The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-12-29
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try presents more sl4runs aspect than the fact that
much Of the sxs'ssmsnt ne direct result o. the inter
OF London that come here 70 arouse evil passions and 70
prompt 10 violence add death other influences ri more
motion 10 DIVIDE anS Destroy s sess 81 Is Ens
press framed IN affected spirit Of anknes and apre
henson for destiny. among the most fatal u these
insldious polsons Copied nto leading papers be-
cause Of aisw apparently candid sxprsssIons hey all
less pander 10 the abolition organizations and
BY dcplorng the existence Of slavery suggest the means
South Any one, ordinarily obseryant Of this state d
things, cannot fail 10 have marked The tone and temper OF
the British press. while referring 70 this subject The
and Great Britain furnish to the latter the most desirable
opportunities for the establishment Of q system of a.
saults upon our Uniona sysiemtha runs. we have no
doubt, through every variety OF manueuvres and IN.
rguestha ensts hosts OF auxiIares, each aiding the
other unawsresthat includes diplomas merchants and
newspapershat extends from one end Of the States to
the other operating alike upon the shores al the MssIs
sppi and the coast OF California England understands the
object Of this wide spread and craily disciplined
ment Our nation i already her rival and unless thsglo
rious coniederacy broken pieces, not many years will
eapse before become the masters OF the commerce O
the world To this unpromsng future for England the
However their friends here and their organs in the Old
World may deny the charge, therefore, know enough
Of British policy in other countries not 70 feel that i s
British aid and announcement upon which the enemies
Il Is FACT establishing lie design Of England upon the
United States beyond all question. that while her ennis
overthrow institutions she utterly disregards the
misery Of her own people, to be upon every hand
within her wide dominions. Blind 70 ~ the sdfsrings
OF the white millions OF British and irish citizens. she
expends her sympathes upon the blacks in southern
States. She does not the ses OF Russia the slaves
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the sins OF the United States. and the suengs OF the
slaves Of our southern brethren. -
Intelligent Americans who have travelled in England
unite in the statement that i s matter Of common &C.
curence to hear the United States publicly and privately
abused Of the institution OF slavery This is
indeed the burden OF the British song. This is the
thread that pervades every British discourse upon this
country; this the beginning and ending Of nearly every
British book written upon the United States. Hence the
IDEAS Of American slavery in the United States and
there 10 not an Englshman that lands upon shores
that does not come either as voluntary on an nyoun-
ary emissary--whether he 10 penp0tentary q
preacher tourist or traveller merchant or writer
player or prince The following letter. which we
find in volume now before US, was written as long ago
1884, and will show the system that prevailed even al
that day Since that time, the agitatcrs here and in
England have gone on with redoubled violence, until
utterly The Union with pss thai there
little doubt OF its speedy and overwhelming destruction.
Strangely enough the very lecturer who 60 vehemen,y
Thompson, now IN this country, who was rebuked in
Boston, few weeks ago, by aroused public sentiment
The letter was originally printed in the New York Cou
rer and Enquirer:
'MANcHKsrER, July %, 1884
"DEAR My object in writing the present time
inform you that wife fanatic by the Thompson
am Informed, OF Mar. Arthur Tappan and few men Of
tha, clique
ec Of slavery in America, during which he occasion
70 Islander our eory most sey and ,od many fasehood'
specied mayor OF Philadelphia, present, aud told
that be upon the point Of getting and telling him his
ing BY being stranger ia strange snd NV ooy Object
in writing you to inform and the intelligent readers
Of paper that Mr. Thompson embarks In the ship
United Siates (he packet OF the sth Of Augusta and put
them on their guard against his proceedings"
AT Meeting in the same city, on the cd of August
six days before he TO this country-Thcmpson
serted that Shareholder in the United States possessing
Eve hundred slaves, in addition his own vote threw
into the three hundred more 70 represent three
fths OF his property! He said that slaves Snug
ged ny the rivers OF the territory of the District OF Co
umba for the purpose Of supplying the markets. Such
order to make the United States an object Of de;estaion
in Europe. When he 10 .his country, he received
from one society in London alone a thousand dollars
year for influencing The American people and the Amer
The design Of Great Britain in exciting the discussion
Of the slave question here can no longer be denied This
slavery as an abstract evil II may, however, serve
good purpose TO point out few instances OF the condition
Of the laborng poor Of Great Britain in order to show
how utterly degraded they are The workingmen Of
caraon, which may well Be quoted the truth ia refer
ence to the toing millions Of England and Ireland at the
present day
ain England those who till the EARTH and make lovely
and fruitful by their labors, only allowed the slaves
share u tho many blessings they produce!"
The Rev Dr. Howard, very distinguished British
physician. says. in his recent work
"The public generally have a very inadequate idea of
the number who perish
Of food; and there few who would be painfully
surprised II any record OF such were pre-
sened TO them Every medical man whose duties have
led him much among the poor and who familiar with
the extreme desnton which often prevails among them
and the diseases thereby oned Is often witness
Of fatal results from gradual aud profractcd starvation
Although death directly produced by hunger may be rare
thers be doubt that very large proportion Of the
mortality among the laboring classes Is attributed def
cheney OF food main aided by long
toll and exertion without adequate repose, insu
clothing, exposure % cold, and other prvaons to which
the poor Subjected" The houses almost desu
damp. cold, and l.ventatsd: Many live In dark cellars
In the midsr OF filth and putrefaction, by which mos
pherc rendered foul aud unit for close cir
cuatIcn Of air being impossible Their families III fed
being crowded Ia the same bed which Is often
filthy and deficient Of csveringw
Take another witnessan agent of an American cotton
ect statistics in regard her cotton manufacturer He
returned In 1870, aad said in bis report;
Said overooker Of factory north OF England
operatives never would supsrntend factory where
could not do pleased with my hands. Here we can
make them behavet they know they In our power |
whore they ougn, be, and they walk straight never
that would give him my ORDER and fIhss ddni do ii
would give him something else have been Ia the UnIted
States, and woudhd stay there. You cant fnd = man.
woman child there. that don't feel good his en-
pIoysrs
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