The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1853, Page 6

THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND vs. THE WOMEN OF AMERICA. THE WHITE SLAVES OF GREAT BRITAIN. | Mrs. Ex-President John Tyler to the Dutchess of Sutherland and Others. {From the Richmond Enquirer, Jan, 28 } TO THE DUTCHESS OF SUTHERLAND AND THE LADIES OF ENGLAND. Your address to your sisters, the women of the United States, on the becivect of amon Pg A it exists among us, whic ap in our public journals, should ‘ by be acknowledge some one of the | ‘vast mumber of those to whom it is addreased, with- out awaiting the publication of the more formal com- munication. There are some of the concerns of life in which conventionalities are properly to be dis- , and this is one of them. A reply to your | must necessarily be the work of some one in- among us, or must go altogether unper- formed. Woman, in the United States, with but few , confines herself within that 4 for God who created her seems to have de- signed her. Her circle is, literally aud emphatically, her family; and such she is content that it . Within that cirele her influence is felt over the relations of life, as wife, mother, mistreaa—and es the duty of one, or all of these re- 80 is Caan or otherwise. To cast a her fidelity in any one of them is to ex- her the odium of the community, and, in She knows i oa ical peter not o litical conven- og sort than such as pastors of the church, and directed to the advancement of the Chris- Such ia emphatically the case with the Southern States. Do you wish to 5 must visit their homes. Do you desire the nature of their employments, you eir family circles, and, believe me, good of England, you would find in their Christian deportment, and perfect amiability of manners, ‘at once to inspire you with | esteem. You might find no splendid | dress, no glittering diamonds, no aristo- No, the vestments they wear are ness and charity, their diamonds are heart, and their splendor the neatness, | ich everywhere ta | neatness, that order, and that con- nothing more observable than in the Heap uy you every comfore during Your q every comfort during your the ‘roois of their masters. You will impossible it would be to expect nited States to assemble in con- agen or by proxy, in order to your ad Nay, I must, frankness, declare to you, that the , especially, have not received kindest — They re; itas with all confidence in or con- invoke the interposition of the { called the free States, in a mat- have no more to do than have interference in the question effect than toexcite disturbance, | and ill-will, and possibly, in the end, ih of kind feeling between geo- sections. It is the province of the women Southern States to preside over the domestic estates and plantations of | husbande— it is emphatically their pro- | visit the sick, and nd to the mi bie Tabocers upon such = to ut a poor compliment to | South i to Ht eES5 g 4 i fi u E iH if i t f ff HH ies Fe iu # s § ! BE 5 é é i rf 43 E f i : | | u a : & E i : seinaia see, in the fact that the ad- | them was handed to you, | for signature, by the editors of the id, and that, according to | heas of Sutherland in her | convention, your convention | the offspring of the same political news- I say, see enough in all this to | cmey-d their apprehensions. | or fancy that they see, in your move- | moat grenieat statesmen. The Viscountess Palmerston, the dy John Russell, not to men- | Segiaentoa by a woproaion tear tary com] & Bu ‘ion ey or openly an Hess an address the concurrence of their husbands. The of the Southern States are, for the most part, well educated; indeed, they yield not in this re- | spect to any females on earth, and they have opportunities of uiring knowledge to the public concerns of the world. Politics is almost universally the theme of conversa- among the men, in ail their coteries and social ‘ings, and the women would be stupid indeed, if did not gather much information from this abundant source. Hence they are not ignorant of the po oe of their beloved country, or of the pro- of its early future. Their mothers knew this land when it contained but three millions of inhabi- tanta, and numbered but thirteen States. Their children know it now as the great confederated re- public whose population already equals 26,000,000, and whose dominions are washed by the waters of two oceans. Believe me, that its magnitude now, and its importance in the future, is as fully known to the women of the United States, as it is to your husbands, and editors, and statesmen. Our census tables show a duplication of our population in every cycle of twenty-three years ; so that by the time the | infant now in'the cradle shall have attained to the age of manhood, thatpopulation will have increased to ,000 ; and by the time that same infant attains to middle age, it will have swollen into 100,000,000. | We need go no farther inthe estimate, in order to un- | veil fature which lies before us—a future, unrivalled in eee of power by any- | thing the world has heretofore seen—a future | which already fixes upon it the intense and steadfast | gaze of the statesmen of other countries—a future which unfolds a new destiny, a happier and a | pi ag one, I trust, for the human family—a future | to be regarded with rapture by the loverof man, and | rivilege ‘to shiver and tremble | ores and arteries. I allude not | to any power of the sword. No, allude toa power | more resistless, and more certain in its results—the power of example—the example of a free, prosper- ous and great people, among whom all artificial dis- tinctions of society are unknown ; where preferment | is equally open to all, and man’s capacity for self- | government is recognized and conclusively es- tablished. The women of the United States foresee all this, and they also thoroughly comprehend the that all confederacies have heretofore, in the of the world, been broken up and de- | by the machinations of foreign govern- and if such has been the fate of other confederacies, how much more vigilant | gust we to be, to guard against the fa- | results which have attended on others, and to suspicion, come from what quarter it may, interference in our domestic concerns. If the | and other leagues could not withstand the of the powers of their day, how truly ought we to be on a point which proved 30 and if the foreign States, by whom ‘were surrounded, felt it to be due to them by their machi- suppose that a tenfold in view 3 th i rf { a a ait which may cause i 3 s the affairs of the magnitade, will, ere | in their it or- | the political hemi- | thoroughly known by us as__ ‘therefore you should | surprised at the sus- | is regarded by all the not only of the South, but of the fe know that antag but Fame 74 ‘& possibilit; wreckii e , however, witch Ij hat very subject you your attention; and not only 80, but have ireelves, a8 address, not prepared by sor of ‘own Trsceptih hearts, but oy of the newspaper of affects a mawkish sensibility on a ‘with which it has nothing property to do, and ail for ends which every reflecting person cannot fail understand. » ion in any degree removed by the aah go whichaye Tron address, viz. : the fact that your country inflicted on her then colonies | their fre- | fact you | The colony of Virginia, and, I | ibelieve, mest of the other colonies, were constant mstrances; and one of the Declaration of