Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-08-07

LOOK AT HoME.-It is the mode with great por.
ton OF the Northern people to take their opinions
second'handed from English authorities and to make
Exeter Hall, L"nden, their exampler and teacher up
on matters of ethics moral and POLITICAL especially
upon all questions relating to the South and its in
stltutlons. Mrs. Stowe, no doubt is prouder Of her
ovation at the hands of the Duchess of Sutherland
than of all the praises of her northern coworkers
in aboitionism
But while this is their course on one TACK they
pursue totally different one on another tack. While
they follow England most closely in all that tends tc
evil at home they loudly proclaim her decadence and
dissolution. They solemnly assure US that she If
sinking from her place among the ENTHUSIASTICALLY
decrepit and on the eve of inevitable bankruptcy
The sceptre is passing from her, &c.
Now, it strikes US that it would be much wiser fol
these wise men of The North and East to look al
home, and to reflect that nearly all The difficulties IN.
der which England has labored for years past have
arisen from the intermeddling spirit of can't in
which England is closely inflated by too many in
the United States-that the ruin of Englands vau
able possessions in the West Indies, has been pro
duced by the practical workings of the abolition
humbug 50 rife at the North-tbat the present diff
cultes in the East Indies have been precipita,ed by
Exeter Hall propagandIsm and intolerance, too
weakly yielded to by the government. The Hindoos
are not Christians and the government cannot make
Them so 1t has right to interfere with their re.
ligi0n, save to restrain io services cere.
monies where volative of law, and it has
already stopped the murders of Juggernaut-
put an end to the burning of Widows exting1shed
Thuggism, and at least amelorated acts where it
had no right to interfere with opinions or mere forms
But these Exeter Hall Saints, the Pharisees of Great
Britain, insist that should be done-that the re-
Egious preudces of great people should recklessy
be insulted-ther temples impoverished or profaned
and themselves degraded in order that they may be
Christians And they have been listened to with
only too much respect, and TO their influence at home
and the NEEDING course of their emssares in India
much of the present difficulty in the latter country
may be traced.
Why not look at home, and see that persistence
in initiating the courses in this country is liable
to produce The same results The bowling of polit.
ical parties against the South and against the rei
gious feelings of others, must if persevered in and
countenanced, result dsastrously here than
a similar course has done in Great Britain, because
here it strikes at mere colonial ouposts, but at
the heart of the country sef-at its union, it's in.
tegrity, its national greatness.
But more than this, it would be we'll for these wise
men to look at home on another account. This fail.
ing England is gaining upon us day by day. Her
exports this year will double ours, and while these
" Wise men of the East have been troubling their
sensitive conscences about the wickedness and ruin
of the South Great Britain, with her steam propel.
lers has been stealing from them the carrying trade
of the world Northern and Eastern shipping lies
idle, and even to New York ITSELF the most valuable
freights, amounting 10 full half of all the values
comes in British steamers, while the pampered Col
Inns line to support which the South has bled, is
wholly behind, and out of the race.
The shipping interests under the exclusive charge OF
the North and East are going down before British
competition. and the commerce OF the country de.
ponds for lis vitality upon the slave.grown products
of the South, These alone prevent bankruptcy
These alone keep Europe in check, these alone ena
BILE US 10 pay for the foreign goods imported. The
South does her part, and more than her part, LIE
the North look to it that she does hers.
1t won't do to count upon the decadence of Grea
Britain despse her riValshp. 1t is all nonsense
She never was stronger nor would better bear watch
ing