Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-05-05
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THURSDAY. MAY 5. 1854,
A Tilt at john Bull.

professor stowe, the husband OF haTfitt l'SeNn'
er Stowe, made the following observation IN ms
speech at Glasgow, where public reception was
given his Wiiei
In this country England is the great market for
American COTTON, aud il Is cotton which susalns
American slavery. do nj say that you can do
without IT, L is cutun which makes the system
profitable, aud cation makes the price 81 man $500
in the markets Of the United States.
The English from Their safe position on the other
side of the Atlantic, think il very we'll to call upon
the American shareholders 10 make the sacrifice Of
e,sancipating their negroes. II dots not occur 10
these phiIdnthrnpsts hat equal sacrifice their
part would terminate the whole system. Let
them give up American cntton, aud American sa-
very would cease. But they are very willing TO
share in the profits Of the system which they de-
nounce, aud do not let their indignation sink INTO
their pockets. Nothing is safer than 10 preach PM
lanthropy and universal benevolence, it sometimes
"A little difficult To practice it.
We clip the above article from the Providence
Journal Of the 4th inst The writer is little hazey
in his geography, bur that not material Ii only
shows that there are newspaper editors among US,
who make almost amusing bund us the Eng
lishmsn, who is repmed to have written that New
England was the capital Of Massachusetts.
The editor Of the Journal thinks that Professor
Stove hit John Bull, when he informed d meeting of
British Abolitionisis that slaves we're held in this
country because cotton made them profitable and
that Great Britain is the best customer the South
has for her cotton. Now, it seems to Us That the
hat was not very severe one, Tor this simple lea-
son, that cotton is not necessarily The product Of
slavery, although il is essential, mdspnsa.
bic, article Of clothing, The negroes who cnltiva
cotton. as slaves, could do so, mure efficiently as
freemen; and though they might sustain eu
da aristocracy of spendIhrifts, and iders, they
would work with more profit TO the State Of which
they natives, and ought to be citizens and they
would do much better for themselves. Men buy
cotton upon compulson. Ii Is the one great neces-
sary staple OF clothing, silk and wool being laxuries
in comparison with it.
Ii the production Of cotton nescessarily produced
slavery, and if the British, in that case would not
refuse 10 purchase il, then such reflection as that
of Professor Stowe would indeed be a hit and hard
one; but as slavery is nescessary in any case,
except TO support the Legitimate dignity and usrrp.
ative authority Of shareholders, the hit records upon
them and not upon 'John Bull" The world has
witnessed many developments OF despotism and many
notifications of tyranis; but the meanest despot of
them all is the mercenary despot. Now it, accord
ing to Professor Stowe, the master holds his slave,
like grim death, merely because cotton is profitable,
tae master must be mercenarv the meanest kind.
for liberty, religion, and law declare that all man
Kind are born free and equal, and have an inaena-
Bile right to life, liberty, and the pursuit Of happi
ness" and no one whose soul was not corrupted by
the unseemly lust of money would refuse to listen to
the voices of these three holy principles, and hold
his fellow man in bondage.
But there is another face to the question, and il is
this: The British aboitoniss do buy all the free
grown cotton that they find in this country
They manufacture separately, and sell it at pre-
mum. Commissioners have also been sent fro n
Britain to certain parts OF Africa and Asia to test
the capabilities of certain territories on those CONT
nens' Tor growing cotton; and the results in these
instances have been generally satisfactory. The
very issue to which the Journal taunts ''John Bu'
to come, is we believe being come TO. The thing is
merely in embryo; but it is none the less real If
the ournal had said that Professor Stowe hal Civ
en- "John Buil'' hint instead of ht, but that John
ny had already taken it, it would have been nearer
the mark than it is in the present instance
- "sCu " nc ediu 10y the wise men OF the Eastern
hemisphere, when Clalkson, Wherefore, MacauIev.
and RomilIy were preaching "abolition sedition in
Great Britain, that long as sugar vas profitable.
and men and women used sugar, West Indian eman-
cipation was an impossbility. But there are no
slaves IN Jamaica now, while there are s,ill -four
fishing sugar plantations and considerable boiling
houses in that island. We do not agree with the
Journal that g Nothing is safer than to preach Dhi.
lanihropy and universal benevoence.' That de.
ponds upon where YOU 1t is very a.asafe busi-
ness down in South Carolina, or wherever the pes.
ulence OF slavery has poisoned the political and
moral atmosphere We think it would be safer for
the shareholders to practice justice and liberty in the
south than for any else preach it, Such prac-
tce would certainly prevent the fearful retrbution
that otherwise must come; while preaching any 9th
er religion but that Of slavery is at present an intol.
cradle heresy visited with DEATH
1t is curious TO notice how eager the pro-savery
hunkers are to ncupate "John Bull'' in this crime
OF American slavery. They wrggIe and writhe un.
der the scorn of Chrstendom, and seek the conso.
latlon OF having companion in the stocks with
them Bot it will not do. Slavery is ours and ours
only. II is grevous burden and hard to be borne
but bear it we mast until we have moral frmness and
virtue enough to cast it away forever.