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ABOLITION AGITATION. !
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ABOLITION AGITATION. II
Any one familiar with the tone and spiri,
of the London Times. is familiar with a tone
of ihsolence and assumption of superiority
as vulgar in itself as it Is offensive to af
ssoutside barbarians." Great Britain, the
"Pirate Of the Seas" and esCattle Litter q
nations, assumes a tone Of superiority and
enlarged philanthropy that contrasts strange
" with tie naked and shivering thousands
Of wretched and squalid creatures who shake
and tremble with starvation. nakedness and
cold, in earshot Of St. James Court, and
tester and rot at New Castle, Birmingham
and Manchester.
British Philanthropy sounds very queer:
ly when accompanied with The refrain o.
Ireland's expressions and midas. wrongs
Comes with a poor grace from a people who
sat still when Poland was cut up like a ca.
pom, and Hungary trodden in blood by the
despot-hoof of Austria. Alas how strange
that sensible people can be befooled by
English cant, English buster, and English
hypocrisy!
The Times says eve presume loosely
ssThe moral position of England, in the
matter Of the sldve trude, might we'll be the
envy Of surrounding nations, if only they
had the moral elevation to appreciate it.
! What, indeed, can be nobler than the first
naval power in the world, the people who
have built up an empire extending over
every division Of the globe, to be ever on
the watch to save the lowest type ofhuman-
ity from treacherous seizure and enforced
servitude 2"
And after an additional infusion Of rho
domontade, the Times adds.
'tYet it cannot be doubted that in this
matter England is alone in the world. She
not only finds no allies, but she finds hard
ly any neutrals. The oppressed Black is
the object of purely British sympathy. The
rest Of the world, whether European OF
American, feel little for the sable, chatter
ing sons Of Africa. Not that France, or
the United States, or Spain are. as nations,
Indifferent to the woes Of mankind. The
two former especially are always overflow
ing with the milk ofhuman kindness. Every
impossible nationality or ideal republic has
I their sympathy in the highest degree. The
wrongs Of Poland, of Italy, Of Hungary, of
Ireland. Of the Dannbian provinces, have
been dilated upon by every speaker and
writer. and at the present moment a patriot
from any Of these countries would find a
friendly party in Paris, and would r%ec9ive,
probably, az enthusiastic demonstration in
New York. But the negro is far too un-
romantic a being to excite the interests d
such niuacious populations. In the United
States the anti-slavery. agitation is hated,
by the Frenchman it IS despised. The for
nler (the United States) feels the national
prosperity and TIE NATIONAL good fame
threatened by the abolitionists the other
looks Upon our deeply-rooted c-oNsc1pNr1ou
(bah y principles as absurd, simply because
he has not acpM Of character 10 nouyisA
them Himsezf."
Now, is not this a precious sample Of ar
rogance, se~lf-gratuIation, absurditv and in
sult?-England stands alone in the world
as the guardian Of Ere sable chattering''
African! Englang finds her tender bosom
expand to the Lowest type of humanity
and twits America and France for feeling
for the wrongs and wees IF Poland, italy,
Hungary and Ireland! Good! Civilized,
evangelical England turns a deaf ear to the
cries Of civilized christian nations, lifts nc
hand to shield and protect them, right al
her doors, bat trots eff, with Ter tongue out.
to the sweltering land of the "chattering'
negro, and spreads her sails, arms her myr-
midons, end tramples on our fig to protect
the Lowest types Of humanity! Now,
she has a good, sound, selfish, English rea;
son for all this. She knows that, the only
way she can ever cripple US is by taking
the Lowest types Of lEamanity' under her
precious guardianship-which viii end By
her seizing AFRICA. and all the "sable chat
tering sons of Africa, and setting them Il
making cotton for her Beneyolence. II
would be well for the modern apostle Of IN
science to call a halt in his jubilant self
CALCULATIONS upon modern English-negro-
phobia, and enquire how the negro slave
came to be a fixture in the United States /!
They came here III tie same way and for
the Identical reason that England now has
made herself the Cerberus of Africa-it is,
or she imagines it to be, her interest!
When she had the old thirteen colonies,
she imagined that it was her interest to
catch negroes and send them here. Now
that the old thirteen, with the. rest they
have added to themselves, are her success.
fuE rivals IN every port in the world, she is
anti-slavery. Why?
Let none be fool enough to think tha'
England is impelled to anti-slavery preten.
slons and policy by any love for the ''chat
terlng sons Of Africa" We must seek fol
a satisfactory reason ID a different direction
England, if she does not hate, never loved
the United States. If we are to judge Of
nations principles by a nations acts, W.
enjoy the bitter hate Of England a hatred
born Of fear, which, Of all hatred, is Til
most sleepless, ~tireless and most implacable
We do not mean that England fears us 81
much N arms, but in the arts Of peace. Sh'
hates a Yankee skipper as bitterly as pos
Isible, He is an offence unto her, for h
pokes about the oceans and the seas, tn
bays and %inlets, creeks and rivers Of ever,
land, far and near. She finds him batter
ing the sea-cows Of the Arctic and Antarc
tic regions, and chasing the whales an
hunting the seals, and catching fish every
where. IF she sends a Captain Harris t
hunt her a cotton patch in Abyssinia, %
the Yankee has been there aTso.-Tf ST
sends a quiet missionary, IKE DR.. Living
!, stone, to spy out tie 'slowest types of hu
m~anity," verify, the Yankee peeps IN an
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