However the English nation may shed their crocodile tears over the woes and wrongs of the African race in our country; we know that they are a nation of murderers, thieves and robbers.  Their religion is little else, but legalized hypocrisy.  Justice and humanity never yet found a place in their moral code.  It looks well in them to talk about oppression in other lands; but so it is the world over.  Men as vile as crime can make them, will arrogate to themselves the right to judge and censure others.  The history of England for centuries past, is but a record of crime—­of wars, butcheries and bloodshed—­rapine, injustice, oppression and inhumanity.  But she will talk about negro slavery in the United States notwithstanding—­and of liberty, and justice, and truth, and righteousness, and the rights of man!  “Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye.”

Perhaps, my English friends, while Mrs. Stowe is in your midst, you had as well suffer her to look around among your “lowly.”  Perchance she might find material for another novel.  Ah! that would be cruel indeed.  Well, it would—­but then it might turn out a good speculation “among the lowly;” and a Yankee is always ready for that.  Well, seriously, my good friends across the water, you had better not trust this lady too far.  We are aware that when you invited her to your country, it was no part of your design, that she should spend any portion of her time among your servants.  Well, then, I would advise you as a friend, not to trust Yankee cupidity too far.  Watch the lady well, otherwise she might yet make a little money by a “life” among your “lowly.”

But the English nation have had another object in view, in fanning this flame of discord among us, by keeping up the slavery agitation.  It was to conceal their own dark and damnable deeds.  It is the universal practice of those who are guilty of criminal acts, to bring railing accusations against others, in order to divert public attention from themselves.  So it has been with England.  She has grown rich by injustice and oppression.  Hence, her attempt to divert the attention of the world from herself to her rival, the United States.  We know that it is a common occurrence for persons to attempt to conceal their own crimes, by directing attention to the crimes of others—­to justify themselves, by making the impression, that others are just as bad as they are.  It has often brought to mind an altercation I once witnessed between a couple of boys.  One remarked to the other, that he was a thief.  “I don’t care,” (replied the little urchin,) “if I am a tief; you are a tief too.”  So it has been with old mother England, she knew well, that she was a “tief” but she did not care, provided she could make it appear that her daughter, the United States, was a “tief” too.