Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-06-03

lowing article in relation TO the abolition move
ment in England and tile receptiongof Mrs Stowe
inthat country. Written as the article is, from
moral rather than aspolitical point Of view, we
commend it to our readers as powerful exposure
of the evils of that social system in England row
perpetuated andmaintainea by the same aristo-
cratic class which has made the reception of Mrs.
Stowe an uninterrupted exhibition of ignorance,
extravaganza and fanaticsm on the subject of sla-
very in the United States:-Wash. Union.
From the Philadelphia Presbyterian
MRS. STowE-EpiNpURau Observation-Disclosures
ou y! papers from Scotland are largely occupied
VIM win .1 ne honors done to Mrs Stowe. The Edin
burgh Witness, of the 23i ult,, contains report
extending through several Of its large, Closely
printed columns, of banquet given her in Edin-
ouTgh on the both ut. Tickets had been in de-
mand Tor some days before, anil the great hall
where the banquet was held was filled an hour be-
lore the commencement ofAthe proceedings. The
most remarkable feature of the occasion was, that
over the platform We're suspended number of
flags, amongst which was the American flag MUTT
LATED, displaying the stars but not the strpes;',
and that Mrs. Stowe and her suite were willing to
sit under the dishonored, mutiated flag of their
country receiving the incense of fiattery at the ex
penSe OF the honor of the land which gave them
| birth. We had before supposed that no American
abroad, however low the flame of his patriotism
| might have burned when at home, could ever see
| the flag of his country unfured without glow of
national pride and patriotism. The sight of that
| flag, whether run up to masthead in mid ocean
or floating lazily amongst the shipping Of foreign
port, or hung out from the United States consulate
! IN some strange old city, wherever else abroad
| has seldom failed to touch tender chords in an
American bosom. For once we have an excep-
tion. Here are trio of Americans, seated under
the mnnlated ensign OF their country, in foreign
land, in the warm enbrace Of the very parties who
had effected its PROCLAMATION. No remonstrance is
heard from them; not one word of lofty patriotism
escapes Their lips. Bewitched by the recompense
they are receiving for having held up their coun-
Try to odum IN every land where its name is known.
trough fiction which presents in exaggerated col
OILS its worst features, they drink up the nectar of
| tattery poured out for them, and are content to
witness Their nations dishonor. Whenever they
speak of their country it is 10 apologize terms
They act as if they ielt that they had been caught
in bad companyin being citizens of the United
States and that they must make the best excuse
| possible. They speak as many martyrs who
| had undergone they knew not what to remove \
| great national evil, and now need the ENCOURAGE
ment abroad which they cannot find at home. We
are glad 10 see, however, that while Mrs. Stowe
and her party are content to hold up our sins for
denunciation there are persons even in Scotland
who cannot altogether forget that those who are
there throwing stones at us with such good will
are not altogether without sin themselves. They
are constrained to admit that, though there is
beam IN our eye. there is at least mote in their
own and some OF the public journals have the
honesty TO say that they hope that the author of
Uncle Toms Cabin will bring 10 light the wretch
edneSs Which Is nearer home to them than are the
plantations OF our southern States. ~
DR.. Guthrie. who, judging from the report made
by Tar the most eloquent aud effective speech at
this banquet, seems to have been conscious that
Physician, heal thyself.' He alludes 10 the reto1t
made in the letter of the American ladies in reply
to that from Stafford House, and he.e is the best
excuse he can make for himself and his country
men: 10 -1 -r--.,r-.. .-.r7 e. 7-#rt
Il have no hesitation in say ing of the letter W bch
IN
from American ladies-whether it did SO or not
they best Know who wrote tin answer to that
most noble, and gentle, and most Christian address
winch went from Stafford House, that it was only
bad heart or very wrong head that could have
COMPOUNDED the guilt of our defects with the deep
stained sin of American slavery. l do not DENY
that there are defects in our country; but what I
say is thS-that they incidental very much to
an old country like our own. DR.. Simpson knows
very well, and so does every medical man. Tint
when man gets old he gets inlirm, his blood YES
seis get oSsihed, and so on; but shall not enter
into that part of the subject. What is true of an
4 old country is true of old men; aye and old wo-
men, too. am very much disposed to say to this
young nation of America, that their twittinp us
win our detects might Just be met with the an
swer which worthy minister of the church of
Scotland gave TO his son, who was so dissatisfied
with the defects in the old church that he was de-
Sermlned to go over to younger communion: .Ah,
SANDY, Sandy man, when your lum reeks as lang
as ours, it will maybe need sweeping, too, Now
DO not deny that we need sweeping; everybody
knows have been singing out about sweeping for
the last hve years. Let me tell my good friends
IN edinburgh, and IN the country, that the sooner
you sweep the better; else the chimney NAV catch
lire, and reduce your noble fabric to ashes They
lold us IN that letter about the poor needle-women
tnat had 10 work sixteen hours day. cts true,
ts pity, and pity tits tits true.' But does the
law compel them to work sixteen hours day? |
would like to ask the writer Of this letter. Are they
bound down TO their garrets and cellars for six
.een hours dayf May they not go where they
better enni hiatt o..
4 the slave do thls?" - #F4 c7T
| " nave no hesitation in saying that there is
law IN Britain as stern and invincibe as any bich
| ever was enacted by the legislature of southern
Stale' winch compels the poor neede-woman 10
labor sixteen hours day-the London Times and
the Edinburgh Witness themselves being the wit
neSseS. The needle-women tcan go where thew
IKE and SCI Elk better wages;' yes, they may cease.
70 WORK sixteen hours day-they have liberty to
go but the liberty is the liberty 10 sarye
l.-the liberty to sacrifice virtue to gain bread--ihe
liberty to live in prostitution and die in an aims
mouse. The iron law of necessity declares that
tnese poor women shall toll through their misera-
ole existence sixteen hours of the twenty four
that they shall be shut up in cellars or garres, or
else meet the inevitab BILE penalty an infamous life
and cheerless, horrible death. 5f
We have no desire 10 defend or perpetuate the
evils OF slavery; but are compelled to saw that
we have never seen or heard Of such things amid
southern slaves as we ourselves both heard and
seen IN Great Britain, In thai very city of Edin.
ouIsh we looked from our hotel windows, the
nist morning we ever gazed into its Streets upon
cluster OF wan, half-staryed wretches begging for
bread. In the beautiful Emerald Isle we were
pointed to multitudes who, as were assured on
the best authority, never enjoyed the luxuIyof a
morsal OF meat for months at time. Who ever
heard of southern slave begging for bread? Who
ever heard, except in the raTest instances, of
their wanting meat from once to.thrice day? In
what portion Of the South are slaves compelled 10
work sixteen hours out of the twenty. Slaves
are held in involuntary bondage, 10 be sure. bnt
the condition of tina, bondage is such that the
wretched poyerty-stricken thousands of Britain
would call 1t paradise, if lot easy and SO well
provided Tor could be made their own II is vain.
/ too. to say that British la,u han ~ -. = %