Independence, | a son of Virginia, was @ by the coun- SB La gs i i i 3 z & F i i fi | sheds tears, and complains over the Le ered part of the | sunshine ‘Thos, then, England not onl permitted | we perio of @ cen- of “blessed 1 personages, to the ex- clusion of all the world beside. Yes, you are alto- gether correct in aseribing whatever thero is of im- morality or crime, in the present condition of the Southern States, to your own Engtand. The colonies remonstrated, and remonstrated in vain, until driven to desperation by her perseverance, they severed the bonds that bound them to land, and established their independence, and al ed the slave trade by their only resource, the power of the sword. The "and the crown of which cern with politics—back to your drawing rooms and Mipaaicd a monopeiy of the trade in ie. win nurseries. a ip between those great slave market, in which England had enjoyed a | monopoly, was thus lost to her; and from tl ment she began to discover that there was something rather immoral in the traffic. Before, the slave ship mo- | was @ stately argoay laden with treasure. The | groans of its subegy Site could not be heard above the surges of ocean. Soon after, a faint | cry could be heard, borne on the winds from Africa's | coast; and now, the Parliament House reaounds with the clanking of the chains and the cries of the vic- tims. Such the mighty influence of the American Revolution, and such the power of the sword wielded in that ever gloriousstruggle. I desire totell you, wo- men of England, plainly, that your address, prepared not by yourselves, but by others, comes, therefore, to us, laden with suspicions, when you advert, as the groundwork of your interference with our domestic institutions, to the fact of the former criminality of England. Would England, with a continuance of a monopoly of the trade over our broad asres up to the present day, have clothed herself in sackcloth and ashes, as she now has done? re was her humanity and her Christian philanthropy for the long riod of 150 ? Our ancestors on this side of | “We fear the Greeks though bearin he Atlantic thundered, through their remonstrances, | at the doors of the Parliament House, and at the gates of her royal palaces—and yet, for all that long period, she had no ears to hear, no heart to under- stand. No sympathy, and no philanthropy, such as now exists, found place in the stately palace. How has happened all this? It would be well for you to inquire. Doubtless some of your distinguished hus- bands can cs you plausible “explanations—at least such as will content politicians on your side of the water. The editors of the newspaper press can come again to your aid; but will it be an easy task to con- vince us that the people of the present generation are better, more moral and more Christian, than all who have gone before them—that your rightreveread bishops and prelates are more pure and than all the’ t queens, your nobles and gentry, are influenced by a higher spirit of Christianity than all who have Bre. ceded them—that your stat en of the present day are superior, in moral excellencies, to those illustrious orthodox | preceoeenns its your kings and | men who shaped the destinies of England in past | times, and left to history undying names? It be | a very, very difficult matter, ish us with satis- facto! of a whole people, after losing the American mar- ket, on the subject of the slave-trade—and we, women of the United States, must ever receive with suspicion all interference in our domestic affairs on the part of the noble ladies of England, or any portion of her inhabitants. Such inter- ference implies eithera want of proper and becoming conduct on our in the management of our negroes, or it seeks to enlist the sympathies ofthe world against us. Your own address, ria have the charity to suppose that it was written in eae rance of the fact, as it is,) representa the Southern States as denying to their slaves all religious in- struction—a rea ee So far from it, no Sabbath goes by that the places of worship are not numerously attended by the black population—edify are delivered to them, and often by colored pastors, and large num- bers of them are in communion with the churches. thi t and sudden conversion | an aetna | each to attend to his own business and let his neigh- ore false was never uttered. | And yet your tears are made to flow freely over the | sad and melancholy privations of the children of Africa, to whom the bread of life is represented as denied. Your assertion could only have been de- rived from some dealer in, and retailer of, fiction. It is known how readily woman's heart responds to either real or imagimary distress; and when woman joins in the concerns of the busy world, how readily her sympathies become ex well as a real, picture of human suffering. T' sympathy, which makes her the gem of creation, rather disqualifies her as a legislator, and subjects her to be made the instrument of the designing. One fact is incontrovertible, and I recommend it to the consideration of the Dutchess of Sutherland, and her compeers of high and low degree: that England, when she had the power to prevent the introduction of negroes into the United States, most obstinately refused to do it; but now that she is deprived of her authority, either to advise or dictate, sighs and injustice and the by an artificial, as | wrong. The crocodile, good sisters of England, is | said to cry most piteously; but woe to the unhappy | traveller who is beguiled by its tears! T have thus attempted to deal candidly with you in disclosing some of the grounds of the suspicions, which, in the estimation of many, attach to your pro- ceedings. 1 will go further, and inform you that it is better for both you and us that we abstain, in fu- tore, from all possible interference with each other in the domestic concerns of our respective countries. In the first place, such interference comes with ill grace from either of us, and can be received with no favor. In morals we believe ourselves quite your equals, and, therefore, it sounds harshly in our ears to be admonished by you of our sins, real or imaginary. There is a proud heart in the American breast, which rebels against all assumption on the part of others, although they may wear ducal coronets, or be consi- dered the stars of fashions in foreign courts. Manage your own affairs as best you may, and leave us to man- age ours as we may think proper. Each of us will find abundant employment in the performance of our respective duties. If you wish a suggestion as to the suitable occupation ridle hours, 1 will point you to the true tiel on philanthropy—the unsup- plied wants of your people of England. In view of your palaces, there is misery and suffering enough to excite your most active sympathies. I remember to have séen lately, that there were in the city of London alone 100,000 persons who rose in the morning wi it knowing where or how they were to obtain their “daily bread,’ and I remember, also, somewhere to have seen that the Eleemo- synary establishment of England costs annually £10,000,000 sterling—a sum greater than that ex- pended by this fragal and economical government of ours, with ite army and navy, and civil and diplo- matic list. Surely, surely, here is a field large enough for the exercise of the most generous sym- pathy. the most unbounded charity. Go, my good