills Exceencvs letter
In such omission they showed n great deal m)r'
Of the prOprictles Of the occasion than he III
In writing II. Those gentlemen knew that not on
word OF what Governor Mckinney said about The
historical parallel between Home Rule In Ireland ana
the effort TO hold the black man" Of Virginia IT.
perpetual slavery wa, true. | from the
name that Governor Mckinney has Irish blood In Ill
veins, and hope therefore, that he will not reSar1
me rs impcrtin"nt when | advise him to read what
Daniel oConnc, the greatest and grand"st Irish
patriot Of his day. thought Of such Iri>men Gov
crnor Mckinney and others like him. / quote from
OConnell's letter. written on october H. 1S43 TO III"
We have read wit! the deepest affection. not IN
mixed with Surpr>" and much Indignation. your
dcial'd and anNouN vndication OF the mos, hideou,
crime mat mas ever stained humanity sEiv'f!
mon OF color in the nit"d States Of America. W.
are lost in utter amazenent Il, IN" perver,on OF mna
How can tn" generous. tn" charitable. ihe humane.
extinct among YOU How can your nhture DE- 81
totally changed rs that yol should b"com" the apol
oe,'' and advocates Of tlat eXrrlane system %non
The foundation Of all moral and social virt"smcon
OF orr fellow creatur"s-r"nders the slave hopeless OF
relief. aud prrpeua'"s oppression by law: ana In tn
name Of what y.u ca Constitution ,.,. annually
icur mother, were s"n'le; Kind and humane. Their
Your sisters probably many OF mem ,iill among
u. and participate in all that l. god and benevp-
50 depiaved' How can your souls have become
stained with darkness blacker than IN. negro,
negro a1y say Would Non TS at "V d% had 70, might
be- som. paa,ion Of your crime Eat nio a,ns You
volunteer advocates Of despo,ism in It's most fright
fnl state. Of slavery III It. most oathNome and nm
We were unLapply; PREPARED to expect SOM frar
ful exhibition Of thIS description There has been
. In America. by a person fully informed to the
I facts and Incapable" oi the slightest miSrcprSsnta
man gifted with the highest order OF talent and the
mos, crncrou, emotions Of the heart-thc great. the
mons boldly asserted the superior social morality of
poorer CLASSES of the Irish over an, other p"op-
Ireland and the Irish kncv-he. amid the con-
rrreacd thousands At Exeter Hail IN I"rdon mourn
fully but firmly denounced the Irish Ia America aS
bclng among the worst enemies OF the negro slaves
| and other men Of color
you. In words already uSl and much misunderstood
h you-"to come out of hrr"-no thereby meaning
10 ash you 10 ont OF America. bat ont Of the
councils of the niqnouS. and out Of the concrcgn
'ion of the wicked. who consider man chaitel and
q property. aud liberty an Inconvenience. Yes. we
Tel" Won 10 com" out OF Sich aN''nbag's; but we
did not and do not invite you 10 return % Ireland
ho faar pf surrounded
Thousand crimes. would hHd neither Symnathy nor
supp =. at,on nN. ,rv j., r"rndcd ncn t,r,ss
Nou take Tor granted that man can be the
property Of his fe"w,man. You sl@ak In terms Of
~ their property" ani thereby render themselves
the other side of the picture. Iou have neither
sympathy for III" snicringS Of those who
81 others: those v no work without wages who toll
without rrcompcn>e who >p I'D their live In ocurn,
for other. the splendor AMI wealth In which they do
Yon totally forget the suhcrinrs Of The wrctched
black men. who are deprived 81 their all without any
you-or II any Of were. without crime or
| offence committed 10y >ou. handed over into per
,unrlS. suns" without wages. supplied only with
such food and raiment rs would keep yOn
IN working order II when your owner" fell into
debt Won wer" sold to pay III, debts. not Your own
II IT. were mad ' ,i TO 'e" n"m 10 r'a arr ,ms
distribution ~ assets. from yonr wives and yonr
children: II yon taeove alb were to fall into tn"
hands Of a brutal mn>t.r-and yOu condescendcd 10
admit that there some brutal masters In Ame lea
IT, among all these Circumstances, ONE friendly spirits
Of "A more gcner order dr>ronS 10 give liberty
10 YOU and your famileS-with what In"'abe dis
gust would Won laugh 70 Scorn those who should
irahuce the generous spirits who would relieve yOr.
And y0u nov. pseudo ri~hmcn-Sham" upon on
trlducrd and vilii"d the AboltlOnl,tS OF North
America
We really think that men who came Som generous
and warm hearted Ireland should shrink into non
entity rather than become the advocates and defenders
Of the system Of slavery. BIT We tinSt that the
voice Of indignant Ireland will scatter them ard pre-
vent them from repeating such n crime.
This is n terrible Indictment. but every word Of
IL was richly meriied rrbuke. and alarmed the
defenders Of the Divine Institution" that after the
letter was published in pamphlet form by the friends
~ Liberty for All" for crculatlcn the members 81
the Repeal Association of Cincinnati bought up ali
the copies they could find and burned them for fear
the reading Of II would imperl the institution of
slavery. What pity Ills EAcellency had not read
or. II he had read. did not remember the great Irish
Commoncr's letter before he wrote his foolish letter
to the Academy Of Music meeting.
JOHN W. HARTMAN.