Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-27
Am English Beggar ON American
From The Buffalo Courier Of Saturday ]

From The Buffalo Courier OF Saturday.
The Hon. George Thompson the English
Abolitionist, delivered lecture In aid of
the Feedmen's Relief Association, in Syra-
cuse on Tuesday evening last. His subject
was "The Present Aspect of Affairs in the
United States, and the Interest taken by the
British People in Success of the North, the
umph of Liberty" The 'sinterest taken"
in ''the preservation of the Union" by this
thirty-years, laborer for its destruction may
be ascertained from the following specimen
paragraph of his speech:
"Permit me to say, there is one union
which trust will never be restored. 1t Is
that union which aforetime has subsisted
between the freemen of these Northern
States, and the oppressors of their species
in the South. A union which tended only
to humiliate, debase, corrupt and enslave
the people of the North. A union of the
friends of free institutions, and education,
and Bibles, with the friends of despotisn,
ignorance, licentiousness and irreligion. A
union in church and State, in trade and
commerce, in politics and piety, with the
inventors of lynch law-the border ruflians
of Missouri-the land pirates of Texas
the fillibusters of Cuba-the negro burners
of Mississippi-the spectators of Mexico
the murderers of John Brown-the per-
verters of the word of God-the revivers of
the accursed slave trade--the w0rshippers
of king cotton-the guilty accomplices with
Floyd, and Mason, and Wigfall, and Toombs
and Jefferson Davis. '[Applause.] Let this
union be dissolved for ever"
This is the kind of language adopted by
both English and American foes of the
Union, in their efforts to achieve its total
downfall They take it upon their sacri-
legious souls to describe the nationality our
fathers founded and God abundantly pros
pered, as something too horrible and mon
strous to be tolerated, and thereupon broach
theirschemes for disuni0n in the name Of
morality and religion. 1t is strange that
lovers Of their country can be deceived by
such miserable sophistry. The South might
found Just as sound an argument for dis
union on the sins and immoralities commit
ted by the people of the North. Or, sup
pose dissolution to be consummated be-
tween North and South, the West might in
sist to be severed from the East because of
the oppression of working women in New
York, or of the alleged cheating proclivi-
ties of New Englanders. And vice gersG- :
Those pious people who cannot brook the
idea of restored Union until the South
erners shall have been extirpated for their
sins, are just as arrant traitors to the ma
blOudl COlHpdCJ dS WcTc IuO OOutilcIu sCCco-
sionists, despite the flimsy vail of religion
under which they operate. And when Mr..
Thomson depicts the, old American Union
as he does above, and trusts that it will
never be restored, he simply places himself
beside the rabid orators of secession who
affect to loathe the thought of reunion with
people so stepped in vileness as the North.
The same is true of all the Syracuse Aboli-
tionists who furnished the applause" at
each of Mr.. Thompson's periods. They are
secessionists, neither more nor less.
This Thompson, we understand, comes to
our country at present in the double role of
an orator and beggar. and the hat, we are
informed, is now being passed round for
him at the East by way of enabling him
to make a nice thing out of his visit. 1t
comes with wretchedly bad grace for such
a character to discover that the Union, be-
fore the war, was one "which tended only
to humiliate, debase, corrupt and enslave the
North" and all that sort of thing. As for
the recreants who listen to and applaud
him, they are the same people who have
been proclaiming for generation past that
the American Constitution is ga league with
death, covenant with HE'LL" nothing better
could be expected than that they should be
eager to shout approval when they hear
their country vilified.