The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-09
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN BRIT
18Th INDIA.

OF which We are indebted Taylor Marry contains
leader slavery in the United States which ought to
produce results first the refusal Of all lovers Of Amer
lean institutions extend further patronage TO the Re
view and second, satisfy all lovers OF the federal
Union that American and British aboltionism are 10 COM
hinaton 10 effect dissolution OF eoniederaey The
texts the article "Unele Toms Cabin "a Key to
Uncle Toms Cabin and Mr Summers Speech IN 1882 on
his Motion Repeal the Fugitve-Slave Law II tne
elaborate tissue of misrepresentation, perversons as
hoods and caumnies which make up the staple Of the com
mentries these texts really fabricated IN Edinonrgh
(which very much doubt and represents British sen
tlmen there ought TO be no more complaints IN the Lon
don Times against the sympathy which Americana mani
fest for Russia the Easernwar question II the article
however emanated from Boston, las suspect and has
been back the United States through the channel
Of the Edinburgh Review to for IT circulation in
the southern States and in that way to dignity its foul
aspesons it furnishes proof Of the determined pur
pose Of Massachusetts, abotonsts to wage upon the
Union.
We have no intention to engage in controversy as to
the questions discussed by the Review in connexion with
slavery Our purpose is TO present to readers few
extracts, that they may clearly that il is not only
northern but British aboltonism that is assang in
sutons The first specimen Of the detractiye and caum
Nous character of the article which will produce is the
following in regard TO the deterioration of the political
men of America
Stew things surprised the world than the de
teroration of the political of America When the Uni
ted States aggregate of scantily peoped colo
neswhen their principal citizens planters, shopkeep
and traders trained in the and pudces
and petty emp.oyments of provincial le-hey produced
statesmen and negoatos and administrators and legisla
tors whose names win be iustrous in history
Now that they form empire that they possess large
in opuence, to whom all the schools aud
universities each hemisphere Open who have leisure
pursue the studies and acquire the habits of political
c their public would in Europe for toera
BILE sceondrates This downward progress, however, seems
now likely arrested We do not expect to the pres
tenant Of the White House succeeded by 6rst mags
iate inferior himself in knowledge in ability, in states
nanshp the diptomatsts resident in the
the continent followed by of less TACT tenn
per, or good sense"
Mark the logic well the malice of the foregoing
When our principal citizens planters shopkeepers
and traders trained up in the narrowness and preudces
of provincial life we produced ustrous statesmen, nego-
a,os and legislators but now that we have great en-
pre- wealthy citizens to whom the universities OF both hem
ispheres are Open and who have leisure study politics.
few of public would pass in Europe for toernble
sccond-raes AS to President Pierce he cannot be
ceeded by inferior to him
But how the reader imagine that the reviewer
next sentence the question:
believe the explanation OF this strange deprava
ton be found in the influence American parties of the
political questions connected with slavery"
1t is first falsely assumed that there is deprivation in
public men, and then it is explained upon reasoning
equally false and wholly illogical. This is genuine abo-
tionismthe bona fde one-idea anatcsm which prevails
alike in Boston, in Edinburgh, and in London. 1t sees
nothing but he southern party in the United States and
party the parent of every evil that abotionism mag
ines to exist Read how recklessy false the reviewer is in
his description of he southern rarby which he
all the national men, North and South who abide BY the
guarantees and compromises Of our constitution:
Such party the southern party in the United States
s only object the retention and extension Of slavery and
Of the internal slave trade For this purpose it is ready to
ally itself to wings tories to democrats ederaists,
who wish raise those who wish lower the
tariff But this purpose which must excite the fears Of
every wise and the detesation of every honest
All the best men of America therefore, resist the conami
nation of such alliance They that southern faction,
by choosing its opportunities, by joining from time to time
the party that win accept its terms and triumph by
of its assistance generally obtains its Objects rewards
its iavores and excludes its opponents Most of them
discouraged and forsake political life for literature bust
foreign travel others short in their public
career, and forced resign themselves provincial
professional eminence. w, like the Distinguished
hose speech prfr is article acquire fame in the Sen
in the House Of Representatives, but excluded
from office. And what this side OF the Atlantic
prizes of public ethe high political and administrative
postsare generally left to the inferior men,
violence incapacy have led those who judge America
only through her public servants to look her with
merited contempt or disgust"
We doubt whether such another specimen Of fasehood
and magniy is to be found in the English language and
yet appears in Of the standard literary reviews of
Great Britain.
We will continue this disgusting task with only other
paragraph in which the Review undertakes to explain the
sympathy felt in the United States in behalf Of Russia
The Shareholders and slave traders Of are too
strong need look for assistance to Russia they
sympahze with her partly for Of tho which
govern the petty tyrants of Italy and Germany and partly
for of their They hate England aboltonst
Ferdinand hates her as liberal They love Russia, he
does for her intolerance liberty and knowledge there
sbeween the two countries the strong bond Of similarity
Institutions Russia and the southern States of the Amer
Union the only civizedor least confessed
~ left the world Slavery
is indeed far mder and far less dscd and it gradually
wearing out But while it lasts southern America has the
countenance of one companion"
We will not insult readers by supposing that com
such ignorance and wickedness combined is ne
ccssary We win close by furnishing key to the object
which IL sought TO be attained by this warfare Of British
and American abotonism. II will be found in the fol-
lowing comment of the Review the passage Of the