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tion whether the system of black labor was or was not justifiable, it was admitted that the black peasant of the Southern States was as well clothed, as well fed, as well sent to MR. BERESFORD HOPE is, perhaps, the most church, as any peasant in the world (loud intelligent and docile of all the disciples whom cheers)." There is a largeness of view here the Slave States and their able politicians have in the picture of what a peasantry should be found in England. The result of that "in- -"well fed, well clothed, and well sent to tense study" which, as he told his Liverpool church," there to hear, one would hope, careaudience yesterday week, he had during the fully selected lessons-which must have filled last three years given to this subject, has the minds of his English audience with vain been, no doubt, to mould his flexible intellect regrets. The English peasantry, if they and sympathetic heart into the very attitude could but be effectually bought up by their of the slave-driver's; and the result shows landlords, might be also well fed, well clothed, itself in flashes of arbitrary eloquence and and well sent to church. As a Richmond gleams of splendid mockery against English paper not long ago pointed out, if your capiprejudices which, we are not surprised to find, talist could but own all his laborers, the filled the "Southern Club" of Liverpool with problem of competition for wages and for vaenthusiasm and delight. That passage about rious other and more valuable things might be Lord Russell's hardness of belief as to the solved, or rather annihilated. You can feed, universal prevalence of English sympathy dress, and drive your peasantry to church, or with the South, was conceived in the strong to the cotton-ground, as the case may be, if spirit, and expressed with all the elegant dic- once you own them. And, then, as to owntion, of a mind tutored in the bar-room con- ing them, continues Mr. Beresford Hope, with versations of Baltimore or Mobile. "He subtle and daring logic, it is, after all, a dishad once heard the story of a gentleman who tinction of words more than of things. "He was accused of intoxication, and being a man might tell them that he was talking the other of a kind of statesman-like mind,-such a day to a Southerner, and said to him, 'We man as should preside at the British Foreign don't like the word "slave;" why don't you Office (roars of laughter),-he said, for his get rid of it?' His friend replied, Well, part, he was unwilling to consider any gen- we don't use it in the Southern States, we tleman intoxicated until he saw that gentle- call them "servants," or " people. """ Then he man trying to light his pipe at the pump said, Why don't you get rid of it?" " (great laughter). Now, it seemed to him friend did not reply, and Mr. Beresford Hope that Lord Russell required equal stringency did not, as he might have done, reply for him of proof before he would understand that the" because we went to war expressly to presympathies of this nation were with the Con- vent either getting rid of it, or softening its federate States (laughter)." That is very meaning,-in order that it might have a more nicely illustrated, and in a form that would, permanent and austere meaning,'-for that perhaps, appeal yet more popularly to the would have been a painful mode of putting it. every-day experience of the Southern citizen Mr. Beresford Hope knew, like his Southern than even to the cheery imagination of the friend, how to put it more delicately. "It Liverpool sympathizers. And when, amidst was like a question," he said, "which had universal acclamations, Mr. Hope branded been agitated in some of the counties of Engour attorney-general, Sir Roundell Palmer, land as between the lessces and tenants-atas, in type at least, a genuine "Bostonian will." There might, perhaps, be more likestatesman, in the pure and true sense of the ness than there is between the two questions; word, which the political shufflers of the in- but that only shows better the great delicacy tellectual city of Boston put forward," the of Mr. Hope's discrimination in pointing out Confederates present must have felt, with what there is. "The theoretical differences sudden joy, that the spirit of the late Hon. (between the English system and the SlaveW. L. Yancey, or the late Mr. Brooks, of State system of labor) were greater than the South Carolina, or some other heart of fire, practical, and if he might prophesy, in one hunmiscalled a fire-eater, had taken possession of dred, fifty, or thirty years nence, the question the wealthy and generous British politician. of black labor in the Confederate States would But the best evidence of Mr. Hope's profi- become then just what the great questions of ciency in the Southern school of thought the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, was, of course, his happy mode of comparing the Free-Trade Bill, and the Catholic Emancithe condition of the black peasantry" of the pation were in England." There is a diffiSouth with that of the English agricultural culty here which Mr. Beresford Hope, with laborer, with which he, of course, as a man more time, would, no doubt, explain satisfacof large property, is thoroughly familiar. torily. Supposing the Orangemen had es"They would find that, apart from the ques-tablished a separate state or kingdom apart

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the same affinity, but had proved itself unworthy of it, she had fought a good fight to defend what is dearer to her than life."

from the Liberals, but including all the Catholics, simply in order to extend and strengthen the penal enactments against the Catholics, is it clear how soon the Catholic The substance of Colonel Lamar's teaching, emancipation would have been passed? But, however, was more valuable than even the of course, every difficulty could not have been Standard would lead us to believe. He dwelt met in a single speech, and Mr. Beresford first on the noble nature of agricultural purHope had done enough already in reducing suits. Nearly all the people of the Southern the question of slavery to a question of "the- States, he tells us, "see in each upturned sod ory," rather than practice, and setting forth of their fallow ground that which is more some of the advantages of the black peasantry, precious to them than the gold of California in being well fed, well clothed, and well-the sparkle of independence and of personal driven to Church, over the English. Mr. liberty." The fallow ground, we conclude, Hope having once taught us to see in the represents especially this" independence and slave-driver's lash the true symbol of freedom, personal liberty," because it is still idle and we may trust him to develop to us at some fruitless, while the cultivated ground would future time the proof that, as the legitimate represent a certain amount of effective indussway of that lash extends, the use of it will try, and, therefore, of that dependence and be relinquished. It is something that a man personal servitude" which is happily associbred in England has acquired so aptly the ated with industry in this blessed land. Colofree logic and homely morality of the Slave nel Lamar said that he ascribed the warlike State.

