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the public mind, can be host judged of by
the following introductory passage :
TO EMIGRANTS FROM IRELAND.
The majority of you seek America with
the hope of bettering your social condition.
On your arrival in the port of Now York
you may expect to be immediately solicited
to enlist in the Federal army for the restora
tion of the Union, and fur the pretended
liberation of the negro. What will thu lib
eration of the negro benefit you or yours at
home or abroad, that you should risk your
lives for his so-called “freedom?” What
benefit or credit will redound to you from
tlie re-establishment of the Union, that you
should sell yourselves for a few pounds in
baud to the men who would raise themselves
to military rank, pay and promotion, by
making your dead bodies the stepping-stone
of their ambition? Read; and from the
letters of John Martin and W. Smith
O’Brien learn that the war of the Northern
Yankees against the Southern States is a
most unjust, most bloody and inhuman war.
Read; and learn from the letter of our
Holy Father, Popo Pius IX, that this war of
th» Nor.h against the South is the dires',
most destructive, and most dismal of all the
evils that could befall a people or a nation.
Read attentively that epistle of His Holi
ness, in which he urges and commands
Archbishop Hughes of New York to omit
nothing “ he can undertake or accomplish ”
as a Bishop to stay the war and restore
peace ; and then ask yourselves, if you can
with a safe conscience despise this entreaty
of the Holy Father, or lend yourselves to
counteract his injunctions by enlisting in or
aiding a war which the Pope has so unquali
fiedly condemned.
But even a more remarkable proof of the
unanimity with which persons of the highest
influence and of opposite parties are work
ing together in the cause of peace, Is to be
found in the efforts that are daily made to
procure signatures to the “ Appeal," recent
ly put in circulation, from the “ People of
tile Unitad Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland to the People of the United States.”
That appeal addresses itself to the ties of
kindred, to the past history of the United
States, to the long continuance of tho civil
war, to the empty character of the results,
to the waste of humau life, and to tho
amount of loss and misery caused by the
conflict; and entreats the people of tho
North to consider their position, and to
make peace with the Southern States.
In a leading article commending that ad
dress to the favourable consideration of its
readers, the Irish Times says:
Let all who read and approve of it affix
their names to it; the Signatures of two or
three millions of men, far from the fury of
the strife, cannot but have weight even with
the fiercest. Means will be taken to secure
for all an opportunity of signing the appeal
at the Rotunda, in the porticos of houses of
worship, and in the public streets. Wo have
far greater reason to desire that peace should
prevail in America than England has. If
one of her branches of trade to the Southern
States has suffered, a dozen others have
prospered; but there are, or were, three
millions of the Irish race settled in America-
The soil of Virginia and Mississippi and
Georgia absolutely streams with Irish blood.
* * When kings and cabinets stand
aloof, perhaps the voice of the peoplo from
whom Northerners and Southerners have
more or less purely sprang, may be listened
to with respect and effect. A people can
best address a Republican Government and
a Republican multitude. In such a ease
there can be no offence, no selfish motive.
It is humanity appealing to humanity, and
entreating that the worst form of war
should be closed in au honorable peace.
This popular movement has been begun
simultaneously in London, Liverpool, Man
chester and Glasgow; it begins to-day in
Dublin, and will commence shortly in Cork,
Queenstown, Belfast and other Irish towns.
The Cork Examiner, upon the same sub
ject, has the following :
The honesty, the integrity, the ability of
t.lio Northern States are now being more and
more largely enlisted in the cause of peace.
Political reasons induce some to moderate
the expression of their eouvietions on this
head, but every indication points to the be
lief that it only needs a grand occasion—au
encouraging crisis—to induce even the most
powerful leaders of American parties to
enrol themselves under the banner of peace.
This, therefore, is a time when friendly
voices from this side of the Atlantic may
make themselves heard with effect. And if
the voice of the peoplo of England is likely
iu be heard with complacency, with how
much more readiness ought not the friendly
utterance of the Irish people to he listened
to! We are merely the mother country ad
dressing what was once our revolted colony.
