Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-02

lish. In short inherit from every branch Of the
Caucasian 1t has been aim aud policy TO profit
by their exampeto reject their and foies and
TO retain, initiate, cultivate perpetuae all that
uabe and desirable So FIR any portion Of the credit
msy be dae e England ari Engi-.mcn--and much Of it
s-le il h. freely awarded and recorded in her ancient
archives, alich to have heeu on nce forgotten by
hr, nod telaemory &c which her p'est POLICY towards
Us IS not wei calculated 10 revive Bat that the Senator
IRON South Carolina IN view Of our present position and
OF his location in this Coneder@cy should ndulge in
glowing aud eloquent eulogums of England for the bless
ngs and benefits she has conferred and is still ayshng
upon u.s. and urge these considerations in paaon of the
wrongs she is daily perpetrating is to amazing. He
speaks in terms of delight and gratitude of the copous
and refreshing which English literature and sci
pouring into country and diusng through
out the land Is he not aware that nearly every English
book circulated and read in THIS country contains lurking
and nsdioas SANDERS and Ebes upon the character OF
people and the institutions and policy of Govern
ment? Does he not know tnat abolitonsm, which has
seriously threatened the peace and safety of this Re-
public had its origin in England and has been incorpora-
ted into the policy Of that Government for the purpose OF
operating upon the peculiar institutions of of the
States Of this Confederacy and thus render the Union
itself nsecurei Does she not keep her missionaries per-
ambulatng this country delivering lectures and scatter
ing broadcast ncendary publications, designed to ncite
preudices hate and strife between the different sections
of this Union? had supposed that South Carolina and
the other saveholding States of this Confederacy had
been sufficiently refreshed and enlightened by certain
and instruction around his side to have excused
the Senator from offering up praises and hosannas to
English mother! Applause in the galleries. Is not
the heart intellect and press of England this moment
employed in flooding America with this species of Eng
lsh lterature?" Even the wives and daughters Of the
nobility and the high officers of Government have had the
presumption to address the women of America and in the
OF philanthropy appeal to them to engage in the
reasonable plot against the institutions and Government
of their choice in their native land while millions
being expended to distribute g Uncle Toms Cabin
a. II ~.
fanatcism ignorance and hatred of all the nations Of the
earth in common crusade against the peculiar in
situations of the State and section of this Union
sented by the Senator from South Carolina and he
Willingly encourages it, by giving vent to his rapurous
joy these copious and refreshing with which
England is irrigatng the American intellect Renewed
applause in the galleries.
The PRESIDING OFFICER Ir RusK in the chair. There
must be order in the galleries If there is not they will
be ordered to be cleared
Mr.. ADAMS. desire to ask that the galleries may be
cleared if such an outrage occurs again
Mr.. DOUGLAS. hope it will be done. 1t is manifestly
improper tohave such proceedings in the galleries
The PRESIDING OFFICER. 1t certainly will be DONE if
the same thing again
Mr.. BUTLER. / have but one word to say in reply to
the Senator from Illinois, When spoke of our gratitude
to gland did not allude to the sentimental kind of
lit ture to which the Senator refers thought indi-
CT ed the authors of the literature to which referred
cad do not thank the Senator for going out Of his way
and indicating impure streams if they had connex-
ion with my remark for there impure streams flowing
from other besides Great Britain and there are
impure examples in other parts OF the world besides Great
Britain. When spoke of it, spoke in emphatic terms
of those writer's who ave poured upon what the Sena
tor himself will not deny to be refreshing streams what
hope he viii regard refreshing to him, and to the in
tellgence of the age named authors VIII he dissent
from Burke? Will he dissent from Chatham win he
dissent from Shakespeare viii he dissent from the tera
ture and the eoquence and the example and the
feeling of Hampden and Sidney? Sir when spoke in
the spirit OF judging the literature of England,
did not expect to be diverted by this miserable auson
to q Uncle Toms Cabin" Laughter. That may do for
dd captandun, but it is not manly mode of meeting
what | said in relation to the literature of England
Mr.. DOUGLAS. | spoke in terms of reverence and
spect Of the monuments and tombsones which found
In England TO the great men, TO their patriotism, to their
legal learning and science and poetry and all that
great and noble and admirable spoke of them with
spect matter in the past but sir, do not think it
was legitimate argument to 60 back two three centu
res past justify English aggressons in the present
this continent; and when heard the auon and lauda-
tons and eulogums upon past English history in pallia
ton of present English enormy, thought it was right
and proper to remind the Senator himself of Of the
present conduct of England which should be borne in
mind when he pronounced eulogies upon the past am
talking Of the present and it's bearing upon
1t is that to which directing my remarks, and not
to the past
Mr. BUTLER. l should like to know how England is
to be responsible for " Uncle Toms Cabin" Is England
the endorscr Of it? have alluded to the mastery in
telects Of England and not TO the spurious miserable
that to which he aludes is to be taken a standard,
England is not the only place in which it is found She
is responsible for that miserable in relation
to this subject than others RBut with regard to England
in all commercial relations in all connection with
her civilized nation presume the honorable Scna-
tor would not be disposed to postpone her to any other
nation
Mr. DOUGLAS. I would neither postpone nor give
her the preference have eulogium to make upon
her will treat her as duty nation requires.
Mr.. BUTLER. have pronounced other eulogium
than history yields to her literature commerce. and civil
ization, and bound to maintain relations with
England if we intend to be civilized nation ourselves.
made no auson to the kind of literature which the
Senator has brought in debate We find this miser-
able senmentalty any where and there many other
things which the Senator might well have brought in
which wonld have been pertinent to the debate He
had better get up discussion Of the Maine liquor law
Laughter. | do not see why he should not. IL has
about much connexion with the question the other
Mr.. DoUGLAs. | have introduced into this discus
sion none of these extraneous topics have conented
myself with replying when others have brought them
forward and thrust them upon My object has been
to conne the debate to the points at issue between the
Senator from Delaware and myself and have not depart
ed from that line except when compelled to do so by the
remarks Of others.