Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-24

English Views OF Slavery In the United States.
English radicals SO rarely speak with moderation
of slavery in the Southern States OF our Union, that
when it occurs il seems worthy of special notice.
We therefore extract the following passage from the
Westminster Review for July:
IF there is a point on which political prudence
and honorable feeling should dictate reserve 10 En-
glish writers and speakers, it is that of American
slavery The crime of slavery was bequeathed to
the Americans by ourselves; the problem of escape
from it, if escape is possible, is among the most per-
picked and intricate with which the statesmen of any
country have had to deal and God knows we have
iniquties enough of our own on which to spend our
efforts, without wasting them in spurious lamenta-
tons the Involuntary offence OF our neighbor--
We cannot too much deplore the tone which this
country has of late years arrogaed TO itself on this
subject 1t is alike politically insane Qor OF all the
countries In the world, America is that whose friend
ship is our sures support and whose hostility would
be most fatal peril and it is cruelty TO the ne
groes themselves whose emancipation by our lnso-
lent interference is thrown further off than ever
Yet Lord Brougham, who affects to be statesman,
can quote passage-giving it modern application
which Adam Smith addressed to our own nation,
who were then responsible; and he comments on 1t
with an ingenuity of impertinence which will not be
less mschievous because is perhaps the result of
literary bunder " Fortune" says Adam Smith,
IS never exerted more cruelty her empire on mankind
than when she sube nation of heroes (the Al
rcan negroes) to the refuse of the ais OF Europe to
wretches who possess the virtues neither of the coun
tries which they came from nor of those which they
go to and whose levty brutality, and baseness so
Justly expose them to the contempt OF the vanqulsh
ed g hope" says Lord Brougham, in citing these
words that this passage will not be deemed to car
~ with it any offence to the remoes descendants OF
those assailed but if it should they only be Of
Tended from the consciousness of the stain enduring
and that stain can he easily wiped out, that the
memory of The past shall rebound only to the glory
of the present generation That is to say the Amer
lean nation the descendants of the nobes people who
ever left shores, recruited ever since from the
most adventurous spirits of the whole world, are
taught to regard, as their ancestors, that leaven OF
our own vlainy which we abused our power to pour
into the colonies; and if the stain remains, of which
Adam Smith speaks, the vllainy of the masters re-
mains, and the present owners of negro slaves IN
America identified in character with English con-
victs.' If this is not what Lord Brougham MEANS
1t is what his language means lit can mean nothing
else-and may the Americans forgive him for it, No
one, moreover, knows better than Lord Broug ham
that slavery cannot " be easily wiped out u That it
requires all sides the incest temper, discretion and
orbeaTance; and if it be accomplished at ALL it will
be by such effort of selsacrice and patriotism
will place the American people at once in the high
est position among the nations of the EARTH
A Painful Scene.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal gives the
following sketch of an incident that fell under his
notice:
AS painful scene me, my view in the cars from
Philadelphia to New York. as had ever seen in my
Journeys. A ladY and her husband came into the
cars at the former place, and were seated near us
very respectable in appearance, and the lady, in par
ticuar uncommonly interesting. After little while
noticed strange manner in the gentleman, which
seemed to indicate he not an favor of the Maine
Liquor Law. At every place the cars stopped he
evidently replenished the in his throat by a
new drink, until he could sit without help in his
10 hast ood orA onaH no
door, and seated himself in it, with his feet hang
ing outside. His wife much distressed, and tried
to prevail upon him to come in. and he gave her a
push which almost sent her to the floor. 1--we gents
rose, and with the aid of the conductor he help
ed in and placed In reclining position on one OF the
seats beneath window. He soon apparently tell
asleep--a it enough to break ones heart to
the attention that that devoted wife lavshed upon her
scnseless husband She covered him up with her
shawl to keep the dust from making him uncomfort
abe if his hands fell in unpleasant position, she
gently replaced them, and perhaps beloved them
with tear. Before arriving in New York she SEEM
ed anxious to have him wake, and asked one of the
gents to please wake him, as it was strange city,
and she did not know what to do.' Two three
reused him little, and then she went to him with
sweet smile, and says: awe have got almost TO
New York, and am so glad, you are tired: - and
he struck her IN the face. She had the sympathy of
all in the car, know for there many moist eye
among the ladies, and many bitter look On man
leave the till he was ordered by the conductor
and her attentions in crossing the ferry ASST
duous ever, and met with pushes and blows from
| her brutal husband. The last saw of her she was
in the staton-house on the New York side, begging
him to 90 and to their baggage, and he answered
her she foo-to mind her own business, &c.
Ny travelling companion remarked That is wo-
manly love and when he speaks kindly to her again.
she will forget 1t aH."
Election News.
| In Alabama, Winston, Democrat, is elected by an
imposing majority, which is set down by the Mont.
gomery Advertiser at 10, 900.
The members of Congress elected are as follows
District 1st-Perry Walker, OK. NJ
" 2d-Eli Shorter, [Den.)
3d-Sampson W. Harris, (Dem.)
4th--Cn doubD VIM. R. Smith, * N y
5th--George S. Houston, (Dem.)
| 6th--W. r. w. Cobb, (Dem)
| = 7th-James F. Dowdell (Dem.)