The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-06-14


ligious worship had been secured. Such were
ali the causes of complaint against France on
the day of the declaration Of war In 1893. That
war lasted twenty-five years, and throughout the
whole course of it England was seen plundering
everybody on the ocean, while buying slaves
from all the sovereigns of Europe that were
willing to sell theIn7and then, as now, making
them food for powder; At its termination, she
was seen handing over the Republic of Genoa
to Sardinia the Republic of Venice to Austria,
and making war upon the free people Of Nor
way to coerce them into surrendering them
selves to Sweden as the price of blood due TO
Bernadotte. What in all this was favorable
TO freedom we confess ourselves unable to per-
ceire.
We are told, however, that she sympathized
with Hungary. As a community, she did not.
Individuals did so undoubtedly, and for so
doing they had good reason, as they were as
sured that if Hungary could maintain her free
dom, she would establish Free Trade, and that
then England could make great deal of money
out of her. This argument, addressed to the
breaches Docket, proved irresistible and hence
il was that large meetings were held, and at
tended by the ceTy men achO had most strongly
avged upon the Government tie necessity for
Gfording ereTy encouragement 10 the stare
trade, by admitting the sugNr Of Cuba and
and Barbados The community Of England
has no sympathy with freedom anywhere. All
1T asks is cheap labor-that is, slave labor under
whatever nams-to be employed in foreign
countries IN growing cheap cotton and sugar,
and at home in making cheap cloth. Labor is
there regarded the instrument provided for
the use Of the trader, precisely as is the case
in South Carolina; and therefore it is that
there is so much sympathy between the cotton
lords and Carolina. 1t affords me pleasure
said Mr.. McDuffie, "to hear of new factories in
Manchester, but cannot without disgust hear
OF those Of New England
Looking to India, see everywhere the de-
cline Of freedom a consequence of English
rule. Under the native princes, there existed
an immense body of small landholders, exerci-
sing to wonderful degree the power of self
government, and carrying on a vast inland
commerce. but under English rule all these
have disappeared. The few there are steady
growing III power, while the many are from day
10 day more and more compelled to sell them
selves into slavery in the Mauritius or in
Guiana that they may avoid the famines with
which the country Is now so frequently afflicted.
Immense armies swallow up the produce of
labor to an extent unknown in any other part
of the world, and those armies are always en-
ployed in extending the area of freedom, after
frivolous pretence is always found sufficient for
interference, plain in the war of Scinde;
IN that with Burmah, based upon IA claim for a
few hundred dollars, and made the occasion of
seizing upon extensive territories and In that
of Affghanistan which ended in the well merit
ed destruction of a large portion of the British
forces, and the expulsion of the rest. We are
told that all this is done 10 extend civilization:
but when come TO learn the real facts, we find
al. L.. IL.
until now in the hands of domestic rulers, is
far higher than that of Bengal, where England
has been uncontrolled master for a century
Ii We turn our eyes to China, we see towns
and cities destroyed and men by thousands
slaughtered, That England might maintain the
right to poison the Chinese people with the
opium, by the profits of which alone the intru-
ding Government of India is enabled to maintain
itself. Looking next TO Australia, see what
was appropriately STYLED by English writers " a
he'll upon EARTH the gift Of England to the
world; and il some Of the people who have been
transported there have founded State destined
TO aid in the extension of civilization, no por-
ton of the credit is due to the community by
which they were sent. In the West Indies we
see steady importation of slaves, under various
names. brought there TO compete with the cheap
African labor of Cuba and Brazil La South
Atrc4Ee see perfect succession of rebellions
accompanied by great destruction Of life and
property all of them consequences of an op-
pressive system. Coming nearer to England
we see the humiliation OF the people of Ireland
as a nation-and 1t Is the first instance on
record of people whose means of advance
ment have been during time of peace gradual
ly sucked out, snntil it has gradually ceased to
be No1Na y the consideration of the world
Ben ton, it presented galaxy of stars
ofthe kn1est lustre. Now it exhibits moth
ing but the Irish brigade, ever ready to sell
itself to the highest bidder. The soil is being
gradually abandoned by those who have escaped
the repeated famines that have occurred in that
richest of lands and the Saxon is gradually &C.
copying the place from witch he has expelled
fhe Cer; and thus it is that England makes a
desert, and calls it peace
If the history of her past presents little 10
warrant in regarding her as the leader of
civilization, there is, think quite as little
in her actions of the present. Her great ally
Is France, which has expended hundreds of
thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of
money in extermnating the people of Algeria,
destroying their farms and burning their vii.
lages-that same France which introduced the
fashion of smoking oat and suffocating brave
men who We're not TO be reached by the sword.
her Chief object of alteration at present is
Louis Napoleon, the friend of despots in Italy,
and the head IN France Of despotism under
which no freedom ia the expression of opinion
Is tolerated. Gladly would she add to the list
OF her allies that same Austria whose sym
patty for Hungary" was manifested in the
hanging OF her bravest men and scourging of
her most accomplished women-and that same
Prussia which shared with Austria and Russia
IN that partition of Poland which constitutes in
the eyes OF our contemporary so great an of
fence 10 secure the alliance of these two
Powers, she would willingly abandon Hungary
to the tender mercies of a Haynau, Rome to
Louis Napoleon and the Pope, and Florence
and Naples to Francis Joseph and his leute
nants now occupying the thrones of those
magnificent countries. With her, the end ALWAYS
sanctifies the means.
If our Washington cotemporary can find in
this succinct statement of facts any warrant for
desiring the snccess of the Allies, he must look
at them through spectacles very different from
those We are accustomed to use. 1t is time az
we think, that he should open his eyes to the
fact that there is "A white and brown Slavery
as well black one, and that the former
grow in every country that is subjected to Brit
ish Free Trade.
KAysAs.-The Lawrence kansas) Free Stat,
of May 18th, announcing the result of the
new election in that district for Representatives
In the Legislature, on the 22d, says
This is the first time that the citizens of q
portion of Kansas have enjoyed the inestimab Die
privilege of the elective franchise, and it was a
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