The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-08
The London Tunes %. George Thorn pson


We hail the following Article from the London Times
with pleasure This mschievous intermedder deserves
the buke which he has received. The London Times
deserves some credit for the holiness with which uics
It's chastisement What business has this man TO med
die with our domestic afairs' II produce no good
to our country and it is calculated to counteract
the object which he has in view But what shall we
think of those fanatics in our own country who
age and stimulate the efforts Of such mpudent inter-
loper Was there ever anything audacious than
the following advice which he dares to give Rose abo-
litionsts--to urge OF determination OF slavery
against the whole South and thus to break up the Union
of those States We copy the following extract from
speech delivered by George Thompson in Faneu Hall
iii is lrue in Faneu Hail. the cradle OF the American
revolution y on the 2sth December the occasion OF
the annual anti-savery bazaar:
..Let me offer remark in passing. Nothing be
done in this cuase without the ne Iibe adherence
prime pie There must be no compromise For twenty
years there society in England for the mitigation and
gradual abolition OF colonial slavery twas highly re
spects Bile association II had member Of the royal fam
iy-ths late Duke OF Gioucesteror It's patron Mr. VIII
borforce its president. On its committees were Clark
son. and Bsoushan, and Stephen, and Macaulay. and
Denman and Lushington and host Of other illnsrous
Al the end OF twenty OF effort In the cause OF
aion horrors oil slavery greater than
and the only prospect Of gradual abolition WAS through
the entire nmoation OF the negro population, who were
Diminished under the wasting influence OF the internal
tenn At length lew fanatics resolved TO demand immediate
the duty OF the and the right OF the
slave. tCheers had the honor TO be OF those sen,
forth preach this doctrine Throughout tho breadth OF
tho country | proclaimed that ,lavehoding man
ang and that slavery SIN, under all existing or
impossible circumstances and could not but be
he ICY OF the Ros1 the snd S
dehronng Jehovah TO be guilty OF prac,cal atheism 81
crimes and ought h0fors be- instantly nncondiion.
ally, totally and forever abolished Loud cheeu] God
gave blessing the preaching Of this doctriue-the
heart of England responded-an electric shock went
though Iand-snd the Tightening OF British indignation
the guilty sysem TO its utter fall and perpetual rum
tCheers] | declare the same doctrine here IN Faneu
Hall [Oh-ersl ask not the permission OF Mr. President
Miard Fillmore Mr. Secretary Daniel Webster TO preach
IT, have the command OF the everything God who
laid the foundations Of the Rocky mountains, to declare u
ghout all the realms which his scepe extends
loud cheefing.T
the London Times.
GronsK THOMPSON ~ AMERICA There Two import.
ant rules Tor which possess the highest possible
on and hlch have been conhured by the largest posi-
ntude of city and the second is. medde our
neghb3Ts affairs We that one OF our coun
ymen member Of our stature the representative OF
he Tower HamleIs and as We learn from Mr. bod OF the
Emperor of Delhi is acting Just SOW In direct viostoa OF
radical reionner and general amcstor Of Brush, East
Indian American and all other Institutions, Is just now
following 10 the wake OF Jenny Lind and starring II in the
principal cities Of the United States picturesque scene,
lately described in these columns has already acquainted
readers with the object Of hts visitation IL is nothing
less III an TO abolish ,r,ta. by breath nostrls
that unhs ppy institution which. II we cannot but regard II
and pregnant with unknown Ills, must also
Der be a British importation, the bequest oil ancient
mis- COVE nment, and almost inextricaby wound IN
with the domestic and political customs and laws OF
the States Except under the Just provocsuon caused
by the cxubcrant impotence OF Brother Jonathan, in
his remarks on the county of his ancestors prudent
Engshman would deny that there are two sides to the
csion OF American slavery. No Epgishman with a
in,snton FOR the good of the slaves. and the
free coored men, would propose and agntc Tor Immediate
abolition he would not demand which would, a,
stroke deprive OF and of
,ers capital OF labor and labor OF capital and, in
shake long bsbed state OF society, not merely tn
Rtom hutto d,scof dan how
ever, is the innocent recreation in which Mr. Geo Thomp
IL bcaung the interval OF his parliamentary labors,
and preparing the hospales and amenites OF Christ
mas Ii is possible that Mr. Geo Thompson may take a
different view OF the rules we have mentioned above.
He them against the Other and hold that no
has all right defy the prejudices comfort
Of the American ssveowne because he Is foreigner,
and that he has special call undertake this agitation,
beoauss public opinion the side OF the Atlantic
makes unsafe nconvcnicnt citizens OF the Union
We beg, however to submit. that when Of
duct falls under the direct operation Of separate rules,
is douby condemned.