The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-07-16
Movements OF the British tbolitiouisis Ia
the IuitCd states.

It appears that the mnious Of the British Go
vernment are again at work in this country, and
too with boldness and insulting impulence
heretofore uncquallcd in the record of their move
monts. 1t appears that certain Joseph Surge,
who is wealthy British trader, and one Of the
corn monopclists of England, has been sent to the
United States by the " British Anti-Slaycry So
ccty" to present a memorial to the President on
the subject of Aboionsm. On his arrival at
Washington he proceeded to the discharge of his
mission, and presented the memorial which for
impudence, arrogant dlctation, hypocrisy and
insoence, stands uncquaed in the long catalogue
of British pride and parisicaI meancss. We
publish below the first paragraph of the docu-
ment, in order to show the boIuess with which
the minions of rotten and tyranical foreign
power approach the people of the United States,
for the purpose of teaching them the laws Of hui
mainly, and what they morally owe to their fell
low man. The memorial thus commences:
10 the PresidemofHe United STATS.
"SIn;-As the head Of great number Of states
Justly valulng their free constitutions and politi-
cal organizations and tenacious of their rights and
their character. the committee ofH the British aud
Foreign Aah-SiGU~y SJciCiH through their es-
teemed coadjutor and representative, Joseph
Surge, would approach you in behalf of millions
OTHER feIlow-mcn, he'd in bondage IN tie
United States" &c. &c.
The memorial then points out the evils of sla-
very; dates very pileou,ly about " the wicked
assumption of powers by man over his fellow
-
many evils which this nation have caused by
keeping in bondage so many Of " their brethren
and winds up with strong appeal to President
Tyler, in the usual hypocritcal manner, to "rule
in the fear of Cod and to aid in delivering this
"ceuntry from its greatest crime, and It's chief re-
proach.'
Here is a mandate issued by body OF foreign
scoundrels--hc subjects of government that
is sustained by grinding the poor and depressing
the weak--to the head of nation, whose humb-
lest citizen possesses more humanity, more vr.
tue, and more respect for his fellow man, than the
great Mr.. Joseph Surge and his combined fellow
associates, with all their prctcnsions Of humanity
and regard for the doctrine "that God hath crca-
ted all men equal
Who is this Mr.. Stufge' What is the object
in view, which this ''.British and Foreign Anti
Slavery Society" wish to rcachl This man
Surge is one of the corn monopolists of England,
who grind the faces of the poor white inhabitants
of that countrywide yearly starve thousands in
ireland and the Continent, and cripple, laccratc,
and deform thousands of females and children in
their manufactures, by their unhaIIowed thirst
for wealth. He affects much sympathy for the
well fed slaves in the South, but would it not be
more humane, if he would use his means and in
flucncc in behalf of his fellow countrymcn nj
home, and sever the shacklcs of the white slaves
of England, before he attempts to better the con.
dtion Of a happier people in the United States
Let him exercise his philanthropy IN the field
which the following extract from parliamentary
report of the House of Commons presents and
should he be successful there, he may pcrhaps
by his exploits win fresh laurals in foreign land
From Parliamentary Report.l
The White Slaves in Old England,
No l. ELIZA Marshall--liyc at Leels--vor.
ked at MarshalPs factory. Am seventeen wears
old. Father dead. Sister and self did what we
could to support mother. Have cried many an
hour in the factory. Could scarcely get home
sometimes had to be 'trailed' home. have an
iron on my right leg, and my knee is contracted.
Worked in great pain and misery. | was straigh,
before. Sister carried me up 10 bed many time.
The surgeon says it is with long standing a, the
mill, and that the marrow is quite dried up, and
VIII never be formed again."
no. a. The oyerlooker examined says, he
walks round the room with stick in his hand,
and IL child falls drowsy over his work, he
touches that child on the shoulders. and con.
ducts 1t to an iron cistern which is filled with
water. lie then takes the child (heedlcss of scy)
BY the legs, and dips it overhea in the cis,crp