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Show DG NOTES ON unusual amount, especially among the humbler classes." Can we wonder at it? And this is the condition to which the Abolitionists would reduce the slave of the South ! Well may the latter say, "Save me from my friends, a-nd I will take care of my enemies!" ~rhero is another point that rema.ins to be adverted to. In the Appendix (K. 3, (7),) arc two instances of cruelty to young children, and here is :mother instance, of oppression of a "poor girl;" I give it ns I find it in the London Gu,.dian, of J:an. 2Gth, 1853:- " r.l1he National Guardian Institution for Hiring Servant!=!, at 40, Dcdfonl-row, has obtained a bad name from circumstances tncntioncll by a poor girl, named Green, at tho Clerk en well rolicc-ofTicc last week. Having applied for the purpose of becoming a member, her name was taken down, and she paid 5s. Her mistress was applied to for a. character, and she forwarded a letter to the institution speaking highly of her. She, (applicant,) however, procured a. situation herself at Ilanwcll, and, on applying to the institution for her character, they refused to give it to her, and the lady declining to write another, she lost the situation. l\ir. Tyrwl1itt, the magistrate, sent an officer to the institution, but all to no purpnsc, and the magistrute was obliged to content liimself by snying that the 'Na.tional Guardia.n Institution' cxhiLitcd anytlting but a respcctacle figure in tltc affair. He wouhl bear it in mind. 'nw young woman left the court convulscU with grief." Now, if I were to say tlwt these instances of cruelty a.nd oppression were the natur:d an~l legitimate results of the English Social System, I should think I was telling a lie; yet I should only be doing ns Mrs. Stowe and her English endorsers do, in the case of the instances of cruelty and oppression which" now and then occur," (vol. ii. p. 311), in which Southern sla\'cs arc the victims. UNCLE TO:\!.'S CABIN. 07 liRYing said thus much of the social evils of England, it is fair to say further that the English people arc a.wakmg, at length, to the necessity of doing something, and that somctlting has already been done; witness tho "l\1o~el Lodging-Houses" lately erected in London : but havmg made this u.dmission, candor compels me to add that what h.s yet been accomplished by the English employer for the benefit of the working·man, is but as a drop in the bucket compared with what the Southern Planter has done and is doin.g for the comfort an<l improvement of the slave, physical and moral. (Sec Appendix, M.) Here, then, there is ample room and verge for generous national rivalry; and if <1ll Christian na.tions, instead of intermeddling with each other's domestic arrangements, would enter heartily into this noble competition who should do most to mitigate the evils incident to all social systems, and peculiar to none, humn.nity woUld be largely the gainer by it. NoTE 0.-E~IANCrP I\TIOX-l'rs HESUJ~Ts. In the foregoing Note, I stated thn.t in bringing forward certain facts in regard to the condition of the laboring classes of England, I did it, not for the sake of reet·imination, but because my w·gument required it. The bcari_ng those fucts have on the argument, I now proceed to pomt out. I take it for granteJ, in the first pla.cc, that the sbvcs ou(l'ht not to be emancipated, unless their condition, as a ela~s, would be thereby improved, or, nt nny ~·ate, not deteriorated. I say, I take it for granted, for 1t seems to me an axiom of common sense. And yet, I nm not sure that the Abolition orators will grant it; for to do so would be futu.J to their argument. ~rhcy seem to hayc a wonderful 13 I |