The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-05-25
THE SLAVERY QUESTION.

An able article has lately appeared IN the
United States Review, touching the vexed
question. II is critIquc upon an article IN
Blackwood, entitled ..Slavery and Slave Power
in the United States" The writer Of this ar
,icle under The mask OF an affected sympathy for
the African Slave, is plainly endeav"rihg to
causc american citizens t, dislrus' their own
govern nrnt, 10 regard foreign institutions su-
ppri"r t" their own, and then gradually to un-
dermine the foundation ..f oar Union, Tor where
has il 5, fir II foundation as III the hearts aud
confidence of the people Strang", indeed, Is
it tina; European, and Particularly English sym.
patty, is 81 strongly exercised towards the e5r'
slave, while their thousands at white mtniii and
ser!s, ground to the very nth by wrong aud
npprcs ,ion, left unnoticrd and uncarrd for
Could not the Duchess OF Sutherland aud her
comperrs expend a little Of the sympathy and
money they lavish freely upon Mrs. Stowe,
upon The poor degraded Irish, VIII, are fleeing
80 rapidly from suffering and SORROW, to an asy-
lum in our land That would moi as well serve
| the political purpose they have in view Could
they rot call uponNicholas, of Russia to remove
some of his oppressive restriction, by winch the
white slaves Of his country are bong mt and sold
like the blacks in the United States? That
would be an insurmountable interference in the
governmental rights of other nations. lhey
would not conscientiously do that, bat Their I'M
firing efforts to dismember our Union 10y incit-
ing the most deadly hostility in the breasts o!
one portion against the other causes them no
twings of conscience.
We are charged with inconsistency, cruelty,
| tyrany, &c. for having "perntted the intro
ductiun Of slavery, and not now aooilshing y.
According 10 sSmith's History of Virginia, Fo-
Ito edition, page l26, slavery was hrst intro
duced by the Dutch. 1t increased, and after
laspe Of time an attempt was made by protest OF
the Colonial Assembly TO arres. II. The House
of Burgesses soon after passed an act prohibiting
this act within her borders, TO which the King
of ENGLAND refused his assent. Eng land was
then the greatest slave trader in the world, and
now permits her steamers on the Black sea to
transport, not African but white, Crcassan
slaves to Constantinop!e.
1t these noble, consistent, disinieres.ed Eng
fish ladies must lavish all their sympathies upon
the negro why do they not appropriate some OF
the means bestowed in Teasing Mrs. Stowe and
entertaining her, to sending him to Liberia,
where he can mngle in equality with his own
| race, or else take him To their own country, and
| set the example of treating him as they say we
should do! In our humble opinion, example
and principle should accompany each other
The article alluded TO contains many valuable
statistics in regard 10 the results of ANA gamaton
showing that other races are not only degraded
by the process, but that the negro himself in.
stead of being elevated by it, and by education,
is generally convened into 'conceited cox
comb, who, instead Of plunderng travellers on
the highway, finds in city lite sphere Tor tie
indulgence OF his evil prupensities.
The writer in Blackwood too plainly discloses
his object by "drect appeal to tine sectional
prejud,ces and ambition, adroitly calculated to
stimulate the zeal Of the northern abolitionist.
The English have political object in all this,
i hi
sufficiently clear-sghted to discover, and not
be made the dupe. Mrs. Stoves pccunin1yo OBJ
jeci, and her desire for eclat, which is infinitely
nearer her heart than the good OF the slave, is
| attained, but whether her conscience is as clear
as before-whether it acquits her of any motive
other than that Of disintere benevolence Is
doubtful question Era