Our anticipation that Mr. Benjamin Smith's attack on Lord Brougham
would not long wait for a reply, has been iodized in the following letter, first published in a cheap and useful publication called The Commentator. Very calmly and with perfect good-huniour does Lord Brougham conduct himself in the unequal contest. Mr. Smith is put aside without the appearance or reality of the slightest effort. " Dear Mr. Smith-I heve received a printed letter from Nora kb, signed aid' your manse ; and to show that I desire to treat you with no dierespect. 1 11114Ner it. Contrary to my uniform practice of mobling all such controversies. •• I sill not allow you to le a better judge thau myself of *bat your father would have done lead lie beta alive. For once dint you may have direay.sed these wiestious aitli him, I must have diecussed them fifty times; having bad unreserved corium:Ma- we. lion a ith him from the year 1504, down to the time ol his lamented death, upon every thing relating to slavery and the slave.traile. Perhaps lee would also, in your opinion, have sapported the Government in their new Guiana amid East Indian alarearaele. ; nail only express my tiro' belief that lie would on all mach questious hate been totted merged with all the surviving friends of the cause to which Ile was so heartily devoted, awl clot have presented the ouly exception among those triends. " Y011 speak of Lord Dow ick having broil • oppoeed and overborne ' by me is his wishes for immediate eneaticipation, and of his defeat on that subject leaving made him iplit the Colouial Office. I don't know to a hat you can annuli.. I made no MI6 effort of any kind to • oppose or overhear ' ally one. I ats merely one of an linaei- MOUS Cabitiet, in a Melt I exerted no kind of halm-ace npon the questien, aud look tio plot more than every other Minister. 'flare never was aim instant's difference of opi.. 'don umong us. As fe r Lord Howiek•s leaving the Colonial Office, I conceive veil must be mistaken : for if his difference of opinion upon ecu tery impoitant a queslion had been so great Gen lie could not brook to remain linder.Seeretary in 041e departmest and serve there under those with a lioni he differed, I presume he either aouid le; have hrooked to serve under the same persons as Under-Secretary in another de. penmen., or, at least, that he ei,t 1141t %cry much remelt his supposed disc:omelem. l'he fact I hail alway e stippo,et1 to be quite certain, that lee only removed holn the Co. loiiial to the Home Office, :11141 rem, t i tttttt there air about a year ; and, indeed, until I raw this statement, I had always ascribed his removal to the official arrangemeots ahich were tnaile atiout that time. " Dot this is a Vt•Ty unimportant question. Experience has proved that those who were for enetiecipat ion Cl it) t 111111telllieeshi1i were right, tweanse it hes proved that the Negro is capable tif Molest GOUS habits the moment you nuke Itim tree. Surely it is a very strange thitI2 that those alto liappeued to conjecture aright beforeliniel, oil this, the main ten it ef the ease, sl Id become converts to the opposite opinion (At experience leas loyoe i that it be groundless, end Dm( they thentselt tee writ, right at ft rst. I Cu n well imagine men avaipting the my meg sy stein lechere they lead bird mid found it oreng; but I find myself qelite at a hiss to to ci oatand how these MORI %s lime you seeni 410 410011111SW be classed, those who lei lt3 said they est e:t..4 ticeship would be foetid (pine unnecessary, should now hold it to be tie erssary, after exprienee has shown that their former expectal were right. In shoat, they seem ticIlle in the very new predicament of deserting their own right opinion. eddy It Ilas !Well demonstrated to be the right 011e. You a ill perhaps nasty,. ine for belies. ig that t our tallier mould not, any no re titan his friends ilconeas Llarkseu, and Z. Macatiley, and T. Buxton, and Dr. Luellingtou, have been found antung this class of
teaS011ers.
