Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Come and Look Through My Telescope (Article) Description An account of the resource "COME AND LOOK THROUGH MY TELESCOPE." Galileo . Frederick Douglass' Paper of the 19th, has in it, to me, the usual amount of articles of interest and instruction the editorial of W.J. Watkins not the least among the number. I have borrowed his figure, and am willing to look through Galileo's telescope. The first thing I see is a party of warmhearted abolitionists of Great Britain that have contributed funds for the benefit of free colored persons of the United States; of this fund, after passing through the hands of a distinguished friend of that proscribed class, a part is placed in the hands of a Philadelphian, very much their friend too (Samuel Rhodes) better known to some of the contributors to that fund that to G.T. Downing, and who has till now been regarded as devoted to their best interests. Now some one steps up and puts a piece of smoky glass before the telescope, and now everything looks deformed. I turn it towards Miss Miner and her school; she looks like a full blooded colonizationist, her scholars grown up and gone to preach the Gospel in Africa or elsewhere and S.R. Giving her countenance in all this. (Afflicting sight.) I turn it upon G.T. D., and he looks very unfriendly upon Oliver Johnson, William L. Garrison, and some others of the same school, and they all look forbidding then away with your smoky glass your "jaundice eye." Now with clearer field glass, I turn it towards the South there is Legree laughing in his sleeve as he gathers up a pile of money from his table. Why that sarcastic smile upon his countenance? He has just finished reading Wendell Phillip's lecture on Slavery, and is saying to himself that Phillips is more than half right those Northern abolitionists have, for these twenty-five years been trying to touch off their Quaker gun with one hand, and for twenty-five years, with the other have they been adding to this pile of money I reckon they believe us mighty stupid to pay more regard to their counsel than to their cash . By turning the telescope a little further up it reveals the channel through which that pile of money has reached him it has come from that ultra abolition State Massachusetts the land where "No Union with Slaveholders" was born that is not political or ecclesiastical union but where Commercial Union with them, the most precious of all to them, is maintained with almost religious exactness. Turn it a little further, and there is brought into view a long train of anti-slavery cotton spinners and store-keepers doing their part towards completing the connection between Legree and his remote customers, and pocketing their share of the spoils. I now turn it toward Rochester , Syracuse, and some other places where anti-slavery zeal glows the warmest, and what do I find? Some of the sources from which has spring that mighty river of patronage so indispensable to the Slaveholder and now annually worth near 140 millions of dollars. I listen to the eloquence of the one lecturer to the pathos of another to the tale of woe more strange than fiction then take up my telescope and see the bloodstained cotton upon their backs. I see the throngs of listeners, melted down with pity for the down-trodden victim of oppression weeping away the tear of sympathy, and yet, to all appearance, unconcernedly, partaking of tropical productions that have been wrung from the trembling limbs of the very objects of their compassion. But my telescope reveals bright spots as well as dark ones it shows me the free laborer of the South, willing to supply the abolitionists of the North with free grown productions, and able to do it (including cotton) far beyond the present demand for articles of that character. I can see the business channel, under the care of prudent, conscientious men, through which this anti -slavery cotton can reach anti - slavery people. I can see the Free Produce warehouse in Philadelphia, and the free cotton manufactory not far away form that city the thousands of earnest philanthropists scattered over the country who are able to do much toward turning the tide of patronage from the slaveholder into a more legitimate channel, and last but not least, I can see the conviction deepening in the minds of those philanthropists, that what they do with clean hands is doubly, nay, trebly done. Now, if G.T.D. would like to make use of my telescope to peep at S.R. with, or to know upon what principles it is constructed, I would recommend to him the reading of the Citizen of the World, edited by Elihu Burritt, and which succeeds the periodical to which R.R. alludes. "Come and look through my telescope," says Consistency. HENRY MILLS. MOUKTON, Vt., 1 mo. 29, 1855. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Henry Mills Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>Frederick Douglass' Paper</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2.9.1855