Washington telegraph., 1851-04-02

SLAvERY-TnH WORLDS FA1R-The
Pennsylvania, in an eloquent article on
this subject, draws the following striking
contrast between negro slavery in the
South, and the impoverished and op-
pressed laboring classes in England.
"There is, however one department
that we should like the British Govern
ment to reserve in the Fair; and that is
to furnish the means to contrast the
American slavery with British slavery.
before the representatives. of all the world,
who will be found in London, in almost
numberless masses. We should he will
ling to agree that England should send
George Thompson to the South to select
the worst objects of black servitude in
region, while the objects of England op-
preston might be taken at ranGom. lie
might go to the rice fields of Carolina to
the cotton groves of Alabama; to the SUI
gar plantations of Louisiana; to the to-
baceo plains of Virginia ard Maryland;
and choose his specimens. Let them be
carried over the wide waste of waters.
Let them be placed in the midst OF the
Worlds Exhibition. Let them be brought
face to face with the rulers of England,
and the slaves of England; aud then let
the Judgment of mankind be pronounced.
On the one hand, we should see the
colored slaves Of our southern states
the objects Of British bathos and period
ical pathos and on the other the servile
slaves of England; of that England, whose
81, 4 4
where the personal liberty Of citizens is
so we'll secured, and where there is more
personal happiness and comfort. Look
at these white slaves. Here is an object
that never saw the light of day before.
He was born in the mines Of Wales,
where generations Of his family had pre-
ceded him; born at the side of a grave, to
waste few short years of stupidity and
toll, and then to step into it. Lo. the
next weak woman. Once she was as
beautiful as the May morning; once she
was as lovely as the loveliest of her sex.
Poverty and pennry drove her TO life Of
labor, she was too proud TO beg. too pure
for vice, and yet too weak to work. Like
hundreds of thousands of her sex, she
"dies every day she lives" and pines
away in working for those who riot in
plenty. There is the once strong Irish
tenant; with his sick and starving family;
his eye kindling with the memory of his
country's wrongs, even while his frame
is crouched by the tyranny of govern
ment which refuses 10 listen to his pray
ers, and fastens upon him foreign eccle-
siastics to be supported by his cmaciated
hands.
Take next the slave Of cotton manu-
factories; the child prematurey old. the
perishing mother. the desponding father.
the reckless daughter: all the victims of
the brutality and bestiality of the over
seer. Next examine the scenes of vice,
and of the countless myriads that swarm
in the streets of London, and beg aud
steal for living. Manhood has long go
left his bosom and the light of intellect
has been extinguished in the continual
struggle of his brain TO invent new plans
of plunder We let these samples of
British slavery stand. There are others.
India could send her millions. Canada
might show her thousands But these
we haze cited are domestic samples
Iset the Worlds Jury pronounce between
the black slavery of America and the
white slavery Of England. Let them de.
eide which is better cared for--which is
filter to live because of the good he does,
and which is 1iAer TO die. Our trans.
atlantic friends should oy all means see
that the Worlds Fair does not go on un-
til department for this most philosoph-
ical contrast and curiosity shall be pre-
pared for the inspection of the nations of
the globe