Washington telegraph., 1853-05-25
reception OF Mrs. Harriet Beech.
er Stowe at Glasgow.

y. A vi ouI IeddeTS are aware That this notorious
female has been contemplating trip to Europe
for several months. About a month since she
TOOK a steamship. and in due time arrived at the
shores OF JOHN BUNS famous doIfiinions The
E.hSish papers brought over by the steamship
BALTIC, give quite full accounts of her reception
ana progress At Glasgow, on the evening Of the
lota ut, grand so,ree was given IN her honor
Which was attended by some two thousand Abo-
iVonists and sisht-seers, whose visual organs are
SO peculiarly constructed that they are wholly
unable to see the misery. starvation and destiti;
tion, everywhere apparent Immediately around
thenl-uhder their very noses, as it were-but
who can look three thousand miles across the
Atiantic; INTO the cotton; cane and rice fields of
the South, and discover infinite amount of dis
tress among comfortable and happy negroes who'll
~ unconscious OF the meaning OF the terms =
AboHtionlsts are queerly constituted animals. at
least SO far as sheir mental organization is con-
cerned. They can't see-they can't hear-tbev
can't read-they can't land wouldn't if they
could understand anything that doesn't conport
with their preconceived fixed ideas in reference
to the negro. The English Abo!itionist male or
female-rght in the face OF facts that can be
proved by the official documents of the Imperial
Parliament, that there are six millions of free
white population. within the limits of the three
kingdoms, whose condition, physically. morally
and mentally, would be vastly more comfortable
and improved In many important respects were
they as well cared for and cultivated as are nine
teen-twenteths of the slaves OF the South-looks
over home evils, does not attemut to cure home
ulcers cause nothing, apparent, Y,about home vices
home misery. destitution, crime and starvation
and becomes hugely phianthropic over the inn
aginary wrongs of the slave! He is slave. and
that's sufficient. Being a siare OF course he must
be miserable, starved and oppressed-no matter
how provdently and attentively bis owner cares
and provides for him. At least so they argne If
they could only have him pine suffer and half
starve, from the cradle to the grave in glorious
freedoms as DO millions of their own people the
cup o. their happiness would everflowl In all es-
sendal respects, the Abolitonists of the North
and England are alike in feeling and sentiment
and both belong to an order of beings who can
-unmoved starving mother pass,
And pour their sorrows DER dying ASST
But we are DEPRESSING, as we intended at the
outset to give some account of the proceedings of
the Glasgow Abolitionists. The reception is rep
resented to have been quite enthusiastic, and in
moving a resolution of welcome. DR. WARDLAw
made quite lengthy speech. OF course lie euo-
gised to the skies the libeler Of about one-half of
her countrymen and countryworen, (NIrs SrowE
was or the platiorrn1 abused shareholders and
concluded his address by the following sngularlv
malapropose quotation from the Bible: "There-
fore, all things whatever We would that men
should do to you, do yc also TO them likewise
No one but an Abolitionist would have had the
inpudence TO such quotation under such cir
ctuISidHces- II tiie reverend gentleman pTdCt3rcg
what he preacied, he would not thus have peryert-
ed the sublime sentiment embodied in the quota
ton
Professor SrowE. husband of Mrs Srowr.l
made quite lengthy speech in which he said
the health oi his vile was delicate, cumplimented
the Scotch covenanters. Scotland and the Cuakers.
and foured hot shot into slavery with yoluble vir-
uence. He said very little worth repeating
Speaking OF slavery and the modes in which II
might be abolished he remarked: There are t;y-o
ways only IN which change be looked for.
Either the stakeholder himself must be persuaded
to adopt system Tor the abolition of the evil or
the evil will be brought to an end by bloody
revolution
Certainly; but Abolitionists are not disposed to
await the action of shareholders. to permit of any
preparatory process towards emancipation, or to
allow for the inconveaences, troubles and peris
of so mighty change. should such proposition
he entertained. and ale doing all they can. sub
stantially. to bring about "a bloody revolution'i
Well. revolution, such as Mr.. Stowe aliudes to,
would be bloody" yet short one. In one month
from It's commencement. slavery would cease to
exist because there would be 40 negroes Eciag 10
nfake sidgcS Of! We presume even Aboitionists
will allow that Shareholders have clear right to
protect, TO every extremity the lives and honor
OF their wives mothers. daughters sisters child
ren and themselves. Admit this postulate, get
revolution" and slavery, as it now exists will
be only known in history. Abohtionsts should
bear these things in mind. What has the negro
done to them, that they should doom the whole
race!
The customary resolution. denouncing slavery
was then passed, several speeches were delivered
and the meeting diourned-without. we unhesi-
tatingly venture the assertion having been of the
slightest earthly benefit TO any suffering poor man
or woman, in the city OF Glasgow, where there
are thousands! N. o. Bulletin.