Washington sentinel., 1854-04-07
ENGLISH AND HOME ABoL1T1oNIsrs

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The press ,of this country has been often
called on to rebuke the insolence and oficious-
ness of foreign fanatics, who, neglecting the
suferings that are hourly endured by people
right under their eyes at home, come across the
Atlantic to redress imaginary grievances and
repair imaginary wrongs here. The great evil
that engages their sympathies and enlists their
benevolent efforts is slavery. Regardless Of the
grinding expressions of the army Of paupers,
thieves, cripples, mutes, and abandoned females
that throng their streets, beset their doors, and
which, scornfully repelled by their own country
men, rely chiefly on strangers for the means of
living, they hold meetings, adopt addresses
and resolutions, and appoint committees to
visit our shores, in order to recommend and
carry out measures for our relief. Most Of these
canting philanthropists are professors of reli-
gion, and they yet neglect one of the principal
injunctions of the Saviour: Removet the beam
from thine own before thou cast the mote out
of thy brothers eye"
England entailed slavery upon US, and now
she is the most constant grumbler against that
institution. In league with men who have the
name of Americans, but who hold the most anti
American principles, (the abolitionists,) she is,
through her hired emissaries, continually striv-
ing to weaken our government, by exciting sec
tional strifes and controversies. She labors
diligently to SOW the seeds Of discomfort, disaf-
fection, and estrangement between the north
and the south
The most recent effort of this sort that has
come to our knowledge is now being made by
the Religious Society of Friends of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland" whose meetings are held in
London. The object Of this society is to stop
the slave-trade and to procure the abolition OF
slavery wherever it exists AT their annual
meeting, held in ls49, they adopted an address
setting forth their objects. This address was
extensively circulated in Europe. At the last
yearly meeting of this society, deputation Of
four members was appointed to come to the
United States and circulate the address. They
arrived here about six months ago, and have
been untiring in their efforts to give to it a
ReueTdl ClTCulutlOu. We mdkC TIC IOuOWlHB
extract from that address:
eve are now assembled in our yearly meet
ing for the promotion of charity and godliness
amongst ourselves, and, according to our mea-
sure, for the spreading of truth and righteous
ness upon the earth. The condition of the ma
tives Of Africa, as affected by the continuance
Of the slavetrade, and that of the slaves in
North and South America and on the islands
adjacent to that continent, have again awaken
ed our sympathies. We believe it to be duty
laid upon us to plead the cause of these our
fellow.men. We submit to the consideration
of all those in authority, in the nations which
take upon them the name of Christ, the utter
incompatibility Of slavery with the divine law:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;' all
things whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you, do We even so to them These were
the precepts of our Lord. He spoke as never
man spoke, and of his words He declared:
| Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my
| words shall not pass away They are the law
of Gods righteousness to all generations We
submit whether, without breaking this law, it be
possible for man to hold or to caim-a right to
property in the person Of his fellow-man;
whether, admitting the supreme authority OF
| this law, man can buy or sell his brother
whether he can withhold from those who labor
for him that which is just and equal; whether
the forced and uncompensated labor of the ne
gro slave be not the breaking Of this law in
short, whether any man, or any Of the nations
of men can, in any one of these things, violate
the law of the Lord and be guiltless."
Whenever this address is sent to any person,
it is accompanied with letter from the epis
saries or deputies Of the meeting. One Of
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these letters has been handed to us by one o.
our most respectable divines, to whom it was