The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MO AY EVENING JANUARY 19, 1863

acts that have been performed by the present Viceroy ; and
he alluded to the obligations which not only the Turkish,
but even the English Government owed to Said Pasha.
But he would not confine himself to what might be regarded
as mere fulsome praise. And no doubt the Viceroy also
possesses faults ; the chief among them, and that from
which almost every evil has Leen derived, is one that has
much in it that is amiable—namely, excessive good nature.
But there is a Spanish proverb that if a man is all honey
the flies will eat him up. And, remarked Sir Henry, I
never knew such a country as this for flies.' There is the
mercantile fly, who certainly causes no small trouble; but
there is also the great blue bottle Consular fly, and finally
the persevering musquito fly. His excellency proceeded to
remark upon the urgent necessity that Englishmen, whe-
ther officials or merchants, should, for the sake of the true
interests of their country and of themselves, no less than
for the credit of their good name, obse've that strict
regard for integrity and justice in their dealings with the
Government and people of this country which they them-
selves have also a right to exact. With reference to the
financial position of the Egyptian Government, Sir Henry
pointed out that the foreign debt wi l be paid off in 30 years
by an annuity of £204,000, which, considering that the
revenues amount to nearly £4,000,00(', constitutes but a light
burden. The floating debts of the country amount to barely
a year and a halt's revenue, exclusive, however, of the sums
due to the Suez Canal Company, which his excellency de-
clared ought to be regarded, not as a public debt, but as a
private and personal debt of the Viceroy. The public en-
gagements of the country he felt no doubt would be liqui-
dated before long. The Viceroy has expressed the strongest
determination to extricate himself from his embarrassments.
He has shown that it is not his character to do things by
halves. He did not spend money by halves, and we may
feel assured that he will not save it by halves. We may,
therefore, confidently look forward to the time wh, n he will
be able to apply his surplus revenues to the improvement
of the country, and to works practicable of themselves and
of real utility."

Stowe---The Women of England and

Slavery.

