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Here is an array of English testimony that cannot fail to convince
every one that slavery exists to the present moment in the English
dominions, in a form far more aggravated than African slavery in the
United States. How is it then, that she has been, and is to the
present time, making ceaseless and untiring efforts to exaggerate the
sufferings and the disabilities of the African race in our midst,
while there is so much suffering and oppression among her own
subjects? Is it not an, extraordinary circumstance, that a nation who
has expended so much blood and treasure in invading the rights of
others--a nation that to the present hour tolerates and legalizes
slavery in its worst possible forms--or rather, in every possible
form; should affect so much solicitude about its extinction in a
foreign government? In view of all these facts, is it not a
humiliating circumstance; or rather, is it not an outrageous insult to
the American people, that Madam Stowe, after having basely
caricatured, slandered and misrepresented her own country, to flatter
and please the English people, and their Northern allies in the United
States; should with her ill-gotten gains fly across the ocean, to join
the slanderers, denunciators and libelers of our beloved country? The
world can't produce another instance of such insulting, arrogant,
bare-faced knavery and hypocrisy! A thousand reflections force
themselves on my mind, and had I a voice as seven-fold thunder, and
could I congregate around me in one solid phalanx, every man, woman
and child, on the North American portion of this continent; I would
warn them of their danger. I would direct their attention to the
history of nations wrecked, torn to pieces, and almost obliterated
from the face of the earth by internal feuds and dissentions--by envy,
jealousy and hatred; and that not unfrequently instigated by foreign
powers. I would point to the catalogue of crimes--the commotions, the
dissentions, the tumults, the strife--the envy, the jealousy, the
hatred--the wars, the butcheries and bloodsheds, that have been
incited by visionary, bigoted, fanatical religionists. I would
inculcate the fear and love of God; the love of our country, and the
love of our neighbor as paramount virtues; and meekness, gentleness
and patience, as Christian graces of the first importance; and
resignation to the will of God, and obedience and submission to civil
authorities, as the duty of all good citizens. And to the ladies I
would say, return home ladies, and love your husbands, nurse your
babies, attend to your household affairs; and recollect, that nothing
adorns your sex so much, as the ornament of a meek, a quiet spirit. I
would also advise you to read your Bibles and other good books, and
never again to read or write another novel. And, dear ladies, if you
have hitherto worn either bloomers or breeches, lay them aside. I must
return from this digression to the subject under discussion.
SECTION III.
It was said a few years ago, that one of the nobility of England
openly declared, that the sovereigns of Europe had determined upon the
destruction of the government of the United States; and that they
expected to accomplish their infamous designs by involving us in
"discord, disunion, anarchy and civil war." He is reported moreover to
have said, that they expected to accomplish this, by flooding our
country with their vicious refuse pauper population, and by agitating
the subject of slavery among us. Unfortunately for us, England in her
nefarious designs upon our country, has always found too many allies,
aiders and abettors, in our midst. I will not say, that Mrs. Stowe had
designs upon the liberties of her country, when she wrote Uncle Tom's
Cabin; but this I will say, that in writing that book, she performed
an acceptable service for the enemies of her country, for which it
seems, from recent demonstrations, they are profoundly thankful. Be it
as it may, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin; the work was republished in
England, and we are credibly informed, that it has almost supplanted
the Bible in that country. Travelers tell us, that nothing else is
talked about throughout the British dominions. They received it, I
suppose, as a revelation from heaven--revelation of higher authority
than the Bible, for the reason, that it is of more recent origin.
Well, she is invited to England by the nation _en masse_; and if the
Saviour of the world should perchance make his advent into the British
Isles, on the day that she lands in that country, I think it highly
probable, that he would be forced a second time to _take lodgings in a
manger_. He might wander through the country unnoticed and unknown,
while the whole nation were draggling after Mrs. Stowe's petticoat. He
might again be forced to exclaim, "the foxes have holes, and the birds
of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his
head" to rest. No Marthas and Marys would be found in that reprobate
country, to minister to him. If so, they would be found among the
"lowly," and we understand that they have no part or lot in Mrs.
Stowe's visit. No! no! she has made money enough by her "_life among
the lowly_" and now she is preparing to take her stand among the
aristocracy of England.
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