Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-07
EVENING STAR.
UNCLE TOM IN ENGLAND.


The Pennsylvanian states that Rev. Prof.
Stowe, the husband of the woman who so
shamelessly calumniates and vilifes her
native land, declared in his speech at Glasgow
that one of two things is certain to take
place. We will quote his own words:
s.Either the STAKEHOLDER himself must be
persuaded to adopt system for the aboli
ton of the evil, slavery or the evil will be-
brought to an end by a bloody revolution.
Our able contemporary thsreupon asks =
Does this meek and humble christian mean
to be understood as making this declaration
by way of threat Is this the only alter
native the sham philanthropists intend to
present to the people of the United States !?
If ga bloody revolution" has not already
made desolate thousands of happy Southern
homes, it is no fault of the negro philanthro-
pists of the Uncle Tom Cabin stripe They
have labored with unwearied zeal in cause
the legitimate results of which would pro-
duce state of things that humanity shud-
ders to contemplate. That they have been
perfectly willing to see cities in flames,
murder, rapine, and outrage, covering the
land with wailing and lamentation, we do
not entertain doubt Fanatcism has no
head to think, and no heart to feel. Is the
''bloody revolution so plainly threatened,
to be brought about by the influence of
British gold And has Prof Stowe and
his truth-seeking wife, gone to England to
collect the sinews of war?
The Professor tells his Glasgow audience
that q certain class of Scotchmen even in
slave-holding States, are opposed to the
system. He might have added that gener-
ally they are equally opposed to all our re-
publican institutions. They are as loyal
subjects of Queen Victoria here as they are
in Scotland, where slavish subseryiency to
English despOtism has grown into proverb.
No conquered people ever bore foreign
yoke so meekly and SO tamely before. The
clamor about slavery comes with an ill
grace from a people with gives about their
necks, who hug their chains of bondage,
and kiss the foot that tramples on them.
Falkirk and Bannockburn should be blotted
from the annals of Scotland.
Mr.. Stowe made an allusion that must have
caused a slight sensation among his audi
ence. He says:
''In coming along here from Liverpool |
hoy OH o,,6o
your Astounding resources; but have also
observed that great deal of it results from
the products of slave labor. In this coun-
try is the great market for American cotton,
and it is cotton which sustains American
slavery. l do not say you can do without
it. 1t is cotton which makes the system
profitable, and cotton makes the price of
man 9300 in the markets of the United
States"
That was poser for the hypocritical pre-
enders, although it was not probably in
tended as such. Profting by slavery, living
upon the proceeds oft, growing rich through
its fundamentally, and all the while rolling
up the eyes in holy horror at the awful afro
city Of the system, and the country that
sanctions it. Quite as consistent and disin-
terested as are some Of the sham pretenders
in our own neighborhood, who hope to see
labor reduced to shilling day by the
abolition of slavery. Such crowd of star
wing wretehes would be thrown into our
borders if the blacks were emancipated, that
wages would become low enough to suit the
most sordid skin-hint in the Northern States.
We will venture to assert that more priva-
ton, misery, beggary and Indebtedness
exist at this moment in the city of Glasgow,
the head quarters of the STOWE party, at
present, than can be found in all the origi- |
nal slave States combined. And yet these
people have the unblushing impertinence to
can't about the evils of slavery in America. |
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