Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-10-01

maleyolence II is equally lnexcusable-slace no
man has right to dcnouuee his neighbor, without
knotcing that he merits the dcnHnciaton. Tins M
O'Conne does not know. So far from this, II we
may Judge OF the condition OF the peasanry oil lie
land by his admissions and BY other less aPoeh-
r, pal evidence, do not hesitate to say that IN eT
cry thing pertaining personal comior, and happ'-
ness. the negroes ofthe South may well be envied
by the laborers of Ireland Indeed. their on
duon. moral, religious. intellectual aud ply
steal is infinitely desirable than the con
.lrion OF the pcasantry Of any county in the
world, Scotland perhaps alone excepted. In France
even where We had supposed that devotion 10
man. aud an anxiety TO relieve her from the bur
thens OF labor, somewhat oil national sentiment
what are we told by oil her own writers In a
Treatise, from tie pen Of NJ. Anne Martini recently
published in Paris. sketch is drawn OF the con-
ditIon Of women in France, which is absolutely re-
voting, to tho residents OF slave country,
where no such instances of brutality ever witness
sed. "You them" tsays the writcr,1 beat to the
earth like machinery, or loaded with enormous bur
dens. like beasts. There counties in France where
the attached TO the plough like the OK aud
the Then their skin becomes wrinked, their
features become masculine, andthey fall into pre-
mature decrepltude, more hideous than that Of old
| age''-" Nothing can be more dirty and unhealthy
than the interior oil cottage. Often. hens, ducks
and hogs dispute the possession OF lis damp soil.
The doors open into the mud, and the windows when
there any, open upon the dung heaps" &c. &c.
Nor is TINS picture Of OF the poorer provinces
France alone, constituting dark spot in an other
wise delightful landscape. no: We are told tha
=, i, ia -
provinces" CORD, where the women groyel in a
state OF rt and degradation, which reacts upon the
whole family-picard and Linousn, where. rcpuls-
! e. TO the last point inferior race, they serve
ther husbands at the table, without placing
themselves at their sides--Crisse. where they are
mere machines, beasts of burden and labor-and Bes
Sc Bretagne, where the men, women and children
reduced 10 almost savage state, pell-meil in the
same mud, eat the same black corn in the same man
ger with the sheep aud swine" - Such cxelaims,
NJ. Annie Martin, ''such is the situation of the
peasantry in almost the whole Of civilized EuroUe.'
, Aud where we rlumphanlly ASK, would such dc
grading picture be applicable within the limits OF the
I slayeholdmg States Of this eoutnent-rom the Capes
, OF Delaware to the Rio G. ande del Nortcl No
, where But let the mad scheme OF Abolition pre-
, bry--and how long would II be before the edict OF
universal emancipation would be followed by the
age Of universal brutality The instincts of the Al
rican all sensual and groveng--Brcak THEN
letters, and Tie only power strong enough TO impeI
, them upward is destroyed, and they will sink to the
lowest abysm of moral lnruny with which
the preceding sketch Of the condition Of the Euro
h pcan pcasantty were IA blight and spotless pic
, lure.
. With these facts in view, it is high time that thu
, impairment cphcts and insulting sarcasmS, I'M
=, founded in reason they in truth, which o.
n Council, borrowing from obscure and niamon.
American writers, omlts opportunity of lllngm!
\ in our teeth, should be rebuk ed and checked Ant
We hope that the course adopted by Mr. Stevenson
of better than themselves both foreign x dumes
tic, that they may, when they least expect it, iheu
personal responsibility by such course, from the con
sequences of which they will only be able escape b,
: adastardly dental reuaction of their own Ian
guagc. For, in reference the of Messrs. Ste
r senson and OConnell, one, who has heretofore
4 read any of the insane rawlings of Mr.. OConncll OF
= the slavery question: hesitate for a be
T. eve that lie did use the language imputed to him il
e the published sketch OF his speech and that his de
n NAL of the accuracy Of that sketch prompted
c lence.