Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-08
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON :
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1853.
A Rebuke from tho Right Quarter.

rank AboltlOnlSts and noisy decfalmers tor
the elevation and advancement of the ne
groes, are in their own little sphere, as
much disposed to depress and degrade white
laborers as to elevate blacks. There may
be, and doubtless are, exceptions to this
rule, but they are rare. This excessive
pretence of devotion to the interests of the
negroes, is generally manifested by those
who scorn the hard hand of the honest white
laborer, and resent the idea of his pretend
ing to an equality with them In Pennsyl-
vania, SO far as our observation extends.
many d. monstrations of the truth of this
remark will be found among the sturdy
Abolitionists. This strange inconsistency
appears to us capable of but one explana-
ton, and, that is desire on their part to
ridicule the Republican feature of equality
in our government, and as they are too
powerless to prevent the white laborer from
meeting them on aperfect equality, at least
at the polls, to degrade the right of suffra ge
by admitting negroes to participate in it,
and elevating an inferior race of different
color, to all the privileges enjoyed by free
white men.
This same sort of sympathy for the negro
extends to other quarters of the world,
among people Influenced by the same feel
ings of hatred and fear of the laboripg
masses Of white men. The proud lords
and ladies of England who scorn with in
dignation all appeals of suffering whie
humanity for their aid, who despise white
men and whose ruli og political idea is to
prevent them from ever gaining an atom of
political power and to keep them forever
crushed to the earth-these aristocratic op-
pressors Of their own race, whose hearts
contain not spark of sympathy for the
cause of freedom in England or in Europe,
but who are banded with the despots of the
earth in their efforts to bind still closer the
letters of tyranny-these naughty ma gnates,
forsooth, must make the world resound with
their hypocritical groans of sorrow for the
sufferings of Southern negroes The fol-
lowing extract from an able article in the
London Leader, shows that their hollow
heartedness is fully understood:
''The ladies at Stafford House assembled
to draw up satiny address to their sisters
IN the United States, on behalf of the poor
negro, to whose sufferings, perhaps, dis
lance, as we'll as Mrs. Beecher Stowe, had
lent enchantment in their eyes, have never
within our knowledge, raised their voice or
taken up PEN on behalf of the white
victims Of Austrian despo,ism in Italy, or of
Russian despotism in Poland, or of Bona
partist terrorism in France. These daugh-
tiers of luxury, of delicatest porcelain, albeit
wrought from common human clay, have no
eyes to see, nor ears to hear, nor hearts to
feel the miseries of their sisters in Europe.
They can whine with sentimental anguish
over the tortures of the quadroon torn from
his wife and child; they can shudder with
dainty horror at the whip they seem to hear
descending as it digs the bloody burrows on
the Negroes back in some Carolina planta-
ton; but they do not hear the groans of
widowed wives, of bereaved mothers, of or
phaned daughters in Milan and Mantua, in
Buda and Pesth; they do not weep for
maidens and matrons scourgea with sticks
in the recesses Of prisons, sometimes in the
staring street, they do not appeal to their
aristocratic sisters at Vienna against the
bastinado in Italy, or to their titled sisters
at ST. Petersburg against the knot in Sibe-
ria. How should they? These dainty SYM
pathisers Of Stafford House are the wives
and the sisters Of the statesmen and sena.
tors who begrudge the right of asylum to
the refugees, after lavishing smiles on the
oppressors; of the men who, to support the
''balance of power,' connive at the resto-
ration of the Pope, while they deluge saw
age islands with Protestant Bibles; of the
men who shameless'y calumniate the chiefs
of European freedom, while they have SUI
perduity of compliments and caresses for
the irresponsible and wholesale assassins
whose sacred heads some fanatic knife