Dutchess of Sutherland, on anfembassy of mercy to the poor, the stricken, the hungry and the naked of your own land—cast in their laps the supertlux of your enormons wealth; a single jewel from your hair, a single gem from your dress, would relieve many a poor female of England, who is now cold, and shiver- ing, and destitate. Enter the abode of desolation and want, and cause squalid wretchedness to put on one smile of comfort, perhaps the first one which has lighted up its face for a life-time. Leave it to the women of the South to alleviate the sufferings of their dependants, while you take care of own. The negro of the South lives sumptuously in com- rison with the 100.000 of the white population of London. He is clothed warmly in winter, and has bis meat twice daily, without stint of bread. Have your working men, -women and children as well clothed, and as well fed, and then go to the serfs of | guage, mutual interests, and, to a great extent, a common heritage of freedom, should draw the two | can, under her policy, and by her laws, became pro- | We desire no intrusion o! | mind (I | closest | id For another subject quite as fruitful of , need only refer eto the condition of ap ite ion but recently starving for food, which was freely supplied from our granaries, and at this moment craving mercy from avaricious landlords, who, to extend the area of grazing lands, are level- ling their humble cottages to the ground, and send- ing them forth to die w the public highways. Women of England! go thither with your tender i There, on the roadside, sinks an attenua- ted and exhausted mother, still straining her perish- ing child to her breast, while the unhappy husband and father, himself foodless and raimentleas, sheds drops of agony ever the heart-rending scene. Spare from the well fed negroes of these States one drop of Pog superabounding sympathy, to pour into that bitter cup which is overrunning with sorrow and with tears. Poor, suffering, down-trodden Ireland! land of poetry and song, of noble feeling and gener- ous emotions—birth place of the warrior, the statea- man, the orator—there is no room for you in the sym- thizing hearts of the women of England. Let the Itic race be driven, by starvation, from the land of their fathers, and its exodus would be regarded, not with sorrow, but withjoy and gladness by the secret heart of England. “ Reli ious toleration” is but an unmeaning phrase with the people of Great Bri- tain—it extends not beyond the lips. A difference in creed has been the death-blow to Ireland. I reason not with youon the subject of our do- mestic institutions. Such as they are, they are ours. presents.” Never was adage more applicable—although pro- feasing friendship and sympa hy, we cannot consent that England shall mix herself up with our concerns. We prefer to work out our own destiny. When she might have done so, she gave not relief. We asked her for bread, and she gave usastone. The Afri- ty has descended from father to a Lane art of Southern wealth. advice as to our individual property Tigi at home or abroad. We meddle not with your laws of primogeniture and entail, al- though they are obnoxious to all our notions of jus- tice, and are in violation of the laws of nature. Would the noble ladies of England feel no resent- ment if we should address them upon those sub- jects? And yet isthere a certainty that our voice would not be heard by the toiling and landless mil- lions, in favor of a system which we consider more wise, more just, and more consistent with the holy word of God? We, however, preach no crusade against aristocratic establishments. It is enough for us that we do not allow them to exist among our- selves. We are content to leave England in the enjoy- ment of her peculiar institutions; and we insist upon the right to regulate ours without her aid. I By you to bear in mind that the golden rule of life is for | perty. That pro) son, and constitut bor’s alone! This means peace, love, friendsh The opposite means hatred, ill-will, contentio1 destroys the peace of neighborhoods, and is the | ful cause of discord among nations. I must also sa: to you frankly, that we regard England as an indif- ferent adviser on the subject of negro slavery. Her statesmanship, if it be judged by her course of policy in regard to the West India Islands, would give her no exalted position; unless, indeed, fanaticism be a good adviser, and ruin and desolation evidences of a wise and sound i paler. No, we prefer to follow our own conception of what it is proper for us to do. Our eyes are turned across the ocean, not in the direction England, but to Africa. The footprints of our policy are seen in the colonies there established, al- ready become independent States—in the voluntary emancipation of slaves by our citizens as preparatory of emigration to Africa—a course of emancipation which, from 1790 to 1850, has increased our table in Virginia, of free negroes, in the ratio of 301 per cent, le the white population has only increased 1025 r cent, and the slaves but 643 per cent. These in- ing statistics I extract from a memorial recent- ly presented to the Legislature of Virginia, ask- ing additional aid to er the colonization of freed negroes in Liberia. Thus we seek to retri- bute the wrongs done by Engiand to Africa, by ref civilization for tarbarism_—Christianity for lolatry. We desire no such boon as England bestowed | on her islands—no blight so mae dhe mildew 80 destructive—no ultimate war between the races, bloody, desolating, and finally annihilating. Steam is conquering ince, and Africa will be brought nearer and nearer to our shores with each revolvi year—and the results of a policy, at once wise ant discreet, commencing with slaveholding Virginia, and extensively adopted by the people of the United | States, will claim, sooner or later, the admiration of mankind. America might love England if England would permit her. common descent, a common lan- nations together. The disposition of the Southern | k what I do know) is to cultivate the ndship with ae Nearly all of the Southern people are the descendants of the first settlers. ey have kindred blood, almost unmixed by emigration, flowing in their veins. Their inte- | rests lead them to cherish the principles of free trade. Their cotton, their rice, and other produc- tions of the soil, find extensive markets in Great Britain. They would have them still more free—still more widely open. For myself, when I have visited England, it has been with emotions of reverence growing out of the recollections of the historic page. Westminster Abbey, with its undying memorials— the noble monuments of the past scattered over | the face of the country—the very ruins spoke of an ancestry ulike dear to the American and English- man. My intermixture of Scotch blood, derived from a leader of two Scottish clans, who lost life, castle, and estate in the wars of King Charlie, with the pure Anglo-Saxon, in no degree abated my ardor and enthusiasm, when I looked upon these memen- wes of the mighty past, in which so many of us here claim a common interest with you. But, if England will sever these ties ; if, instead of cultivating good feeling with us, she chooses rather to subject us to taunt, to ridicule, to insult in its grossest form ; and, above all, improperly to interfere in our domes- tic affairs ; if she scatters her nobility among