The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

AMERICAN SLAVERY.

The Rev. Dr. Caswall, vicar of Figheldean, for-
wards to an ecclesiastical contemporary the following ex-
tracts from a letter which he has mowed from " • cleri-
cal friend in Maryland well known in We country by hie
almost enthusiastic regard for Old England s"
" Maryland, United States, Dec. 2, 1861.
" I must repeat what I have eft= said before, that I
write under a feeling (for humanity aoil for England as the
great protector of the interests of civilisation) wholly gape-
rior to mere love of eoun47. Ido love my native rettatry,,
I confess, now, as never before. But on every unmet 1
love England more as my mother country from which all
that is dear to me in America is derived. This feel-
ing towards England is too strong in me to be
shakes by any untoward things of the moment. Should the
present generation of Englishmen provoke a war with,
and succeed in indicting great miseries on ne. it
not change my feelings towards England. I know that a
generation will succeed to bewail the folly of this age, sad
that the grand unalterable facts which make England and
America allies must in the end prevail. But shall there be
no one to protest against the folly and madness of the hoer I
Every steamer that arrives brings new fuel to the Base
now beginning to burn amongst us against Old England. It
is not in human nature to endure such insulting language es
is perpetually used by the —, the —, Sze., and virtually
repeated by leading public men at dinners and the like
occasions, to the &nada' of justice and mercy. Ido sal
wonder that the mss of my countrymen are enraged by it,
nor that they daily invoke great Nemesis, and await ea
opportunity, which is sure to come, of revenge and retells-
taon. Shall a few diameters be the only ones in England
to lift a voice against such unreasonable andgalling provoca-
lima 1_

I have oever men the man among us who asks any mate-
rial aid from England. We did expect her moral support.
and we feel entitled to that ; not that she can be expected
to admire our republican institutions, but that she ought to
feel an interest in the good order of nations, in the Nom et
society, and the enforcement of law—to say nothing about
this war as directly waged against the extension of slavery
and of the slave trade. True, it is act en abolitiou war, we
cannot stir up servile insurrection, mid we deserve crocheter
not doing so, considering our tremendonsteniptation. Bat is it
nothing to resist the propagation of the curse ; ix it nothing
to say, 'lf thus far, no further' ? We feel that we might
to have the moral rlpport of England ; but let that go. I/
only she will not insult us, scoff at us, exult over our suffer-
iogs, and take the disruption of our republic as afeit
ac-compli, all might be welL
" I wish you could see, as Ido daily, the desponding
looks of our best bishops and laymen—men whose Wit, to
everything English has been like the loyalty you ha►e at
ammo. Now they say to me, ' Well, what lave you to lay
now for Motherland ? The efforts of our lives are bet. We
have preached up England as the great nation that might
he depended on in every struggle against wrong sad ore-
rage, against oppression and sedition, and here she is giving
all her morel power to a seditious confederacy.'
•' Such is the spirit of conversations which I hear every-
where among men who, if there be worth and character on
this continent, are best entitled to be heard. The Times
and other public organs are miserably deceived. Unless
England and Frans do us the gigantic wrong of nettior the
' Coufederaey' on its lege, we shall destroy it sad sesame
our sway over our own. We are persuaded the Smith is as
really ours as Wales is England's. Let us alone, sod wean
solve the problem how to Toreson it, soil how In Owe it
back the privileges and blessings it Las so wally (misted.*

The Tagus, which should have left Liabos oath
17th inst. with the Peninsular nails, is three days eiremilee.
THE CARE or PARRICIDE AT BILYINGIIAIL —At
the publics office at Birmingham, yeeterdeyjedece
Kynnersley (stipendiary), James Ifillwerd was btegM op
on the charge of shooting his father under the eircwirilmewee
already detailed in this journal. The evidence eilinced
wu much the same u at the inquest. The psiwsr we
committed for trial on a charge of " Maeda •
CRTETAL PALACZ,•••O/11 SHILLING DAT.--TWEII.
DAT, DEC. 7M. —Ada:limbos on payment, 931; ditiolreellinell
Sick" I,o77—total, I,W&