Washington telegraph., 1853-01-26
NO. A..


scene shall be in Lancashire let them
make out Britons to be task-masters, with
out one redeeming point, over the emascu-
lated millions Of British workpeople. whose
sinews they stretch and whose bones they
! grind down in the name Of commerce. Let
hem send 70 India or Borneo. Let them
\ lramatise Warren Hastings and Rajatf
Brooke. 1t them throw light On the Out
ram business, with its oppression and poison
ines. together with the falsehoods of sup
precision and assertion On the part of the
East India Company. Let them paint fam
lie in Ireland. For each American Degree
they shall easily find an English one. We
forced slavery on the Americans We are
now sowing there the seeds cf dissension
broadcast. We 10 not admit that the state
of the negro slave is anything ike what is
pictured in Uncle Toms Cabin, in any case.
There may De- solitary cases approaching it
il abomination. Bnt tie Americans, abo-
litionists or not, shall and viii get rid Of
slavery as they please themselves, and eve-
rything done in England, either sentimental
N " not, adds only force to opposition
Mrs. Stowe has Ibellel her countrvmen,
let them look TO that England need not
Lack her with Hclywell-strcet ignorance
and Exeter hall cant. If she Do. she will
SOW the wind and reap the whirlwind. Ev-
cry american in London is disguised with
the Uncle Tom mania here. If he 90 TO
theatre h. j. insul;ed and shocked The
English people, I'D the other hand, are de-
luded into the falsest notions Of America.
When the slave in the drama escapes to Can
ada, there is cheer. That cheer may cost
Is some day our best alliance At this mo
mcnt the interests Of England and America
should be one. Why do not the English Ia
diesiEterfere on behalfofthe enslaved French
people We believe, Oh the other hand,
Tint Louis Napoleon j. popular with them
lf England interfere with american slavery,
she viii not effect her object, but the result
may be- ere long, that she viii enslave her
self We have n0 patience to pursue this
subject further The book is false in fact.
The good and tie evil to be done by this
\ excitement 1n our part are in comparative
D force and reality the tears of an Adelphi
audience compared 70 the tears Of blood
/ that are shed by nations This Intervention
4 viii be indeed accurzed. But why should
\ il exist! Simr'y because we are peace
stricken hypO-.ites Thaddeus Of Warsaw
I did not cause Us 10 interfere on behalf OF
/ Poland. Yet bliss POrters' work was not
/ UyerdrawD, and il merit how unmeasurably
superior To Uncle Toms Cabin? Alas.
that the following verse should be 50 likely
I 70 receive az Interpretation By such means.
\ The Devil, in the likeness Of Haynau. IS
addressing Lord Palnerston il farewell
letter.
I Glay the negroes YOU strive 10 set free.
Forge the chains OF . deadlier hate
\ Than the world has lad eyes yet TO see
VI III the gloom " proud nations fate;
Y Be your shcpkecpers rund, your commerce fast
bound
And your people BY taxes zni steam engines
ground;
NJ May Phiian!lTopists seize vou, md Mammon con
\ found
That which once was free land.
4 Yes, We are cutting cur own throats with
K This hypocritical, lying sympathy. Let Brit
Y IT'D ladies, If :hey want q safcty-valve for
their hystsrieaI emotions, as well as a means
Of notoriety, form committee for the eman-
cipatiUn Of the monkeys which afford them
q much amusement on Sundays in the Zool-
ogical Gardens. A most touching aud
more truthful work than Uncle Toms Cabin
might be written on the suferings Of these;
while, politically, It would be harmless
\ No. They have do occasion 70 invent. any
more than to borrow. an opportunity for the
exhibition of their Christian feelings aud
charity. Emigration and death have stified
tile groans Of Ireland. Let them aid rnkgar
misery AZ home Let them visit the homes
of the connoA English poor. Let them
paw their covernesses more tfan e2O year.
\ But in the name Of nations and mankind. Of
liberty and hope, Of their own truth, safety,
honor and salvation, let them, as well as the
rest Of the British public, pause and consider
well. before they range themselves Oh the
side uf tile violent American abolitionists,
aad betray by folly the cause they are still
right with their hearts alone TO advocate; or
il may be the worse for them, as well as for
slavery and England
In conclusion. the Americans viii them
selves, ere long, put an end to slavery in the
whole Of the United States That is certain
a. that there i sun in the heavens. But
they look with a natural jealousy on our in
terfercnce, and we think they are quite right
to tar and feather any impudent fellow who
shall presume on their soil to dictate to their
citizens. And We sincerely hope, that the
aristocratic fine ladies, with their female CO.
terie of toadies, whose names we have seen
50 prominently put forward in manner.
considering at the various circumstances Of
the case, offensive to truth and decorum,
should transmit their resolution or their ad-
dress, or whatever they please to call il. to
their transatlantic sisters, that it viii be met
either by stern rebuke or the silent con-
tempt il merits. We who say this have as
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