We aro addressing our owu nearest and
dearest of kindred. Wc Irish have been
among the saddest sufferers by this war, a»
many a desolate hearthstone, many a roof
tree deprived of its prop, can testify, both
on this side and the other side of the At
lantic. If there were virtue in this war,
irishmen were among those who made the
most despirate saeriliees for it ; if there
were misery—as, alas ! how much—lrish
men have borne more than their fai r share.
An address from tho people of this country, j
couched in the language of friendship and j
brotherhood, ought to appeal with peculiar i
force to the people of the United States; I
and we trust that every man in Ireland will
lend the weight of his name to the persua- !
•ion of that document.
The Dublin Evening Mail, with its strong
ly marke’’ Confederate sympathies, has
scarcely patience to treat the address in a
•.pint of conciliation to the North. It re
marks :
We solicit tho reader’s attention for tho
interesting document in support of the
peace movement which we publish to-day.
As an address from tho people of Great
Britain and Ireland, it has been prepared
ir.ith a regard to both classes of opinions
represented among us, and professes, ac
cordingly an original sympathy for thp
North and former confidence in its success,
which we, for our own part, never enter
tiiied. Wo have consistently held opposite
THE PACIFICATOR —A. CATHOLIC JOURNAL.
sentiment?, and the event has warranted the
judgment we formed. Whatever arrange
ments may he concluded between North and
South, they will ever henceforth remain
t*vo nations, for many and obvious reasons
stated by us and others three years ago.
The peace now desired will bo brought
about only by the North admitting the com
plete independence of tho South, and the
arguments of this address in sustain incut
! of that course are irrefr^gible.
The address is also given in extenso, with
; favorable comments in the editorial columns,
i in the following journals : Dublin Morning
New* (leading Catholic organ), Dublin
i Evening Post, Belfast Newsletter , Waterford
| Mail, Wicklow News, Drogheda Conservative ,
! Limerick Chronicle, etc., etc. It was read
| in ttie various Churches in Queenstown on
| Sunday last, and the congregations were
affectionately and solemnly invited to sign
| it. Sheets for signatures have been placed
i in the Chamber of Commerce of this city,
! the Exhibition, the principal hotels, news
i paper offices, shops, the offices of young
i men's societies, Trinity College, etc. Thus
the anticipation of tho Irish Times, ‘that the
document will be signed by two or three
millions of men, is in a fair way of being
more than realized.— London Index .
®tje Pacificator.
T>. WALSH, I
I-,. T. BLOME, j Editors.
Office, corner Mctntoth Jr Key Holds Sit,
AT&TTSTA, Gk/A.,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER22,IBG4
REPUBLICANISM.
There is in the word freedom a pleasura
ble, exhilarating sound. People lovo to
boast of freedom of thought, freedom ot
speech, and freedom of the press. It is
gratifying to their vanity, conducive to
their pride, stimulative to their ambition,
to be considered the equals of every other
human being, to be styled the true sov
ereigns of the land, and to owe no alle
giance to those in authority. All these
privileges are claimed as the offsprings, as
the good gifts of Republicanism. Hence,
Republicanism is the day dream and the
unceasing aspiration of the people of al
most every clime and nation. Many have
tried it and failed. Others have attempted
to obtain it, and also failed in the attempt.
