British slaves, "is a scandal and a reproach, not only to the
government, but to the owners of every description of property in
England." This is strong language, and the reader will please
recollect, that it is the testimony of a leading English Journal, so
late as February, 1853.

Here is an array of English testimony that cannot fail to convince
every one that slavery exists to the present moment in the English
dominions, in a form far more aggravated than African slavery in the
United States. How is it then, that she has been, and is to the
present time, making ceaseless and untiring efforts to exaggerate the
sufferings and the disabilities of the African race in our midst,
while there is so much suffering and oppression among her own
subjects? Is it not an, extraordinary circumstance, that a nation who
has expended so much blood and treasure in invading the rights of
others--a nation that to the present hour tolerates and legalizes
slavery in its worst possible forms--or rather, in every possible
form; should affect so much solicitude about its extinction in a
foreign government? In view of all these facts, is it not a
humiliating circumstance; or rather, is it not an outrageous insult to
the American people, that Madam Stowe, after having basely
caricatured, slandered and misrepresented her own country, to flatter
and please the English people, and their Northern allies in the United
States; should with her ill-gotten gains fly across the ocean, to join
the slanderers, denunciators and libelers of our beloved country? The
world can't produce another instance of such insulting, arrogant,
bare-faced knavery and hypocrisy! A thousand reflections force
themselves on my mind, and had I a voice as seven-fold thunder, and
could I congregate around me in one solid phalanx, every man, woman
and child, on the North American portion of this continent; I would