us, first to share our hospitality and then to abuse us ; if, what is still worse, she sends her emissaries, in the persons of members of Parliament, to stir up our people to mutiny and revolt; if, which is quite as objectionable, her public press shall incite her women, and the more illustrious for birth the worse | it makes the matter, to address us homilies on jus- tiee, humanity, and philanthropy, as if we had not, like themselves, the advantage of civilization, and the lights of Christianity, with all the desire to cul- | tivate relations of undying amity, the men of the Russia and the negroes of America. No, I recant | the advice. To the serfs of Russia you will not go. That is an European affuir—the affair of a high and imperial monarch, and of a rich and power- ful goss The poor serf may toil and labor, and stretch hie beart strings until they crack in ago- ny, and yet the noble ladies of England will express no sympathy for him, and present no address to their sisters of Russia upon the subject of serfdom. You will in no event distarb yourselves with the past, present, or future condition of the serf. The news- | seen is a letter from Donald M’Leod, in which, after | | adopting from another writer the rebuke of ‘Look paper press would admonish you of the danger of | interfering in that quarter, and the Emperor Nicho- | las will go unquestioned as to the manner and extent of his royalsway. But, I return to your subject— the state of slavery in our Southern States—and I tell haat that you are mistaken in supposing that the uthern heart ie different from your own in its sym- thies and emotions. Believe me, that the human cart is quite aseusceptible with us as with you. Moraliets, and dealers in fiction, may artfully over- draw and give false coloring, as they are licensed to do; but be not deceived into the belief that the heart of man or woman, on this side of the Atlantic, is either more obdurate or cruel, than on yours. ‘There is no reason, then, why you should leave your fellow subjects in misery at home, in order to take your seat by the side of the black man on the plantations of America. Even if you are horror- | kill men and allow them to rot; we kill men, and to United States, deriving their spirit from their mo- | thers and their wives, may be forced into the adop- tion of a very different feeling with regard to Great Britain. Junta GARDINER TYLER. Snerwoop Forest, Virginia. Jan. 24, 1853. The Awful Cruelties Practised on White Slaves In Great Britain. The Stafford House meeting, at which the “Chris- tian affectionate” address of the ladies of Great Bri- tain to their dear sisters in America was adopted, with the name of the Dutchess of Sutherland at the head, followed by her two daughters—of Argyle and Blantyre—Dutchess of Bedford, Lady Trevellyan, and many others, has excited not only disgust on this side | of the water, but disgust and something worse at home. The liberal journals are out on them in terri- | ble sarcasm; but the most scathing invective we have at Home,’’ he proceeds as follows :— But I must go further, and instruct the American ladies in what they should tell their English sisters to look at home. ey can meet this femipine, En- glish, Christian, affectionate appeal with the same ‘ument that the Cannibal Queen met a French phi- | focopher when he was remonstrating with her upon | the hateful, horrifying, and forbidden practice of eating human flesh, and recommending her to discon- tinue and forbid the practice in her dominions, “Well,” replied the Cannibal Queen, ‘Voltaire, what is the difference between your people and us? You | crown our victory we eat them, and we find them as | can | ters, ‘What is the difference between you and Stricken at the highly colored pictare of human | distress, incident to the separation of husband | buy them, we feed, clothe and house them. No and wife, and parents, and children, under our | system of negro slavery—a thing, by the way, of rare oceurrence among us, and then at- tended Pie ona circumstances—you have no occa- sion to leave your own land for a similar, and still harsher, and more unjust exercise of authority. Go, and arrest the Throw your charities between prese-gang! He has fought the battles of England all over seas. He was at the Nile. He bled and conquered at Trafalgar. He cautht your gallant Nelson in his arms aa he was falling on the bloody deck; received his last breath, and consigned his re- mains to the borom of St. Paul's Cathedral. He has made England what she is, great and powerful. Shall he not, after al) this, be permitted to enjoy the of home, with his wife and litfle ones, for asingle day’ He has perilled his life for England— oor Jack and the | ] | you make them this, by deprivi proceedings of your Adnairalty! | vat the slave trade, fora he haa returned from a five years’ absence in distant anda balf,ase means of swelling her coffers; | seas—his wife and children’ look with rapture upon and the traffic could only be expelled from his weather-heaten countenance—he holds the loved this the force and power of the sword. ones in his embrace—but the Drese- gang. comes, and ‘Your Oe gegen by your Parliament | his fitful dream of happinessis over. If he resists, and treaties, and formed con- | there are fetters for his limbs! If he talks of Eng- of reaping arich harvest of land's proudly boasted common law, there is no law profit trom the \wate--and the voice of theslave-dealer | for him. Magna Charta is farce, and the Petition of few the shores of Africa was perfect music in their Right a mockery, as far as he is concerned. (io, sis- ‘eae, because it was the music of gold told into the | ters of bee ee to your Queen, your Prime Minister, treasury, and all England danced our Parliaments, and courta, and ask their in- jo: at the pleasant sound. You have been well isbreed, | <jowbtless, of the treaties made by your Queen Anne, | erference to arrest this moral and political iniquity, and you will be told, ‘Woman should have no con- ood for food as any other flesh; besides, our laws jemand of us to eat our enemies.” Now, sir, though two blacks will never make a white, yet the Ameri ladies may justly reply and ask their English sis- us? We buy black African slaves; but when we doubt some of us whip them at times for dis- obedience or for our own caprice; but we heal their stripes, and take care of them, that they may work our work. But you, English sisters, you | make white slaves paupers and beggars; and when them of all means | to live by their own ind stry,then you turn them adrift—you raze, plough up, or burn down their ha- | bitations, and allow them to die (in hundreds) the agonizing, lingering death of starvation on the road- | sides, ditches, and n fields. Dear sisters, look at the history of Ireland for the last six or seven years, and you will see how many thousands you have al- lowed to die by hunger ; and consider how many thousands more you would have allowed to die a si- milar death, had we not come to their rescue, and sent them food until we couldremove them from your tender mercy and from your territories, to feed, clothe, and honse them, and to find employment and fair remuneration for their labor among ourselves. Look for one instance at an Irishman arraigned at the bar of justice for shee jing, and his counsel offering to prove that before he stole the sheep, three of his children