The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-05-27

me<abis ietlsrs from all the free States with the ex-
oeption Of the more western States Of New EnSisnd,
approving the course VIC are COW about TO pursue"
Here is the admission Of msn employed by per-
sols interested in the East India Company 70 denver
lectures and promote the interest VI British ind'a
who tells that the means Of giving employment 70
the starving millions Of British India, is 10 substitute
the cotton OF India for that Of the United States
That he has delivered lectures recommending the use
Of cotton the produce Of British India to the exclusion
Of American cotton, and that hc has received, M
numerable letters from all the fee States approving
the cour.e recommended BY him; and yet Colonel
Benton. once 30 jealous Of the power and policy oil
Eng land, has now become co-laboier in the same
cause with Thompson, and denounces MI Calhoun.
letter a. pro-siavey document, and gives that a. a
reason why the Treaty should DO rejected The
purpose TO promote the welfare of British India,
Mr.. Thompson was employed to lecture against the
sin Of slavery, the immortality of using sase-grown
produce He came to this county fortified with let
tiers to the leading Aboitoniss and 10 the Churches
We have what he says abou, the Aboltionists
In the same conversation, on a proposition to deny
the rights of the Church to shareholders, he said
al was the bearer from the Babtst churches here
of recommen datioD, signed by lo0 ministers, that
slavery should be made matter OF church discipline
in all the Baptist churches throughout that country.
Since lett the United States, the Cause has been
winning its way down to the present Tine"
Yes sir, those the means adopted by the British
Gas, India Company TO ''supplant" the cotton Of
America and yet Colonel Benton auds the candOr
and truth Of England and rdicules the idea that she
has any sinister and selfish motive in her effort to
abolish slavery!
In the same debate, Mr. O'Conne speaking of the
condition OF India, said:
so long as these people in state of poverty
rendered poor by the oppression of the East India
Company, they will be exposed to the greatest misery
In addition to this famine succeeds famine with fright
ful rapldny, and mothers have actually been 10
throw their children into river, because they had
not the means Of giving them nourshment, and could
not endure 60 see them perish of hunger"
10 We pay the Americans for the cotton we
purchase, and we shall pay India for what pro-
cure tor them, so that whether We get it from Aueh
ca or from India, the result is the same. The great
pecuniaiy advantage that shall gain by the OF
East India cotton will be this the Inhabitants oih thru
become consumers Of our produce" No
man, no Sc, of men, bear to be long despised II
Europe proclaim voice Of thunder 10 America that
no slavehoding American shall be received into so
cie'y, shall be treated honest man, shall have
the courteses of life shown him, except those he puI-
chases, there is not ehardened man among Their
who puts TO death generation in seven years who
will not feel its effects"
Yes, sir, such is the purpose, such the end and such
the means that are TO be used to abolish slavery in
the United States, and acting with that profound wis
dom which has enabled her to levy tribute on all
mankind, England sends here her ablest diPloma'is
TO persuade that she has the right to use her nfu
TO abolish slavery here and elseuhere that the
means She uses are due and proper and Col Benton
arrays himself on the side of England and looks to
you and the Wing party 10 sustain him Is posi-
bic that you DO .o' Are you prepared to in
wife the scorn and contempt of mankind! Are you
prepared to verify the character which OConnell
and his associates would give you' Will you submit
to be despised If SO, associate with Colonel Ben
ton and the Abolitionsts in vindca ,ng the measures
and the policy of England.
Yours, truly,
| DUFF GREEN.