Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-11-04

The London Times, The principal Euro
pean paper had recently an article which has
esc!ed considerable comment Oh this side
the Atlantic. 1t appears there are men en-
gagged in diving for and bringing up the re-
mains in the hull of the Steamship Mssou-
ri, burned sometime since, in the Mediter-
ranoan. Among other thrgs they have
brought up what appear TO be hahd-cuiis,
and shack!es for the Limbs. From this, the
Times goes on TO gravely proclaim, that
the Missouri was fitted up by Government
for the slave trade, and that the shackles
we're designed for the limbs Of captured
slaves. This the Washington Union de-
nj es With as MUCH gravity as such ridicu-
lous assertion deserves, and states that the
shackles wero such as every vessel of war
carries, !or the contingency Of confinCg prls-
oncu. The Times editor, no doubt knew
the falsiiy Of The assertions and insinuaiIons
he was originating, but it is the only way
the ars,ocratic party Of England, have of
revepging themselves upon republics and
the advance of Repubcanism. And on
this occasion theTimes has not forgotten the
trick of all rascas, conscious of their own
errors. Whilst the wickedness Of Amer-
ca is elo1uenny descanted on, the extreme
p;eiy Of England is no less eloquently held
up in contrast. Not only says the editor,
do the,shacklcs oflhc slave fall off the mo-
mcnt he touches English soil but snct is
tho powerful attraction of this wonderful soil
Of liberty that bars Of wood and bolts of IRON
are insufficient to contain these shackles, and
10 reach the earth they burst the vessels
sides asunder Wonderful soil oil England
and still more wonderful the virtue Of her
rulers. We know Of knothng that in any,
wise equals il, except their damnable hy-
pocracy and cant. 100000 is the nuns
Der ofpaupers that inhabt their soil. They
have not food to cat MOI where TO lay them
heads; they exist in crime and ignorance,
md die in iniqniiy, while these cantng by.
pocrites arc roting in luxury or their sub
stance, yet not a slave inhabts their soil.
For Gods sake what makes a slavee Dn
statutory enactments mike men either bond
or free? 1t is blessed condition OF
freedom certainly that of pauper. What
is freedom worth but to secure us the bless
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and enable us to pursue the proper dictates
Of our conscences or disposition. Where
in has the pauper any one Of these condi-
tons. How infinitely below the condition
of the negro slave is his. And this is the
a;rect result of their institutions and laws.
They are framed by the arstocracy with
special reference to plundering the produc-
1--WE classes, and yet these robbers, infinite
ly worse than the highway robber, for they
rob only the rich, are continually preaching
TO us the sin of slavery We have that vice
IL is true, but we arc almost led TO love it,
end believe il a virtue when we contrast it
with he supcrlativc vilainy Of these hypo.
critics And yet, doubtless there are those
IN our midst, who will receive this SANDER
q tho London Times, shrug the r should crs
wonder and conjecture, and instead repell-
ing as men, give il sort Of tacit Gre
dence, and read lecture on morality, and
on the superior virine of the English Gov
eminent ius, as this Times editor does We
heartily wish these mcu, one and all could
enjoy the blessings fthat goye'nment, with
the poor aud paupers scattered over the face
of tho land.