Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-01-30
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

BY thu Arabia, we hago twoa days latar
advicss From, Europe. The London "Timea"
has como out boldly in dsfsncs of slavery
AS Hpscimon o. tho comments Of the English
press on the article of the "Times," we
give the remarks cfthe Liverpool aPcst" srd
tbs London "Patriot:'' .... -
tFrcu tie Liverpool Post jan 81
TIE Times" hos 7cisea lion. IL, The pd.h
of the Southern Confeaaocy. For. long
period it has supported the Southern cause
by every argument ingenuity could suggest,
and by every ststouent an easy and sanguine
credulity could adopt. Southernars, them-
selves, have bssn startled by tho yshemenoy
Of the "Times's" advocacy and tho strength
of iSs assertions. AT length it has gone
beyond houods, and overrsached itself-
King Public viii suffer hia fsral eay to hs
abused coed Gssj, bur tnoro srs things to
which he NIL! not hsaikan, Gnd which ha
must resent. Tho "Tines" has actusli- gona
the longth Of advocating slavery, or q. least
Of asserting that Chris rianity snd the Bible
say nothiug against it; and this hae yroped too
much for the mental stomach of the English
Psople. On oil sidts indignant Tep.,di1.iossa
GTstsdrd. Nearly tie aoaots press has raised
its uoice IN denuncta:ion Of this goddess and
iAiSeral doctrine. Unless wa greatly mistake
the signs Of the times, reaction will Get III
from this point. Men will begin to ask them
selves wha: amount cf confidence reed be
placed ms Journal which, at ita clients bid
ding, gcIs go fEr az to cast asido British pro-
Judges In favor Of freedom, 1,.d to jaetify
slavery almost ss boldly as MIR. Stephens. the
Fice-Preside5t OF tho Southern Coufederacy
could do.
lP-cr tho Lcndan Ptthot Jan al
The meetings which the Emancipation 6o-
ciety has convened in different parts Of tho
kingdom. havs demonstrated that Eagliah-
mon sbhor slavery as profoundly and sym
pathiza Titr shveholdera Id Mtue SIS tney
eys- did. Our feeling at fi,st s~ss tLG; We
wsrc assuming the position of e2oiosists
whore We ought rather to have bseu >n.l-
llainsnts, in holding there meetings fer tEs
purpose of assuring the men of North Amer
ica tba: they calunniated uB when they said
that.w had departed from cur anti-slaesry
faith, but We now think isa happy tning iha;
tho opinion Of the country hss been thus MI
nis;akesbly EXPRESSED, for thus We ara h.yed'l
from having to blush in faoe Of all the eso.!i
at the Times" newspaper offering dai+nces
ier slavery, and from Scripture fota9otsn 80
The ssTimsB'' ia accepted in ether cou&t,iSs
As tie intaliible reflex of the English mind,
anG the Americans. will doubtless ho,.d ny
tho. "Iimss'' Of Tuesday last ss ;osisivu
proof that Grs.t Britain has become the zbet-
tor Of slavery, and that the loss of cotton, h.g-
ing been the TOMBSTONE Of the sincerity OF
Dur professions, had proved rs to be q nation
cf hypocrites, pretending to teach ths o:l3
Is morality Of which the first touch Of h:9sr.
sTty suftlcsd 10 prove the houowness. out a
hiss Of repro6ation t9tu rise up through the
1sngta and breadth of Christian England
when 1t cones to understand TIA. the
D." leading journal" has dared t9 re-
1--WE tho etsla infdei rtory-ihe last
and wGrst rlea Of the slaye-trader-thRt the
Bihle docs not co:iain "cne single .,1! :bat
c&n be pe'yart"': 20 prove Slavery ua. y lIi, !"
s.s'a thst St. Pau, III his advice to On, @i:aus,
tolls elayes. that ''chsy nus: make ths best of
their condition, aad not try to esc:po rcln
It, at lesst by any ,rntz:pn contrary ia tAo
i.gs Of a2tf J" otiisia ls.,. ofe1i
the brutality Of the Lssrse3--s So hhocka
Englishmen as the attempt to defend Slavery
OUT Of the word Of God, xnd We nsver 20
msmber TO Eaga seen tais more In5Iubhipgly
done than in tho "Tines" article. We nre
told that "sumptuous fare, purple and fua
linen, wealth, ecclesiasticl titles, unmarried
clergy, good clerical incomes, and many
other things, are contrary 70 tho spIiS Of tho
Gospel, or at'least can be proved SO as esrily
as -SiaTery." Ths indignity and disgrace
done to thia whole nation by the printias Of
such sentence in the leading article Of the
journal which we have exalted % this fors-
most place Of honor and influence iil!s us
wita shame snd resentment. To aispa ths
the matter would only be to Increase the
dishonor. None.but atheists or fools contend
at this time Of .dsy that the Bible approves
Slavery; and mono but shareholders or their
hired d'sdroca.es will pretend that Coristisnity
ia not most really OPPOSED to. this SUM Of all
yillainies; its precep:s ars utterly destructive
b5th OF Slavery IN the aostrsct, aDd Of Eli tie
horrible practices in which it issuea.