Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-25

are quite right to tar and feather any impudent fell
low who shall presume on their soil to dictate to
their citizens. And we sincerely hope, that if the
aristocratic fine ladies, with their female coterie of
~toadies, whose names we have seen SO prominent
ly put forward in a manner, considering all the va
nous circumstances of the case, offensive to truth
and decorum, should transmit their resolutions or
their address, or " hatever they please to call it, to
their transatlantic sisters, that it will be met either
by stern rebuke or the silent contempt it merits.
we who say this have as great an abhorance of sla-
very as any one, but we cannot forget how short a
time it is since England was herself foremost in
this human traffic. Nor can we forget that il is
chiefly encouragedb by the British nation now. We
receive the stolen goods. The Brights and COL
dens of the present day were actual slave owners
but a few years ago. They are indirect slave OWN
eS now, and W hatthey are as white taskmasters, let
,Oasler and Ferrand tell the indignant generation
that is sprlnglng up, inheritors of their evil deeds.
For the age of humbug must cease, or the reign Of
England mus. be over. Let these silly danes,
from her Grace of Sutherland down 10 Mrs. Barry
Cornwall Proctor, be taught these thingS.
Here let us observe, that this is not the voice of
English women any more than dramatised Uncle
Toms Cabin is the voice of English men. And be-
fore any body OF British matrons or maids shall dare
to send over their hollow coincidence, or their
trashy sympathies, 10 the maids and matrons of the
United States, we would pray for an enquiry into
their individual lives and conduct, to see wheth-
er they are fit persons to communicate any express
sion of national ~feeling-granting for a moment
that it is national feeling, and not q spurious eff
fort at %notoriety on the part of n few idle aristocrats
and meddling blue-stockings, leavening with u
score of Mrs. Nicklebys, scarcely to be held respon-
sible for their folly. Before they thus stand con-
conspicuous:y forward as philanttropists, we
should like to know whether, as wives and moth
ers, and daughters, they have no blot on their char
acter, no stain on their conduct. Are they all
without reproach IN their homes? Are they all
respected and beloved by their servants, their ten
ants, their tradesmen, and their friends? Have
they individually shown piety and goodwill? Are
they true sisters of charity and mercy? Are none
OF them scandal mongers and mischief makers, obi
GUS at once, both in the dom site circle and social
throng? 1fthis can be wei. established in their
favor, then have they a right to speak publicly
IN a better cause. Yet, again, why do not these
women, II they must be busy, contribute, like the
ltoman woman Of old, to the defences of their
country! The daymay come when they shall even
be sorry not to have done so.
To return TO Uncle Toms Cabin, it is true that
we derive it from all American woman. To her
people she is accountable, let not us be her spon-
sors. What n picture might be drawn of England
Tor Americans to hail with rapture, read, dramatise,
weep over, land memorialize upon, were Sloan
gwen as the type of the British bar, or the man who
roasted a live cat the other day in presence of his
wife and a friend, MS a fair sample of the middle
classes. Thus Cannon, the sweep, might repre-
sent the lower classes. Mr.. Oliveira the dignity of
the House OF Commons; Mr.. Prynne should be a
sample OF our Church; Lord Frankfort of the no.
billty. In this manner, what q truthful, pleasant
novel might be composed to present an English
parallel to the social phenomena exhibited in such
attractive, because revolving details, in that most
successful and heart-reading publication, Uncle
Toms Cabin.