I think I have shown, in the foregoing remarks, that the Southern has three solid and distinct grounds of objection to the Free States abolitionist.  First,—­The natural spirit of man, which rebels against wholesale vituperation and calumny.  Secondly,—­The obstacle they have placed in the way of giving the slave simple education, by introducing most inflammable pamphlets.  Thirdly,—­The questionable sincerity of their professed sympathy for the slave, as evidenced by the antipathy they exhibit towards the free negro, and by the palpable fact that he is far worse off in a free than in a slave State.

The same objection cannot justly be taken against English abolitionists, because they act and think chiefly upon the evidence furnished by American hands; besides which, slavery in the West Indian colonies was felt by the majority of the nation to be so dark a stain upon our national character, that, although burdened with a debt such as the world never before dreamt of, the sum of 20,000,000l. was readily voted for the purposes of emancipation.  Whether the method in which the provisions of the act were carried out was very wise or painfully faulty, we need not stop to inquire:  the object was a noble one, and the sacrifice was worthy of the object.

With all the feelings of that discussion fresh in the public mind, it is no wonder that philanthropists, reading the accounts published by American authors of the horrors of slavery, should band themselves together for the purpose of urging America in a friendly tone to follow Great Britain’s noble example, and to profit by any errors she had committed as to the method of carrying emancipation into effect.  I am quite aware a slaveholder may reply, “This is all very good; but I must have a word with you, good gentlemen of England, as to sincerity.  If you hold slavery so damnable a sin, why do you so greedily covet the fruits of the wages of that sin?  The demand of your markets for slave produce enhances the value of the slave, and in so doing clenches another nail in the coffin, of his hopes.”  I confess I can give no reply, except the humiliating confession which, if the feeling of the nation is to be read in its Parliamentary acts, amounts to this—­“We have removed slavery from our own soil, and we don’t care a farthing if all the rest of the world are slaves, provided only we can get cheap cotton and sugar, &c.  Mammon!  Mammon!  Mammon! is ever the presiding deity of the Anglo-Saxon race, whether in the Old or the New World.

There can be no doubt that the reception of Mrs. Beecher Stowe’s work and person in England was very galling to many a Southerner, and naturally so; because it conveyed a tacit endorsement of all her assertions as to the horrors of the slavery system.  When I first read Uncle Tom, I said, “This will rather tend to rivet than to loosen the fetters of the slave, rousing the indignation of all the South against her and her associates.”  Everything