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Show . -- -- 200 Al)I'ENDIX TO NOTES. tlepcndcnt on the British market. ne usc the Rlavo cotton. We supply the slave c:LpitnJ.. Our money _Luys _tho ncgro,-our m?ney buy~:~ his work. I t is n.n indissoluble untO!~ of mtcrcsts and opcrntlons, of which the white t>hwe of this country IS ut. one ~~1~, and the black ela.,·e of America. at the other end of the clu~m. Ilus sh?uld teach us n. little more modesty, thnn i_f ~,-c were s 1m.Ply prcnclung to th_o people of l'imbuctoo, to burn thmr tdols n.nd dcs1st fro!l1 l!mnan srtorJ. ~iccs. Pcrlmps it m:Ly suggest, ulso, th:\t ns a. ~cgmn_mg,_ we h_ad better not insist on abolition, or C\'CU talk about Jt-wh1ch IS all, Illdeed, thn.t tho ladies of l!;nglnnd are im·!tcd to do-~ut rllthcr su~gcst t·er1encration. '!'here are many who thmk thn.t, With prover regulntions, nnd particubrly with a system for tho ~clf-cnfnu~cln ~c m ent of slaves. we might have ht·ought nbont ~h~ cntu·o cnHtnctpntiOn of tho British West Indies, with much less InJury to tho propert~· of tho ]1htnter and to the character of the negro than ha"o resulted I rom tho .Abolition Act. P cl'imps the wn.ming will not be lost on the Americam;, who may sec tho n ecc~o;sity of putting things in train for tho ultimat(' nbolition of sl:wcry, n.nd thereby sa."e the sudden shock which the Abolitionists mn.y one day bring on all the institutions of tho Union, and the whole f:tbric of American socicty.1J "Prom Eliza Cool/s Joumal. " 'Vn.I, I'l' m: B~::I.IEYED? "'Viii it be beli('V('d, a hundred years hence, that in 1842 the Gov. crnmC'nt of Grent ll1·ita.in pn.id l~bout £W,OOO,OOO ste1·ling per annum to keep up men-of-war and thci1· n.ppmtcn:mccs, n.nd lcf:ls than oncllllllllrccllh part the sum tow~u·ds cUucat iug tho children of the people throughout the nation? "Will it be bclie\·cd, that in England, a ln.nd of Bibles, and tho most ci\'ilizcd and religious country in the world, one-half of tho !:\boring people could neither read those lliLles nor wt·ite their own names? "Will it believed, that the philanthropy of England cxerred its ingenuity in tho erection of pnln.cc-jails, and the perfecting of a system of education for criminals, but left tlw educahon and proper 11p-bringing of the children of honest poor men. to charity and chance? "Will it be beli('t'Cd, that though the charity-schools of J,~ nglanrl, nnd the ent.lowed eolle~es of the n:\tion, possessed an annual income of from four to fi\'C millions sterling, this rCl'Cnuc wns dc\'oted mainly to the education of tho children of the rich, nnd furnishing rich sinecure ofliccs fur gentlemen; while tho children of tho poor, for whom these chn.rities were bcquenthed by pious men, were left chiefly to tho education of the streets a.nd the !Jack lanes? " Will it be believed, th:tt the average pay of a policeman who looks after criminals was, in 1852, one-third more than tho average pay of th~, ~V~~ol/~l~~c~clYJ~~tt~~at~ ~l~~cfj~o~nOn:~~-~~:~~ n~~~~: employed in Ireland received aunual sala.rios of about thi_ny pou?ds n. year, and that the 5,359 tea.chcrs of youth under tho lnsh NattOc.al Board of APPENDIX TO NOTES. 297 Education, received nn averngc salary of only fourteen pounds n. year? " '.Viii i t be believed, ~hat the British JudJ!;eS got each from £ 4,000 to .£o,O_OO n.. year ~or tr·ym.'!: felon~, and the British Astronomer HQy:\l ~~~s J~};~~;~11~1~tvf~~~~; ~~~t~r1 ~~~s~u~r~1~1~1o0~:?re than tbe salary of .H .Will it be believed, th_nt ·whil~ we pni<l without objection several nulltons n. yc:tr for l~rr?stmg, trymg a.nd con<lcmning crimiua.ls, we could not ftJ!;l'CC to provtdo one-half of the funds so to educate men as to prevent their becomin::; criminals? "Will it be believed, that all the l:~rgc towns of Great B1·itn.in paid more for tho conviction and confinement of j u\'enile criminal~o;, thnu they contributed for tho education of children so as to prevent their boooming criminals? " Will it be Lclie\·ed, that Ot·eat Britrtin excelled all other nations in working up rn.w materi:.~ls-such as iron, cotton, Oax nnd woolinto wondrously beautiful fa/Jrics, but left the raw material of humanity in tho most ne~lccted state ;-that ijhc devoted infinite pains and skill to the perfection of machines of nil kinds, but left l\lan, of all other machines, tho least imrrovcd? " Will it be believed, that 1t could be said in the House of Peers, of London-the scat and centre of modem ci\·ili:mtion-thflt there·werc in that city '100,000 cilildrcn who had reccil'ed no education whatever; nnd that, with one or two exceptions, England wu.s the least educated country in Europe?' "And, will it be believed, that n.nother noble lord, now n. peer, could also bn.\·e said in the House of Commons, without contradiction, ' I know that out of the ]Hlle of the church, beyond the limits of tho 'denominations,' there is a vast, destitute, neglected mass, feste1·in rr in our streets o.nd alley~; with C\'cry sight t~nd sound of contnmi na~ tion choking the accesses to every acnsc,- without a.ny icleu of duty to earth or heaven,-upon whom no word of instruction ever falls, upon whom no brea.th ot love ever settles,-unclaimed by Lambeth, unknown to Geneva, unconverted by Rome ;'-and tltat, about such a time, the ladies and gentlemen of Bn{Jland were peering across tlte wide ocea11for objects on wltic!t to beslo10 their le!lderp!tilantltropy? "No, no I 'l 'hese things will 110t be believed t;Ome fifty years hence!" Prom the TJTasltinglon Union, of Dec. 21st, 1852. "The Duchess of SuthcJ·In.nd, nnd her amiable and nristocrn.tic sisters, the Vie-countess Melbourne, Lady J'ohn Ruf.lscll, Mrs. 1\lacnulry, &c., do not seem to be very ext('nsively seconded in their abolition movement at Staffo1·d House. '!'he infection of 1 Unclo Tom' hn.s not been uuiversally inhaled enm in England-as witness an able and fair article we this day publish from the London Times. 'l'he Thnuderer, we notice, also n.ccords ready echo to some of tho ' women of En~land,' whose co-operation in tho :mti-sl:wery crusade, in a nti agamst tho United Sttttes, has been so ~arucstly in voked by the aris~ tocratic circles of tho British metropolis. Here arc some generous examples: 38 |