perished for want of food, and in the case of the last of them who died, a sucking infant, | the mother peeled the ficsh off ita legs and arms; she boiled it, and both she and her husband, the r, | ate it to save their own lives, and the mother died soon after. At this time you, our English sisters,were riding upon chariots, rolling smoothly over your extensive, uncultivated, depopulated domains, upon the wheels | | to remonstrate with Hi | then to Helmsdale, | learn the subjugated, de, | cure for all their mise: | the prison of Volterra, and v | The Avchtsho byl of aplendor and cushions of the finest texture, and Lens. sons, and daughters sharing of your ‘ities, luxuries, and unnecessary pace al ex: Rene more. money and Komen food upon useless logs and horses than would have saved thousands of the poor useful Irish (with the image of God upon them) from a premature agonizing death. We have read with horror of one of your husbands urging with might and main upon the government (who beatirred themselves at the time, for fear the famine might cause a deca, among Sie Trish Jenglarian oat the le with c' ler; and you must recol- cries the comma ae scheme of destroying the Trish could not be sgpraved of, that Sir A. Trevellyan was sent over to Ireland with the test starving commission, and conducted the Irish destruction with more humanity, for he allowed one pound of meal as meat and wages for every starving Irishman who would work ten hours per day at making roads, draining, and improving the estates for Irish landlords. Ah! English sisters, though we could bring no more against you, the pub- lic will judge and decide that you should be the de- fenders, and not the pursuers, in this case; but since ‘ou began to expose us, we will expose you to the letter, for there is mo case or cases brought out against usin “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” with all Har- riet Beecher Stowe's paparilivon of coloring, that is equal to this. We tell you emphatically, that our law would neither sanction nor tolerate such inhu- man treatment—our religion forbids it; and am man or number of men who would be guilty of suc would be branded with infamy and chased from our States and from our societies.as inhuman irrational, irreligious, and immoral monsters, unworthy of Chris- tian society, or to have a voice in the civil or religious government of our country. But by taking a retro- spective view of the history of your Christianized na- tion, we find that inhumanity, oppression, cruelty, and extortion, are qualifications required to fit a legislator, commander, commissioner, or any other functionary to whom you may safely entrust the law making, the law administration, and the government of your people; but qualifications specially required to entitle them to dignified high sounding titles and distinction, as will be shown afterwards. “Uncle Tom's Cabin” has aroused the & pathy and eee of the Dutchesses of Sutherland, Ar- gyle, ford, and Ladies Blantyre and Trevellyan, and many thousands of the women of England, over the fate of Ham’s black children. But we would seriously advise the Dutchess of Sutherland and her host to pause until Uncle Donald M‘Leod’s Cabin comes out, and until he himself comes acroas the At- lantic with it among the thousands of those and their offspring who have fied from their iron sway | and slavery to our shores. He, poor man, has been expostulating with you for the last twenty years against your cruel, unnatural, irrational, unchristian, and inhuman treatment of the brave, athletic, High- land white sons of Japhet; but no English or Scot- tish dutchesses and ladies took any notice of him, nor convened a ene to sympathize with him, or ighland despotic slave-making roprietors to discontinue their unrighteous depopu- fation of the country and their ungodly draining away of the best blood from the nation. Hence we | aver that these ladies would never convene a sympa- | thizing meeting for the benighted Africans, should their own African chiefs, kings, and queens, destroy them by the thousand; but because they sell them, and we buy them and take care of them, English feminine hearts sympathize with them. This isa fine opportunity for Donald M‘Leod. Let him now speak out and make haste, and we promise hima quick and an extensive sale for his Cabin of unvar The Dutchess of Sutherland got very warm on the subject. After she read the sympathizing, remon- strating address, (which need not be quoted here, being long ago before the putlic) she with great en} ea id, “I hope and believe that our efforts, under God's blessing, will not be without some hap} result; but, whether it succeed or fail, no one will deny that we shall have made an attempt, which had for ‘its beginning and end, ‘Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace and good will to men.’” It seems that effrontery is become very lofty and high- voiced, under the pene! of high-sound: a lish titles, when the Dutchess of Sutherland could presume to mix such notorious Lise a whi as these with “Glory to God in the highest, on ea! ace and good will to men,” for no other cause or Tealen than to whitewash from some public odium already ont, or to screen from some that is expected, come what quarter it may. Surely this cannot be the Dutchess of Sutherland who paysa visit every year to Dunrobin Castle, who has seen and heard | so many supplicating appeals presented to her hus- band by the poor fishermen of Golspie, soliciting li- bert; Yo take. mussels from the Little Ferry Sands to bait their nets—a liberty which they were deprived of by his factors, though paying arly rent for it, yet returned by his Grace, with the Trier ‘deliverance that he could do nothing for them. Can I believe that this is the same pemonere who can set out from Dunrobin Coes) ¢ er own High- land seat,) and, after travelling from it, then can ride in one direction over thirty miles, in another direc- | tion forty-four miles; in another direction (by Le the necessary circuitous route) sixty miles, and that over fertile glens, valleys, straths, bursting with fat- | ness, Which gave birth to, and where were reared for ages, thousands of the bravest, the most moral, virtu- ous and religious men that Europe could boast of ; ready, to man, at a moment’s warning from their | chief, to rise in defence of their king, queen, and country; animated with patriotism and love to their chief, and istible in the battle contest for victory. But thes jiant men had thena country, a home, | and a chief, But I can tell | , worth the fighting a a her that she can now ride over these extensive tracts in the interlor of the country without seeing | the image of God upon a man travelling these roads, with the exception of a wandering Highland eet§ | it herd, wrapped up ina gray plaid to the eyes, wil a colly Hace behind him as a drill serjeant, to train his ewes and to marshal his tups. There may hap- pen to travel over the dreary tract a geologist, a tour- ist, or a lonely carrier, but these are as rare as a peli- | can in the wilderness, or 2 camel's convoy caravan in the deserts of Arabia. Add to this a few English sportsmen, with their stag-hounds, pointer dogs, and their servants, and put themselves and their bravery together, and a company of French soldiers would | put ten thousand of them to a disorderly flight to | — it was laid on the table, by a vote of 