The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-02
The DAILY DISPATCH.
Innrsday Morning, june ., Isaa.
THE BEECHER STOWE DEMONsTRA
TION
From the London Times. NAV 18Th

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or at least so separable from the s,o,, anu %
der endent on the caprice of the reader ,ha.
are at liberty to admire to our hear,,s con,s. :. .
without drawing any inference wha,ever III
Iiad was construed by subseauen, a1as No 70
prove an nveterate grudge between E,rona !. "a NJ
Asia which nothing could expiate but the con1
quest of the latter by the former in the neTson
of Alexander. The Kneid was written -
prove the divine mission and descent of Aupus
tus, and the eternal destinies of Rome. The
Lusiad taught the right Of Portugal to the
East, and the leading feature of the Paradise
Lostis q very earthly representation Of Heaven
and the Divine mysteries. On these great pre-.
cedents we do not scruple to admire Uncle
Tom as warmly as Lord Shaftesburv, or Lord
Carlisle, or any gentleman or lady at Stafford
house, without surrendering the right OF pri-
vate judgment as to the political doctrine of
the story. We will do all fitting homage 10 Mrs.
Stowe as novelist beyond compare, at least
in the generation; living but when it comes
to the tremendous question how We are TO deal
with three millions born and in slavery and in
the most intimate servile intermixture with a
free peope-still MORE when il comes to the
question how we, another people-a rival ma
ton, and rejected mother country-are to in
terfere, we mu Il beg to consult those high po-
litical considerations which find little place in
| novels, and are particularly distasteful to the
warm hearts of fair writers and readers.
We take the liberty, therefore, ofregarding
Mrs. Stowe quite distinctly from the meeting
at Exeterhall on Whit. Monday-quite dis
| tinctly from the rev. gentlemen and professors
assembled on the occasion-distinctly from the
resolutions then adopted, and even distinctly
from herself so far as she has been compelled
| to commit herself to any definite proposal for
The abolition of slavery. But even while we
write we remember that Mrs. Stowe could not
possibly agree with the very first resolution
| carried unanimously. If we remember right,
she has emphalicaliy repudated any such doc
trine as that "the principle of immediate and
unconditional emancipation is the only one
that is consistent with the rights of the slave
and the duty of the MASTER" She does not
think it the right of anybody, however deser
wing, however miserable, to be utterly ruined
which would be the case OF the Carolina slave
suddenly emancipated; nor does she think
1t the duty of any man, however responsible,
to ruin his dependents, as the slave owners
certainly would do if they gave in TO this plan.
Mrs. Stowe would prepare the slave for free.
dom, and give him meanwhile the benefit of
Christian usages and laws; and SO little is
! she prepared to see the whole three millions
emancipated, that when she has got only
one Of the three millions, and him very supe.
rior specimen, free from the yoke, and on Bri.
tsh soil, her only resource is to send him to
Liberia, where we will venture TO say he will
not go.
Accustomed as Mrs. Stowe must be at home
to idle exhibitions of barren zeal, to indigna
ton meetings that burn like stubble and leave
nothing behind, and all other forms of plausi.
BILE folly, she must have been panied, not &c
say disgusted, with the frantic impotence O
the Exeter Hall abolitonsts. They rose as
she entered the room and received her with
more than loyalty. She deserves il, and we
honor their enthusiasm. They repeated tne
homage at her departure. But what was real
; ly done meanwhile? What was said that
could by any means help the poor slave, and
resolve this fearful enigma Aosolutel,
, nothing. Lord Shaftesbury spoke, as he is
too apt to speak, when he has discovered wha
he thinks religious principle. He spoke es
; if he had never read ofslaves in the Bble-as
if slaves had not been therein told TO remain
content with their lot-as if compulsory ser
J vice was incompatible with social laws OF
moral obligations; and as if three millions o.
slaves could be safely emancipated by single
vote OF the American Congress, or any State
Legislature, any more than all the infants in
the Union could be as snmmariy invested with
the rights of full age. Indeed, he did not alto
gether blrk the adverse testimony of the Bible
but he disposed OF that testimony by the sum
mary expedient of declaring that all who rest
ed on it were efthe synagogue of Satan.
This is rather loose way of talking when il
comes to question Of doctrine, and to hume.
rous texts with definite meaning. Let us beg
to suggest to Lord Shaftesbury that, invalua.
bic as his labors are in the work of social and
material reform, he would do well to take coun.
sci of some learned minister before he resigns
the texts of scripture to the synagogue Of Sa-
tan. Indeed, he has not done even Mrs. Stowe
that justice out of scripture which she has a
right TO expect. The Lord, he says, will sell
this Sisera, that is the anti-abolitiopists, into
l H. L.. l.
we protest on the part of Mrs. Stowe, that she
; is not the woman into whose hands the Lord
has sold the anti.abelitionists. She is the De.
borah of this question; the judge. the prophet
ess, the inspired songstress. The craven heart
ed Barak would not give chase to Sisera and
his chariots of iron, unless Deborah might be
allowed 20 60 with him; SO to punish him the
victory was to be utterly nglorious, stleast to
him; a woman was to invite Sisera into her
tent, receive him with pretended hospitality,
and kill him in his sleep; but in which respect
Mrs. Stowe is like Jael, the wife of Heber, the
Kenite, except that she has hit the right nail
on the head, Lord Shaftesbury, himself, would
be puzzled to say.
Good advice, ii is commonly said, is the cheapest
currency in the world except bsd advice, which is
cheaper still, and impossible advice which 10 the
cheapest of all. Our anti slavery people advise
the Americans TO sncipate all the slaves at once,
we did the slaves in our West India Islands.
tnougn even tnat was not qulte at once. we oeneVo
the advice to be about as impractcable as If we
were 10 recommend the negroes to wash them
selves white to change places with their masters
forthwith, on the receipt of letters 1t cannot
however be denied that the Americans are paying
OH in cur own ctiu for we never heard more I'm.
practicable advice If it means anything al all, than
what Professor Stowe literally presented to the
meeting st Exeter Hall. The advice 10 that the
people of England IRE to free cotton, and they
are TO get the cotton grown free by the importation
OF Chinese aborers into the United States who will
work, the Professor says, for Sd day. in the first
place. how are we to discriminate between two
bales OF cotton from New York-which was picked
by Casey and Uncle Tom, and which by Chinemanf
Then who are to import the latterf 1t would be
very imprudent philanthropy in the English to car
ry set OF poor ignorant creatures across the whole
globe into the heart of an independent nation,
particularly jealous of our interferencs-a nation
too, the States Of which not jealous one of
another.
What If the slave States find the Cinnamon ex-
ceedingly disagreeabie people, and were to declare
them all slaves, or expel lhemg Ii IL found impos.
sible to import Chinese lsborers into our own su
gar islands without great deal of suffering and
hardship. Tit is anybody's place to import them
into the United States IL falls rather to those wao
viii have some sort of voice in their disposal for
the future. No man of common prudencs win ey.
er undertake charge which he win not be allowed
1 fal oh~ry IN fafas arfH Hia