Stowe is the feminine of Beecher—of "Parson
Beecher"—who has made the pulpit a recruiting
drum for mercenary enlistment, the altar the depo-
sitory tor articles of war— whu iu place of vows of
virtue swear in conscripts to the Commander-in-
Chief—who for the Captain of Salvation substitutes
Captain Brazen and Sergeant Kite—whose sermons
are slogans, whose prayers are war-whoops, whose
worship is that of Odin and of Thor, and whose
latest public appearance was embracing brute But-
ler at New York ! Eight years ago " the Women of
England" entreated their " Sisters of America" to
use their influence to mitigate the rigours of slavery;
and, silent during all the intervening time, Mts.
Stowe knocks the dust off the volumes of siguatures,
draws them from the pigeon-holes " wherein she
saw them quietly inurned," and now flaunts them
in their faces in reproach of their hesitating to tarr
on the North in their awful work of murderous
extermination. The ladies who signed the original
address did not presume to lecture the Sore hetners
on the abstract question of their laws and customs.
Their weapons are " not carnal, but spiritual." They
beseech women, not men ; and all they ask them to
do is to raise their voices to their fellow-citizens, and
their prayers to God." They see the " dangers of
immediate emancipation," the "necessity of pre-
paration." And because the women of England
shrink from those who raise the bloody hand of
Cain against their fellow-citizens, in place of the
gentle voice of Christian entreaty to them; because
those who pray to the God of Peace refuse to
shriek war yells in the ear of the Lord
of Hosts ; because they think their bigot,
frenzied censor blasphemes when she says the
" Mighty Redeemer is coming to break every
yoke" by the rifles of a million of roaring con-
scripts and drunken mercenaries; because a ser-
vile war of arson, rape, and murder is not God's
way of " letting the oppressed go free ;" be-
cause our wives and daughters shrink from the fla-
grant impiety which claims as a Gospel sentiment
that, in order Abolition should be compassed, it is
" better a generation should die on the battle field,',
not in self-defence, but in invasion and aggressive
civil war, unparalleled in its wanton atrocities ; be-
cause when a woman—a wife—a lady, boasts of " a
desolate hearth and darkened homestead—of the
bloodshed of eons, husbands, and brothers—of the
very light of life in many a dwelling having been
put out, and a life-long darkness" invoked, to carry
fire and sword into the borders of unoffending and
peaceable nations and neighbours, they stand aghast
at the impiety which can think such enormities can
" unloose the bonds of wickedness, and establish
abiding peace on the foundation of righteousness,',
they arc now lectured on inconsistency by Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. If this be the spirit of the
biographerab le ofyp "bred"
and
" Uncle Tom," what
abominablein
must have been their hymns
and their Methodism ! What else must they have
hra
been, but cowed and crouching tigers, making
Christ into Obeah the fetish, and hiding the claws
of the wild beast in the velvet paws of Tract
May not Anna Maria Bed-
Society evangelism !
ford, Oliva Cecilia Cowley, Co nstance Grosvenor,
Harriet Sutherland, Elizabeth Argyle, and Emily
Shaftesbury, with only too cogent logic, retort the
i at cnhe 11,
taunt and words of their catechist, and ask her to
take "counsel of God how far such a state of things"
as Butler,nay nlll'Neill, Constable,
the ball-chained ladies
Kennedy,
d
Fayette,elain M
don the swamp island in the Mississippi, "is in ac-
cordance with his Holy Word, and the pure and
merciful spirit of the Christian religion ? No I no!
It is not with Judith or Jezebel that our matrons
seek to take sweet counsel, but with the sister of
Lazarus, and the women at the sepulchre.
What is the object of this answer to the Address?
Not one word from Mrs. Beecher Stowe so long as
there was any hope of the success of brute force.
While " Providence was expected to be on the side
of the largest battalions" we heard nothing of the
Parsonese—only a recruiting roar from the Parson
While yet there was no Bull's Run, did any
member of the Federal Government so much as
imagine emancipation ? What said Garrison,
Greeley, Sumner, and Wendell Phillips ? That the
Government was an imposture, and the President
had no backbone. What said the President ? "If
I can restore the Union by Confirming slavery lam
for slavery." Not until the Federals were thrashed
twenty times by a fourth of their number of Confe-
derates all round Virginia and Tennessee, was the
Proclamation so much as thought of, and even then
it was unprincipled. It said to loyal slave-owners,
"You shall be defended in iniquity by the whole
force of the Federation"—it said to the "rebels" we
shall " insist on being virtuous and philanthropic at
your expense, not because we care for the slave,
but because you do." The Foreign Secretary was
careful to explain that the Proclamation was issued
only for military reasons. In place of cherishing
the escaped slaves on their natal soil, Seward has
proposed to England a convention for deporting
them to the West India Islands ; not out of any love
for the negroes, but simply to embroil our Govern-
ment with their owners—a base dodge which Earl
Russell has seen through and made ridiculous. The
General Elections have resulted in a large majority
of the voters throughout the Free States declaring
against Abolition. These are the circumstances in
her own country, and of her own party and Govern-
ment under which Mrs. Stowe elects herself Censor
of our Peeresses.

And now we must take leave to tell our Oct,
annual responthmt that this Answer is made at a
crisis of desperation and hopeless rout, not in the
interests of Emancipation but of Federalism ; not as
an Abolitionist, but as a factious Republican ; not
to put down slavery, bat to force the Union upon
the South; not for the glory .of God, but for
political capital. Bunkum harks in every line of
the remonstrance. The pretext is lofty philan-
throphy ; the secret spring of action is grovelling
factiousness. Sharpsburg and Antietam stare out
in each turn of the rhetoric. It is dated from
Washington—it might have been inspired by the
dollars of the White
House. Mrs. Stowe has no
title to claim credit for Christian motives, when she
suppresses all mention of them until " the devil,
the world, and the flesh" have been invoked in vain.
It is only—

When the devil is sick, the devil a monk would be ;
When the devil *as well, the devil a monk was he.
The " uncogude" fell awkward in the advocacy
of aggressive warfare
unless they can justify it by
texts. The " Clapham Sect" made the suppression
of the slave trade a religious question ; and ever
since the great plea for abolition has been that sla-
very was a blasphemous defiance of the express in-
j unctions of Scripture. Nov, we have no confidence

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