Indiana State Sentinel

There is much mystery over the address to the Irishmen of the United States, put forth by the abolition party at Faneuil Hall, and said to be signed by O'Connell, Matthews, and 60,000 Irishmen. Bishop Hughes of New York publishes a card, in which he declares it as his "first and decided impression that it is not authentic." but adds: should it prove to be authentic, then I have no hesitation in declaring my opinion that it is the duty of every naturalized Irishman to reject and repudiate the address, with indignation, not precisely because of the doctrines which it contains, but because of their having emanated from a foreign source, and of their tendency to operate on questions of domestic and national policy. I am no friend of slavery; but I am still less friendly to any attempt of foreign origin to abolish it."

"A meeting of Irishmen has also been held at Pottsville, Pennsylvania who pronounced it to be …a base fabrication"-denounce the address in the most indignant terms, and declare that "whether it emanated from the pen of Daniel O'Connell, or from any other source whatever, they cannot find language too strong to censure and treat it with the scorn it deserves."