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1 Daniel O'Connell, Loyal National Repeal Association: The following Is a Copy of the Address, Which Was Read by the Liberator, at the Meeting on Wednesday 1 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/loynreas0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TRACT N°. 2. No.5. Loyal National Repeal Association. THE following is a copy of the Address, which was read by the Liberator, at the meeting on Wednesday: - The Committee to whom the Address from the Cincinnati Irish Repeal Association, on the subject of Negro Slavery in the United States of America, was referred, have agreed to the following Report: - To D. T. DIsNEY, Corresponding Secretary; W. HUNTER, Vice- President; PATRICK MCCR OsKY, Esq., P. Cony, Esq., T. CoN- NOLLY, Esq., and STEPHEN BONNER, Esq., Executive Committee of the Cincinnati Repeal Association: - CORN EXCnANGE Rooms, DUBLIN, GENTLEMEN: 11th October, 1843. We have read with the deepest affliction, not unmixed with some surprise and much indignation, your detailed and anxious vindication of the most hideous crime that has ever stained humanity-the slavery of men of color in the United States of America. We are lost in utter amazement at the perversion of mind and depravity of heart which your address evinces. How can the generous, the char- itable, the humane, the noble emotions of the Irish heart have become extinct amongst you? How can your nature be so totally changed as that you should become the apologists and advocates of that exe- crable system which makes man the property of his fellow-man - de- stroys the foundation of all moral and social virtues-condemns to ignorance, immorality, and irreligion, millions of our fellow-creatures -renders the slave hopeless of relief, and perpetuates oppression by law, and in the name of v;hat you call a Constitution? It was not in Ireland you learned this cruelty. Your mothers were gentle, kind, and humane. Their bosoms overflowed with the honey of human charity. Your sisters are, probably, many of them, still amongst us, and participate in all that is good and benevolent in senti- ment and action. flow, then, can you have become so depraved? How can your souls have become stained with a darkness blacker than the negro's skin ? You say you have no peculiar interest in negro slavery. Would that you had! for it might be some palliation of your crime! But, alas! you have inflicted upon us the horror of beholding you the VOLUNTEER advocates of despotism in its most frightful state; of slavery in its most loathsome and unrelenting form. We were, unhappily, prepared to expect some fearful exhibition of this description. There has been a testimony borne against the Irish, by birth or descent, in America, by a person fully informed as to the facts, and incapable of the slightest misrepresentation - a noble of nature more than of titled birth - a man gifted with the highest order

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