Democratic Banner

George Lippard, the author of the famous letter addressed to Gen. Taylor, is now the editor of the Quaker City, published in Philadelphia, Penn. The following remarks are from a late number of that paper:

We are opposed to slavery in all kinds, shapes and colors, but for the life of us, we cannot understand the course of those persons who make war upon negro slavery and at the same time profess the most boundless admiration for the very name of Great Britain. Multiply the evils of Black Slavery by ten thousands, and they will not parallel the wrongs and atrocities committed by England on her White Slaves. These White slaves are not found on cotton plantations, but they are found in the cotton mills, in the manufactories of England. Go to England if you would survey human nature in its lowest depth of degradation. There in the caverns of London, in the factories of Manchester, in the depths of the coal mines, you will find thousands of white men and women who have never heard of the existence of God. You will find childhood blasted into precocious crime. You will find womanhood degraded below the brute creation. You will find manhood, so trodden down, overworked and enslaved from his veriest infancy, that it no longer reminds you of God, or of his creation, but of Satan and a satanic creation. Go to Ireland, and survey the bones of a million of skeletons, which, three years ago, were living men, women and children, but which are now the trophies of the great battle fought by England against humanity—the battle of the plague and famine. Talk of England as the friend of mankind, or as the enemy of slavery! As well might you speak of Satan as benevolent, or of Tartarus as a place renowned for its salubrious climate. England is the enemy of mankind. Her power is fed upon human flesh. Her thousand lords live upon the death of ten thousand of the poor-the poor, without bread or hope. Her bishops offer prayers to God, and at the same time proclaim their Atheism to the world, by their ridiculous lying and by their consistent oppression of the masses. True, there are two Englands, the England of the Government, backed by the monied and landed aristocracy, and the England of the People, who are only born to toil and die. The English government we hate, as the Juggernaut of modern civilization, which never moves but to crush the innocent and the weak. The English people; the men, the women and the children, whose prostrate backs make the pathway of this great Juggernaut-we love as the great family, whose Father is God. But the England of the Bankers, Lords, and Bishops, is the foe of mankind. The sooner it is blotted out from the list of nations, the better for the world. Every day that it continues to exist, is only another day of starvation, suffering and blood. The hour which witnesses the downfall of England, will be called by mankind, as the 4th of July of a freed world.

Let any man read the reports presented to the English Parliament in relation to the degradation of the factory population of England, let him peruse the British papers, and see how day after day murder, famine and robbery go hand in hand over the British dominions-let him accept the testimony of British authors, in regard to the utter misery of the masses of the British people-and then, if he has the heart to do it, let him deny that England is the common executioner of the human family.

That Americans opposed to slavery should admire this England may well excite our wonder. But that in their haste to get rid of Black Slavery, they should eulogize the White Slavery which prevails in England, may well excite not only the wonder, but the horror and contempt of all honest men.

Away with the hypocrite, whose bowels yearn with compassion for the negro, while his heart has not one throb, nor his eye one tear, for the English slave.