abolitionism, 1, 12, 15, 37, 54, 86–87, 99, 126, 174, 206, 210, 218; in America, 5, 101–3, 117, 118, 122, 123, 146; Irish opposition to, 16, 17, 74, 77, 124, 149, 155, 165, 215; political abolitionism, 45; as a threat to the American republic, 70–71; transatlantic abolitionism, 36, 40; Unionist arguments against, 81, 98–99; view of as a British conspiracy against the United States, 13–14, 77–78. See also abolitionists; anti-abolitionism abolitionists, 12, 25, 38, 51, 99, 122–23, 125–26, 141, 145, 148, 151, 159, 164, 165–66, 218, 234n25; desire of for O’Connell to write his own Irish Address, 107; displeasure of with O’Connell’s response to anti-abolitionists, 101; divisions among, 5, 37; Irish abolitionists , 41, 44–45; and the northern construction of race, 13; response of to O’Connell’s criticisms of Garrison, 113–19. See also anti-Catholicism, among abolitionists; Garrisonians (Garrisonian abolitionists) “Abolitionists, Irish Immigrants, and the Dilemmas of Romantic Nationalism” (Osofsky), 15 “Address to the Friends of Ireland,” 62 Address from the People of Ireland to Their Countrymen and Countrywomen in America (the Irish Address [HASS/Webb]), 50–51, 71–72, 123, 163, 217; addition of signatories to, 103, 107–8; authenticity of, 106–7; “foreign interference” argument against, 103–4; reprinting of in the Liberator, 102–3; response of the Irish American press to, 74–78, 102; signatories to, 51–52 “Address from Philadelphia to American Citizens and Repealers throughout the Union” (R. Tyler), 190–91 Address to the Slaves (Smith), 116 African Americans, 21, 31, 216; assertions of their inferiority as a race, 12–13, 18; demand for equal rights of, 13; place of in American society, 12 Ahern, T. J., 92–93 Albany Evening Journal, 131 index Allen, Richard, 42, 43, 47, 51, 107, 111, 237n41 American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS [the “Old Organizationists”]), 34, 37, 40, 44, 47–48, 52, 101, 106, 107, 120; presentation of O’Connell’s address to the Cincinnati repealers, 162–65 American Bible Society, 11 American Citizen and Anti-Repealer, 151 American Citizens Opposed to Repeal, 91–92 American Colonization Society, 31 American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (AFASS [the “New Organizationists”]), 37, 38, 44, 45, 52, 118; criticism of, 48 American Party in Politics (Lee), 259n56 American Republican, 184 American Republican Party, 11, 174–75, 185–86 American Revolution, 4, 9, 13, 22; parallels of with Ireland’s struggle against British rule, 67 “American Slavery––an Irish Question,” 41 Amistad case, 175, 238n51 Anglo-Saxons, 18, 22; American Anglo-Saxons, 20; Celtic/Anglo-Saxon differences, 20–21 anti-abolitionism, 13–14, 81, 101, 123, 184, 217; anti-abolition riots, 14 anti-Catholicism, 11, 15, 69, 185; among abolitionists , 159, 161; anti-Catholic newspapers, 11; burning of Catholic churches in Philadelphia , 186; and the repeal movement, 179–82; violence of, 11, 186 anti-Irish sentiment, 69 anti-repeal newspapers, 151–52, 175–76 antislavery movements, 4; antislavery newspapers , 42; divisions within, 47–48; factions within the transatlantic antislavery movement , 49–50; and the rise of abolitionism, 4; transatlantic antislavery movements, 34–35. See also abolitionism apprenticeship, ending of, 31–32 Association of the Friends of Ireland and Repeal, 64, 144, 253n79 Baltimore Sun, 21, 90, 135 Beecher, Lyman, 11 280 index Bennett, James Gordon, 175, 254n9 Birney, James G., 39, 44, 45–46, 47, 48, 236n8 Black Abolitionist Papers, The (Ripley et al.), 50 Boston Atlas, 128–29, 151 Boston Catholic Diary, 77; position on the Irish Address, 75–76, 102 Boston Hibernian Relief Society, 54 Boston Morning Post, 90 Boston Pilot, 20, 54, 55, 56, 62, 64, 85, 99, 103, 107, 119, 131, 139, 151, 179, 182, 212, 213; comments on O’Connell’s antislavery address, 124–25; complaints concerning the Boston Atlas, 128–29; criticism of the southern abandonment of repeal, 204; defense of the free speech rights of repealers in, 70; position concerning abolitionists, 73, 74–75; position concerning the Irish Address, 77, 84, 99, 102, 166; position concerning the Pottsville repealers, 89–90; promotion of the American repeal movement , 198–99; proposals for Irish American self-improvement and adult education in, 189–90; response to O’Connell’s “American Eagle” speech, 207; response to O’Connell’s Cincinnati Address, 165–66 Bradburn, George, 52–53 Brady, Thomas, 90 Breckinridge, John, 79 British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS), 32, 37, 38, 39, 45, 47, 52, 155 Brosnan, C. M., 94–95 Brownson, Orestes, 209 Buchanan, James, 67 Buffum, James M., 164 Calhoun...