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Show 80 . NOTES ON . , abuse should provoke the bitterest mahgnant and "anton nd however . . . ? N I it is human nature, a recnmmaliOn · 0 • d t it Says An t . t we cannot won or a. . much we ma.y rcgre ' ' id to be Col. Mayne Reid,) in a American m London, (sa . nder date of Dec. 14, Letter to the Editor of the Ta~s, uYork Journal of Com- 1852 and first published m the ew bl" h it. "Travel ' h '11' having refused to pu ts . mercc, t c . tmcs rican finds but abuse of his country where he w•ll,. an Arne d in all journals. I left it in on the most fnvol~us ~r~u~b~rc I was so inconsidcmtc as England, to find It f;~: petty press of Germany; I have not to cxpe:~d\l:: first thing that greets me is not a welcome back, I I t"ll lil-c still esteem, still love, though come from t 10S~ s I ~ ' dislike disesteem, and hate they do cvcrythmg to rna e m:t a w~lcome-witncss your th not a. welcome-no, n f b em- . ' * * * If we do not grow fonder o t e columns of this day. ·~ and our commercial competition, country of our ancestm ~ .' this l:l.tter and say she will we can point to such wntmgs as. { d I do not not let us. * * * If I have wntt.en.warm y-an indi nant . f I have felt warmly-!\ lS from that g deny lt, or. ,I. h Americans arc cvery,yhere made ~o sense of wt Ollg '' uc ti es (as m feel on subjects ~:t ~o~:~~~i:~e,~;,~:nt~·.:0,~~h ~ccently,) the case of a Y0 g 1.k. y h with me where Eng- . h t rain of that 1 ·mg" IC ' ' rf Wlt ou a g d even despite myself, always qua' y land IS concerne ' must, dd . tc "This gentleman . .. A d he a s m a no , its bttternes_s. n. . . ntment so far as to be indig- (the Carolilmn) earned hlB lc~e . f . of your country- I h ld anythm~ m avo! nant that s ou say . t" " though he was really a men, while his ardent asp•ra wn, d d ho had the f well informed, well educate ' an w man o sense,£ forei n tr::wcl was for another war with Eng- ~dv;~~a;~: ~nc mol~!' whicl; he significantly said' wo;,ld be an . ' I mention this for the benefit of tl.te tmes, the last. . . . I 1 d to make such cordlal haters, whose PlHhpp•cs have '" pc UNCT,E TOM'S CABIN. 81 not less perhaps than has the dishonest meddling with other men's property, of the anti-slavery propagandists, who put their hands without scruple into the pockets of the planters, and sow without remorse the seed of dissensions that have nearly fructified with a harvest of blood between brotlters. For myself, I hope that, if this writing should meet the eyes of the young Southerner above alluded to, he will now believe, though he may not even yet comprehend 'how it can be,' that I can 'reconcile' rny love and esteem for what is English, with my sense of duty and a paramount affection for my own country." To all that the writer says, in the above, of attachment to "what is English," I say, Amen, with all my heart. I love England, as ·the land of my fathers,-the noblest land, that side the water, that the sun ever shone upon, spite of social evils and abuses: r love her Church,-the Pillar and the Ground of the Truth,-thc fairest representative, in the Old World, of the Virgin Spouse of Christ, spite of certain practices that have an ugly look of simony,-spite of certain excrescences and accretions, that her truest sons must, I think, find it hard to submit to. And shall I seck to foment discord and ill-will between my countrymen and such a people? When I do it, may I forfeit all the untold blessings which I have inherited from her glorious f,.ec Constitution and her more glorious Church! In bringing forward the condition of the English labouring classes, then, I do it from no vile motive of rcCt·imina.tion. I do it, because the subject is introduced into the ·work I am commenting on, and because my argument requires it. ~rho author of "Friends in Council" in his "Letter upon Uncle '11om's Cabin," takes exception to its representatio~s of the lahoUJ·ing classes of England, and in place of them gives us a creat-ion of Ills own, a genuine Arcadian picturo 11 • |