An Extract
We copy the following extract of a letter written by Governor Seward to the young friends of I reiand in the ci'.y of New York, m conaequenee of his inabiliiy to comply wilh nn invilntion to bo present ot n dinnur, to be given in honor of O'Oonnell: "Who thnt undorstandd truly the ciuse of Repeal and the merite of llie Agilator can de ny him n pliice wilii ihenames of Bruine, Teil, Kosciusko, La Fayette, VVallace nnd of Washington! My yonnjf Prienda! It would seern like shrinking from ihe eide of the Iiish ex i Ie, if I failed to advert to the wronjjs preater tlian vet before, wlrich he i? now endnring forconscip'ice sake. Yet I wonld nol increnso popular eXciÃemcnt by exhibÃting nnnpcessarily oven just zenl for Ãhe principie óf Totenince nnd Democracy. Lel it Fuffice to sny that the more violr-nt the partizan storm, the sonner i's fury vvill he spent, and the sooner will it be succeeded b}' the calni of naüonal rnagimnimity. Granting that all wns true which is nllegcd of the ntellecunl condition and politica] disposilion ofemigrants, which I deny; yetintolerar.cè nnd proscription wonld but incrense the evüs coniplained of. "Mnster whó ául sin, this man or his parent?, that he was born blnul?" was the inqniry of the Jews. TIip mester answered - "Neither hath this man sinned or his parents, but that rhe works of God ehonld be mode manifest in hinv' ' Though many tnay nsk who did fin, these hnigrants or their parents, that they were born under oppression yet I have fnll confidence that the Cliristian sjiiiit will prevail. nnd that we shal! all become satisfied that the exile is cast upon onr sliores n'ot to be prosenbed or 'persecutod, but that the principies of Liberty and flumanity muy be made more manifest among us, for the encoimigemenl and ultÃmate emancipntion of mankind. I cannot now leave my home Ãind its carea to share with 3-onr feátiviiies, nnd therefore I pray you to nccept in tliid form aseurances of my abiding fideli'y and grateful and affectionute resnect.
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Signal of Liberty
Old News