The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1852-06-02

tried mems souls-thc one, Roger Sher-
man, the signer of the Declaration Of, In.
dependence, and the other Oliver Els
worth, afterwards Chief Justice of the
United States. And these arc the men
who, had they lived in this our day, would
probably have been old by the honorable
member from Ohio, Mr.. Glddings, not
now in his seat, that they were following
the crack of the slave-drivers' whips"
and such like genepus expressions, so
freely used by the honorable gentleman
during this session. Now, sir, these illus
irious patriots did mo- like slavery per Sc
any more than do III, noisy declaimers of
abolition on this foo; but they were men
who loved their country more than injus-
lice, and they looked at this slavery ques-
ton like practical, sensible men, with the
good of the Union add the prosperity of
New England al hear.
Again: in this sam, Convention, when
il was moved to inseE that provision in
the Constitution, which provides for the
delivery of fngiiives from service, New
England voted with the same unanimily
as before in favor of he provision.
Sir, it is almost u%naecOunlable how men,
claiming to be Americans, in view of the
dangers which threatened the country du-
ring those debates, will the history of that
Convention before them, will persist in
this crusade they are making upon the
Union ard the rights of the States.
And what ally have these agiIotors in
the war they are waging upon the peace
and prosperity of The country!
England, The enemy, the inveierate en-
envy ofAmerica and everything American.
England, who never yet acted without a
motive of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and who
did not abolish slavery in her West India
colonies till she foresaw that those colo
MES were destined to languish, while her
East India possessions, bringing golden
treasures TO her vaults, where the points
10 which her own energies should be ex-
erted: and now We witness n member of
the British Parliament landing upon our
shores 10 lecture us upon the horrors of
slavery, and melting our citizens to oppose
the laws of This Union. And who IS this
worthy pioneer ofmOdern English philan-
lhropy!-l refer to the notorious George
Thompson, The Representative of the
Tower Hamlsts of the city of London.
| invite gentlemen 10 look upon the con.
dition of the district this man represents
in the English Parliament.
In the summer of 1851 some Americans
were permitted, under the sale.conduct of
a posse Of her Majesly's police officers of
the city of London, 10 take a look into
the situation of the people they understood
this agitator represented in the English
House of Commons. The House will
pardon me, if read 10 them a faithful de-
scription Of one or two scenes of vice and
misery they witnessed, almost under the
batlements of The Tower Of London itself,
and of which notes were taken in the day
and time of it, and for the truth Of them |
can vouch:
ave now threaded our way through a
long, dark street, or alley, and of a sudden
found ourselves in a dignity hall, filed
with the fumes of tobacco, beer, and gin,
and where some sixty persons were COL
lected, a portion sitting on benches around
the ROOM, smoking pipes and drinking,
while the greater portion were shutting in
the dance, to the music of an old blind
fiddler in the corner. There were q do.
zen, or more, women, and as many chill.
dren, in the motley crew. DO you know
where you are!' asked the police guide.
No, was the reply Surrounded, he
continued, by pickpockets and thieves! and
look, you see that man and girl whose
hair is cropped! They are but recently
from Newgate.'
ave left this place to go 10 another O.
the sam kind, but worse han the former.
We passed through dark and dreary
lanes, the stiffness of death only broken
by the occasional churl or bark of a dog,
or the oaths of the drunken inmates of the
dens, with windows and doors all barred
and boiled, and the light shut up within.
We passed by, and we were now in the
worst part of London! in a city of thieves
and ~yagabOnds, with hardly an honest be.
ing, except policemen, within sound of a
pistol! We entered a low, arched gate.
way, and at its terminus stopped. The
officer raped at the door; at last it wa:
opened, and such a scene! In a long dim,
ly lighted, smoke.bcgrimed room, with
ralters and a roof once whitewashed, bu
now covered with smoke and dirt, were
some seventy men, women, and children
most of them returned %canvicls from Bot
any Bay, As the policemen entered
they stood sghast and they gradually re
coded and crOuched in the corners an,
along the wall, as Tie policemen cam
amongst them. The officers told then
that they had came merely on a visit
to conduct The strangers who accompa
f MED them, and that they had nothing I
fear, They gradually regained the
c%omposure, and after awhile got up
+ sparring .matcb, and afterwards a dance
in which a young girl of fourteen year.
the daughter of a noted burglar, and III
pet of this den, danced the hornpipe.-
Among this molly crew, we had poinle,
out TO us thieves, burglars, and one mul
derer, who, but six months before, ha,
escaped the gallows through some tech
meal point which came up on his trial
From here we went to other dens les
notorious, but bad enough, and to dane
ing saloons filled with drunken sailor
and women, many of them unable I
stand. And now we started for lh
neighborhood of the Tower the poor beg
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