The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-15
THE MASSACHUSETTS NEGROES AND
MRS. STOWE.

The resolutions which we published yester-
day of ''the Massachusetts, State Council of
Coiored Americans" upon the conduct of
Mrs. Stowe, may well be regarded by that
person as 1.-The unkindest cut of all" She
would better mufle up her face and sat the
base of Pompey's statue fall" 1t is her we'll
beloved Sambo that has delivered this fatal
stab, and "ingratitude, more strong than trail
tors arms" must vanquish her ambitious
heart ~.et =
It must be admitted that the "Colered
Americans" of Massachusetts are yet in a
most unsophisticated condition, a charming
state of nature. They are greatly mortified
that Mrs. Stowe has refused to fulfil her pre-
mise to make large donation to their school
purposes from the funds oollectedin Europe.
Now, if they expected Mrs. Stowe to make
any such provisions, with the serious inten-
ton of fulfilling it, they must be the green
est as well as the blacklist of all Americans.
Mrs. Stowe wrote book, and went to Eng
land to make money, and money she has
made; but, of course, it is no part or parcel
OF money making, to give away the profits.
The "Colored Americans are her stock in
trade; she sells the mangled flesh of Africans
by the pound and their liquid sorrows by the
quart; their chains, groans, bruises, fortunes,
she manufactures to order She has perfect
right to the entire profits of "Uncle Tom" for
Uncle Tom was her own creation; there new.
er was any such person in real life. Mrs.
Stowe made him from the crown of his head
to the sole of his feet. Any exhibition. of
practice sympathy with real, living negroes,
no one but her "Colored Americans antici
pated from Mrs. Stowe. We should as soon
have experienced genuine humanity from
Sterne, who blubbered over the sorrows of
m ass. and was callous as flint to the most
tender Of domestic relations.
Mrs. Stone has, before this been appealed
to for aid. in emaneipating negro family in |
the South, and has refused to contribute |
dollar. She now treats in the same manner
the free blacks of the North, with this diffe- |
renee, that in their case she violates solemn
promise which she made to them, and is |
guilty of a criminal breach of trust, forthe
funds she collected in England were contri- /!
bnted for the purpose specified by the me-
Eroes. How blind are these Pharisees to the |
requirements of the Bible; how they strain
It gnat and swallow camel. they who de- |
nounce slavery, which the Bible does not for
I'D. % the greatest of sins. but violate with
put compunction the repeated injunctions
against coyetousness. calumny and falsehood.
rs 4
WAR FORMALLY DECLARED.
The declaration of war by England and
Rrance, announced in our telegraphic dis.
patches Of to-day, opens the fearful contest
D which the great empires of Europe have
been slowly and reluctantly approaching for
] ye1S past. but to which in spite Of all their
,i10rts, they have been drawn BY power as
rssaistfhle Is that which engulfs the mariner
vhsn once into the fatal circle Of its ifu-
|ueacs, In the destructive waters offhe Mael-
tyeom When It viii end, how many ma |
lem win be involved in il, what win be its
ssnitp. 10 hamaa eye can perceive.
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