APPENDIX. 397 



No. III. 



EXTRACT FROM A BRITISH PAPER SPEAKING OP US. * 



'' Base hypocrite ! You boast of liberty while one sixth part 

 of you are slaves. Look at your twelve southern provinces 

 with two and a half millions of enslaved citizens bearing all 

 the shades of color from the Caucasian to the Ethiopean. On 

 the return of each 4th of July, rail and descant on mitres and 

 crosiers and sceptres, and denounce royalty, in all its forms, 

 while above, and beneath, and around about the orator of the 

 day, stand forth in characters of blood the distinct mottoes of 

 your land. Down with discussion! lynch law triumphant! 



SLAVERY for EVEr! HaIL COLUMBIA HAPPY LANd! 



" Ornament your halls with scourges, wet with the blood of the 

 sons of freedom, who dare to advocate the natural rights of 

 man. Snuff the sweet savor of the tar cauldron, and delight 

 your eyes, with the gibbet reared aloft in terror of those who 

 would not bend the knee to the dark spirit of slavery. 



"And then join in the gentlemanly mob to protect liberty 

 and law, by taking special care of the press and the mail, as 

 the wolf would care for and protect the lamb. 



"And finally by way of admonition to our American brethren 

 we would say, " Spare, O, spare, the name of liberty from fur- 

 ther pollution until you have removed from your capitol, the 

 greatest slave market in Christendom. — Abolish your internal 

 slave trade. Undo the heavy burden, cut assunder the bonds 

 that make men chattels; in a word, become what you dare not 

 contemplate — a nation of freemen. Then, and not till then, 

 ■will the genius of liberty, breathe her ambrosial breath upon 

 your land. " 



remarks. 



It may be thought by some persons, that our remarks on Eng- 

 land and Englishmen are quite too severe, on the page, to 



* See Page 212. 



