principles of free government developed here, and urging our
people on with unexampled rapidity in the career of wealth and
greatness, have always been subjects of alarm to monarchs and
aristocracies--of pleasure and hope to the people. It has, of course,
been the object of the former to blacken us in every conceivable way,
and to make us detestable in the eyes of the world. There has been
nothing since the revolution so well calculated to advance this end,
as the exhibition which Mrs. Stowe is making in England.

"It is because they have a deep and abiding hostility to this country,
and to republicanism in general, that the aristocracy, not only of
England, but of all Europe, have seized with so much avidity upon
_Uncle Tom_, and have been at so much pains to procure a triumphal
march for its author through all the regions she may choose to visit.
They are delighted to see a native of the United States--of that
republic which has taught that a people can flourish without an
aristocracy or a monarch--of that republic, the example of whose
prosperity was gradually undermining thrones and digging a pit for
privileged classes--describing her country as the worst, the most
abandoned, the most detestable that ever existed. Royalty draws a long
breath, and privilege recovers from its fears. Among the people of the
continent, especially among the Germans, Italians, and Russians, there
are thousands who believe that murder is but a pastime here--that the
bowie-knife and pistol are used upon any provocation--that, in fact,
we are a nation of assassins, without law, without morality, and
without religion. They are taught to believe these things by their
newspapers, which, published under the eye of Government, allow no
intelligence but of murders, bowie-knife fights, &c., coming from
America, to appear in their columns. By these, therefore, only is
America known to their readers; and they are very careful to instil
the belief, that if America is a land of murderers, it is so because
it has had the folly to establish a republican form of government.

"These ideas are very general in England, even where the hostility is
greater than it is on the Continent. To British avarice we owe slavery
in this country. To British hatred we owe the encouragement of
anti-slavery agitation now. The vile hypocrisy which has
characterised the whole proceeding is not the least obj