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Address From The People Of Ireland, To Their Country-men And...

Address From The People Of Ireland, To Their Country-men And... image
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Day
18
Month
July
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dear Fbièfds: - ïou are a great distance rrom your native land! A wide expando of water separates yon from the beloved country oí your birlli - from us and from the kindred whom you love, and wlio love yon, and pray for your happmess awd prospeiity in the land of your adoption. We regard America with feelings of admiration; we do not look upoti her as a strangp land, nor opon her peopie as aüens from our offections. The powf:r ofsieam has broughv us nearer together; ít will increase the intercourse betwBeh us. so that ibe charac'er nf the Irish pcoi)le and of the American must in future be ncted upon by the feelings and dispoátion óf each The object of is addrpss is to cnll your otteniion to the subject of SLAVERY IN AMERICA - that ionl blotupon llie noble institulions nnd thö fair fame of our adopted country. Biit for this one stam, America would, indeed, be a lnnd worthy your adoption; but she will never be the giorious country that her free conslítution designed her to be, so long as her soil 3 polluted by the foot print of a single slave. Slavery is the most tremendous invasión of the natural, inalienable righ'tö óf iimn, and of someof theuoblest gifrs ofGod. "ufe, liberty, and the pursiik of bappíneés." What a spectacle does America present to the pcopie of the earth! A land of professing chrjslian repufoh'cnns, unitii r Ihcirencrgiesfor tlieoppression and dcgradaiion ofthree nñllions of innocent linman beings, the chiidren of one cpmmon Father, who suffertíd tíié rriost grevious wrongs and the utmost degrudation for no crime" of their anceator3 or their own! Slavery is a sin against God and man. MI ivho are ñol for il; must bc qgmntt H-None can benkutral. Wtentrëax yon lo take the pur i of juslicf, religión and liberly. His in vnin that American citizens attcmpt to conceal thcir owo tlieir conntry's degradation under this witherinir curse. America is cur=cd bv sluvery! WE CALL UPON YOU TO UNITE WITH THE ABOLITIONISTS, and ncver to ceasn your efforts, üntil perfect liberly be grnntcd lo every une of her inhubitants, ihe black man ns well as tho white man. We are all children of the same gracious God; all equally entilled to life, libert.y, dinl the pursuit of bappiness. We are to!d that you possess great power,ent rea t yon to exorcise that power and that nfltience for the sake of lummnity. Vou wil] not witncsB the horrors of sluvery in all the Statos of America. Thirieen of them are ree, nnd thirteen nre slave States. ! But m nl), the pro-b!avery feeling. though rap tdly decreasing, is slill strong. Do not imite icilhil: on thccoiitrory, dpposb it by all TilE l'IÍACKFUL DIBANSm XÓVR POWKR. J( M N VVITII TUK AiJOLlTIONJSTS EVERY WHfiRÉ. Thcy are the only consistent advocates olïberty. Teil every man, thot . you do nol linderstand liberty for the white nwn, uu) slaveni for the Hack man: that you are for LIBERTY FOR ALL, of every color, creed, una country. The American citizen pröGdly pointe fo th nntional dcclaitiön of indcpeñdeñce, whicli declares ihat "All mankind are bom freo and equalj and are olike, enliiled to lifc, 1 the puisnit of imppiness." Aid him to curry this nuble deckration, by ebtaining freedora for the elave. ïnslimen and ïrishwomen! Itral the colored pcopleasyour eqvals, as brethren. By all your memories of Jreland, continuo to lovo hberty- hae alavery- ULINö BY THE ABOLÏTIONISTS- and in America, you will do honor to the name. o Ir eland. fiSiirncd bvl

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