The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-01
MRS. STOWE AND STAFF AT EAh'
TER HALL.


TER HALL.
The animal meeting of the British anu ~
reign An,i-Slavery Society, wn'c" Wv" 80
nj Exeter Hall on the 10th May was 'o
nv the presence Of Mrs. Uncle ION, WHOSE ap
1900. draw down the applause OF the whole
-. nv that of Mrs. Uncle Tom Stoves
...h.nd Mr. Uncle Tom Stowe, &c. Uncle
It., IS the first man who made speech,
-, n,;e,orship of "our breeches" having
rrobably been settled between him and his
..he,ter half'' in favor of the masculine claim
ant. since he spoke more TO the point, and
rather more like man than he has heretofore
done. His remarks, as We find them in the
English papers, are exquisitely rich, and must
have nut some of the "Old Hunkers" of that
patriotic assembly to thinking with a ven
reance. He told them fatty, that if they were in
earnest in their condemnation of slavery, they
must either give up cotton altogether, or must
give a preference TO cotton raised by free Ia
Dor This is more than John Bull bargained
for. He never thought, for an instant ofgiving
xp anything. He never dreamed that his SELF
denial would be taxed to carry out his princi
Piles. All he wished or expected, was to in
spire his countrymen with thorough detesta'
ton of his great commercial rival. All ne
hoped or wished, was TO create dssension
here. He expected 10 make money by the
opera ton, not to lose ito find food for exui-
tation in the Pharisaic assumption, II thank
Thee, oh Lord, am not as that publican"
not TO be taxed as the chief Of sinners himself
Had he suspected ii would come TO this, Mr..
Uncle Tom and Mrs. Uncle Tom might have
disputed in quiet at home over "our breeches"
for the rest of their lives. What he wished to
be told was, that the magnanimous beer-drink-
ing and beef eating English we've the freest
people on earth themselves, and the greatest
enemies of slavery at home and abroad. He
wished 10 enjoy the fruits of sin in others
while he made up for it by railing at the per-
petra tors, forgetting, or believing that others
would forget, that the receiver of stolen goods
is not one ie ia less guilty or more respectable
than the man who steals them. Verify, Uncle
Tom Stowe is the coolest of all the cold COM
forters we have heard of, and we are rather dis
posed to think he will be pretty generally re
gardedin that light by those among whom he
has gone to preach. Give up cotton Why
it Is as bad as the old man who made large
quantity Of apple-brandy, and who was great
friend of Mr.. Madison, and a eat;supporter
Of the war, until he heard the Legislature were
engaged upon bill for taxing stills. "Tax
stills ~ exclaimed our patriot; "well; when it
comes to taxing stills l think we had better
G1 pardon and drap it ~ John will be very
apt to think the same way for though great
friend of freedom, especially on paper and in
public meetings, there is no doubt that he
loves his money better than he does his soul,
or, what is to him fer more important consid-
Grafton, his beer or his dinner.
The joint tenant, however, of " our novel
and our breeches," having shocked the sensi
bllItes OF John Bull, by mining that he must
give up cotton, as at present cultivated, and
depend upon free labor for supply, and John
having very sagaciously come TO the conclu
sion that such dependence was not very far
removed from an absolute abandonment, he is
ready with the remedy. Some of the London
press had been dilating very freely upon the
cotton soil of Australia, Of Jamaica, of the
Capes of Timbuctoo, of the unknown regions
of the king of Dahomey, and OF all other por
tons of the earth, known and unknown, with
q decided preference for the latter. In the en-
thusiasm of The hour, we are not altogether Ger
tain that deputation was not sent TO Sir John
Herschell, praying him to look through his
big telescope, and see if there were not cotton
fields to be found in the moon. This would
not do for uncle Tom Stowe. He is evidently
no moon.struck silly lad, but practical man
"A man who claims equal proprietorship in
sour novel and our breeches." He has plan
that is plan. He must get Chinese from Chi
IA imported into the United States by John
Bull, and they are to work for sixpence day
10 support MIR. Stowe in his theory, and enable
John to buy free cotton. How the thing is to be
accomplished we have not yet learned, for like
all great original thinkers upon practical sub
jects, he seems to be jealous of the nodus
eperandi, probably intending to ger patent
for it. Be that as it may, we are not sorry to
see how completely he has brought home to
the English people the crimes with which they
have been charging US. sit is known fact"
said he, "that Great Britain takes four-fiflhs
of the cotton grown in the slave States" and
he added that /" he was quite sure that their
denunciations of slavery would be useless, if
they did not let the Shareholders see that they
would no longer possess themselves of a COM
modify which was the produce of slave labor.
Had it not been for the assistance of the cot
ton consumers of Great Britain, who were as
oiameable as the cotton growers, the sy stem OF
slavery would have been abolished long ago."
We will bet Mr.. Stowe number of the Dis.
patch against the best Of his speeches, that he
does not persuade one single English mana.
iacturer to decline taking American cotton, and
mat ne will continue to use ii himself.
CHINA.
The Celestials are not 80 far behind the
spirit OF this age, Is many Of their detractors
seem to imagine. They are as full of fire. fun
and fury, as the best of the outs;da ha -hor;ons