" pass over your pleas:entry about emancipation being taken as an uulter5tive.,Lula an al Levet ite having leaser to turn out and to turnice, because I really do not nutlet. elated it, and I need, tholla if you do. ltat if you% mean to insinuate thet -r anal ats. Laken or party views have even the very slightest connexion with ur Ie,fleieeuce even nly conduct in this cool riwersy , I will add thud there are tio words too 'liven; or too direct in a hid, to give you a flat and peremptory con•railiction. " Yoe% justly term the bat gain of 1833 one which Ites • failed to produce adequate borlefit 10 111, ,;141e..' But a ht.? Simply. beeallSe those all0 made it (if t was a bar. U eitt, Idyll I deny.) helieved diet the •layes could uot with advantage, or even safety to themselves, be made at once free. 'Fills elotte was the ground of the appremicslelp. I 'Wetly 'trey that the Negroes %ere made apprentices to benefit their masters. Those magma icceived twenty millions-that ales t tick compensatien. TM( transition state was agreed tee for the benefit of the slaves themselves; anti it was reluctantly agreed to, Lecause ue believed, erroneously, as experietwe has since proved. that they were not tit for tremlam. W hen e tied that they are fit, mu withholding that freedom out of any regard to the Planters, is directly contrary to the very grounds of the anangement; Mat ieur immediately emancipating them is the necessary consequence of discovering nor former mutt:Ike. "Ac tor your Wietul, about whose obeervations upon my health you misapply a quo. lotion front Milton, in order to ineinttate that I urn a fallen nnge1.1 ant happy to inform you that he is not an accurate observer ; Pir I never in toy whet(' life was in the enjoy. ment of better healtil. This is of very little moment to any one except myself. Bat when you bid me not desert the cause of education and charities, be pleased to re. collect, that I rave notice in my place that I should postpone those subjects until they could be le.keu op without interruption from others whielt pressed for immediate ati tuition ; cited that a linest'ull whether or not slavery shall cease 011 the 1st of Aqua next, is (11Ie 4./1" this desaiptien, I presunie will ley readily granted. My Parliamentary exec.:le:Ice is semewhat longer thou yours, and I never yet saw good got by tal.itig uuiu mote than one subject at a time. You vamps lease also not forgotten how Effie eleeeeragenteed 0; support I have veer received from ally quarter upon these at ,inest ions. They are treated by same with silent pity and contempt ; by others wit:. Later liostilit!, Ne...erthelie s. I shall persevere in urging them, as I have done fer mans years; and I hope I studl foal you ammig those who, regardless of any other consitierat 1011, tcia sepport the 1110,1,11teS 11t0I/0111141e41 to teach t he people.
" I foil ear to deal e id' the noreflec: ing and a holly inconclusive :newer which yoa
give to the very able a el useful speech of Mr. ; first. Iwcause lee is fully Mr froate to his oat, defence; next, because you have considerately saved him any trouble oit that neon., by git log All moment which refutes itself. I "admit, however, in passing, avoid to remark en the erodigione thoughtlessness %tacit coold make you cite St. Dundinto utgaitist him, In es3;1, in proof of the Negro's itufit nese for immediate freedom. Many Abolitionists, inyeelf among the rest, held this doctrine in former times; others dissented from it. But after the example of Antigua and the Bermudas, which the last three years have furnished to decide the question for ever, can any man believe it poisible that a person affecting to reason tattou the subject, should revert teethe die puled experience of hot) years ago. and ',hut his eyes to what is now iueontestably going on before his lace? But I hasten to the close of your letter. " It seems you are unable to diecover any reason for my supporting immediate eman- cipation, eseept that • it is popular and impracticable.' Your letter not only clues not move it impracticabie, tail impliedly shows the contrary. The next time that yen us
disposed tel make these polluted attacks, be pleased to keep your eyes open to what Is geing on before them in the nest plutio noel notorious menner, I admit that yon were test Mullet to remember the part I took ice carry ing the most unpopular measure of
modern legislation hew year. ago-the Euglish Puoulaw Amendment. ltut you might, peritape. e is hem much nejelstiee, be expected to bear in mind what happened last week, lteo 1 took lite 'mot nem, and neatens part in opposing the extension of poor.laws to Ireian-i -a course a Icicle 1 certainly deemed to follow necessarily from the principles of the We:WM of 1e34, bet a coarse %Web, I believe. is 3111 entirely unpopular in We eutnitry as any that a statesman could ;ensue. I am yours troly,
" BROUGHAM.*
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