The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-05

readers the following remarks OF tue
nress unon the proceedings OF this mee""s aiu
the principal actors IN 1t ,,
crises TAN" IN ENcLAsD-REcEPIlonN, ny! OF THE The
STOVES IN GLAsGow.-The PROBES shoiif;ons he
49,. - s.y the man and woman aooii'iohtst "ho
a. - i've and get rich of negro agttation-s
noxious enough character mere al hSe, oIa ne nc
ahI SIT s,;sb goId and denounce, at the same time,
d. laws of their county, they are morally out little
,ne H.ssn traitors And traitors, we apprehend
geate minded and rejecting portion of mankind
even in Great Britain Will by and by come TO look up
OF them; IL pretty spectacle indeed, thst which
usmeIy: two professed Americans, man and a wo.
man standing up to denouuce as "horrid and ''inop
erstiye'' one of the most solemn enactments on the
national statute book, in the presence of some thou
sands oforeisners, whose only knowledge of slavery
may safely presume is derived from the distorted
medium of Uncle Toms Cabin. Would that another
Burns among them to write as he would write
if such scenes those now on exhibition there
passing under his eye
In order that the reader may form some idea
of the proceedings which called forth this in
dignant rebuke, we shall endeavor to give an
outline Of tn, speech made by Stowe 1.-THE
husband on the occasion. 1t will be necessa-
ry to observe, in the first place, that the guests
were introduced to the meeting by one Doctor
Wardlaw; who. lamenting the ill-health of
Mrs. Beecher Stowe, consoled her by remind.
ing her that she was suffering in good cause
that there could not be better-that it was
one switch involved the well.being, corporal
and mental, physical and spiritual, temporal
and eternal, of degraded, pundered, darkened,
oppressed, brutalised, perishing Millions
We are not at all surprised at the language of
this Scotchman, who had been taught, no
doubt, TO think, and religiously thought,
that defamation of America was the best
Of causes. But that any American woman
should have consented to be praised for
presenting her countrymen in such colors,
as TO justify a foreigner in applying to
their acts such epthets as those comprised
In the above extract, is humiliating to the
asst degree. We have found always much
to blame in the arrogance, insolence and pha-
risaical hypocrisy of the English. But we do
them the justice to believe that there is not a
man in the island who would have listened to
such denuncation of his country in foreign
land. Our heroine appears, however, TO have
been affected by no scruples of the kind. The
Briton's assault upon her country was bitter
enough, but her husband determined to Guido
him.
In his reply TO this speech, Stowe told the
foreign court, sitting in judgment upon his
country, that "the passage Ofthe fugitive slave
law was the last dying struggle of the system
that there were real difficulties in the way
connected with the question in those States
where slavery exists-that the social habits of
the people were connected with slavery, and
that they did not know how to do without them
that another great difficulty was, that the
slave States are, as political bodies, internally
independent, and that as the slave. holders
possessed all the political power, no move
ment could be made for the amelioraton of
the slave but through them-that it was not
he same as in Great Britain, where Parliament
could hold rod cover the Shareholders
that in the slave States the shareholders held
the rod, and used it, t0o-that there were two
ways of efecting change: either the slave
holder himself must be persuaded TO adopt
system for the abolition of slavery, or the evil
would be brought to an end by bloody rero.
luton"
He next entered upon subject which he,
apparently, thought little too delicate to be
dwelt upon very fore IDLY in a city, owing all
its prosperity to the American trade, and
much the larger portion of it to the trade in
slave-prOducts. He had seen, he said, evi.
dences of immense prosperity in all the towns
he had passed through on his way from Liver.
pool, and he had learned that it was mainly at.
tributable to cotton. 1t was cotton that kept
up the price of slaves, and made man sell for
$500 sterling. We do not read that he recon-
mended the weavers of Glasgow to cut up the
evil by abolishing their looms. Nothing, in
deed, could have been more delicate than the
rose.water intimation which he gave, that they
themselves were the main encouragers of the
system they were assembled to hear him de-
nounce. He expressed the belief that nine
tenths of the people of the United States felt
as his audience did, but he insisted that thew
were prevented from acting by the tremendous
power brought to bear az ainst the feeling. Out
OF population of $4,000, 900, he asserted that
there were but 300 900 ave.holders, who vet
eontrived to exercise despotism over public
opinion unknown even in the most absolute
governments. This they effected by clinging
together on this subject, though in all other
cases he represented them as ever ready to cut
each others throats, or to pistol or bowie
knife each other, on the slightest provocation.
Referring to the fugitive slave law, he declared
that it was wholly imperative, not twenty five
out of one thousand fugitives having been ar.
rested under it. Something he said in the BODY
of his speech about the Scottish Dissenters in
America, and the Quakers, both of whom he
said were the enemies of slavery.
Such is an outline of a speech delivered bv
an American, before foreign audience, in ,
foreign country, in reply to an address st;pm.
Using his csuntrymen as oppressors. robbers
and brutes. We need not point ont tina, the
contamination for which he SO devoutIy prays
involves murder, treason, disuniop and civil
war; Tor only through all these can il BE-
reached. Deep as we know British hatred :,
'his country to be, eagerly as they deyou,
everything that can be written or said TO on
oisparagement, we can hardly believe it posi-