134 to 115. | There were forty members absent, and a large num- save their own carcasses, leaving their ewes and tups to feed the invaders! The question may arise, where those people who inhabited this Reese! ‘at one period have gone? In America and Australia the most of them Will be found. The Sutherland family and the | ide jike Scotchmen in 1745, with the hangman, as pation had no necd of their services; hence they did not regard their patriotism or loyalty, and disregard- ed their past services. Sheep, bullock, decr, and game became more valuable than men. ¥etarem- nant of them, or in other words, a skeleton of them, is to be found along the sea-shore, huddled together in motley groups upon barren moors, among cliffs and precipices, in the most impoverished, degraded, subjugated, slavish, spiritless condition that hu- man beings could exist in. If this is really the est who has ‘Glory to God in the highest, peace on eartl and good will to men,’ in view, and who is so religiously denouncing the American statute which “ denies the slave the sanctity of marriage, with all its joys, rights, and obligations—which separates, at I would advise her, in God's name, to take a tour round the sea-skirts of Sutherland, her own estate, beginning at Brora, Tongue, Durness, Eddrachillis, and Assynt, and uneducated condition of the spiritless people of that sea-beaten coast, about two hundred miles in | " and let her with similar zeal remonstrate with her husband, that their eondition be bettered ; for the and want is |; unmo- lested in the fertile valleys above, and under his control ; and to advise his Grace, her husband, to be | no longer guided by his Ahithophel, Mr. Loch, but to discontinue his ie ee, Toc de which have separated many a wife from husband, never to meet—which caused many a premature death, and that separated many sons and daughters, never to see them ; and by all means to withdraw that mandate of Mr. Lock, which forbids marriage on the Sutherland estate, under the pains and penalties of being banished from the county; for it has been already the cause of a great amount of prostitution, and augmented ille- gitimate connections and issues fifty per cent above what such were afew years ago, before this unnatu- ral, ungodly law was put in force. When the Dutchess will do this, then, and not till then, will I believe that she is in earnest ding the American slaves. Let her and the other ladies who attended the Stafford of Jupiter, who were supplied with two bays each, the one bag representing their own faults, other their neighbors’ faults—the one representing their neighbors’ faults suspended before them, and the one representing their own faults suspended behind them so that they could never see their own faulta, but their neighbors’ were seen at all times. Ah ! ladies, change your Jupiter bags, that you may discern your inconsistency, and connection with those to whom you owe your position, your grandeur, your great- hes, and all your enjoymente. Tue Maptat-—We translate from the L’ Eco d’ alia, of the 29th inst., the following correspondence from Florence:—" Rosa Madiai is _wtill hes ye hd ly sick. of Florence, and the wife of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, have visited her, believing that they could influence her to retarn to the Roman Church, promising her freedom as a reward for hav- ing abandoned the heretical doctrines. But these illustrious personages have obtained nothing. Great many more Italians are to be tried in Florence for the same crime, and the office of the La te was ransacked by the pote, with the expectation of finding Protestant books.” Obituary. Died, of apoplexy, at his residence, in Barren county, Kentueky, on the List instant, in the 78th year of hia age, Mr. William Bell, one of the most respected citizens of that State. Mr. Bell waa the father of the lady of the Hon, Wm, M. Gwin, of the United State % and has left a large circle of fciends to mourn ovey lis sydden de. cease. Portakerra, Strathy, Farr, | led, and impoverished, | quantity of pale brandy, in a popular “shop,” was Our Washington Correspondence. Wasarnoron, D. C., Jan. 27, 1853. Postal Arrangements, &c, Your reaaers who are correspondents to the conti- nent of Europe, will find it useful to know that lam officially informed that the Havre steamers at pre- sent take no mails forthe German States,except what go in closed bags to Aix-la-Chapelle, and through the Prussian mail. Bremen, as well as other German ‘mails, are sent in these closed bags, unless specially otherwise addressed. Mr. King, the attentivo and efficient officer in charge of the foreign department of our postal ad- ministration, has politely furnished me with the fol- lowing notice of a new arrangement, soon to go into effect, which you will publish for the benefit of the public :— List or Forman Coontrigs TO WHICH PRUSSIA MAY BEND Lerrers AND NEWSPAPERS THROUGH TUK UNiTeD States, Cuba—Havana ......+..006 British West Indies, & Antigua .... Forty centa on each letter of halfan ounce, or under, and eight cents on each newspaper —being tho United States and Prus- eian postage--prepayment compulsory. Sixty-four cents on each letter of half an ounce, or W. Indies, &c., not British under, and twelve cents Carthagena on each mowspaper—be- Hondurai ing the United States, Nicaragua Prussian and British post: age—prepayment compul- sory. New Granada— ta... Bighty cents on each letter of falf an ounce, or un- der, and fourteen oe on Dewspaper—| the United States, Prus- sian, and British postage —prepayment compulso- ry. Sixty-two cents on each let- ter of half an ounce, or under, and fourteen cents on each newspaper—be- ing the United States, Prussian, and British postage—prepayment compulsory. Fifty cents on each letter of half an ounce, or under, and cight centa on each news| — bei the United States and Prus- sian postage — prepay- ment compulsory. Thirty-five cents on each eae of half an haerrgees or ie, nt com- sorye-Betag. the ‘Uni. States, Prussian, and Canadian postage. News- papers six cents each— bel the United States and Prussian postage only. Thirty centa on each letter of halfan ounce, or under, and six cents on each newspaper — bei: the United States and Prus- sian postage — prepay- ment compulsory. Oncorrespondence for any of the above named countries, from beyond the German-Austrian postal Union, the foreign postage to the line of said postal Union must be added. The above takes effect on the Ist of March, 1853. Hoxartio Kina, Foreign Desk, Post Office Department. Our Boston Correspondence. Boston, Jan. 22, 1853. Legislative Action on the Maine Law—Troubles on the Senatorial Question—Horace Greeley Elec- ticneering for Mr. Rockwell—Fitz Henry Warren for Mr. Ashmun—New Carpet Loom—Fall of the Lincoln Elms—Retirement of President Sparks—Earnings of Convicts—Proposed ‘“Re- storation” of the Gallows—Retirement of Mr. Justice Fletcher—Appointment of Mr. Thomas to a Place on the Supreme Bench—Proposed Legisla- tion Concerning Railways— The Increase of Bank Capital—Office-Seckers—Mr. Choate and the At- torney-Generalship--Small Changes-~-Mrs. Stowe's New Work, &c. ‘The town was thrown into a most agreeable state of excitement, on Tuesday afternoon, by the vote of | the Honse of Representatives, refusing to treat an or- der, looking to the repeal of the Maine law, with that ordinary civility which is hardly