The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-25

and punishable with death
Wbeorce hmsefwas of the ghtes Of the tory sect
and during his long in Parliament invariably voted
for every that struck popular liberty, and
against every proposal 70 educate elevate the people
lie supported with eager readiness all the atrocous inn
pressment laws Of the time which seized not miserable
heather negroes in Africa but Christian white menmeu
good himselfin the OF London; hurry
ing, perhaps TO the dying bedside Of father wife
child and who dragged in chains aboard British
ships 20 engage in pea eul industry in Cuba Ja
maica but to fight Frenchmen Americans-to shed
their blood and give their lives crush liberty and
pnblicanism both in the Old World and in the New
lie voted for and sustained the minister Pitt in all bis
schemes for crushing the French republcfor keeping in
British pay hundred assassns Paris assassnate the
republican leaders and lead the horrd gangs which,
in the Of democracy committed of the crimes
Of that terrible period and endorsed that climax
meanness well vlany--the forgery of French as
sought to bankrupt the republican treasury
well as TO beat down its armed defenders in the field
In contrast with this unyaryng devotion the Of
oppression regards his race--white men, Cauca-
siansthc only that has or will,
can constitute the material ola high civilization
Wlberforce stands out the page of history the cham
pon of the negro and draped in the garb Of religion II
a known to have cheated and tyrannized
his brethren TO have beaten and abused his sisters
to have thrust hsw and children hungry in the street
such vile wretch matter what his claim TO benevo
fence or humanity Tor relieving the ustreSes OF stran-
gers, would be driven forth scoundre not fit 10 live
in decent community, and his pretensions to religion
would only darken still deeper bis infamous character for
it would be adding hypocrisy to his crimes
And this is the real character of Wiberforce, which
however distorted msrepresened now, wiH be under
stood and eH be appreciated by succeeding generations
II he had been Of wide but badly synpa-
thcif he had devoted himself TO the Of the people
of England exhibited single throb of feeling for the
great dumb, down-irodden millions of his if
he had only stood neutral entirely passiveperhaps
allowance might be made for him but when his
whole public life devoted--activey and eagerly devo-
ied,o the oppression and degradation and slavery of his
blood his kind, his SIXTH and kn''o claim
the character of philanihropis for such because
he sought to change the condition Of the negro the ves
imposac and the most audacious isehood to be found
even in British history.
That history least the modern portion Of IT. is itself
mere congomeraton of homogeneous talsehoods. 1t is
scarcely possible find single page in it that does
confirm the asehood of the preceding one anticipate
that which follows it, Thus Cromwell, the greatest man
the nation produced is held up miserable traitor
that deserved to be put in the lory and Charles
of the meanest that dsgraced manhood, and
vest tyrants that cursed the earh is held to be
glorious arr and prayed for every Sunday by the de-
dans Of the very who had spirit sufficient pun
ish the base wretch his crimes merited few days
since the British Queen, in visiting the tomb Of Napoleon
acknowledged lin at eas that her immediate prede
had waged for twenty years, and shed the
blood of million of men without cause for
admitted to be unjust and vlanous Indeed, there
event in modern British history that the nation dare
celebrate publicly avow for it would be certain
,radct and make infamous other event in that his
tory And ii is from such history and such this
Wilberforce its fitting imbodment that the great
of humanity originates His appeals to George III and
Pitt finally successful and under the patronage Of
these great exemplas of liberty and right the great anti,
"a
their purposes admirably it distracted the attention of
the down-trodden from their the Imaginary
suerings of the negro 1t plundered them Of millions
which, devoted to their enlightenment would have
enabled them to free themselves instead Of freeing
negroes 1t enabled the British oigarchy the
pact and complete tyranny in all history to deude the g
and creduous and figure the champion Of lib
ery Above all and over ALL il mgt be made an iustru-
for the overthrow of the American Union; for de-
bauchng the patriotism and deuding the Of por
ton of people, and, thus corrupting its sources
aim its feon-bows at the very heart OF the American de-
mocracy
lis mistake deplorabIe mistake to isolate the slave
trade separate British hostility 10 that from the gem
era British poicy that was only incident means
single link in the programme of 'reenegrosm the end
aimed at was and is, equalization Of The slave
trade assumed be wrong because Slavery" was
wrong and its destruction desirable because it FASTENED
that of the latter and the hopedfor abolition" Of the
OF course they themselves ignorant of the facts in
voved and to great extent of the consequences that
would result from their pocy" but they knew Instinct
ce1y that white degraded TO level with negroes
would be incapable of defending their freedom that
man. or aggregate OF men, debauched and unman-
ned as fellowship with inferior race, would crawl
in the dust before 'kngs and anobles = that white man
so depraved and rotten utterly vile and worthless as
be incapable Of perceivug the natural subordinaon Of
the negro would be utterly dead to the natural equality Of
white men in short they knew that those dead to the
distinctions Of nature just the creatures to PROSTATE
themselves before those of human invention; and, there
FORE it, under pretences Of philanthropy humanity, &c.
they could succeed in carrying into practice their theory
OF single race and reduce the of this continent
common political and legal level then, indeed monarch
a condition of things, would be impossible animal
life without atmospheric air When abolition of the nor
NAL relations of whites and negroes decreed in Ja
naica Sir Robert Peel declared that The hundred millions
thus wrung from the sweat and suffering of British labor
the best investment made by the British oil
destruction of American institutions and the debaucnen
of American society. And with this end steadily in
view, though fen, perhaps, than distinctly per-
ceiyed they have rigidly adhered to the "poicyn be-
gun half a century ago by Wherefore and Pitt and
the recent proposal Of trpartite treaty in regard
Cuba is legitimate sequence Of the first step Ia
ken put down the "save trade it is necessary