But it was thought that in America, the
experiment had succeeded ; that our system,
however jarring and discordant the compo
nent parts of the Great Republic might
prove, possessed within itself the elements
of a cohesion too strong to he destrd^;d - *by
the abrasions of discord or the corrosion of
time. It was thought and argued that the
popular elections were so many safety
valves, through which threatened revolu
tions would ever escape; and thus the Re
public would move on to unexampled pros
perity and grandeur, excelling in natural
greatness, in extent of territory and popu
lation, the most Utopian dreams of th« most
ardent Republican enthusiast. But, alas !
how have the mighty fallen! Awakened
from the magic spell of those brilliant
visions of the past, we find this splendid
fabric a heap of smouldering ruins, its
cities in ashes, its streams red with human
gore! So sudden and so unexpected came
the shock, so rapid has been the occurrence
of events, io iCppaling seems the terrible
change, that, the observer seems rather to
be witnessing some horrid dream, than just
to have awakened from one. And to what
results does this spectacle lead? It shakes
the faith of the enthusiast in Republican
ism, strengthens the opinions .of its oppo
nents, and leads us to question whether the
great freedom which we were supposed to
enjoy in the past was not rather an idea
than a reality; rather a mistaken theory
than a practical principle—in short, whether
it was not rather a public misfortune than
a public benefit. These are reflections
wlpch the mighty revolution now progres
sing around us must awaken in the mind of
overy candid thinker, every patriotic citizen.
In our judgment, the seeming failure of
Republican Government is not attributable
to any inherent defect of Republicanism,
but rather to a want of capacity on the part
of man for self-government. Republican
ism, in its purity, presupposes a stato of
morals, of superior enlightenment, of gen
uine liberality, that can scarcely bo found
in anylarge community' in the present age.
Hence, when revolvers and bowie-knives
take the place of argument and reason ;
when the high places are filled by tipplers
and gamblers ; when the “ sovereigns ” aro
bought and sold at elections, and the “ puri
ty of the ballot box ” is discarded; when
virtue finds no reward, and vice rides tri
umphant over the land; when libertinism
is winked at, and licentiousness is unre
buked; when pride of place or wealth
tramples upon honest and straggling pover
ty, Republicanism runs into corruption and
anarchy, and instead of being a blessing,
proves a curse to the community. Man,
therefore, must learn to govern himself
Individually and morally' before ho can
fit himself for political self-government and
for thrfse high and ennobling duties which
Republicanism requires of those who enjoy
its blessings; for this form of government
is, we conceive, the most perfect of human
governments, and, therefore, the most unfit
for human government. But it is in the
power of the people to adapt themselves to
that form—to make themselves worthy to
enjoy its blessings, and to establish it on a
firm and sure foundation. Will they do it?
Will the people of the South, learning
these dear bought lessons from the trying
ordeal through which they are now passing,
j purify themselves from the corruptions of
the past, cut loose from the wicked habits of
the old Republic, and, casting aside tho
impure, the immoral tendencies and teachers
of the past., - give place only to the virtuous
and tho good; dispensing with that self
sufficiency which pride and ignorance has
built up in their bosoms, and giving all en
couragement, by precept and example, to
pure religion and good morals—so fit them
selves for the high duty which will devolve
upon them, of not only creating a New Re
public, but, of establishing upon a firm and
sure foundation the pure principles of true
Republicanism and Constitutional Govern
ment? Commending these crude sugges
tions to the reflection of all our readers, we
need only add to the Christian the words of
sacred Scripture : “If Christ shall mako
you free, you shall be free indeed.”
THE WAR NEWS.
GEORGIA.
Wc get nothing definite as to movements
in Georgia. Rumors are current of suc
cesses to our arms, which, we hope, may
prove true. Gen. Beauregard is said to
have reached the army, and under his lead
ership and that of the gallant Hood, the
most beneficial results are anticipated. The
Federals in Atlanta are said to be short of
provisions.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
In South Carolina all is comparatively
quiet. The shelling of Charleston con
tinues, with exchanges of shots between the
Confederate and Federal batteries.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A raid on Weldon in force was authenti
cally announced a few days ago, but we
have heard nothing of it since.
VIRGINIA.
The Richmond Dispatch, ot the 17th inst.,
says *
On the lines, beginning on tho Charles
City road, North of James river, and termi
nating on the Vaughan road, South of
Petersburg, no military movement of im
portance has transpired since last Thurs
day. The Yankees then tried to force our
lines below this city', but met with such a
reception as had the effect of keeping them
quiet ever since.
