The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-30
prom The N. Y. Journal OF Commerce
or AVN AND AMERICA


ri. gratifying to observe the improved tone OF the Eng
lsb press towards America The present and The rising
generation of Engshmen great improvement upon
their oefather in this respect and in many others They
know us beterthey have do with us-they ira
ternize with us more appreciate our IN
stitutons or any rate they regard them more Justly
and considerably.
We do not confne our ideas of Englands press to It's
newspapers reliable though they undoubtedly are as d.
rec,ors Of the public opinion and rene1es Oh te PuoV
mind of England. We include therein the review ana
magazine literature of the country And whether we look
AT one or the other there the altered feeling the
same improved tone the same better spirit which tells us
that we can no longer be treated sghtngythat we are
too mportant too powerful people 70 be regarded win
indifference.
These reflections have been suggested by reading an able
review Of Mrs Stoves last work sunny memories In
BIaewoods Edingburgh Magazine for this month-one OF
the most talented and therefore most influential OF British
periodicals The subject Of slavery with special reference
70 this country is there considered with degree of justice
and fairness which formerly might have looked for in
vain in any such publication. They do not like slavery
we knew that long agonone of us like il for It's own
sake but they admit that it is thing with which they
have no business to intermediate Opinion in this
tryn England it observes, in far ii be
pessed-and it has been expressed in thousand ways
is unanimous for the emancipation of the negro. Still,
what we have said is the expression of opinion only
We NAV object slavery in America as we may object TO
the same institution in Turkey serfge in Russia
anything else beyond cognanee and jurisdiction but
we are not entitled usurp the right which every separate
nation possesses of regulating It's laws according
its peculiar position This is the just and the
sense view of the case We had slavery bequeathed
by the British nation ITSELF or any rate il down
TO us from British colony They have succeeded in get
ting rid of have yet been fortunate But il
is a matter OF ownt is thing for consic e
ration; and every reasonable admit that we
have perfect right deal with it according to pc
culiar position
The occasion of such remarks in the able and influential
periodical referred to have already hinted
critical notice of Mrs Stoves work That lady
we all know become the representation, il were OF
principle and the representation Of faction, which has
positively invited foreign interference with the laws and
institutions of this country As the writer in Backwood
admits Sof late years the tendency towards popular demon
STATIONS and sympahizing meetings in England has In
creased TO such degree embarrass relations with
foreign powers And the authoress of Uncle Tom was
made public show and spectacle of the pretext for
new and special series Of such popular demonstrations
and sympathzng meetings. which, however il is confess
ed were Ia the eyes Of the uIexciten purely ridiculous
We would not wish for better, more forcble just6-
cation of course in this question than is incidentally
given in the article alluded to- In the first place there
a calling to mind of England's recent responsibility
Tin common decency remember that very great
OF time elapsed slavery abolished in the Brio
sh colonies and in matters Of this kind interest is al
ways ruling motive should also bear in mind that
the prosperity of these colonies has not since increased by
the substitution Of free for paid labor And then the wr
ef proceeds TO show tlat--Rih sle subjects of remnis
Uence above a-it is matter of which Americans them
selves may fairly be left to be the best judges 'Very few
of u.s. il continues on this side of the Atlantic able
to give competent opinion as to what effect immediate
and unconditional emancipation might produce upon the
slaveholding States Of America and therefore are
hardly entitled TO do than assert general princ
BE which condemns the absolute property of in man
Englshnlen are entitled to thht is right Of opinion
but no more Emancipation must be left to the wisdom
and discretion Of the local legislatures OF
Besides il is added With TRUTH aAd good sense @no
Change great this be wrought suddenly Chris
anity itself be pcuoated not coeced for violence
never yet made converts II Is refreshing in these day
of morbid excitement and fanatca zeal find that Eng
hmen have sober views of such question and rightly
estimate orr real position Many OF our own countrymen
might profit by the example.