The daily union., 1852-04-08

Again in this convention. when II was moved TO
insert that provision in the constitution which provides
for the delivery oil fogiuyes from service, New England
voted with the unanimy as before In favor OF the
provision
Sir. il is almost unaceountable how men. claiming to
be Americans in view OF the dangers which threatened
the country during those Debates with The history Of
that convention before them, will persist IN this cru
sade they making upon the Union and the rights Of
And what ally have these agtators in the war they
are wagng upon the peace and prosperity OF the coun-
tryf Is
England the enemy, the inveterate enemy OF America
and everything who never yet acted
without motive OF self -aggrandizement, and who did
abolish slavery in her West India Colonies till she
foresaw that those colonies destined 10 anguish
while her East India possessions bringing golden treas
ures TO her vaults were the points TO which her own en-
eies should be exerted and now we witness member
OF the British Parliament landing upon our shores TO lee
ture upon the horrors OF slavery and melting our cit
zens to oppose the laws OF this Union And who is this
worthy pioneer Of modern English philanthropy refer
the Tower Hamlee oil the city Of London Iirsise gen
emen 10 look into the condition OF the ds,ric, this man
represents in the English Parliament.
IN the summer OF 1851, some Americans were permit
ted under the safe conduct Of posse OF her Majesys
police officers of The city of London 10 take look into
represented in the English House OF Commons The
House will pardon If read to them faithful de-
scripon OF one or two scenes OF vice and misery they
witnessed almost under the battements OF the Tower OF
London ITSELF and OF which notes taken in the day
and time OF it. and for the truth Of them can youch
'We now threaded way through long dark street.
or alley and OF sudden found ourselves in dingy ha
filed with the fumes Of tobacco beer, and gn and where
some sixty persons collected portion sitting on
while The srsaser portion wss shufnE IN hs Dance %
the music Of an old blind fiddler in the There were
police guide he reply ss,roandsd Che con
and the girl whose hair is cropped They are but re-
Gently from Newgaie.'
1--WE left this place go another of the same kind,
but than the former We passed through dark and
dreay lanes the stiffness OF death only broken by the occa
onal chnrl bark OF dog, the oahs OF the drunken
inmates OF the dens with windows and doors all barred and
oea and the Ugh sha, up %hn " WE passed by y a1d az
thieves and vagabonds with hardly honest being except
within S sound % q n esa Se Gw
raped at the door at last II was opened, and such
with raflers Whewashed, but covered
with smoke and dirt seventy Women and
AS the policemen entered they stood aghas and they grad
uay receded and crouched the and along the
told them that they merely visit, conduct the
strangers who accompanied them, and that they had moth
after while got up sparrng match, and afterwards
dance in which young girl OF fourteen the daughter
pipe. Among This motley crew, had pointed
thieves burglas and murderer, who but six months
before, had escaped the galows through technical
point which came Up his trial From here went to
other dens less notorious but bad enough and dancing
saloons filed with drunken sailors and women, many OF
them unable 10 stand AAd now started for the neigh
bSthood d. Of The Towel the poo, begga,s homs nnd the
several places Where for hall penny night the poverty
find place 10 lay ,Seir heads and what scene was BE-
fore policeman opened the doors OF these wreched
abodes and turned his darkantern round that IT'S rays
might light up the floor upon which now sood There
they lay upon dirty straw and .shavngs covering
the oo in small rooms, with hardly what might be termed
Window to in a breath Of air the light OF heaven
men, women. and children all huddled like swine together,
with hardly rags 70 cover men, 10 the NUMBER oi fV ana
forty in roomi'
And this sir the district represented by the indvid
ual who joins hand IN hand with Garrison and his as
sociaes excama,ons OF holy horror at the existence
OF institution in this country which was forced upon
against the wishes of the colonsis. and which the
States alone where slavery exsts.can, under the cons
tuition, regulate.
Look al the present condition OF Ireland, brought TO its
present State by English legislation and British oppres
sion Behold country, intended by God Tor the hap.
brought by English laws and English neglect 10
poverty which sleeps poor humanity to It's very lips
Look TO England Behold her, proud and arrogant, filled
with self conceit her East India possessions and the
far distant colony of Australia bringing 10 her lap the
treasures OF their store while Ireland, who gave TO her
a general-the conqueror OF Napoeon-ss knocking
at her DOORS crying for bread, and exhibiting her chill
dren dying and dead from hunger.
Let me read 10 the House or two among many
scenes from witness, in the summer OF lsl9, in
that -faied sle:
"Bstween Cork and Killarney there was li,te to glad
the eye heart The country itself, intended for the
deeay Miserable bog ns the % road w
windows and where the swine and his owner have an
beings ever looked upon covered with rags pale and
ated they line tue roadside, casting implong
eye a who pass by Some Of the hnts Of tur and
mud, and hardly high enough 10 enable man TO sit up
right In them"
Again
We stopped at the little OF slrdeen the banks
of the Shannon and visited three huts where
the inmates boiling tceed for their dinners and
this, informed was all they had had TO live upon
for weeks"
Again
We had now arrived in the county Of Galway Words
,r,uve huf, fai iIsa nI thu xphi
upon every side All along the road passed roof
cottages cabins where the landlord had burnt the
the heads OF his poverystricken tenants in
force them leave land and by each ruin
the poor occupying kennels dug of the
roadsdstho poor creaure they cfnwicd out TO beg
penny traveller had hardly rags enough them
and several boys were in complete state nudity Ohe
told that she had leh six children
starving In her cabin, and had then walked miles In
quest something for and her lille eat, and
she had tasted morsel for the last twenty -four
hours
The most ehtfu picture this scene. where all was
hat OF little girl Of about twelve years.
She up us, leading lue brohor both worn by
hunger skeletons They were so weak om starvation
IN they could hardly their limbsl These children
had tue week before lost both father and mother from
hunger iue boy and girl lived In the hat by
We visited this hut. and found nothing In II but iron
ketle and h which the little ones had gathered
by the road side to sleep upon.
Again;
Near the town OF Cllfen, poor boy Of about
feen years age lying in tho gutter OF the road appur
emily dying We stopped, and asked him what
was the matter lie family replied, 'hunger'
" Passing along the road we saw smoke issuing from
hole in bank side of the road We stopped and
OF the hole cept child-then another and then the
that her hu band had e her two wocks before IN
food