Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-05-04
BRITISH PHILANTHROPY.

BRITISH PHILANTHROPY.
Mrs. Stowe has gone to England. A plain
American woman Of the family of Beecher,-
quite as famous, and much more noisy than the
family of fBourbon,-- gone to England, to en-
Joy the Britannia ovation, which awaits her
there. She will eat at the tables of Dukes, who
have starved Irishmen to death, and put Irish
women and children, naked and houseless, upon
the highway. She will be feasted by Dukes,
whose fortune is built upon the Wholesale rob-
berry of Scottish men. And dinners will be CIV
en- to her by Dukes, who only live to rob the
English masses, and whose very coat-of-arms
indicate their assassin origin. Not these alone
will give festival victuas to Mrs. Stowe The
money grabs of Manchester, Birmingham, and
Liverpool, who have wrung fortunes from the
degradation of the English masses-who have
reduced the free, stalwart Englishman of Crom-
wells time, into the decrepit, demoralized fac
tory slave--wll also meet Mrs Stowe, with un-
limited quantities of Engligh beef and English
philanthropy--the philanthropy as rare, juicy,
and bloody, as the beef The Lords of the
Church, by law established" who preach the
Gospel of Him who had not where to lay his
head, at the reasonable rate of from $4,000 to
$50,000 per year, and whose very prayers are
scarlet with the blood of the plundered masses
these, too, will feed and puff, and magnify
Mrs. Stowe. In word, all England, whose po-
litcal and social state presents the image of a
splendid temple, built upon a sepulchre,--a sep
ulchre packed and pes:ilent with bodies of the
dead and of the degraded aud imprisoned living,
ali England will rise up and say "Good NOR
ming, Mrs. Stowe!" And why will all this be ?
Because, in Mrs. Stowe, England sees and re-
spects the American wife and mother,--the plain
untitled type of virtuous womanhood? Oh, no.
English aristocracy (search its records, black
with adultery and murder,) has not much love
for chastity in woman or honesty in man. Aris-
tocratic England (anded and factory aristoca-
cy) will rise up to greet Mrs. Stowe, because
she is the author of malignant pamphlet, which
deals in an accident in American history, an ep-
isode in American social institutions and deals
in this accident, exception, episode, with the
combined vindictiveness of the town of Boston
and the family of Beecher Had Mrs. Stowe
written book, setting forth plainly the life OF
pure English girl, reduced by factory slavery
to tramp the sidewalk--may be, forced to emf
CRATE and prosecute her degradation upon the
streets of New York--would all England have
risen to its feet to do her honor? On, no. Eng
ish social, and wages slavery,--inhcting its hor-
rors upon men and women Of our race and blood
filing st. Giles and Five Points with its living
pses,--reaizng, in silent stealthy, yet bu-
siness like way, the more palpable horrors of
the massacres of ST. Domingo,--English slave
ry is so utterly horrible that it is not decent to
mention, much less describe it. The author of
"Alton Locke" clergyman of the Church OF
England, preached sermon once, in grand
London Church, upon the unutterable wrongs
of poor English men and women; and after he
uroo IL ~, e h. q A
alike in flesh and salary, arose and apologized to
his English audience, for Introducing to them a
clergyman who preached the plain gospel of the
New Testament. 1t is not proper nor decent
to speak Of English slavery Go to Syracuse,
where the lovers Of black men and of masculine
women, do annually congregate, ,--mount the
'platform,--and instead of Uncle Tom, the black
man, take Sara Jane the white woman, reduced
by English slavery, to sell herself upon London
streets,--and you will be met by hiss, which
combines all the powers of the goose, the Gar
rison and the snake. Sara Jane, that poor white
woman, tendery nurtured in good home by a
good mother,--white in blood and sunny in COM
plexion,--forced, not by an evil nature, but by
the Internal slavery of England, to pick up dam
nation on London streets,--is not worthy of
English Abolitonists sympathes, agonies and
tears. English Abolitionst sympathes are sa-
we'd up for the big negro of the masculine sex,
with the extremes of physicalism stamped upon
every line Of the coal black face. Uncle Tom
is fit for British sympathy; unctious British
tears roll freely down fot British cheeks at sight
of him; but Sara Jane, the white English slave,
of British blood ,---and her million slave broth
ers and sisters, all of white British blood, with
white British men for their oppressors,---are not
worthy of single tear from the full fountain of
British philanthropy. England welcomes Mrs
Stowe, not because it cares one throb for Uncle
Tom, but because, true TO its Punic faith, as
graspng, malignant and inkuman now, as in the
days when in this city, in the old Sugar house,