character of the South to its association with the soil; "he believed, without disparaging other pursuits, that from the culture of the soil, the drawing of sustenance from the bosom of mother earth, they derived a certain moral nutriment, a certain richness of sentiment, of capacity for self-devotion and sacrifice, which kept the heart fresh and pure, and made the nature of men simple and unaffected (cheers)." By a beautiful provision of Providence it appears that the "nu

we suppose-is conducted through the channel of the actual laborer, the slave, who stops none of it in the way, but hands it on to the slave-owner. He ripens and fills out with the sap which this human conduit-pipe obediently transmits to him, without absorbing any of it. How subtle a testimony to the supernatural character of the institution is here given us! Colonel Lamar avowed frankly" the diversity" of opinion which existed between his

But Mr. Beresford Hope is only an humble learner, after all,-a very acute learner, much more intelligent than Mr. Lindsay, though scarcely more deeply imbued than the latter with the spirit of the noble cause he advocates, but necessarily unable to realize with full intensity the whole scheme of life in the Southern Confederacy. But England is not left without direct teaching from the pure source of the slave principle itself. The Surrey farmers were instructed by a direct mis-triment and richness "the fat of the land, sionary from the Slave States on the same day on which the eloquent Englishman tried his "'prentice hand" on explaining slavery to the Southern Club, at Liverpool. At Chertsey, Mr. Lindsay introduced to the warm-hearted agriculturists of Surrey a Southern colonel who had fought at Bull Run, and who was received, if we may trust the Standard,-with rapturous enthusiasm by the tillers of the English soil. "All through the after-dinner speeches," says the Standard, "the laborers outside, waiting for the distribution of prizes, were hammering for admission. Those at the table inside were fascinated by an interest which they felt to be of a novel kind." No doubt it was exceedingly novel, for Colonel "they had elevated him in the scale of raLamar stood amongst them dispelling the il- tional existence, they had Christianized him lusion that slavery has been, or is, anything to a state to which he had never before atbut a blessed decree of Providence for the sal- tained." "The negro race," he said," with vation of Africa, and their English hearts all its foulness and barbarity, being naturally opened at once with manly candor, as the a servile race, had become domesticated, and Standard testifies, to receive this teaching: "The Surrey farmers felt for this brave man, they hung upon his lips, and cheered him till the welkin rang, as in thoughts that speak and words that burn,' he told them how the South loved England, how she rejoiced in her possession of all the political privileges which Englishmen hold dear, how, threatened by a mongrel and degenerate race, which claimed

hearers and himself as to some of the institutions" involved in slavery; but he maintained, and called upon the meeting to admit, that "the South had been the guardians, the protectors, the benefactors of the black man,'

in spite of the institution of slavery if they pleased, but still with slavery, had risen higher and higher in the rational scale, until now it furnished heroes and heroines for modern romance." "If the time should ever come for the South to believe that liberty would be a boon and not a curse, then the South would be prepared to confer that boon upon them." In the mean time, as Colonel

Lamar modestly forgot to point out, the ben- | Hope, and Mr. Lindsay, and Colonel Lamar efactors of the black race are fighting solely should call upon us to do at once; and surely and disinterestedly for the right to "guard, many an English heart, like that of the enprotect, benefit, elevate, and Christianize the thusiastic Surrey farmers and the Liverpool black man," over a wider area than the North magnates, would bound in willing acquiesin its churlish malignity chooses to concede as cence. Would not this be the best specific the theatre of that great philanthropic task. aim for these noble-minded men's labors? A nobler cause can scarcely be imagined; Charity begins at home. It is all very well only Colonel Lamar was too bashful to ex- to give our moral sympathy to the South as pound it in its full dignity. The Northern against the North. But is that enough for States had wished Colonel Lamar and his our own consciences? Should we not say at friends to restrict their benevolent work of once to Colonel Lamar and Mr. Hope, "Let "guarding, protecting, benefiting, elevating, us set the true example to the North. We and Christianizing" the black man to their blame the North most justly for refusing to own Southern States. The South claimed the South the inalienable privilege to guard, the divine right of carrying on that noble protect, benefit, elevate, and Christianize missionary work in any part of the Union, the black man wherever they may take him in the great half-settled Territories, espe- or find him. But let us practice before we cially-nay, even in the so-called free States preach. Let us accord to the South the full also. What could be worse than the impiety right to guard, protect, benefit, elevate, and of drawing a strict boundary round the area Christianize' the black man on English soil, of this divinest task of man? Who could according to the spirit of its own noble instirenounce his right" to guard, protect, ben- tutions,-on British soil and the soil of Britefit, elevate, and Christianize" the black man, wherever and whenever they could find him? No doubt, when they have wrung from the North this blessed privilege, they will wring it from England too, if the noble missionaries who are now pleading the cause with Liverpool merchants and Surrey farmers do not first persuade us to give it them as a free gift. That is really what Mr. Beresford

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ish colonies, and then we can honestly and with a clear conscience upbraid the North for wishing, in this niggardly and malignant spirit, to limit the range of this beneficence, and say to that exalted type of Christianity. Thus far shalt thou go, and no further."" This, we think, would be our true response to the noble appeals of Mr. Beresford Hope, Mr. Lindsay, and Colonel Lamar.

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