The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-21
aHE DAILY DISPATCH
FROM the London Times, Let inst
ABOLITION AGITATION NINENGLAND.

| lang Re6uke.
| In one point there is very general agree
ment among the nations of the earth. They
| all oehsve that they understand their own dif
nxultss better than their neighbors do for them.
we nave had, and still have, many social
problems, which events, and the sponta-
neous change OF society, rather than legisla-
u0h,are solving in one way or another. But
whether it be the condition of the Irish peas
ahHy, or the Irish Church Establishment,
or English pauperisn, or factory labor,
or 'he excess OF our female population, We
nave never attached much importance to the
opinions OF French or German writers on these
SUBJECTS. Indeed, if their remarks on our So
cIai questions are ever read in this country, it
Is rather in the hope of coming upon some ri
diculous Misrepresentation, or some queer in-
UusIon OF foreign peculiarties, than for aay
valuable suggestion we are likely to meet with.
| "hsn we lind this national jealousy so strong
| IN ourselves, 1t Is reasonable TO expect some
| thng OF the Kind in our neighbors, and proper
to make allowance for it. They all have their
troubles, more or less ancient and inherited
more or less mixed up with their social and
political institutions, so intimately at any rate
as TO DEFY the rude hand Of the abstract re
iormer, and still more the unfriendly criticism
| OF the foreign censor. Negro slavery, as it
| exists IN the United States, is just such
deep and apparently incurabie sore, and such
| ale the feelings with which it is regarded in
| the Union. We, the great British nation, hav.
| ing our own slave colonies some six or seven
thousand miles off, and having also more mo-
| ney and better credit than any other nation in
the world, INDUCED our benevoence and our
our pride in abolishing slavery and adding
| 2U,UUO UUO to the figure of our national debt,
| with very little regard to the results either to
the planter or to the slave.
| AT the present moment, indeed, if there is
one thing in the world that the British public
do not like to talk about, or even to think about,
1t is the condition of the race for whom this
great effort was made. We are not the less
proud, however, of our achievement and its
cost, and think that, having done so much our
| selves, we may fairly impose the like sacrifice
on our neighbors. But The precept " G o, and
do thou likewise" seldom comes with much
oree when the spokesman is urging his own
example, and, as it happens in this case, the
example does aot apply quite closely as it
might Go. the United States the evil Is con-
sututionai and incorporate. 1t is political and
domestic. 1t is gigantic and household. ltis
question that Affects families, Institutions,
States and the whole Union. 1t affects slaves
and treemen, both, OF every possible shade.--
ContessedIy, and on the showing vi line lady
whose work has so spell-bound every heart
and every mind in mis- country, there are two
great negro difficulties to be dealt with in the
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slave and that of the colored freeman; and, OF
the two, the latter is the worst. But, when
Eng. land tnterteres iii this matter, what IS to be
the exact manner and particular object OF that
:. intererenceR Are we TO tell the Americans to
love those whom they loathe, and associate
with those against whom they feel an actual
repulSion? If we do, we are dealing hare
r measure; if We do not, We are not touching
. the greater of the two difficulties to be deal
| with.
Ofcourse, we are disposed TO regard witt
every possible indulgence the proceedings o
the select little convention of ladies that me
the other day at Stafford house. Never die
any thing more defy rtcism; and it would
really be breaking butterfly on the wheel te
remark on the affair as we should on the rough
tustle of opinion in the House Of Commons, ol
the tempestuous rhetoric Ct Exeter Hall, We
may be permitted, however, to doubt whethol
women OF the caiibre that assembled The othel
day at Syracuse, ~. 5. will be able 10 aPpro
clate the satin paper and roseraler OF our ie
male aristocracy; much more, whether the
Haleys and the Legrees, or even the Shelbys
and the st. Clares, OF the Union, will take
much heed of so softly whispered warning
The Americans are not very kindly disposed
to our eristocracy. The may rejoin. "Are you
so ready to drop all distinctions of classes!-
Do you consent, at uhe bidding Of any monitor,
| TO associate Wi III all who are your equals III
education and merit! Are there no castes, no
quasi negroes, creoles mulattoes, or quad
rooms, in the gradations of British society,"
The Court Circular, and published catalo-
CUES Of guests at your banquets, tell anoth eF
story"
ii We will not anticipate the American re-.
joinders on the mere question OF slavery iiseIf'
its physical distresses and moral degredations.
| These must have occurred 10 the arist0cTatIc
and not less philanthroplc circle at stafford
house, who knows too well the fragile mate
rials CT their own social system not TO tear the
| damaging reply they are bringing On hem-
ssives. 1t is too late to ask them 10 reconsider
their movement, for the movements made, and
the address once before the world, we only
hope it NAV receive a respectable number OF
lady signatures. Really and honestly, our
chief motive in these remarks IS to entreat the
| indulsence OF the American public 10 pro-
ceeding cslc ulated TO wound their amour pro-
pre-, TO rouse that Jealousy which all NATIONS
feel towards one another-Inost OF all tnose
nations which are most alike, anu posSipiy
even to augment the difficulty OF the slavery
question.
Our fair readers who are invited TO enter on
a crusade of d somewhat International Guar
acier will excuse one little warning, "hich
| We venture 10 make IN our columns u gay
We, of this free and happy country, are Just
the most extensive employers flndl1ec'5; pu'
| not less really OF slave ldpof III 'n0
Negro slaves, working under the iaSh 10 'he
mid-iay sun, and keeping their toe well up
10 N. mark" as Mr.. Legree would say, pre-
duce the material OF our eravats, our stoc.ings'
and the simple and comprehensive garment Ia
WINCH we take our repose. They supply the
mnslins and prints, and nearly all the olhc:
fabrics of our female costume, from the dress
of the Sovereign TO tina, OF the poorest heeole'
woman. Slaves produce our coheei anu INC
sugar that sweetens II.
By day and by nignt, sitting down and rising
up, we ar. still encouraging slavery by con, con
sumng its produce. The prime agent VINO
moves the wheels OF Southern slavery, we
are told, is the northern capitalist, Who has
his mortgage on the slave estate, or holds
bill Of sale and who secures himself when !,
everything on the estate, slaves and all toi
what they will fetch at the hammer. TINS
man, Mrs. Stowe tells Us, is really guilty
GARNER in the transactions, II not Inc mos
gulty,-the most guilty because ne supple
| a. str,Dyes, -s;,uulDs Of the system. and com