Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1836-12-01

cecuiugs vi tue iast annual meeting oil the
City Mission; and then ponder, whether the
hundreds OF pounds squandered on Mr.. Geo.
Thompsoh's trip 10 the United States-and
in printing his slanders Of that country-and
the additional hundreds, which DIR. Heugh
urged the people of Glasgow TO give him by
way Of A" Testimonial Fund"-might not
have been fully as well laid out in sending
the gospel 10 the British capital?
Besides, the accusations now made your
own, the general subjects of slavery in itself
considered, ard neglect of the religious in
struction of the na.iyrs-the remaining
charges which we have been arraigned upon
may, 10 certain extent, TALL under the
general head OF severity, injustice, and deep
rooted prejudice against the blacks. These
things may be true, or they may be false
The statements and evidence on both sides
are in reach OF the public; You have vouch.
ed for their truth, and il is not now nv de-
sign to show the contrary; but to show who
they are that are so ready TO magnify real err
rors, and TO allege false crimes upon their
peighbors.
y. Fray, SIR, were you ever in Ireland !.
II you were, you Saw land fertile and
beautiful; people intelligent and active :;
a climate more genial than any other in so
high a northern latitude; in short, every
thing that should make its teeming popula
iion rich, happy and powerful. I was there
saw hundreds OF people who had no fixed
abodes. saw the majority of the houses of
the lower classes 10 be worse than the STA :
bles and cow houses in England 1 saw
thousands in rags; hundreds naked; and
hundreds more naked, except piece al a
single old garment. l looked at the third
report on the expediency ola poor law for
Ireland, made by order OF Parliament and
found that 1886 900 souls are cut of work
have nothing TO depend on and IN distress for
thirty weeks every year. II is settled, in
disputablc truth, that one third OF the Irish
people beg their bread two thirds of every
year. And yet enormous quantities Of grain
and live stock, and all sorts of prov ision are
exported from Ireland. And yet in defiance
ofall this tremendous, long-continued, and
periodical, suffering, there is no poor law,
nor any sort of general provision, by law, Tor
the poor of that island. But there ars fnrty
nine regiments of horse and foot, and a con
stabulary force of about equal magnitude
ready 10 stay The peoples stomachs with lead
at night, and steal in the morning. This ia
the happy consumation of six hundred years
OF British authority And how can YOU
Sir, look any human being in The lace and
charge his country with wrong, till you have
strained every effort to redress this vas, he
redi!ary guilt /? Or, ifyou fail, how Can you
speak, nationally, in the hearing OF earth, or
I heaven, ABOUT human wrongs!
! 10, Look, for the last time, TO the vast
/ plains of South Africa, wet with the blood of
murdered nations. Read the clear and mas
terly speech of DR.. Phillip, already twice
referred to. "fa traveller who had visited
that country twenty five years ago, were TO
take his stand on the banks of the Keiskam-
ma river, and ask what had become of the
natives whom he saw there on his former vi.
sit; if he took his stand on the rocks ofthe
Sondags liver, and looked, he might ask
The same question /; if he were TO take his
stand again on The Fish river, and then ex-
tend his views TO Caffraria, he might ask the
same question ; and were he to take his stand
on the Snow mountain, called GRAF Reinef.
Che would have befole him a country
containing 10000 square miles,) and ask
where was the immense copcourse he saw
there twenty five years ago no man could
tell him where they were!' Ask Lord
Giene!g, his Majesty's principal Secretary
Tor the colonies, and he will admit that The
system of treachery, plumber and butchery,
by which these brave and upright savages
have been wasted in eXterminating oppres-
sion, constitutes perhaps the most degrading
of all the chapters of the history of mank ind
Ut is chapter written in the tears and blood
OF Slaughtered tribes-and is hardly yet dry
| upon the paper that records il for the exc
Grafton Of posterity 1t is chapter that
had moi been fully enacted when you were
concocting plans and arranging agencies, by
which to make iilusirious the benign sway
OF universal freedom, justice, and benevo.
ience IL your Mondrchy-and 20 brand upon
our Republic reproaches which all coming
generations could not efface But why need
multiply particulars !? When these things
are sci right, and gu seek from us another
list we will say 10 you concerning your po-
.ity, IN nearly all lis paris, things which You
will then be better able TO bear We will
point out how you may establish real freedom
amongst yourselves, and thereby show your
; acquaintance with its sacred principles how
you Can make your laws just equal, and hu-
name, and thereby manifest in practice your
devotion 20 principles commended for others.
a present such proceeding could only r-
ritae and is the more readily forborne. be-
Cause II IS not as an American or a RepubIi-
can, but as christian, my mission brought
me 10 you. The assurance, too, that the
party with which you act, is, in point of
numbers, very small minority ofthe Brit
ish nation, makes me the more willing TO adj
here 10 this view of my duty. Indeed it is
CHIEFLY because your party has much of its
strength in that sect 10 which was more
particularly sent, that il seemed clearly ne.
cessary for me 10 take part at all in these dis.
cussions.
readily admit that time, patience, sacri,
hccs, and much labor, are heeGfuI for the re-
dress OF the evils have pointed out. know
that The present ge=cralion is not RESPONSE
bic in such a eense, for most of them, as past
generations have been. I am convinced
that multitudes Of EngIishmen depiore, and