Last winter, pamphlets written and printed in New England, were placed in Galignani's Reading Rooms, to attract English readers, which filled me with horror, by the enormity of the charges and invectives, and the intensity of the venom lavished on the American slaveholders universally, and indeed on the whole American people, except abolition zealots. I have closely followed and studied, in America and Europe, the proceedings, dispositions, and purposes of this sect, which has invented and spread more noxious falsehood and atrocious calumny than any other of modern times, and whose schemes involve more malignity and evil than could be imputed to Jesuits, Illuminati, Carbonari, or the other orders and associations denounced as conspirators against human welfare."
A dissolution of the Union was, undoubtedly, the ultimate and real design of those foreign founders and abettors of abolitionism. This gained, and the pride of the British lion would be avenged for the disgraceful defeats and losses sustained during the revolutionary and late wars. Not unwisely, then, did they count upon "the slavery question as a disturber and dissolvent," as an effectual expedient to cripple American power and institutions. They acted the part of sagacious and accomplished statesmen, in selecting this as the Archimedian lever, with which to subvert the grand superstructure of American Independence. They have effectually sowed the seeds of discord and disaffection in our midst, of which "disunion" is the legitimate and inevitable offspring,
