The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-20
ABOLITIONISM IN ENGLAND.

We copy from the New York Journal of Commerce
of yesterday the annexed exposure of attempt in
England to create American ant-slayery excite
ment" The informant of the nobleman alluded 10
is probably his intimate friend the absent senator
from Massachusetts,, aud it is further limited that
this new political clique has actually assumed the
right to dictate who shall represent their sovereign
in the country whose domestic institutions they as
sumo the right to manage
The Earl of Carlisle, better known in this country as
Lord Morpeth has picked up the tatteed thread
bare mantle formerly worn by Carkson. Wilberforce
Brougham, and Burton and being at this moment out
of political employment like his colleagues of the Pal
meston government has taken to attending ''anti sa-
very society soirees In his native county Yorkshire
AT of these phianthropc gatherings held at Leeds
the 2sh ultmo the benevolent but not over-gited
Earl delivered address, the greater portion of which
referred to slavery in the United States and the duty
young in Leeds and elsewhere to constitute anti
very associations and hold antislavey meetings aid
the aboonists of the United States in achieving the r-
umph of .their immortal cause"
The young of the Leeds Anti Slavery Society were
told by his ordship among other things that every
information that had lately been received from the Uni
ted States tended TO show that crisis approaching
il it had not already come " that the cause of the
abeonsts in the United States making real papa-
be and daily progress and that t entered into every
election of members OF Congress- OF Senator's and gov
errors of States
We believe that in early life Lord Morpeth was very
Indifferent poet and wrote exceedingly bad poems
and that recently he has published translation in
of one OF the Books of the Old Testament In which
the 'poet's license pushed very far beyond its
legitimate limits II must have been this same poet
license which his ordship was abusing when he gave
the young abolitionists of Leeds the information
above quoted We belieye-and we think that it
is the general belief in this country-that so far
from abolitionism making real, papahle daily pro-
gress, it is decidedly on the wane. There few
men in the United Substantially there is no party
mad enough to advocate openly the doctrines of the
oitonsts understood by Lord Carlisle There are
some who, for selfish purposes avail themselves Of the
anti slavery cry 10 aid them in attaining power aud place.
but the masses Of the American people, whatever their
opinions to tho abstract question 8 slavery and free
labor convinced that slavery is local institution
the States wherein it exists have alone the right
termine whether it shall continue be abolished
The fact is, very practical people in this
try. We arc also really phanthropic people but We
bitterly opposed to Wild theories and bogus philan-
thropy. With the example Of Jamaica and Iayti before
eyes, with knowledge derived from actual observa
ton of the practical effects of aloons in those two
islands utter debasement of the negro popua
ton untitled sugar plantations and deserted cotton
eldsthe American people cannot appreciate the " sub
lime notions Of abotonsm of which his lordship of
Carlisle dscours0s fuently and hence it is that his
'cause has not made that real progress to which he
fanofully alluded
The London correspondent OF morning Contemporary
believes that the good Earl has been pushed into
this anslavery movement by Lord Pamerston and the
Cambridge House clique of politicians whose game it is
to raise en- anti American and antidemocratc movement
TO head of john Bright and the democratic refomers.
We believe that the ycneraLe and popular Vscount
is very anti American in his feelings and views but
give him credit for too much shrewdness to believe that
he would Try 20 revive the ptislavery cry anti
American dodge. The fact H. that aboltonisn has been
proved to be failure both in point Of eeoaomy and phi
lanthropy and most of those in England who landed
highest the emancipation of the negroes In Jamaica
now willing to admit that has nearly ruined the island
and tat the free negroes in condition moral
ly and socially that they were when in slavery.
Lord Carlisle and the young aloonists OF Leeds
raise the voice Of sympathy hope, and encourage
ment 10 derrit smith and his followers and may strive
to invest their utteranoes with new and undreantof
responsibilities " they may pity the slave, and
their allegiance to the undying Of freedom
but do not anticipate that they will get much by their
motion