Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-03
From the Washington Union.
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN
BRITISH INDIA.


a COPY of which we are indebted to Taylor O Maui
ryp contains leader slavery in the United states
which ought to produce two results: trst, the re-
fusal of all lovers of American institutions 10 eAIenu
further patronage to the Review; and, second, to
satisfy all lovers of the federal Union that American
and British abolitionsm are in combination 10 ehG0
dissolution of our confederacy me texts q aIe
article are Uncle Toms Cabin," hey 10 Ohcle
Toms Cabin" and Mr.. Summers Speech IN 1907
on his Motion to Repeal the FugitiVe-Slave Law.
IF the elaborate tissue of
sions, falsehoods and calumnies WHICH, liam ~ -
staple of the commentaries on these texts was rea,
IL fabricated in Edinburgh, (Which we very much
doubt and represents British sentiment there 0usnt
to be no more complaints in the London Times
against the sympathy which Americans manifest LOT
Russia in the Eastern-war question 1t the article
however emanated from Boston, las we suspect
and has been back to the United States through
the channel of the Edinburgh Review, to secure Tor
If circulation in the Southern States, and IN that
way to dignity its foul aspersions it furnishes new
proof of the determined purpose of Massachusetts,
abolitionists to wage upon the Union
we have no intention to engage in controversy
No to the question discussed by the Review in con-
nexion with slavery. Our purpose is to present to
our readers few extracts, that they ay see Clear
" that it is not only Northern, but British, aboh'
tionism that is asSaling institutions. Inc nrse
specmen of the detractive and calumnous character
ofthe article which we will produce is the following
in regard to " the deterioration of the political men
of America ~
Few things have more surprised the world than
the deterioration of the political men OF America
When the United States mere aggregate OF
scanty-peopled colonies-when their principal cit-
zens planters, shop-keepers, and traders tram
ed up in the narrowness and prcudices and petty
employments ofprovincia life-they produced states
men, and negotators and administrators, ana ieSis
lators, whose names will be forever lllustrlous IN
history. Now that they form great empire, that
they possess large class of men born in opulence,
to whom all the schools and universities OF each hem-
isphere open, who have leisure to pursue the
studies and to acquire the habits of political lite,
tolerable second-rates. This downward progress,
however seems now likely to be arrested. we do
not expect to the present tenant OF the w lte
House succeeded by first magistrate inferior 10
himself in knowledge, in ability, or i'll craftsmanship,
or the American dipomatists now resident in the
courts of the continent followed by of less tact,
temper, or good sense.
Mark the logic as well as the malice of the fore
going! When principal citizens were planters,
shopkeepcrs and traders, trained up in the narrow
ness and prGjudices of provincial lifc we produced
illustrous statesmen, negotiatOrs, and legislators;
but now that we have great empire, wealthy citi-
Zens to whom the universities of both hcmispheres
are open, and who have leisure to study politics,
few of public men would pass in Europe for toll
cradle second-rates As to President Pierce, he
cannot BE succeeded by one inferior to him.
But how does the reader imagine that the review
er accounts for this deterioration in political
men? The next sentence answers the question::
owe believe that the explanation of this strange
deprivation is to be found in the influence on Amer
lean parties of the political questions connected with
slavery"
It is falsely assumed that there is deprivation
in public men, and then it is explained upon
reasoning equally false and wholly illogical. This
is genuine abolitionsnl-the bona tide one-idea IA
naticism which prevails alike in Boston, in E6in-
burgh and in London. 1t sees nothing but the
Southern party in the United States, and that par
ty is the parent of every evil that abolitionism i'm
AGNES to eXist.--Read how recklesslY false the
viewer is in his description of the Southern par
ty by which he means all the national men,
North and South, who abide by the guarantees and
compromises of our constitution:
I" Such party is the southern party in the Uni
ted States. It's only object is the retention and
tension of slavery and of the internal slave trade
For this purpose it is ready to ally itself to wings
to tories to democrats to federalists, to those
who wish to raise to those who wish to lower the
tariff. But this is purpose which must excite the
fears of every wise and the deestaton of every
honest man. All the best men of America there
fore, resist the contamination of such alliance
They that southern faction by choosing its op-
portunites, by joining from time to time the party
that will accept its terms and triumph by means
of its assistance generally obtains its Objects re-
wards its favortes and excludes its opponents
Most of them discouraged and forsake political
life for literature or business or foreign travel 9th
cut short in their public career, and forced
to resign themselves to provincial professional
eminence. A teU, like the distinguished senator
sohose speech prefix to this article acquire fame
in the Senate in the House of Representatives,
but are excluded from office. And what on this
side of the Atlantic the prizes of public e-the
high political and administrative pests-are general.
ly left to the inferior men, whose ignorance, VIC
lence, incapacty have led those who judge of
America only through her public servants to look
her with unnerited contempt or disgust"
We doubt whether such another specimen of
falschood and malignty is to be found in the En-
glish language and yet it appears in one of the
standard literary reviews of Great Britain.
We will continue this disgusting task with only
one other paragraph, ill which the Review under
takes to explain the sympathy felt in the United
States in behalf of Russia
'Thc Shareholders and slave traders of America
too strong to need to look for assistance Rus
STA but they sympathize with her partly for some
Of the reasons which govern the petty tyrants of
Italy and Germany, and partly for reasons of their
own. They hate England as abolitionst, as Ferdi-
dand hates her as liberal. They love Russia as he
does, for her intolerance of liberty and knowledge
And there is between the two countries the strong
bond of Similarity of institutions. Russia and the
southern States of the American Union are the on
ly civilizcd-or, at least not conessedly barbarian
Shareholders left in the world. Slavery in Russia
is indeed far mider and far less diffused, and is
gradually wearing out. But while it lasts south
nion.'
We will not insult our readers by supposng that
comment on such ignorance and wi,kedness COM
bned is necessary. We will close by furnishing the
key to the object which is sought to be attained by
this warfare Of British and American abolitionism.
1t will be found in the following comment of the
Review on the passage of the fugitve-slave law:
1t is said that the southern gtates frightened the
northern States into acquiescence by threatening
their monstrous bill were rejected, to renounce the
Union We understand how