The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-12-30

your = it is the spirit of FALSE PHILANTHROPY.
The persons whom it possesses do not indeed
throw themselves into the flames, but they are
employed in lighting up the torches of discord
throughout the community. Their first princi-
pie of action is to leave their own affairs, and
neglect their own duties, to regulate the affairs
and duties of others. Theirs is the task to feed
the hungry, and clothe the naked, of other
lands, while they thrust the naked, furnished
and shvering beggar from their own doors to
instruct the heather, while their own children
want the bread of life"
Such is the spirit that actuated the aristocrat-
ie ladies of England when they issued their ad-
dress to the American ladies, for the purpose of
inducing them to take measures for the anchor
alton of the condition of the slaves of the
South which address will be found in this
weeks paper. Charity should begin at home,
and there accomplish its true mission. This in
termeddling of England CRATES harshly on the
mind of every American; for, if the government
under whose laws these ''christian and ''atfec-
/ tomato women live, is wonderfully humane,
and detests bondage so much, why not give the
benefits of freedom to the patriotic iberty-loying
| OBran and Mitchell. For their liberation, ifan
appeal was made to the English government by
these quasi benevolent ladies, it would merit
commendation and would exhibit a true and
ipraseworthy charity This. however, we can
scarcely expect and, doubtless if these eminent
ladies had the power, they would delight in
still stronger riveting the chains Of slavery upon
the persons OF these noble martyrs to the prin-
ciples of liberty aud the right of their
heart broken country. These ladies need not
look across the ''big pond to rescue shattered
constitutions and broken-hearts from bondage
! The address begins in error and ends with
the same. There is no common origin" no
common faith between these high born ladies
of England and the ladies of America The
forefathers of our American ladies taught the
English this doctrine at Bunkers Hill and
Yorktown. Nor are the slaves of the South
denied education in the truths of the Gospel
and the ordinances of Christianity" as every
one of US is
The commencement of this interference in
our domestic relations is caused by the circua
ton in England OF '.UneIe Toms Cabin a work
written by an American lady, in which the evils
of slavery forcby portrayed not, we
think truthfully, but in fictitious style, the book
savoring more of the novel than faithful delia-
!eation of negro life in the South. Such pubii-
cations, intended to benefit the condition Of the
colored race, exhibit spirit of ''false phian-
thropy - they do service to the cause of free
dom for the blacks, and tend to ALLEVIATE the
Southern and Northern portions of this Union.
As evidence of this the South and West Trade
Convention" recently, at Baltimore, appointed
a committee of thirteen to report resolutions re
commenting united action on the part OF tho
South aud West, to concentrate on Baltiniore as
Il great commercial emporium. These publica-
tions along with few more cisions in the
Northern Courts similar to that of Judge Payne
in the Lemon slave case in New York city will
have the effect of removing the immense trade
of the South and West from the cities of PhiIa-
dephia, New York and Boston, and transferring 2
it to Baltimore and in this way, when there IS
no union of commerce, viii the bonds of the
Union be loosened and the affections Of the
northern and southern people sundered. We
should guard against such an evil, and watch
with vigilance the designing movements now
making to sow the seeds of anarchy and desola-
ton broadcast over the land. But to our sub
ject
The :'Woman's Rights Convention, of this
country have afforded much amusement and
speculation for the English press. Often have
they berated us soundly on that account and
the present instance aGords an opportunity to
''turn the tables upon them. This late pro-
nunciamento looks as if the English ladies had
taken such foolish assemblies from us and
Itransplanted them upon their own soil We
hope So These English Duchesses, Countesses
&C., move in such high life, above the suffering
millions Of their eountrymen, that they cannot
hear the pitious lamentations they pour forth
every day on account Of the state OF abject mi
sery and destitution in which they live. From
the cradle to the grave there are persons in
Ruler is unknown to whom the knowledge of
Savior sent TO redeem the world has never been
taught to whom the words of Divine Truth
/ have never been read, preached who live
in state of beastiality, degradation and wretch
ness. Would it not be well for these kind ladies
/ to give freedom to these poor benighted crea-
of their means to provide bread for the starving
! thousands who howl around their palaces to
abstain from one luxury to appropriate
the costs of the same for the purchasing of cof-
fins and decent battle-ground for those who
seek the grave their only friend-instead of