The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-07-07

shall De prepared 10 snow tnat the OOVernhen
cannot entertain such proposition without
covering itself with dishonor, and cannot at
tempt to carry it into execution without expe
riencing humiliating and ignominious de
feat"
THE GLORY AND SHAME OF OUR COUNTRY.
The Richmond Examiner, noticing the fact
that the emigrant arrivals at the port OF New
York alone amounted to 3lO49s persons in
the year 1852, draws the probable inference
that scarcely family in Europe, out of Russia
and Turkey, is without representative and
correspondent in this country, and asserts that
more effective system of propagandism could
not be devised or imagined, than that which is
embodied in "the emigrant correspondence"
The emigrant writes home of his experience OF
life in the new as compared with what it was
in the old country of his encouraging pros
poets for comfort and happiness; of the Gov
eminent and laws of which he is part and
joint enactor of his equality of position, poGt-
ically and socially, with the proudest and
wealthiest of his olcn home, his ol0n lands, and
his o,rn property The effect cannot be meas
ured, but it is felt; and while it operates upon
the popular mind of Europe, it is as well un-
derstood by the men concerned to resist its in
| fuence.
| The Examiner believes that the privileged
and titled classes are alarmed at the progress
of this silent, pervading, universal propaganda
ism of the republican sentiment and believes
that they are playing off "Uncle Toms Cabin"
and Mrs. Stowe against the force of the pOpu-
lar sentiment which is thus growing up against
them.
Our own opinion is, that there is proper
Anti Slavery efficiency in the sentiment OF Eu-
rope which Mrs Stowe has so remarkably pro-
| NOTED, that our Southern friends will not be
able to nullify by charging it upon antl-Re-
publican feeling and policy. Very likely, for
eign tyranny will use the evil report of our own
to abate the reputation -four republican system,
and to weaken the force of its example upon
the nations Whatever mischief the system of
slavery works in this way against the common
veal of the wide world, is its sin and shame.
This has always been among our chiefest
charges against it, and one of our strongest OBJ
iections to it. And so the Examiner should
feel it. On his own showing, it is the sole him
drance to good that our prosperity and glory
should work among our fellow-men. It is no
matter with what motive the aristocracy yields
it against us, the fact remains that we furnish
the weapon So far as Mrs Stoves book has
such Influences its mission is q hapless one,
and it must be decided by events whether it is
for the better or worse that the work is making
the tour of the civilized world. But the simple
fact that it is 80 distributed in the monarchies
of the old world, is not conclusive that it gets
allowance for the mischief it may do to the
doctrine of popular sovereignty. 1t is as gener-
ally circulated in the Southern States of this
Union as in any despotism abroad; and what
ever it il that gives it currency south of Mason
and Dixon may DO the reason of its introduc-
ton anywhere else.
1t will have little effect, however, against the
emigrant correspondence, for that report and
the innumerable small bills of exchange accom-.
panyng sufficiently prevents any msconstruc-
ton of the institutions and general characters
tics of those parts Of this Union with which Eu-
ropean emigration is concerned The free States
will spread the name and preserve the fame of
the United States to all the ends and uses which
our idea and our prosperity can promote among
the suffering masses abroad The thinkers and
actors that remain to settle the welfare and re-
form the institutions of the old world, will know
how to dispose Of the contradiction, and will
the more certainly avoid it in their own organ
izations. France, by her Provisional Govern
ment in S4s, abolished slavery throughout all
her domnions; Hungary not only emancipated
all her serfs, but vested in them the lands
which they had for ages titled for their mas
tiers. Slavery is plague spot, not an nsttu.
tion of republican liberty and the uprising
masses of the world are at no loss 30 to under.
stand it. When the time comes Sodom and
Gomorrah themselves will rise up in Judgment
against the men OF this generation, and con- |
denim it for rejecting the better light, against
which they persist in shining We feel compar-
atively easy about the issue though We are not
unaware of the evil, which, in ordinary circum.
stances the reproach Of our country inflcts
upon the great cause of human rights, which |
it is our duty to the world to illustrate God |
forgive us, that We so sin against heaven and
in the worlds sight
The worst bearing Of the case is not that it |
darkens mems minds and confuses the truth
but that it pledges and impels our Government
to perpetual enmity towards the right as well
as withholds that national influence which we
ought exert in its favor. There is more OF this
sort of mischief in one number of the Erami-
ner, than in the myriad copies of Uncle Toms
Cabin and Key, printed in all the languages of
the earth. The South can have no part in the
worlds redemption till she changes her own
policy, and puts Ter own institutions in har.
mony with the gospel which she breaches
II is not the least of her misfortunes that she |
oruciies the Messiah for whose advent her |
own prophets have taught her to look and |
pray-that the fugitives from every other tyr
amy find her hunting her own with merciess
rigor, in every refuge that humanity opens to
them. While she rails out her anathemas at
the hunters of men abroad, she is gracelessly
pursuing the same game at home! While the
good and great of every other cline are she'd
ding their blood in the field and on the scaffold
for the freedom of their people, the South is
making merchandise of theirs, and hunting
them with blood hounds and DULLES through
the streets of this Republic. A fugitive slave
was kept in chains one whole night by the
marshal Of the Eastern District Of Pennsyl-
vanis in his Office one story above, and right
over the spot, where John Hancock sat when
he signed the Declaration Of Independence!
| Ponpsylyania had refused the use of her iails