The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-03

derins men, and subjectiug women, without
mercy, to their internal lust-had slain and
ravished here at Hampton, and had kndled q
line Of fire for hundred Of miles along our
coast-out what Of that When killed, they
were found with bibles in their pockets! That
was enough in the eyes of John Bull to justi-
fy all their crimes. Murder, rape, robbery, ar
son, were as nothing, the perpetrators dying
with bibles in their pockets Out upon such
vile. detestable, hypocrisy. The nation that
has robbed, and oppressed, and burned, and
plundered, and violated all the ordinances Of
God more than all the others that ever exist
ed, from the Assyrians down, to be called
nation eharact erised by its humanity and chris
tianity
But we had almost forgotten Aunt Harriet,
and DIR. Mcneil. He tells her that the eA
islence Of slavery is unhappily identihed 10
the minds of many with the supposed mate
rial interests of society,"" The supposed
interests" The interests, then, OF the great
manufacturing districts Of England, are mere
fg1sent-a supposition-a matter OF so little
consequence, that society can afford to crush
them with as little consideration as it is dis
posed to do those of the STAKEHOLDER.
There is much more TO the same purpose in
this address; but this is enough. The house
may be judged of from this little brick.
Professor Stowe, with all due humility, an.
| swered the Rev. DR.. McNeill. "When that
book was written" The said) 1--WE had no
hope except in God" What other hope SO
devout christian may have now, he has not
taken tn e trouble to explain. "He had no ex-
pectation Of reward save in the prayers of the
poor" And yet when the poor ask few dol
lars out Of their unexpected thousands, they
turn deaf ear to their supplications. 1.-THE
| surprising enthusiasm which has been excited
| by that book, proves that God has work to
| be done in the cause of enancipation."-
There are some limitations of movement
in the Southern mind" &c. &c. AS if God
| ever prospered cause where the Apostles did
not themselves come forward upon the field oil
danger, and do battle in his name-as if Mr..
| Stowe, or Mrs. Stowe had ever suffered in this
cause which they declare to be so hoIy-as il
they had not, on the contrary, employed it as
the means of filling their pockets. Abiding
to the advertisements of slave sales and runa.
ways, in the Southern papers, Mr.. Stowe tells
his English friends that in laborng to suppress
the system which gives rise TO them, they are
pursuing " q course of christian duty" as lie.
gitimate as in lahoring TO suppress the "Sut.
tees of India, the cannibalism of the Fejee Is
lands, and other barbarties of heatbensm Of
| which slavery is but relic" What sort of q
man can it be that thus defames so large a
portion of his own countrymen before nation
so bitterly hostile to it, and SO DESTROYS to End
every thing profitable, to say against it, as the
English?
Wilmer winds up the narrative of Mrs.
Stoves proceedings as follows:
sit is useless to shut our eyes to the fact,
that the tributes Of admiration which Mrs.
Stowe will receive in this country, cannot fail
to give deep offence on the Western shores of
the Atlantic"
There is small mistake in this ass umption.
The people on this side of the Atlantic are
fully prepared for all that may happen. They
are we'll aware that every libel upon them and
their country is greediy swallowed in Eng
land, and that the readiest road an American
can take to English favor is to malign them
both. They have. not been deceived by the
! late hypocriical pretensons Of peculiar favor
and affection with which they have been hon
ored by the London press, nor have they as
crlbed it to any other than the true motive
There are still among US men who talk about
our common origin, and our common Ian
guage, and who think it highly unbecoming in
US to resent any, the most malignant SANDER
in which the English press may choose to in
dulge at our expense. But, we thank Hea-
ven, they are not numerous, neither are they
influential. The maj ority of our countrymen
the vast maj ority-have very different way
of thinking. They may be willing to acknow.
ledge that we are tar from being perfect; but
they plead the want of Jurisdiction in England.
They deny the right of nation, streaming
with the blood of India and of Ireland, to ar.
raign them before the bar of the world
Crimes should not be judged by criminals-of.
iences should not be punished by persons who
are themselves offenders. 1t is an old maxim
that the accusei must come into court with
clean hands. Let England hold up her hands,
and if they are not red with blood, then we
shall admit that she has right to sit in the
seat Of the prosecutor. Knowing all this, and
knowing, too, that wha teyer we may be, Eng
land is herself the greatest of national crimi-
nails, we feel confident that our people will
not suffer their peace of mind TO be disturbed
by any thing it can say or do. 1t must surren-
der its eastern possessions and make atone
ment for the millions it has murdered in get
ting possession of them, before we will waste
q thought about its opinion with regard to Us.
- THE HIPPoDRoME.-The New York d..
pers describe the performances at the Hippodrome
last Friday to have been of the most astonishing
rlpton-consisting of races on horse back
races of hories without riders-chariot races-stee.
pie chases-a tournament-race of ostriches-eques.
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