The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-02-03

LONDON, Dec 2Sth, 1897.
GENTLEMEN The following article could find place
ia the London Times whose editor Is not unwilling that
his aspersons OF American honor should remain before
the world as unanswered and unanswerable
In the Times OF December 18th appears this advertise
ment
= srAruErrE or UNcLE ToM--A highly finished safushs
Of Uaes Tom 10 bronze (ze IA inches) been model
sd 9Y Carlos hsCanny ESQ. forming companion 20 me
In the petty malice. rather the appeal to petty NAL
ice, OF this advertisement, may be The fine snimus
OF all the aristocracy agitation in England
II counter petition got up by ladies' our coun.
Try in behalf OF the white slaves of England. who, be-
sides the deprivation of those physical comforts which
the negro IN the southern States has in such abundance
ana OF every KIND OF education, are in daily
peril OF their lives may by The frequent ac-
counts in English papers, headed fatal coery acci.
denis;" il one were TO suggest that the 10000 ex.
pended IN the pageantry OF funeral which, after all the
common places which have been uttered about the "na-
TONS grief" was but public show mar ed by an in
decorous and universal evity the part of the speca.
tors that could not have previously deemed possible
that all the money squandered the inhumaton OF one
dead man had been ghteously bestowed in cloth
ing and feeding 10000 living ones; and that before
building new museums and picture galleries for the
Taxation and enlightenment OF the few, a government
should endeavor to provide for The sustenance and
mon education OF the manythough real pity might well
be pleaded the part OF those pettoning and advising
| their action would be called impertinence With how
much may apply the term 10 the inter.
ference of the English with our internal afairsi
In the Times, OF the 18th instant (hree days after its
diatnbe on American statesmen,) find editorial
leader the following passage: Everybody kno,os the
real question at issue Gin Parliament but is unfou.
nately habit with the British people to keep up perpet
ua conflict between facts and appearances, between wha
every admits to his friends and what he Processes
/ the public at large" Even Ii is the theorem of my
general proposition; and add, as special corollary
the devil finds much TO smile at in his peculiar fashion
everywhere, and nowhere than in morality and re-
Iigion-lovng England; but doub, if ever in all his
MONDAY walks, he has found much TO use HIM as
in the present sympathy of England with the black peas
| antry and operatives of the United States
One thing more, at the risk of making too long this
preface The greater The truta the worsc tie libel be.
ieve the origin of the phrase is English as the law is
aludes to. General experience demonstrates that Just
charge is lar apt to be violently resented than an
unjust one. The latter merely surprises; il may even
amuse but the former irrates self love- and provokes
recrlmnaton. Were to accuse the British government
OF design upon France | should yield the Times oil
London entertainment; but when declare my belief
that the against Burmah made on the msiest oil
prelexts in the spirit OF rapacy, and has but object
which is obvious will be the result, instantly
provoke the mananer OF English disinteres,edness and
though my finger point the that orders
expected out India for he immediate annexation of
Prone, he is filed with establishment and the astonish-
ment of his readers will equal his own"
have the honor TO remain. gentlemen your fellow.
citizen