Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-06-21
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, lSao.
BRITISH PHILANTHROPY.

II BRITISH PHILANTHROPY.
One of the rebukes upon Mrs Stowe and III, "
81 uocri,ical professions of the English people, when
d seen for time is contained in the Wa'ch"a. M
~ ed al Monticello N. Y. northern pale ~ nv ,..,,
4. hasthe manly bodness and good sense ~ sp h he
;" sentiments and while doing justice 10 Inc 'ou'
arrows Of denunciaton al the high e'. - 80. c,,o
> ors of our assaans abroad MIS- na',.'' 80 IL,
J. fsavs the Watcbman) is loness. "i'hih o' - O.
-, -. throughout the civilized world ols
~ ; ~ ,.6,,oia furnishes but few instances !" "''
So, h,.a hoo, 80 rapidly and easily made Us heS' -
da,;o, ~ ,hls she is popular win 'he '"s'' '' va
20 n and ,he suob-the fiery American anu'.' aa1 -.
o. IA E,,onesn fogy Happy, fortunate MIS- ne'e"'
r,no ,ome and high social POSITION all "'" " o."
~ ole effort Of the Imagination! ruo,
70 acknowledged peer in responsibility she is court
I'd by an as,ocracy which traces It's ancestry oaeh " u"
ARK apes She reads the halls which have resounded 10
The footsteps of the old English barons aud their
Al writer of fiction she the palm Of
is star in whose light all other luminaries hue "e Y"
minished heads"
And what is there Mrs Beecher stoves oooA 'a' mas
made her the Idol Of branles American anatcism anu oi
the cold gaspng, hearlless conservatism OF inc o'u "oa
pn.,;c;s IA wild dogmatic reckless and under certain
circumstances diaboica Fanaticism IN America, ~ouio
M ,os vasr horde Of idle ignorant beings, whose ncna
i . 49,. alr,ost altogether anmal-brulish-and whose IL
h,,,ion would bring upon the present dominant race
=, ,,;e ,epublic untold horrors They would not only
nancpa,e without first eIeva,ing in the scale OF lne
.,c bu, they would the time make the African
oeoual socially and politically, with the Caucasian al
houoh each bears unmstakabe evidence of the design Of
ne Creator that the two should never amalgamae
J Our abolition fanatics have baked They exert but
nuIe influence on the church the Stale They conse
ourn,ly consider both abomnabe and hn their homouth
/ the and
can Senate They have found congenia-a master split
10 Mrs Beecher Stowe Therefore have become their
bomrt-their Conucus-lhcir Joe Smith-her soyl and
oracle.
The old fogy Of Europe regards nothing with more horror
Than the advance of epubicansm The acknowledged IN
huence of American ideas upon mankind Is undermining
the vast engine which enables him to pamper ms useless
body while his dependants die om starvation ana exposure
o. his door Republicanism has ound s 10 the hearts
of The masses in nearly every country OF Europe no"
many klney governments there on the continent ha
o,id sx,0, month without a oyershado~ing
s,andnp army-a police which supervses every man
The repubcansm OF these United States has
created volcano beneath the throne OF royalty, "ch
NAV sIumber for time; which will in The end scatter tue
osraphernaa Of royalty TO the four winds Of heaven
anv,hnp therefore which promises bring our glorious
institutions into disrepue with those who are under uespo
tIc rule is eagerly embraced BY the apoioglslso
IIprl Cabin 80
,,rvber race and TO republcanisn iabricator OF
,hs mos, formidable weapon that was ever welded against
Democracy-is that Mrs beecher stowe l. Tue
80, s lard and lady-of duke and duchess--oi King ana
qucen7
gu, while they weep the imaginary 'orows OF he
American negro or hatte Mrs Beecer Stowe WIN 'e
friendship and applause would II not DC we" ''' .'' "
baye nj leas, one eye glance at the legitimate eiecS o
pib sopres,ion and misrue1 Can they find no objects
in the
mines of Cornwain poor lreIand-ih e'asculu'eo '"o
Il among the opium eaters OF emma
Eo,and though under limited monarchy, IS The worst
ruled country in the world rs she does not shock us
i'm IN. knout-ihe garrolc-or the Gulone; YET "ha'
government produces such baeul effects upon such vast
numbers of mor,as2 Where else will you find nude men,
IS nude women and nude children hanessed to carts lRe
beasts and working together and herdng together pfoms
cuousy for below the ear,hs surface where they are born
and where they live and labor and die in suoteanean
re,chedness excluded except at intervals from the
.,rioe ljph, of heaven7 Where else will you find such
mpI,ltudes of unfortunate women who are compelled to
sorve or TO become common mnons Of mans lust-o sell
,t,ei< bodies and souls for breadl
And Ireland beautiful fruitful Ireland Is there another
on the eahs surface which produces SO much 1000
for man. but whose inhabitants enjoy 80 lte oil the fruits
Of their labos Crushed TO the earth her nobility ana anu
holders non resident from the tenantry oil thal
lean -
utmost ex,ent-compeed export her beef outte pork
thing but her poatoes-to satisfy the apac
of The coYmoauts and vampires that prey upon erls II
wonderful that by emigration and starvaon one-iourt OF
her population has disappeared?
America where such thing starvation among ooha or
fee is never KNOWN certainly presents pleasing picture
when compared Ireland, where the roofess cabin
pauper burial placea things attest the evil policy OF lis
rulers Here whole families do not starve while the and
produces enough for the subsistence of It's occupants ere
the atmosphere is rendered pestiena by the maign
ordor arising from the remains of the victims OF msgoven-
ment.
sl The sorrows of Uncle Tom Indeed For every negro
who has peshed American plantations from lawess
at least five hundred white have died In Ireland
q from starvation and not Ce would hnve suffered from
want if the wheat &c. of Ireland had not been exported 10
nav rent and And for every negro who has run away
from his MASTER and found Asylum in Canada housano
rshmen have fled from British In justice and become c''-
zens of hIs republic.
In the black and monsous catalogue Of British sins, Inc
poisoning OF 100000 Chinese annually should not oe over
ooked British rapacy has seized by the force OF arms az
immense territory in tho for the purpose OF ee'
vang the natives In the scale OF humany-out 10 ada "
the wealth Of few mllionaires OF London Millions OF
acres in this territory devoted the production OF OPT
um This drug is sold TO the Chinese in defiance o Ih'
nese laws il is forced upon the celestial at the point OF e
bayonet and at the cannons mouth fg During Inc ae'
years. has destroyed according TO good au'hofY'
some four millions of infatuated men number whlch ca"
cceds that of the entire slave population oil the on'eu
., States!
H. British philanthropy would be commendable ana o'e'y
expended its and its money to alleviate he SUI
ferngs by British injustice and British cruelty But
while the wrongs the Irish are unredressedwhle that
ancient people continue fee from the hearthstones o he
ahers 10 strange landwhie there Is much suffering
and cm and bruthed ignorance beneath the windows
OF Inc royal palaces of Eneand-whe Chinese protest
In vain against the Importation poisonous drug which
kills nearly half million of their people annually while
the East India Company persist In obbinp the Hndoos
while those things continue for benefit of the British
u arstocracy. The high-born philanthropy of England is
mons,rous farce which should greeted with cers
~ mockery A is worse than hca,hen who does no
provide for his family his charity ovcrows
his suffering ueighbors Tried By this test Great Britain
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