Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-27
The British Party.

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as to the pointed applicability of this
term. 1t is now fact, as shameful as it
is undeniable, that there are persons in
this country, who can and do glory in
the dishonoring of the American flag.
The recent course of Mrs. Tom Cabin
Stowe, in sitting in her shame under the
mutilated banner Of America, before an
English audience, has been and now is
openly and shamelessly approved by a
portion of our countrymen Henceforth
let them be called THE BRITISH PARTY
They have earned the infamous name BY
their traitorous deeds; and now let them
be compelled to wear it.
The British Party that is the brand
of infamy. Burn it in upon their brows,
like the accursed mark set upon Cain,
the first murderer. They have struggled
long and hard to win {" this bad emf
nence." Now let them glory in their
shame.
The British Party! It is the party of
traitors, viliifers, hypocrites. 1t is the
party that strains at gnats in America
and swallows camels in England! 1t is
the party that unblushingly insults the
memories of the great fathers and brave
defenders of our Republic. 1t is the
party that is ''like Niobe, all tears" over
the imaginary wrongs of American ca
bins, while it is as dry and hard as the
neither milestone over the unuttered and
unutterable sufferings of English Golfers
and miners. 1t is the party of the Jel-
labys and Stoves, who are all sympathy
for the fat and happy negro, while it is as
deaf as an adder and as dead as mummy
to the cadaverous woes of the starving
Irishman
The British Party! 1t is the party of
sectional dscord, Of fratricidaI violence,
of civil war It's head is the gorgon Of
instruction. It's heart is the fend of
anarchy. It's hands are reeking with
brides. Its feet are swift to shed inno-
cent blood. Its voice is the yell of fanat-
icism. Its pen is dipped in the worm
wood and gall of SANDER. Its measures
are sensual, brutal, devilish. It's work
is the overthrow of Selfgovernment; the
propping up of aristocracies the perpe-
tuation of despotism.
The British Party! 1t is in it's essence
the same party that wronged our fathers
in the colonial days Of America that
forced negro slaves into this country, CEN
turies ago, against the earnest and oft re-
peated remonstrances of the colonists ::
that has since sought to trample down
American trade and fetter American
rights on land and sea; that is at this
moment using its mightiest energies to
compass the overthrow Of this first Re-
public in the world and that has Just
opened afresh, under an assumed name
the English slave trade on the coast of
Africa.
And can it be that such q Partu as tbis
has members, supporters, abettors in this
country of ours Yes-it is even so !,
They are here, at the head of presses in
our commercial and capital cities-aye,
even in our pulpits, and on the floors of
our State and National Legislatures
They are here who chuckle over the in
suits heaped on the dust of Washington,
and shout with Internal glee at the mutt
iation of the American flag.
But we forbear from further statements
on this startling subject this evening. To
the honest, and pure, and patriotic of our
countrymen we would merely add-think
on these things. The time for action is to
come
We are indebted tn the noIiteneSS