The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-11
MRS. sTowEIN GREAT BRITAIN.

this country persons VINO IeJolce at III anu
that in numbers neither small, nor wanting 10
that sort of responsibility VIII ich wealth and
position impart. OF all the events that have
ever taken place, there has been nothing so
we'll calculated TO throw discredit on us, our
institutions, and our morals. We have, thus
far, been an example to oil Europe. Her OPP
pressed nations have looked to US, as to a
house of refuge. The principles of free gov
eminent developed here, and urging our PEG.
pie on with unexampled rapidity in the career
of wealth and greatness, have always been
subjects of alarm to monarchs and aristocra-
cles-of pleasure and hope to the people. 1t
has, Of course, been the object OF the former
to blacken US IN every conceivable way, and
to make us detestsble in the eyes of the world.
There has been nothing, since the revolution,
so well calculated to advance this end as the
exhibition which Mrs. Stowe is making in
England.
1t is because they nave deep and abiding
hostility to this country and to republicanism
in general, that the arstocracy, not only of
England, but of all Europe. have seized with
so much avidity upon "Uncle Tom" and have
been at so much pains to procure trlumphal
march for its author, through all the regions
she may choose to visit. They are delighted
to see a native of the United States-of that
republic which has taught that people can
flourish without an aristocracy or monarch
of that republic, the example Of whose pros
perity was gradually undermining thrones, and
digging pit for privileged classes - de-
scribing her country as the worst, the most
abandoned, the most detestable that ever exist
ed Roy ally draws long breath, and Prlyi
lege RECEIVERS from its fears. Among the peo.
pie of the continent, especially among the
Germans, Italians, and Russians, there are
thousands who believe that murder is but a
pastime here, that the bowie knife and pistol
are used upon any provocation-that, In fact,
we are a nation of assassins, without law,
without morality, and without religion. They
are taught to believe these things by their
newspapers, which, published under the eye
of government, allow no Intelligence but of
murders, bowie knife fights, &c, coming from
America, TO appear in their columns. By
these, therefore, only is America known to
their readers, and they are very careful TO in
still the belief, that if America is a land of muir
derers, it is so because it has had the folly to
establish a republican form of government.
These ideas are very general in England,
even where the hostility is greater than it is
on the continent. To British avarice we owe
slavery in this country. To British hatred we
owe the encouragement Uf anti.slavery agita-
ton now. The vile hypocrisy which has cha
racterised the whole proceeding is not the
least Objectionable part of it. The English
care not one farthing alb )ut slavery. If they
did, why do they keep it up in such terrific
form in their own country? Where was there
ever true charity that did not begin at home
1t is because there is deep,rooted hostility to
this country peryading the whole British mind,
that these things have taken place.
What, we ask, can be thought of persons
who go to foreign and hostile country to de.
nounce their own land and their own country
men They deserve the punishment awarded
to traitors, whom it is impossible to convict
the execration, namely, of all mankind. Sooner
or later, they will be sure to receive it.
Persons who have never known what it was
to have want, are proverbially and notorious
ly insensible to the wants of others. There
are, in this country, thousands of individuals,
whose all is invested in slaves.-who, if they
were deprived of them, would be reduced to
almost beggary. The Duchess OF Sutherland
is understood to have been the largest heires g
| in the world, as her husband is, undoubtedly,
the wealthiest nobleman in Great Britain. Her
daughter is married to Lord Grosvenor, son
and heir OF the next wealthiest of the English
peers. This woman dses not hesitate TO hen
an appeal. made by many more in a condition
oil life approaching her own, TO thousands and
tens oil thousands in this country, to give up
every particle of property they have on earth
Ito reduce themselves literally to beggary.-
Suppose she were requested by the women of
the slave holding States to prevail on her hus.
band, and her son.in law, and her son-in.lsv,s
iather' to convey, in fee simple, TO their thou
SANDS OF poor tenants, the land they and tbe;,
fathers have lived and labored on for The Ia .,
i've hundred years. How would such net;
ton be received at Stafford House3 If tbav
appeal 10 US TO put an end TO chattel slavery
i. why should not we appeal to Them to do sws .
3 WIN social slaveryf They hold our slavery
# !" VIC 'he worst; we contend that theirs !,
= worse Than ours. Would the appeal be of an,
e aSaiit u no; it would cost something more
}. IMAM lew resolutions at tea drinking T,
d would involve the sacrifice of few IN, ,,,;ss
e and they are by no means prepared for that
Uncle Tommery is very good in the ahs,rae,
il 0u' "hen IT comes to costing anything, III.
. charm is dissolved.