Some surprise has been expressed that
Grant has postponed so long tho grand at
tack which it is known he is preparing to
make on our position. There are at least
two good reasons that W'e know of for his
delay. He. desires the co-operation of his
navy, which he cannot have until Butler's
canal shall have been finished; and bis army',
for tho reinforcements of which every ef
fort is, with some success, being made, is not
yet strong enough for hisjpurposes. From
a gentlemau who is just through from Wash
ington city, where he conversed with many
well-informed persons—some of- them offi
cers in the Yankee army—we learn thet, the
draft is being rigorously enforced every
where in the North, except in New Jersey
and Brooklyn city, and that conscripts are
being sent to Grant at the rate of at least a
thousand a day. Such accessions to his
army are worth waiting for.
When these conditions aro fulfilled, the
Dispatch anticipates two assaults upon the
lines—one below Richmond and one South
of Petersburg.
At last accounts, all was quiet around
Petersburg.
In the Valley, Early had succeeded in
thwarting the plans of Sheridan ; but the
latter has destroyed property to an immense
aniount—houses, grain and cattle all sharing
in the general destruction.
ALABAMA.
At Mobile all was quiet.
MISSOURI.
Price was reported to be in the vicinity of
Booneville at last accounts, Sanborn
harassing his rear guard.
A Sunday Revery. — We publish,
j under this title, in this week's Pacificator,
j a charming little poem from the pen of the
! gifted author of “ Maryland, my Mary
land,” James R. Randall, Esq. There is
a freshness and pathos about it that will
thrill upon the heart-strings of the reader,
awakening a kindly sympathy for the exiles
from happy homes and bounteous fields—
exiles by the cruel hand of war and rapine—
exiles from loved ones, now cut off by the
ruthless power of the oppressor. We hope
to have our columns often graced by the
productions of this talented young South
ern poet.
OUR WILMINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
Probability of an Attach oit Wilmington —
The prospects of a Successful Defence —
General Whiting.
Wilmington, N. C., Oct. 18, 1861.
It would seem, from all we can learn, that
the hostile designs of the enemy are to be
soon directed against Wilmington. Its im
portance to the Southern Confederacy has
been very generally discussed by the North
ern press, and they have, accordingly, .time
and again urged the necessity of its cap
ture. That an attempt at this will be made
at no very remote day, is looked upon by
all as au almost absolute certainty. Tho
questions, then, are, can it sustain itself
against attack'? or has it one in command
equal to the emergency ? It has a General,
in command, who, in the language of our
much esteemed and worthy President, is
one of the best in tho Confederate army.
General Whiting, to whom this high com
pliment was paid some time since, is in
dubitably a man of superior courage and
ability, and fully capable of successfully
defending the port of Wilmington. His
cool courage has been amply tested on many
battle fields, and his skill and ability are
universally acknowledged. It has been, his
lot to have his character maliciously im
pugned by men, who form the criterion of
others, but their censures are entirely unde
served, and bespeak a littleness on the part of
those who have given them birth ; and be it
said to his honor, that his greatness alone
has enabled him to rise superior to them.
For the defence of Wilmington, General
Whiting has been, to our own certain knowl
edge, unremitting in his exertions, and the
gigantic works which have been constructed
by him, not only entitle him to a rank
among the first of engineers, hut are calcu
lated to bid defiance to Farragut, or any
other distingue, whom it may please Mr.
Lincoln to send. Furthermore, these forti
fications have met with the approval of the
greatest engineer of the age, the illustrious
Beauregard. With these excellent means
of defence, then, and an adequate force to
use them, commanded by au approved and
able soldier, why need undue apprehension
be felt respecting the fate of Wilmington ?
The tide of victory may be turned against
us, it is true, hut this does not argue ineffi
ciency in a General. Various causes may
conspire to produce defeat apart from this.
