st appropriate on this occasion, and
withal, most significant of her mission.

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