Daily American organ., 1856-03-20
British Abolitionists.

The Hartford Courant had very sensible art
cle on British Abolitionists, of which the follow
ing is an extract: .a
IL ever a nation of hyprocrites lived in this
world it Is the British nation at the present hour
Their own organs 30 say The London Times has
time and again, 40 told the British public and tbey
only chuckle over the truth. The British love
shams- They fight parliamentary battles on shams.
They set up some side issue, of no real Importance
and fight over the man Of straw an earnest battle
that is to settle the destiny of some very important
principle They justify this course it has practi-
cal advantages; ; it avoids committing men and par
ties on questions that would compromise and com
init very awkwardly through all the changes of fu-
ture politics upon question that the good of the
nation requires to be settled one way or the other
These are parliamentary shams Carlyle, we all
know tells the British public that they love shams
in religion, in literature, in art, in lfe just as wen
IS they do in politics Kingsley, the author of Al
ton Locke and Sermons for the Times SAYS in so
many words, that hypocrisy is the present crying
sin of the British race. 8saf
I" IL am asked" says he, the reason of the nv.
pocrisy which seems the besetting sin Of England
in this day; If am asked why high religious pro.
fessors speak untruths at public meetings, bribe at
elections, and 60 into parliament each man with a
lie in his right hand to serve neither God nor his
country, but his political party and religious sect,
by conduct which he would be ashamed to employ
in private lfe IL am asked why the middle classes
land the high religious professors among them as
much as any, are given to cheating, coveting,
undermining each other by the dirtiest means,
while the sons Of religious professors are just as
liable AZ any other young men to fall into profiiga-
cy; II am asked why the poor profess the gospel
and practice the devils works and why in this
very parish, now, there are women Who while
they are drunkards, swearers, and adulteresses,
will run anywhere to hear sermon, and like no.
thing better, saving SIM than high-fown religious
books; If am asked why the old English honesty.
which used to be our glory and our strength,
has decaycd so much of late years. and hide
ous and shameful hypocrisy has taken the place
OF 1t, l answer, it is because you have hncied
that 1t was beneath you to keep Gods plain COM
mandments, and have been wanting to save your
souls, while yo1 did not care whether your souls
were saved alive, or whether they were dead or
rotten and damned within you you have dreamed
ina. you could be what you called spiritual ,
wmie you were the slaves Of sin; you have
dreamed that you could become what you call
saints, while you were not yet even decent men
and women" '-,eN'
Thus talks the high-souled rector Of Eyersley
from bis parish pulpit, in the face and eyes of his
congregation. As for political hypocrites, listen
TO the sorrowfu, indignant, sarcastic wall OF Kos,
suth and Mazzini, as they expose the humbug pre-
tences OF Clarendon Palmerston, and Rnssel and
Gladstone and Bright Golden and Roebuck, the
whole tribe, no matter how named IN politics. 10
any real desire TO promote the substantial veal OF
the down-frodden masses Of Europe, Asia, or At
ica. f1"