The greatest • Generals in the world have
each in their turn suffered defeat. Let no
unnecessary uneasiness be felt about Wil
mington. Wc think, under present circum
stances, everything gives promise of suc
cess, and that the name of our distinguished
General will descend to posterity surround
ed by a halo of glory. J.
Agents for the Pacificator."— The
Catholic clergy throughout the Confederacy
are authorized and respectfully requested to
act as agents for The Pacificator. The
following gentlemen are also authorized to
act as agents :
Savannah, Ga. —Capt. L. J. Guilmartin,
Capt. M. J. Doyle, Capt. Michael Scanlon,
Henry 11. Eden, M. X. Quiuan.
Macon, Ga.—Wm. Walsh, D. Dunn.
Charleston, S. C.-—Lawrence Cantwell,
Thos. Quinliven, C, R.. Cassidy.
Columbia, S. C. — W. McGinnis, Richard
Flannigan, Simon Fogarty'.
An Address to the People of the
United States.— We conclude, in the
present number, the publication of this able
Address, by a Catholic Divine. We hope
that its effects may bo such as its distin
guished author intended. It will well repay
perusal.
THE POPE’S TEMPORAL KINGDOM.
Among the items of European news by
the latest arrivals is the report of a treaty
betweeu France and the Italian States,
which proposes to re-establish and sustain
the temporal power of the Pope. The
treaty is said to give general satisfaction
in Italy, but there has been some conten
tion and bad feeling in relation to the se
lection of the Italian capital, which is to be
Florence.
The Comtitutionnel, in a semi-official
article, gives the following as the chief
article of the contention : “ Italy engages
herself to respect tho actual territory of
the Pope, and to prevent by force any
attack that may be made on it from abroad.
France is to withdraw her troops in pro
portion to the organization of the Pontifical
army. 'Tho evacuation of Romo to be ac
complished in two years. The Pontifical
army to be of a sufficient strength to main
tain the Papal authority and tranquility
both in the interior and on the frontiers of
the Papal States. The Italian Government
to raise no objection to either the elements
or number of men comprising that army,
provided it always does not degenerate into
a means of attack against Italy. Finally,
Italy undertakes the liquidatiou of a share
et the Roman debt, proportioned to the
extent of those States of the Church now
auuoxcd to the Kingdom of Italy.”
The accounts which have arrived from
all parts of Italy announce that the new
Franoo-Italian treaty is redyed with tho
greatest satisfaction. #
MRS. ROSA A. GREENHOW.
We have received the following letter, de
tailing the last rites of respect to the ladr
whose name is above written :
“On Saturday morning. October 1, a dis
patch was received in Wilmington, by Mrs.
Do Prosset, President of the Soldiers’ Aid
Society,, stating that the body of Mrs.
Grecnhow had been recovered from the sea
at Fort Fisher, and would be sent to town
for interment. The ill-fated lady—a pas
senger in the steamer Condar, which got
aground in attempting to run in at New
Inlet —was drowned in trying to reach the
shore in a small boat, which swamped on
tho • rips.’
“A hundred houses were open to receive
the lady, but a meeting of the Soldiers’ Aid
Society being hastily convened, it was judged
proper to have the funeral obsequies as
public as possible, to which end the chapel
attached to Hospital No. 4 was beautifully
arranged, by order of the surgeon in charge,
Dr. Micks, and here it .was proposed the
corpse sjiould lie in state.
“On the arrival of the steamer Cape Fear,
which was appointed to convey the remains
to town, the ladies lined the wharf, closing
round and receiving into their midst the
lifeless form of her who had been so zealous,
so devoted, and so self-sacrificing an adhe
rent of the cause dearest to all their hearts.
She was then carried to the chapel, where a
guard of honor was stationed at the door.
“It was a solemn and imposing spectacle.
