Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-07-28
THE ENGLISH "ANTI-SLAvERY
LEAGUE" AND THE AMERICAN
AROI.ITIONIsTa.

LEAGUE" AND THE AMERICAN
ABOLITIONIsTs.
If the American people have ever demon
strated any fact they have demonstrated the
fact that they can take care Of themselves and
their affairs, without the help of any nation
and especially England. While yet in colonial
subsection to England, they were SO jealous Of
their rights that neither peril nor disaster, pow
erty nor superior numbers could restrain them
from the assertion and maintenance OF those
rights.
Years have passed. From three millions
our population has reached to twenty-five OF
thirty millions. We have increased from thir.
teen to thirty.one States. Notwithstanding all
this, England still manifests an oficious dispo'
sition to NEEDLE with us. England did not
seek to abolish slavery here when we were col
| onies But her active benevolence has broken
out with startling effect since we cut her lead
ing-strings and set up for ourselves.
With the individual sentiments Of English
men we have nothing to do. But when Eng
lishmen organize societies to operate against
American institutions, to mould American sen.
timent, and to influence American government,
we feel privileged to speak.
Among the numerous societies in England,
gotten up by disappointed politicians, crazy
women, slipshod scholars, and cracked Drained
philosophers, philanthropists, and fanatics,
there is one in reference to which we express
ed our opinions several months ago. 1t is
" the. anti-slavery league of England" The
object of this league or society is to war against
slavery-especially in the United States.
Now slavery in the United States is.a do
mestic institution. 1t is recognised by the
laws of those States in which it is found,
and is protected by the Federal Constitution.
The object of this league or society is to pro-
cure its abolition. Such degree of of6cious
insolence is almost incredible. One would sup
pose that the whole American population would
unanimously rebuke and put down such arrc-
gance and impotence. Not so however. The
American aboltionists encourage these Eng
lish abolitionists and really recognize their
right to mould and make American institutions.
More than that-they concede to them the
right and the power to abolish American insti-
tutions. They have united with them, and, as
far as they can do so, have put their country at
the mercy of foreigners in q foreign land.
The Secretary Of the English "anti-Slavery
League" one F. w. Chesson, has recently is.
sued pronuncimento, in which dogmatic inso.
lence struggles with unblushing mendacity.
He undertakes to sketch the history Of slavery
agitation in the United States, and assumes
that the north has been arbitrarily ruled and
grossly imposed on by the south. The passage
of the Nebraska bill has awakened all his ire,
and with unparalleled insolence he gravely pro-
poses A DISSOLUTION OF THE UNIONS
He says:
THE free States may not now prevent the
establishment of slavery in Nebraska; they
may not prevent the annexation of Cuba, and
the conquest of Mexico; bta by a dissolution
of the Union, and the formation of great
northern republic, they may retrieve their hon
or and their independence, and no longer con-
tiuue to be mere fefs of the slaveholding des-
potism; and, what is of more Importance than
this even, by taking this step they may annihi-
late slavery, without the chance Of its restora-
ton TO life for, hitherto, that institution has
been preserved from overthrow altogether by
the aid Of northern muskets, northern gold, and
northern traitors"
Let the north be diUided from The south, and
who can suppose that a handful Of human chat
telmongers could long continue to hold in sub
lection a nation painting TO obtain its freedom,
and having mutitudes of sympathisers on the
very borders of the domain Of slavery itself?
Some Of the most eminent shareholders have
testified that the American Union is the found.
alton Of southern slavery and that if that is re-
moved the entire superstructure must full. All
that progress, whether commercial, political, or
moral, which has rendered the United States
great among the nations Of the earth, exists in
the free States; and it is not too much to say
that if northern republic were formed not
only would it present an infinitely more glori.
GUS spectacle than is exhibited in the present
unprincipled and debasing union, but its pros
perity and its power in the world would in.
crease it ten-fold. The Nebraska bill is rapidly
multiplying the number of abolitionists, and
arousing even the conservative party in the
north TO sense Of the national danger, and it
is by no means improbable that some such
course as that which have sketched may be
ultimately puIsuou W tne great Douy Ol the
free States. il is certain that the hitherto
small disunion party in that section of the
country is rapidly increasing in numbers, and
Il seems evident that disunion alone can meet
the exigencies ofthe crisis"
The English secretary Of the English anti.
slavery society proposing to Americans the
dissolution of this Union Can impudence go
further? Is there one man in this country
mean and miserable enough to regard such q
proposition, from such source, with anything
like favor? With humiliation we answer--
there are many such-THB ABOLITION.
lists.
These poor deluded, depraved creatures have
no pride Of country no love Of country