East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-12-20


the division Of the American Union,
They did il to promote their own priv
ileges by the destruction Of the Union
and prosperity of democratic America,
and to secure their object, they care no
more for debt OF $50, 100000 sterling
and the commercial ruin of the British
West India islands than for the ashes on
that cigar that You are smoiiing'
In the above sketch, DO not profess
to give the language of Mr.. L., but have
cndcavored, in my own language, to con-
vey the impression made upon my mind
OF the congsc oflreasoning by which MIR.
w. came TO his conclusion. The words
however, are very nearly the words used
by Mr.. Lesgctt.
What struck me as particularly note
worthy in Mr.. Lcggett's narrative was,
that before the experiment of negro
emancipation in the British West Indies
had been fully tried, and while the friends
and supporters of the measure professed
10 believe that its effect would be happy
upon those Immediately connected with
it, both in the islands and in England, an
agent of the British government, who
must have had uncommon opportunities
for forming a sound judgement in the
case, expressed his belief that they who
controlled the action Of the government
knew, when they gave their sanction TO
the measure, that there was every rea-
son TO expect that it would be calamitous
to the negroes, to the planters, and to
the British people, and know too that
they could easily have prevented it, but
that they still supported and encouraged
it, because il would promote the interests
of the English Aristocracy, by enabling
them to excite, in the free States of
America, such an anti.slavery feeling, as
would lead to a division Of the American
Union, and the destruction of the great
democratic Republic.
\ constant attendance at the meetings
of religious and philanthropio societies,
and especially of antisavery meetings,
during a residence of four years in Lon
don, thoroughly satisfied me that anti
slavery meetings and cxcitemcnts are got
up in England, not for the purpose Of a
| removal, or and ameloration, of the evils
4 Of Slavery in any part of the world, but
chiefly, if not exclusively, with a view to
keep up in the hearts of the English peo-
pie hatred of the people and institutions
of America.
And, as to our own country, all who
are acquainted with the history Of tho
ant. slavery movement here, know that
prior to tho Abolition of Slavery in the
British colonies, the American anti-Slavery
movement was eminontly kind, consider.
ate, rational, and Christians; that it had
already happily effected the gradual but
total abolition of slavery i'll all tho
! Northern States, and was at the time
very active in the border Slave States
especially among the Shareholders, who
after Individually emancipating scores OF
thousands of their own slaves, united
with each other in autislayery societies
to promote the gradual, but eventually
total, abolition of slavery by law in theiI
respective States, with fair prospects o.
success in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
Kentucky, and Missouri, and with some
? hope even in the North Carolina ans
Tennesse-the emancipation of the slaves
in most Of these States to go hand viii
their removal to other lands. 1t is also
: well known that Immediately after the
Abolition of Slavery in the British colo
MES, anti.slavery societies of totally diff
ferent character were formed in New
England, and that these societies wer,
based on the principle of bitter hatred t.
all SHAREHOLDERS and fierce dcnunciatiol
of the measures which had been framed
with great consideration and wisdom, by
, Southern Shareholders, for the welfare o
= their slaves, and the elevation of the ne
gro race. 1t is known that the support
, ers of these New England anti-slaver,
societies established newspapers, issue
i, tracts, employed lecturers, and devised
/, plans evidently intended to iritat
Sothern men, aud provoke to acts which
, would irritate Northern men, and provoke
retaliatory acts, and thus, by continued
! angry action and reaction, ripen hos
| tilty between the North and the South
which would naturally end in disolutio,
of the American Union. This system o
hostility has been kept up now 70
? twenty-five years, and, with what effect
e let the present state of the country al
swer.
How much OF the large amount G
= money expended by American Abolition
C its in support of this organized system G
= hostility to the Constitution Of tn
g United States has been contributed j
/ England we know not, but we d
= know that, while conservative Amer
| cans have often been public and wan
0 tonly insulted in England in connec
i elton with the Slavery question, an
: without apology where apology wa
5 due from members of the AriStocracy
n other Americans, whose chief claim t
@ notice was the zeal and success wit
A which they had attacked fundamenta
n law Of their country and promoted bite
strife, between the people Gifts two grca
n sections, have been invited to the home
c Of the English nobility, fattered, honor
J. ed, and encouraged on their return t
II America 10 renew their warfare upon tn
n people and institutions Of the SOUTH
It These facts are readily explained on tn
:. theory of Deputy Commissary-Gcners
Wilson that the aim Of the English Ari'