The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-10


The nobility Of the British empire. of both
sexes. and large number of them, as it appears,
have given splendid welcome to the Black
Swan at the Stafford House. And upon such
an endorsement with anything like the tact of
Barnum and Gen. Tom Thumb this lucky Black
Swan may pocket handsome fortune out of
the humbugged and easily humbugged abol
ton philanthropy Of John Bull. She may
eclipse in England, in the wake Of Mrs. Harriet
Beccher Stowe and Uncle Toms Cabin. not
only the astounding success Of Gen. Tom Thumb,
the Pottawatomie Indians, and the negro min
strels. but the run Of Jenny Lind herself, be-
fore even the Nightingale was turned into
Goldschmidt. The Black Swan may do this,
| and we expect her to do it. She may draw
her hearts, content, and we hope she will. 1t
would be shame if such golden opportunity
were to be thrown away.
The next question is, what will the Black
Swan do with her money? A testimonial, we
believe, is in process Of collection in England,
for Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and our aLo-
litionists and free colored Americans" are ear
nestly and anxiously expecting and wondering
what she will do with the money. Perhaps she
will establish an abolition newspaper with it, or
hospital, or asylum or a college of some kind
for free colored Americans" in New York or
Ohio, or elsewhere. Perhaps she may invest il in
the stocks of the various under ground rail
roads from Mason and Dixon's line to Canada
Whatever appropriation she may make of it, we
mil Ia
in behalf of our colored population. They have
been the making of her, and she is bound to do
something for them in return.
But what will the Black Swan do with all the
money, which we are quite confident she is go
ing to extract from the philanthropic pockets of
John Bull? Mrs. Stowe has fairly pulled the
wool over his eyes, and Miss Greenfield has only
to fix the price of her tickets, sing song
or two, and pocket her thousands. And then.
if in some way she can only associate her mu-
steal tour with the amelioration of the condi-
tion of the African race of this country she
will rise at once to the dignity of saint in tke
cause Of human Ri gifts. and thus add five hun
dred per cent at least, to the clear profits of
her venture. But what will she do with her
money? When she has fifty or hundred
thousand dollars to spare, We would suggest
its appropriation to the American Colonization
Society. with view to the building up of Lii
beria into a great independent black republic
from which the whole Of the dark and benight-
cd continent Of Africa may be regeneratcd
through the blessings of civilization and Chris
tianity.
Never mind the opposition Of Fred Douglas,
or G. K. Downing, to Liberia. The "free colored
Americans of the North in, gd,ng Canada.
are more in need of British charity than the
Uncle Toms of the South Let the Black Swan
Go something. therefore for our free colored
popnlation-Mrs. Stowe and the ladies of Stat.
ford House will doubtless supply the necessary
funds to complete the great work of Southern
emancipation. But, in any event let the Black
Swan profit from the philanthropic disposition
of John Bull. He loves to be humbupged in a
good cause and bleeds freely. Nothing like Il.