The daily union., 1854-12-29
From the baltimore Sun,
BRITISH CRIMINALS.


The last number of the Edinburgh Review contains an
article which challenges the contempt of every American
citizen The writer of course is yelled He is but the
shadow of the great offence which this insoen pubca
Ton deliberately perpetrates We know who he is
worth while aim rebuke against the publishers
But the publication itself merits indignant rejection
the hands Of the American people
We suppose that while there has been great deal OF
,ggeraon about the Introduction Of criminals and pau
pers into this country under the cognzanee Of European
governments there ia, nevertheless, ground of COM
plain 1t is that nothing very fragrant in this way
has been detected STILL there may be sort of aid and
connirance about the matter which should resent
quanted with all the facts. In the publication in refer
however have deliberate scheme for the
fer OF the liberated criminals of Great Britain from Botany
Bay any other of her teonia stations, to the United
States of America, or elsewhere as they may see ft
The article in the Edinburgh sThe Management and
Disposal Of British) Criminal Population II con-
ans such article in such work might be expected
to do, much statistical general and useful information
and mbodes good and rational arguments and sug
ses,ions But when it to the actual "dsposaT Of
liberated criminals it sinks down to the most inefable
meainess And by way of accomplishing the climax of
nsoleuce and absurdity, cooy intimates that British
villains from Botany Bay would he more valuable and
wecnme Yziters than the shoals of unkept and
disciplined Irish who annually turned upon those
(Amercanl shores We have quoted the very language
of Review coul object the ncreduliy Of
readers without it.
After recommending that liberated prisoners should be
encouraged and advised in the strongest TO
ploy the due TO them in emigrating from England,
that they should be induced to decide 5cr ledvng the
prison what colony forsqR lind they will proceed
and that ne chapn should then simply il ha capacity Of
prara gtea give them needul information, their
passage for them and rseaS them ia sRo5y time pos
able bore The aifing q the yes the writer plunges into
political ethics, and thus mseraby attempts 30 evade the
consequences and shelter himself from the responsibility
bis vicious design
In all this says he, there viii be pioation Of
P,e conventions Illicit indeensibe government
agency nothing will be done for the fired citizen which is
not ought TO he done for the citizen who has always
been free
After some further REMARKS, the writer says
some, probably who had earned most would 90 to
Aoreton bay Many more attracted by the shorter voy-
age and cheaper terms would sail for Halifax or New
York &c
By way of insuring the system note has the following
delicate suggestion
ave might even If need were prolon the term of inn
prsonment dH criminals had earned enough to emigrnte
1t might be condition of their sentence"
baf enough Of this Every sentiment and principle of
national honor social dignity and the personal serespcct
OF TIE citizen revols at such proposition not less az its
uaFeaeea mpnoence than the shallow 5ophistry which
attempted 10 veil the gross ndeoency Of the thing
stolen shirt from the fence and putt on but whose a,
too ragged to enable him 10 hide the stolen property
from the owners eye.
We do not for moment suppose that the government Of
Great Britain could possibly be induced 10 sanction nv
even connive at such project But it ATTEMPTED so
tar as might presume TO ncnde the United States within
S proYisions its auGaciy would be promptly and ect-
ally resented by this government We are utterly ntoe-
rant Of the depraved and diseased condition Of political
morality which could indulge the petty artifce exhibited
above and ny which il is proposed sh the responsible
ny there is just honesty enough left in the writer 10 feel
mat the scheme would incur The government Of Great
Britain has practised pretty extensively with its various
colonies and dependences-upon a code Of morals lust
ABOUT equal to that Of the Review But il is wise
enough TO infer that the political morality with which il
might affect to justify its consistent mposions upon the
people IN any degree dependent upon 1t would not be
tolerated. for an instant BY nation sovereign and indie
pendent
HEAYT Loss--J. II. Mcdonald, merchant from Favete