New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-28
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY IS. 1856
SCOTCH sENTLME.NT.aLITY.

The abolition sentiment which prevails so
strongly in England with regard to American
slavery, and has its periodical outbursts and
demonstrations at Exeter Hall and elsewhere,
has, it seems, crossed the northern wall and now
RACES with full force among the Sawneys of
Scotland. Mrs. Stowe, the Magdalen of new
dispensation, the Peter in petticoats of fresh
doctrine, preaching novel and national cru
SADIE against her own country and her own coun-
trymen, has touched the finer sensibilitles OF the
sons Of the Picts, and from John OGroats TO the
Firth Of Solway every countenance is lit up with
a holy horror of America and refulgent with adj
miration of its daughter. The same mingled
folly and fanaticism which years ago displayed
itself in tears and talk, blows and bludgeons
about "a poor broken Covenant now prompts
to talk and tearseprocessions and penny offer
ings against system of which the opposers
know as little as Laplsnders of free-grace or the
inhabitants of Patagonia about mint juleps.
Nevertheless, whenever she appears, this Stowe
ical PHILOSOPHERS is received by crowds, greeted
with addresses and contributions, and escorted
to Spartan suppers of black broth, biscuit and
oatmeal, where Provosts and Baillies, sharp
enivelling sisters fresh from among the Gram
plans, conspire to do her honor and decry the
abominable country which raised her Since
the days of the Porteus riots Aud Reekie has
net rung with a louder susurrum, nor its crooked
streets been crowded with more enthusiast
cally ignorant set Of abolitionists than when our
well beloved sister, with her brothers and hus-
bandin tow, made her advent in that place
Delegations from all the little burghs within
fifty miles were present at the apotheosis, and
in company with some thousands of others, sal
down to an aesthetic supper spiced with the
calulnnious oratory of Charles Beecher and the
maudlin theology of Mrs. Stoves husband.
All this would be well enough, and pass off il
our eyes as simply ridiculous-the offspring Of
u zeal without knowledge, or malice without
power-were it not that another element enters
into the affair, embittering it beyond the utmost
exertions of the getters up and their heroine
1t is well known throughout the nation that ne
country in the world is more indebted to us fol
charity and kindness than this same Scotland
and no people more than its thankless and un.
grateful population There is hardly town
within our bound, North or South there has
hardly been a year since 1920 that has not seen
some professional Scottish beggar soliciting aims
and charity either for the education or improve
ment of his countrymen. Our pulpits have
been filled and our lecture-rooms occupied By
these brazen beggars, and they have reaped
good harvests by their exertions. We have had
clerical beggars, educational beggars, and beg
gars in almost every other department. VIZ
have helped to found their churches, erect theil
colleges, and sustain their schools; and thes
are the thanks we get abuse for kindness
blackguardism for charity, and low denuncia
tion in the place of the most cordial sympathy
1t is too small matter, however to occupy
much space, or call for much consideration In
q few years the wants Of our manufactures ant
the needs of the citizens will have drained OF al
thea ble-bodied population of the spiteful little
province, just as has been the case with Ireland
and the last of the descendants of Donald an(
Jan will be led by their national love Of coin t.
lend helping hand towards the support ant
permanence of an institution SO villifed at pres
emit, and a country SO shoclingly abused. A
it is, we can afford TO endure for period tn
bitterest snarlings Of a rocky little patch tina
might be slowed away and forever lest anon
any of the ridges of New Mexico, and of a natio
whose population, compressed ever so closely
would not equal that Of the city Of New orl