The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-05-28
English AD0iitiOnism Rampant
The London Times ON the Dred
ScOu Decision.

iandi and every hlsehood or exaggeratlon that
the spirit Of sectional discord and seditiOn in
vents at home is colored into magnifcently hid |
eouS proportions in the British press. If we
but kick an Abolitionist in America, we are
stunned by an indignant Outcry from the trans
Atlantic fraternity. They respond with one
universal shout to the yelp of the asgrieved in
nocent. and lash themselves into eOmicaliy ie-
rOciOus rage over his injuries.
The bred Scott decision of the Supreme
Court set all the American Aboltionists to
bowling like dervishes, blaspheming, praying and
talking treason all at once. But their extacies
were moderation itself compared with those Of
their British echoes and sympathizerS. Univer-
sal CockneydOm expended itself in universal
oatburSt Of wrath, malediction, disappointment
and boobyisin generally. 1t we're vain to strive
to depict the indignation OF our immaculate CEN
sors of the London and provincial press. They
lacked words whereby to express their disgust.
Mr.. Buchanan's triumphant election had des-
troycd already their hopes Of the disruption Of
the American Union and the breaking out Of
civil war at the close Of General Pierce's term
Of office. General Cass's appointment as Sec
retary Of State had come next, giving ample as
surance that the present Administration would
tolerate none of Englands political jesuitry,
rapacity and fraud in Central American and 9TH
er international affairs.
The miSfortunes OF their allies, the three
thousand New England parsons who one after
another, seem to be falling into the snare Of
the ungodly, yea, becoming prey to the strange
women and Of whom very fair proportion are
already under accusation or serious suspicion of
adultery, fornication or rape,-was incidentally
no little source of modification to the British
papers OF the SERIOUS family" school, which
hcSitated not to promptly declare the Rev. Kal-
loch the victim Of persecution. All these things
had put literary Cockneydom into decidedly
bad humor with America, but the Dred Scott
decision was the cap-sheaf and crown Of our su-
perstructure Of offense.
The London Times CONNIE noes leader on
the subject by confessing that they begin in that
part Of the world, to feel "much dependency"
because We in this part of the world will not
consent TO square our moral and political views
by theirs This is of course very deplorable
circumstance, and is probably the very one that
lies AT tue bottom of all the trouble; still, we do
not see how to remedy it, exactly. The times
then refers to the French Republic of 1893, and
remarks that one Of its few reieelning acts was
the emancipation Of the Martinique and Guada-
loupe slaves.
| The Times does not mention the exact reason
why 1t attaches so much merit to this silly act
Of the French Republic; not thinking it worth
while to mention that thereby those fertile and
wealthy islands were utterly and irretrievably
ruined, to the great pecuniary benefit of their
| English rivals and neighbors, because in men,
tiouing that, it might reveal the reason for some
what of the interest John Bull now feels for
the abolition of slavery on the American Cont
nent 1t is sufficient for us to contrast the wis.,
dom of Clootz and Brissot, who emancipated
slaves and ruined the French colonies, with
that Of Washington and Madison, who strength
ened and perpetuated slavery and built up the
English colonies into an independent and mighty
empire That is sufficient answer to thu
Times example of poor Martinique and Guada
loupc.
The Times remarks that after the triumpha
procession Of Mrs. Beecher Steve through til,
ducal palaces of England, they had some hopes
over there Of bringing American stakeholder
to reason. Uncle Toms Cabin had been trans
lated into so many languages that Carolina plan
tcrs could not be expected to remain contuma
cous much longer. But" it is grieved to say
''the philanthropists have been to sangline i
their anticipations." The Democracy has tri
, umphed in the Presidential struggle of 185t
f: and the Times, which adaptS the whine of til
New York Tribune to the slang of Printin
House Square, understands that by this resu
that "a decisive vote of the whole nation ha
upheld the supremacy Of the slavcholders."-
This view is comparatively as correct as thoug
an American paper had said that the recer
6 ministerial triumph in the Parliamentary elet
tons had sanctified decisively the right of itt
Queen Victoria to give birth to nine more chi
: dren!
!, Among other shocking consequences Of NJ
@ Buchanan's election, the Times discovers "tt
6 principle of slavery asserted as essentially an
r universally true by more than one Southern o.
gan" and, still more horrible, the decision
- the Dred Scott case! As the leading Londc
organ does rot understand of course, anythir
about that decision, it's circumstances, beariD,
l. and effects, we are not surprised that it trea
o it in tho peculiar manner in which Englis
= |" newspapers generally treat American affair
d They seem to make point of not knowing {
caring TO know the very smallest particle
d what they are writing about.
- The Times does not of course know that Il
a doctrine that negro cannot be citizen of Il
United Stutes--(though he may be Of a Stat
is as old as the United States themselves.
Itdoes not know that there has never been
- negro citizen, and there probably never will b
!. What the Times looks upon as a "retrograd
ton Of the negro,p under this decision, is ther
fure, pure fancy. It does not know that Il
r bred Scott decision, simply, in this particula
r declares that the law of America il still what
has been always declared by the Supreme Cou
and laid down by our legal writers to be.
We have no possible objection to the Tim
"arraying the public sentiment Of the who
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