The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-05
A COUNTER RESOLUTION.

I A COUNTER RESOLUTION.
Al the Beecher Stowe festival in Glasgow,
the Rev. DR.. King offered the following reso-
luton, which was enthusiastically cheered:
Resolved, That IL is deeply to be deplor, that in
the national escucheon of people closely silia.
ted with ourselves and themselves so molly free in
their constitutional principles and jeaiousy con-
very SO large and so foul shosld be permitted TO
main; that It would be of true and heartfelt
Joy to see our Transatlantic brethren reused to due
sense OF their inconsistency In using their own free
dom to hold millions in bondage, aud giving practical
proof OF the sincerity of their love of liberty by to-
ng measures to impart to others what they so high
and so Justly value themse and with the gene
rous sprt OF freemen. to "let the oppressed go
and that instead of the two countries wasting words
In examination and recrimination, IL would be lncom
paraby better for each to set itself IN ear
nest to the rectiicaon Of its wrongs the cure OF
It's own moral and physical maladies and the .emJ s
val OF usown sources of danger; the two frees. anu
most highly favored countries of the world thus Gnu
iatins and animatng each other in conselen acti
to the grand divine rule o, sSond do to
tude-"Whatsoever ye would that men shouu "
you, do ye even SO to them"
For our own part we are deeply g'a'e'u'
for the concern which the Rev. Dr. hihs CA
presses for rs, and for his voluntarily UNDER
taking our cause. We are so GRATEFUL ihaeeu'
that our feelings have expanded under the IN
Huence of our gratitude, and we propose 10 SUI
peryise the affairs of his country, as ne mas
undertaken TO supervise those OF the United
States. We shall therefore offer as pendant
to his resolution, at the next meeting which 1t
may concern, the following:
Resolved, That it is deeply to be deplored,
that among a people SO closely affiliated with
ourselves, and Boosting so loudly of its free
dom as the British nation, the only liberty
known to nine-tenths of the population should
be "the liberty TO work twenty hours out Of
the twenty -four for a miserable pittance
scarcely sufficient to keep body and soul to.
gether, or TO starve-to below Justify for rival
politicians-to send ragged children to rag.
ged schools-to set in the ale houses-tD grow
lumpish ard brutal-to neglect the offices of
relig zion, to lie, to swear, to blaspheme, to pan.
der to the basest appetites-to creep like
worms through life-to starve, to rot, to dies
aud be buried in fstid pauper's grave, on
which the sweet scented flowers sent to strew
the pathway of man and woman with beauty,
love and hope, refuse to grow, mach less to
bloom-that out CT 100000 ofhuman beings
there should be 100000 who cannot read or
write-that every tpelfh person should be a
pauper, every twentieth person a destitute
wanderer, with no roof but the sky, no home
but a prison, their hands being against every
man, and every mans hand against them
that out of 10,743,747 females, there should be
500, 900 avowed harlots, being one twentieth Of
the whole number-that the average wages of
skilled mechanic should be less than FIVE
dollars a week, and that out of this pittance
he should be compelled to make a decent ap-
pearance, pay rent, or 60 to prison. there to
rot, buy food for his family, clothe them, edu-
cate his children, and depend upon the residue
for the luxury of a book or a newspaper
that three hundred thousand human be
ings should be compelled annually to emf
CRATE, in order to escape inevitable starva-
ton-that sit would be a source of heartfelt
Joy" to see our British brethren used to
sense of their inconsistency in wasting their
sympathies upon the slave of this hemisphere,
while their own countrymen are in condition
compared to which the worst slavery OF which
the ina inaton can conceive is heaven, and
that when they shall have shown their right
TO preach, by practising upon their own pre-
cepts, we may possibly acknowledge it.