Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-11
pR.vArG AND Coz FrpENrlAL. I
OFFICE OF V. f., FoREIGN BUREAU, !
A'em Dork, JltHe sd, 1861.

OFFICE OF '. T., uREIGN BUREAU, I
Ne@ 1'orh, Jlme Sd, 1861.
My BHIrIsn BEAsr:-You will pardon, my
Lion, the intolmality of this address, when
you call to your royal mind the fact that YOU
are pretty well known in this world-that
know something, too, of ireland and her iol-
" chronicles--that | have heard of India
and her happy history; of Manchester and
of the fat little girls laughing in its factories ;
of the cherubs in your coal mines, and of the
darling children who pick pockets with such
charming industry in London streets.
Humanity i'll general, my Beast has reason
to honor you. Black Humanity in particular
has cause to call you blessed; and even Y ell
low Humanity, of the Coolie variety, loves
you dearly. Ever since | can remember YOU
have been braying-I beg your pardon
roaring in behalf of Black Humanity. Yon
roared about the slave trade and abolished
it-takiug good care, however to make your
neighbors share the damage. You roared
about West India negroes, and emancipated
them with much self complacency, when
your Methodists and other good men forced
you to do it, You bought (pirated) innu-
merable copies of Uncle Toms Cabin, and
after reading the same with many tears, YOU
gave no end of breakfasts to the talented au-
bllbl' uNtty run CduuOb Oub ItllellD Dcr
how long, how continuously and how cru
ely you have ioked and jeered, and iibed,
about and at American savery-how YOU
have sent over to us missionaries for our anti
slavery Conventions, and merchandise for
our anti-slavery Fairs-how you have taken
to your bosom the wayfaring Garrison and
the fugitive Fred. Douglas. There were
those who were unchariteble enough to say,
that you had better, for consstency's sake,
give up either your cant or our cotton; but
you went on, my Beast, spouting and spin
ming wailing and wearing, importing and
eXhorting, bepraising Boston and chsfferng
with Charleston; and out of this game of
cross-purposes, out of these threads of be-
nevolence running tins way, ana these threads
of business running that, yo1 have woven
much white cloth, and you have amasscd
much yellow cash. Now, when cur dark
day has come-now, when through hatred
upon one side, and love upon the other, of
this same slavery which YOU profess simply
to hate, we are in little trouble, we find
that with the voice of a Saint you have had
only the voice Of Manchester spinner; and
that while you nave been talking about our
ashes you meant only your looms.
Newspapers prate, my Lion, about the
uncertainty of the policy of the British Gov
ernment in these uncertain times as if,
with an Honest Beast, disposed to remember
his international obligations, there could be
two possible policies. OF your neighbors,
the crowned, and crouching, and crunching
continental wolves, we expect that cold-
blooded Indifference best calculated to secure
the bones. But you are of cur own flesh and
blood; your fathers were our fathers our
laws have the same root and the ancestors
of both of us having been talking Of liberty
ever since the days of Alfred the Great
Without crime committed. without any
fair forfeiture of your confidence my Gov
ernment finds you puttering about what you
will and will not do, while rebels are at its
thoat and assassins are seeking its life We
ask you for honest and kindly treatment, and
you refer us to Puffendorf We ,.ask you
sternly to. dacountenance thievery and nlur-
der, and we find your rieketty old House of
Lords debating how strong blockade of the
ports OF pirates must be, before you will re-
spect 1t. A losel scum of sea-thieves, the
outcasts of all nations, threaten our COM
merce, and my Lord Brougham, friend of the
olacks, tells us that privateering is not pi-
racy." There is robber at our door, and
you will not sell US a pistol. There is
knaVe menaeing our existence, and you will
not send US an ounce Of powder without his
permission. There are tens Of thousands of
who have been welcomed to our
soil, have been protected by our laws, and