ever refused to any motion. Mr. Brewer, a whig member from Cam- bridge, introduced the order spoken of, and, on mo- tion of Mr. Nayson, of Amesbury—the ablest demo- cratic member, and the best leader of the opposition ber of ‘dodgers"—gentlemen who have not yet made up their minds how to vote, but who wish to being asafe “determination.” These worthies were | headed by Mr. Small, of Truro, one of the oldest members of the House, and who ought to have set a better example to the “ingenuous youth.” It is im- possible to give you anything like a correct idea of the spread of the news, and of the dire effects that it had. Were I blessed with the ‘vision and faculty divine,” I would attempt to give it to you after the style of Clytemnestra’s description of the progress of | the beacon-fires from Troy to Argos, to be found | the will of the master, the wife from the husband, | | the ehildren from the parent.” | quantities of ee ; disappointment that was expressed on | ng Late the or; House meeting be not like the believersand followers | party ready threaten: in the Agamemnon of schylus; but I am so unfortunate as to be doomed to write in prose alone. Several distillers fell into their own | vats, and have been worked up into very ardent spi- rita. A large number of barkeepers were paralyzed in the very act of twirling the stick,’’ a considerable changed into water—but there's nothing strange in that. A number of venerable conservatives were heard to curse the whigs as heartily as they had been cursing the coalition for a twelve-mounth. Large 4 froze—but there is nothing very remarkable in , either, it being quite a common occurrence. The general opinion in was, that there was 801 ing about to come to an end; but what it wae no one could exactl; ay. The bitter sides, shows how very unanimous was the opinion that a whig vic- tory here was certain to cause the law's repeal; and yet the very first act of the plod bred on the sub- Ject was to refuse a motion to that effect—even that cout which is ahs denied to any proposition. Since Tueeday, little action of consequence has heen had on the su! , gentlemen of the House nibbling about it like so many veteran trout, who would have the bait, but are rmined not to be “caught.” The question of [eaggacte | a United States Senator to succeed Mr. Davis, troubles the whigs a t deal. of the anti-liquor law party, them with the weight of that party's vengeance, if they do not walk straight up to e repeal mark. It claims that there are twelve men in the House who hold the balance of power, and without whose aid no whig can be chosen Senator. Fitz Henry Warren is on here, electioneering for Mr. Ashmun, and Horace Greeley is urging the election of Julius Rockwell, formerly a representative in Con- gress from the district now represented by Mr. Good- rich. Horace made quite a figure last Tuesday, when he visited the State House, in company with General Witton. Some of the country members mistook him for one of their scarecrows, Horace being not exactly a beauty, and scorning to be trammelled in his n by the rules of a Brummel or a D’Orsay. When he heard the vote against the repeal of the Maine law declared Greeley made one jump from the State House to the telegraph station, and indulged in the luxury of an extra despatch to New York, for the benefit of all by entlemen of cold water views there. He act- ed as by the triumph of the fanatics here. For a man who rofesses to have so much faith in the People, Horace has a marvellous desire for stringent laws to keep them straight. Perhaps he feels the neceasity for re- straint in his own person. The discussion of the Senatorial question is getting to bewarm initacharacter The Salem Gazette, a ve- nerable paper of some eighty-five , and which has Lary to the federal or whig party since that party has had an existence, has the bea yg ee sentence, ina leader, on this subject :—‘‘ A Senator from Massachusetts should be a man whose moral character is free from reproach. No gamester, no wine bibber; no loose and licentious liver, should be able to point to the ¢xample of a Heuator (rou Massa- e thought Scott's defeat were all atoned for | i} chusetts, aa a justification for his conduct.” Every- boy understands to whom this is meant to apply; I should n't wonder if this attack on a gentleman whose prospects of becoming Senator are as good as those of any man named, were to lead to aome sharp- shooting; particularly as the article in which it ap- ars is largely directed bigs the common opinion, at the western part of the State is entitled to one of our United States Senators. Salem, at any rate, cannot complain, with anything like justice, on this point, as it town has had one of the Sei abouttwenty-six years, to say nothing of the Senators from other of Essex county; while the whole West, including the counties of Worcester, Hamp- shire, Hampdon, Berkshire, and Franklin, has had a Senator for only about thirty-seven years. But as I hope to be able tosend you, in the course of a cou- ple of days, a sort of historical sketch of our Senato- rial history, I will now let the matter drop, with this remark, t as that part of the State to which Go- vernor Clifford belongs, composed of the counties of Plymouth, Bristol, Ba: le, Nantucket, and Dukes, containing almost one-fifth of the t of the State, has never had a Senator, now is the time for it to strike for its rights, with good chances for succeeding. Such an SD rennes has not occur- red since the formation of the government, and probably will not occur again for half a century. A petition is soon to be presented to our Legisla- ture by certain citizens of Worcester, praying an act of incorporation for the manufacture of carpets ona new plan, invented by Mr. John Goulding, of that city. Competent judges pronounce Mr. Gould- ing’s loom superior to anything ever invented for the manufacture of carpets.» One of these looms has been built for Kiderminster, where it has attracted much attention. A most barbarous act has been perpetrated by the selectmen of the town of Hingham, who have caused to be cut down a row of old t es and elms— planted by General Lincoln, of Revolutio1 memo- ry. This piece of vile taste was carried for the purpose of straightening a road; as if any such mere convenience would justify an insult to the memory of one of the most respectable of the worthies of chusetts in her brightestage. The trees stood in front of the Lincoln mansion house, now occupied by some of his descendants, to whom the act of their removal was most peotyl andinsulting. It would have been bad enough to remove any trees, but the deed is de- serving of double reprobation when we consider the associations connected with the Lincoln elms. The man who plants a tree, and tends it until it is able to ‘go alone,” is a public benefactor; and those who re- move trees, when there is no imperative reason for so doing, are something even worse than public nuisances. Mr. Sparks’ Presidency of Harvard College closed on Wednesday last, with the first term of the aca- demic year. Mr. Walker. who has been appointed te succeed him, will be confirmed at the first meeting of the Board of Overseers. He will retain his profeasor- ship of moral philosophy, with an assistant. I de not hear that an’ sere will be made to “ restore” Mr. Bowen to the professorship of hii + Which place the coalition would not allow