The Liberator

TROUBLE IN THE CAMP! The Irish Repeal Association, of New Orleans, after consultation, have determined on a dissolution of the Society, and a distribution of its funds for charitable uses. The cause of this step will be found in the following, a part of the resolutions adopted:-

'Resolved, That while we yield to none-even in Ireland-in the fervent desire to see the land of our birth 'redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled' from the blighting influences of her present legislative connection with England, we are nevertheless, keenly alive to the superior claims upon our loyalty which are held by the land of our adoption; and, as good citizens, shall hold its friends as our friends its foes as our foes. Resolved, That as much as we desire that the legislative union between England and Ireland should be repealed, yet the violent and unjustifiable course which Mr. O'Connell has thought proper to pursue towards this country, and the supposed sympathy in his views thereupon of a portion of the Irish people, render it incompatible with our feelings as men, and our obligations as American citizens, to give any further aid to the cause. To continue our exertions under such humiliating circumstances would be an outrage upon the feelings of the American people, upon our convictions of propriety, and subject us to the suspicion of coinciding in their sentiments and sympathizing in suggestions which we utterly repudiate.

Perhaps the following cringing, dastardly article from the Boston Pilot will somewhat mollify the exasperated feelings of those patriotic, liberty-loving Southern Repealers : Mr. O'Connell's Texas Speech. We have heard within the week a great variety of indignant expressions from our citizens of Irish birth, as well as of native origin, relative to a recent notorious speech of Mr. O'Connell's. To this we find no fault: it is natural, and has a provoking cause. But this feeling, we perceive, is taking a wrong direction, and is manifested by threats unworthy of sane minds, but most unworthy of freemen. American citizens, whether born here or elsewhere, must know and feel this fact; that as soon as Irishmen take the oaths of citizenship, they cease to be accountable for the language of any foreign statesman. From that hour they are politically Americans, though they may be personally emigrants; from that hour, their undivided allegiance is given to our government, their political principles are shaped from our constitutions, and Irish citizens cease to be responsible for O'Connell as much as English citizens for Peel, or French citizens for Guizot. This is the true ground to be taken in all cases of this nature, and the man from Ireland who persists in any other is false to himself, a mischief-maker, and a blockhead. We have already expressed our utter repudiation of Mr. O'Connell's sentiments, and we hope, that what we have now said, will prevent our Irish fellow-citizens from exposing themselves to ridicule by receiving the doctrines of the church-burners. The church-burners insist that they are still ruled by O'Connell; if they are foolish enough to treat this speech otherwise than the opinions of a British subject should be treated by American citizens, they deserve all that has been said of them. In politics they have one duty, and O'Connell another-they have one allegiance, and he another-to them, his speech is no more than to any other class of citizens."

It would be just as false in them to make this speech their particular quarrel, as it would be in the Repeal Association of Ireland to take up all our fiery speeches in this country against Great Britain. When charged with a participation in these sentiments of O'Connell, let their sole answer be— We have sworn to support America's Flag and Cause. This simple reply will be better than all the fierce disclaimers they can utter. They must not cast a doubt on their own fidelity; they have been tried by America in peace and in war; and if she wants them again, she will find them at an hour's notice, where she found them in times past, with Jackson and Montgomery, Barry and O'Brien.

If the above be not sufficiently soothing to the roaring demon of Slavery, perhaps the following extract from the N. Y. Freeman's Journal, (supposed to be written by Bishop Hughes,) will suffice : Mr. O'Connell is an Irish statesman, not an American. He is a monarchist. not a republican. He can neither see, think, judge, act or talk as a citizen of our Republic, and it is quite unreasonable in any one to expect that he should do so. He sees our government and institutions at a great distance, and from under a corner of that cloud of prejudice as to every thing American which pervades the political atmosphere of Great Britain. With Mr. O'Connell's views and opinions, he is to a degree unable to understand and admire those more peculiar features of our Republic, in which we rejoice. He has in numerous instances, and upon sundry occasions, within the knowledge of all who have watched his public course, and perused his public speeches and expressions, manifested ignorance of our government and laws in very essential points. The last arrival brings a strong evidence of his want of accurate information as to the state of parties with us, upon a point too as to which an American school-boy could prompt him. At the same time, we must say that the recent effort of that great man is, in our humble opinion, rather unworthy of him, not consistent with former warm expressions of gratitude on his part, and uncalled for in any view of the present relations between the United States and Great Britain, as they effect Ireland or the great cause in which Mr. O'Connell is engaged.