Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-05-25
IF proclaiming abroad as ubiquitous, prominent

of proclaiming abroad, as ubiquitous, prominent
feature of the constitution OF the land of her birth,
and of bringing odium on what our wise fathers
have sanctioned, and their most distinguished sons
approved, will not be so blinded by the splendors
of the lofty with whom she is now associated, as
TO overlook he slowly', who represent the African
race in England, though, in one observation, and
we too have seen with our own eyes, infinitely
more TO ne pitied. and quite as much degraded
lffreedom be but name, and alphabetically it is
so; they have not even this empt boast; for they
eat, they drink, they sleep, they move at the will
of landlord, or employer, and are. politically,
nugatory as our blacks for their vote, if they can
cast1t at all, is, in fact, The purchased, or COM
manded expression of their masters wish. Let
her look into the cellars of London. the coal
mines of New Castle, tn. factories of Manchester.
the novels of Ireland, and she may be tempted, in
the fullness of her philanthropy, to publish Sc
quel to Uncle TOMS Cabin that may set the cur
rents olsfattery, on which she now floats, in con-
trary direction. She will, at least have facts for
the foundation, realities for the narrative, and
truthful consequences, if it suits her to deduce
them, for the moral of hertale; and may show 10
theword, that the nation she has attempted to de-
fame,i has but followed the example of all pre-
ceding generations; for all, from Moses TO the
present day, haze had their bondmen, whether
yassas, helots, suris, slaves; ours, alone, hav-
ing so modified the tenure by which we hold the
race our English forefaihers bequeahed TO us, for
servtude, to give it'some portion of the spirit
Of that patriarchal dominion which God, himself,
instituted, and, we may presume, approved.
One word more, and we have done. We COM
menced this article in joke, and have been, insen-
Sibly, led, by the importance of the subject, to
give 1t grayer character; and yet have omitted
to consider what may be its most serious, and fatal
consequence. III Mrs Stowe, and the Duchess of
Sutherland; the Republican lady and the English
aristoerat; the fanatics of our own country, and
olr revileIs abroad, could keep this tracdssarie
among themselves, we should think little more of
it than we did ofythe Jenny Lind mania, or the
kossuth humbug. We might, perhaps, be worried
to see sensible people, as no doubt many among
these are playing the fool; but, with all other
fooleres we should look for its speedy dissolution,
as happened in the cases we have alluded TO.
Jenny's sweet tones are forgotten; kossuth's "im
mortal .eioquence"has. cleft not a wreck behind"
or, atmost but the wreck of an unpaid tavern bill,
a promlssory bond. Not so with Uncle Tom
ism. 1t has already gone beyond our own firesdes,
and is ceasng to be q family matter. Like those
quarres between man and wife; the danger Of in!
reference with which, to thirt party, has passed
into proverb; the inlermeddling of foreigners with
affairs of ours, purely local and domestic, may
merge, in resentment for foreign Insult The present
cause oil family disturbance; and war between
two powerful, and, now, friendly nations, spring
fIom two penny volume, while Mrs. Stowe may
have the satisfaction of boasting that, "like ano-
ther Helen, she has fred another Troy" In this
view oil the matter, we see m:ch that is more
| alarming than in the march of emancipation,
which, if we mistake not, was beginning 10 LAM
guish, and to make loom for project of less dan
ger and excitement colonzation,) before the fresh
impulse given to it by foreign interference, and, it
may be, by foreign capital; believing, as we sin
cerely do, that there will be no North, no South,
no abolition, or anti abolition, no regard for mar
tvred blacks, plying whites, when the honor OF
our country is impugned and the justice, the piety,
the humanity and Integrity OF her people. and her
institutions made subjects of foreign ridicule and
defamation.
Thus, may war, that would shake the world,
| and cause civilization to retrograde whole centu-
ries, be the deplorable consequence OF efforts to
improve race already elevated by us, in every
attribute of humanity, far above the state of nat
ural degradation in which our predecessor found
it.-A race we have rescued from barbarity, idol.
tory, cannibalism, and brutality; which, even its
own advocates mnst admit TO be distinct from, and
inferior 10 our own, and which is now, as we
think, in the liberal enjoyment of rights priyeli-
ges, and advancement Commensurate with its hab-
its. dispositions, and capabilities.
ELLESDALE, Va. W.B.B.