him to hold, be- Rae of his heretical notions on the Hungarian uestion. ‘ It is proposed to go far alter our laws relative ty convicts in the pists pean as to allow of a por- tion of their earnings being appropriated to the sup- ort of their families, when families they have. Jus- tice seems to point to some such change being made, to say nothing of cru for as it now is, the convict’s family is punished more than the convict himself. Another Stare contemplated in legal matters, is the repeal of the law of the last seasion, which virtually abolished capital punishment in told you some time since that this attempt would be made. I presume that the act can be carried through the Senate; but I am not sosure that the majority in the House have any par- ticular reverence for t lows. The movement was commenced in the Senate by Mr. Parker, of Suffolk. He was formerly District Attorney here, and noted for his hardness of heart in that ca 5 80 that his removal ial Boutwell was one of most popular acts of that gentleman’s Do you recollect that when, some weeks since, I told you there were to be vacancies on the bench of our Supreme Court, the Daily Advertiser took the liberty of flatly contradicting my statement, “by authority?” e beat commentary on the Ad- vertiser’s ‘ authority,” is to be found in the fact that Justice Fletcher has resigned his seat. I knew, months ago, that he intended to leave the Bench as soon as the State government should pase into the hands of the whigs. There will, I believe, be another vacancy on the same bench in the course of the pre- sent year, and perhaps a third. Although itis now tively said that oe Ci ill not go inte the cabinet, it is said that he will receive a diplomatic sppointment, a station for which he has eminent a cations. Should Gen. Pierce send him abroad, the Supreme bench will be again com- posed entirely of whigs. It is said that Mr. Thomas, of Worcester, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Fletcher. He is a ctable lawyer, but by ne means of that class to which the whigs have been in ihe habit of contending that pert Pare: should be given. But he stands high at the Worcester bar, and is as bitter a whig as ever lived. An order has been introduced into our House of Representatives, providing for certain reforms in the matter of railways; that is to say, in the structure of wheels, &c., and the appointment of a State e1 neer, who shall exercise a general supervision of rail- way machinery. Mr. Nayson, of Amesbury, who in- troduced the order, made a number of forcible obaer- vations on the subject to which itrefers. He showed that the recent accident, by which the son of Gen. Pierce and several other persons lost their lives, to say nothing of those who were wounded, and the ter- rible mental distress caused, was the result of the most criminal neglect of duty on the part of the rail- way managers. He also showed that similar neglect of duty had occurred on another road, and the infer- ence is that it was common. His speech made # great aleagre and the order passed unanimously. Should the late accident lead to useful legislation, it will not have occurred altogether in vain. The amount of bank capital petitioned for, is be- ginning to alarm even the reckless. A member of the Legislature told me, this morning, that he knew of twelve millions that had been asked for, and that, 80 far as he could learn, members had in their pock- ets petitions for as much more, and the first nionth of the session was only half over! I do not think he exaggerated much, for there are six millions asked for, or to be asked, by three concerns in Boston alone. This rush may not Sr na eine the fail- ure of all the petitioners. A few millions might be granted; but when the thing is in such a fair way to be overdone with a vengeance, sane men pause, and reflect upon what ma; the consequences of their action. Such reflection may lead toa refusal to al- low of any increase of capital, because, if granted in one case, why refuse it any other? The calls will be the loudest from Boston; and to grant the petitions which her citizens may send in, and refuse those from other ‘espe would have a bad political effect, and the whigs cannot afford to be unjust or — now. They are not strong enough to indulge in any such luxury. I may mention that the old banks, as a general rule, are averse to the prayers of the peti- tioners being granted, though it would be an awk- ward proceeding on their part to openly oppose them. The chiefs and managers of the more solid and reliable banks here are any thing but pleased at the conduct of the Merchants’ Bank in resolving apom a petition for an increase of two millions. It breake the force cf the argument that might have been oreae to bear against the proposed increase from the old banks, in a quiet way, or ppenly if it should have been found neces . Mr. Hooper, a leading whig from Boston, and who much influence in the House, made an excellent speech on the sub- ject bon Thursday. He is opposed to the speculating mani There is any amountof office-seeking at the State House, and Mr. Clifford has to submit to a power of boring that would go through the Hoosac monntain like a flash of lightning through a church. There is @ report that he does not intend to make re- movals until after the election for members of the Constitutional Convention shall have been held. Colonel Lincoln, of this city, has been appointed one of his Excellency’s aids, anda bee appointment it is, Colonel Lincoln having had military experience, and being one of the han est men of our time. Ivis said, for the fiftieth time, that Mr. Choate has, the offer of the Attorney Generalship, but that he will not acceptit. The Courier says he has accepted bs place. Office secks Mr. Choate, not Mr. Choate office. The Governor, who is a wag in his way, remarked, @ day or two since, that it seemed as if every man in the State wished to be cither Inspector of Fish or Messenger to the Governor and Council. He turned out Mr. Page, the democratic messenger, in the po- litest poestble manner. ‘‘ I should be very happy to retain you,” said his Excellency, ‘ but the pressure is such thatI can’t.” “ Your Bxcellene y” said Mr. Page, “is in the situation of General Ta lor, who wished to keep his promises to his friends, but could not.” Mr. Cazneau has been removed froma clerk- ship in the State Department. rs. Stowe’s new work will be out in a few days. It is said to be a “crusher.” It is of the nature of a defence of her novel, and contains the facts, legal and otherwise, on which the “Cabin” is founded. ‘Those who have seen the manuscript tell me that it is full of energy, and a gredt circulation bao a LGOMA. Firr.—About nine o'clock last evening. @ fire broke out in the dry goods store of Mr. Gold- smith, corner of State and South Pearl streets. The building was also occupied by Mr. Gleason as a dry goods store, separated from Mr. Goldsmith’s store by & wooden ition, and the upper as @ residence by Mr. J. L. Staats, who owned the building. The rtition between the two stores was consumed, and e fire extended to the stock of Mr. Gleason. Much of the stock in both remainder, by smoke and water, rendered nearly » Mr. Goldsmith was insured $5 , Mr. Gleason $6,000. Mr. Staats was in: 000 om the building and $500 on his furniture. ‘These in~ ~ will cover all the longa, —Albany Atlases an, vy \ N