An illustration of lincolns political ideology. The Petersburg Intelligencer has an obituary of this most dangerous prelate, who actually enlisted more men against the South than any one man at the North. We publish his obituary with respectful, yet cheerful, alacrity: Few names are more celebrated, or have stood more prominent in the stormy politics of the State of New York. Called to the Episcopate in January, 1838, for a quarter of a century he has ruled the most populous and most influential diocese belonging to his church in the once United States.--Of commanding intellect, and an eloquent preacher, he has long been looked to by the Roman Catholics of the North as at once the ornament and defence of their oft-assailed creed. An Irishman by birth, he belonged to a generation of exiles that remembered, perhaps felt, the remorseless tyranny of the British Government during the insurrection of 1798, when that unhappy country was delivered up to the unbridled license of a brutal soldiery, animated with the fierce hatred of an opposite creed. An enthusiastic Irishman, he remembered and resented the wrongs of his native land, and hence, was ever found in the ranks of those who have struggled through good report and evil report to free Green Erin from British rule. This cherished object has been the favorite day dream of thousands of intelligent Irishmen, who fondly hope the day may come, when, with the assistance of the United States, an American invasion will wrench Ireland from the British Empire. This is the key which deciphers the mysterious eagerness with which the fresh rushed to enlist under the stars and stripes for Southern subjugation. Any political movement which weakened the United States postponed the revenge upon England, and hence the sacrifice of blood by Irishmen for the restoration the Union. Like all enthusiasts, they became the dupes of unscrupulous politicians, and are now slowly, but surely, recovering from the deception practised on them by Meagher and other Irish demagogues, at the instance of the Yankee Government.
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