Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-19 00:00:00

natural. ally of slavery,'

revolting traffic of the south
suffrage convention at Rhode Island called heaven and

upheld

The free

earth to witness its. readiness to encounter the horrors

of war rather than surrender the right of universal
suffrage, and meanwhile disfranchised such of the Rhode
Islanders as had an infinitismal trace of African blood in
their veins. s In the conventions of Michigan mid lowa,
Democracy declared all men equal, with the exception of the
coloured inhabitants. We arc reminded by this boasting
of freedom, this glorying in universal suffrage, this trum-
peting of liberty and equality, of that scene where the
noblest woman of France on ascending the scaffold turned
towards a statue of Liberty, placed beside the guillotine,
and exclaimed, " Oh, Liberty, what crimes have been com-
mitted in thy name ! " What means that American slang
now sl largely imported into political discussions among
the dignity of labour," "the equality of all,'
ling of the area of freedom ?" It is the hypocrisy'
of speech, -

" the c

gilding of the slave's chains, the dust which

)W into European eyes

In America

we hay

11 that Brig

it and Co. con

I for, in suffrage

palitical power,

—neither an Aristocracy, nor a Prelacy, nor

a State Church, nor a Queen. Yet this sacred democracy
hugs to its bosom the most execrable system of slavery that
`gd God's earth ! Slavery is a deep and detestable

every Doi

evil—a greater evil to the vit
bla

than to the wrote]:

; morally, socially, politically evil. It seems to t

suffered to continue in America that the partizans of
democracy and republicanism may learn that their favourite
political heaven has blacker clouds on it than far less boastful
institutions, and that there is no good reason for uprooting
our old English royal oak and transplanting into England
that miserable furze bush of democracy in which nestle and

grow up many more venomous reptiles than we have
liking fur. Our English people, we are persuaded, thin!
Bad as we are, England is an entire

T' to the slave

Are the Wilberforceites aware that the public
auctioneer at the South is looked upon as a neces-
sary evil, and with the same feelings of contempt as
tpon the comm on hangman ? That public
opinion is so much in favour of the slave, that a white
man gets justice with difficulty ? That a larger
number of slaves are members of the church in pro-
portion to population than the whites ? That nothing
has done so much to retard education,—sehools—
teachers—among them, as the violent tirades
against their masters by the Uncle Tom party ?
Go into the cold cheerless huts of the English, the
Irish, and Scottish peasant—note his scanty furni-
ture—his cold hearthstone—notice the quantity and
quality of his food—trace the care on his low brow
and corrugated features—remember that one in thirty
of the entire population is a pauper—that one in
twelve of the births last year was a bastard—test the
truth as these things are shown, and then admit that
charity begins at home. Why is it, when intelligent

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