The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-05-12

| have observed your wealth and comfOrt ana
your Astounding resources; but, have also OBJ
served that great deal of it results from the
products of slave labor. In this country is the
great market for American cotton, and it is
cotton which sustains American slavery. do
not say you can do without it, 1t ID cotton
which makes the system profitable, and cotton
makes the price of man 1900 in the markets OF
the United States. II is my conviction, that nine
tenths of the people of the United States feel
10 their hearts, on the subject of slavery, Just
as you do. Cheers. But there is such ire
mendous power brought to bear against this
feeling, that those who are comfortable and
wish to live in an easy way, don't want to
NEEDLE with the subject at all Professor
Stowe proceeded to state, that there were
$4,000 900 Of inhabitants in the United States,
and only 300 900 of them were shareholders.
Yet these men held public opinion in subjec-
ton, and exercised degree Of tyranny, which
was hardly to be equalled in the most despotic
Governments. And how did they do ii? Be-
cause they were all united on that side. How
ever much they might differ on other ques-
tions-however bitterly they might quarrel and
fight with the pistol and bowie knife, the mo-
meDt the subject of slavery was mentioned,
their discord ceased, and they fought shoulder
to shoulder in support of it. Now, should not
the opponents Of slavery learn something from
this? If they would but be united on the sub
iect on which they were already agreed, their
union would make them as strong as the Others,
and their numbers, and, above all, the justice
of their cause, would give them mighty ad-
vantage. Cheers Referring to the Fugitive
Slave Law, he stated that it had been and
would be altogether imperative; for out Of the
thousands Of fugitive slaves in the States, not
| 25 of them had been carried back under the
influence of that law The Rev. Doctor con-
cluded, amid enthusiastic applause, by stating
that there was soundness in the American
mAnd which, in due course, would be unmis-
takeably developed
After hymn had been sung,
DR.. Stowe rose, and, after again expressing
thanks for the glowing reception which had
been accorded to Mrs. Stowe, requested leave
for her to retire, on account of the still feeble
state of her health.
The authorizes of Uncle Tom y accordingly
rose, and, bowling her Acknowledgements to the
audience, was conducted from the hall amid
the most enthusiastic demonstrations of respect
the company standing, and the ladies waving
their handkerchiefs.
The Rev. DR.. King then rose and said-I am
glad that the resolution assigned to me, while
it condemns slavery, speaks otherwise in re-
spectfnl terms of the people and institutions of
America. Personally, | have very grateful
recollections of my visit to the United States
Independently of personal experience, saw
very much in America to admire. Its commu-
nifty is ahead Of us in many respects. The
hotels are on better footing railway travel
ling is better regulated, especially as regards
the safe keeping of luggage, which occasions
the passenger almost no trouble. The COM
munication by electric telegraph is far more
dffused than with us, and comparatively mex
pensive. Everywhere the spirit of enterprise |
is alive and active. Towns bridges, hospitals,
churches, colleges, are rising on every side and
in the contemplation Of undertaking so many,
so noble and 90 gigantic one is awed into |
asking-to what shall these things grow? |
felt as if | could willingly have become an
American, but for one exception to its aitrac-
tons; and while further observation deserted
multiplying improvements and prodigies, and
still more enlisted admiring sympathios, was
the more shocked and panied to think that
nation 30 great, so advancing, so boundless in
It's resources, 80 exalted in its privileges, and 80
important to the brightest hopes Of tho whole
world-that such nation should be laden
with the sin, the guilt, the curse of slavery
Country after country is abolishing slavery
and the American planter, who still upholds
and defends it, confesses that it is doomed
Slavery must of necessity terminate The Rev.
Doctor concluded by moving the following res
olution:
RESOLVED, That it is deeply to be deplored
that in the national escutcheOn of people so
closely affiliated with ourselves and themselves
so nobly free in their constitutional principles
and 80 jealousy conservative of their own lib
critics, this one blot of slavery, so large and 20
foul, should be permitted to remain; that it
would be cause Of true and heartfelt Joy to |
see our transatlantic brethren reused to due |
sense of their inconsistency in using their own
freedom to hold millions in bondage and Civ |
ing practical proof of tho sincerity of their love
of liberty by taking measures to impart to 9TH
ers what they so highly and so justly value
and, with the generous spirit of
freemen, to let the oppressed 60 free and |
that instead of the two countries wasting
words in elimination and recrimination, it |
would be incomparably wiser and better for |
each to set itself in earnest to the rectifcation
Of its own wrongs, the cure of it's own moral |
and physical maladies, and the removal of its |
own sources Of danger; the two freest and most
highly Favored countries of the world thus emu
latng and animating each other in a consci.
entious conformity to the grand Divine rule of
social rectitude-'W Whatsoever we would that
men should do to you, do you even so to
them
The resolution was seconded, and cordially
agreed to.
The meeting was afterwards addressed by
Rev. Mr.. Beecher and several other gentlemen,
when it separated at late hour.
Mrs Stowe attends soiree of the working
classes of Glasgow on Saturday evening, after
which she goes to Edinburgh for day, and
then proceeds southwards.
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