The profusion of wax lights round the
corpse; the quantity of choice flowers in
crosses, garlands, and boquets, scattered
over it: the silent mourners, sable-robed,
at the head snd foot; the tide of visitors,
women and children, with streaming eyes,
and soldiers, with bent heads and hushed
steps, standing by, paying the last tribute
of respect to the departed heroine. On the
bier, draped with a magnificent Confederate
flag, lay the body, so unchanged as to look
like a calm sleeper, while above all rose the
tall ebony crucifix, emblem of the Faith she
embraced in happier hours, and which, we
humbly trust, was her consolation in pass
ing through the dark waters of the river of
death.
“She lay there until two o’clock of Sun
day afternoon, when the body was removed
to the Catholic Church of St. Thomas. Horn
the funeral oration was delivered by the
Rev. Dr. Corcoran, which was a touching
tr unite to the heroism and patriotic devo
tion of tho deceased, as well as a solemn
warning on the uncertainty of all human
projects and ambition, even though of the
most laudable character.
“ The coffin, which was as richly decorat
ed as the resources of the town admitted
and still covered with the Confederate flag,
was borne to Oakdale Cemetery followed by
au immense funeral cortege. A beautiful
spot on a grassy' slope, overshadowed by
waving trees, and insight of a tranquil lake,
was chosen for'her resting place. Rain
fell in torrents during the day, but as the
coffin was being lowered into tho grave, the
sun burst forth in tho brightest majesty,
and a rainbow of the most vivid color
spanned tho horizon. Let us accept the
omen not only for her, the quiet sleeper,
who, after many storms and a tumultuous
and checkered life, came to peace and rest at
last, but also for our beloved country, over
which we trust the rainbow of hopo will ere
long shine with brightest dyes.
“The pall-bearers were Colonel Tansill,
chief of staff to General Whiting, Major
Vandcrhorst, J. M. Seises, Esq., Dr. do
Prosset, Dr. .Micks, and Dr. Medway.
“General Whiting and Captain C. B.
Poindexter, representing the two services,
were prevented from actingsas pall-bearers,
the former by reason of absence, the latter
in consequence of illness.
“The ladies of the Wilmington Soldiers’
Aid Society would have performed the last
office for any one coming to them under
similar sad circumstances, but with how
much greater respect and affection for her
who, during imprisonment, sickness, losses
of various kinds, and finally death itself,
through devotion to the holy cause which
was the very main spring and breath of her
existence.
“At the last day, when tho martyrs who
have with their blood sealed their devotion
to liberty shall stand together firm witnesses
that truth is stronger than death, foremost
among the shining throng, co-equal with
the Rolands and Jean d’Arcs of history, will
appear the Confederate heroine, Rosa A.
Grecnhow.— [Richmond Sentinel.
Robbery and Blasphemy.— A ladv of
Caroline county, Virginia, in a letter to tlie
Richmond Sentinel, detailing the outrages
of tho enemy in her neighborhood, says :
“At Mrs. ’s they found the wine used
for the church. She told them what it was,
and begged them to spare it; but they
laughed, and called for others to come and
drink the blood of Christ.”
At a representation of Mozart’s “I>tm
Giovanni,” a young coxcomb hummed so
loud certain airs of the opera, as to annoy
all his neighbors. An amateur, who sat by
his side, unable to bear it any longer, said,
aloud, “ What a fool!” “ Do you mean me ?”
said the troublesome fellow to him. “No,
sir, I complain of Mario, who prevents my
hearing you.”
The mother of the Italian Princess
Anna, whose fortunes aro about to be united
with those of the eldest son and heir of
Victor Emmanuel, was a Miss Frazier, of
Charleston, South Carolina, whom the
Prince Lucieu Murat married during his
long exile in America; so that tho future
Queen of the new Italian nation will be half
American.
A Passage from Malaria.— “ Father,
it would not require much stretch of the
imagination to believo that, by r some de
scendental metempsychosis, I had beeorne
an experienced member of the saerod gnom;-
des, torn ruthlessly from my sisterhood in
oerrß de Frio on tho cold dreary caverns of
the Agathyrsi ?” Jolly, lofty, andluminous,
isn’t it?