Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-12-30
ENGLISH LADIES AND AMERICAN SLAVES.

ENGLISH LADIES AND AMERICAN SLAVES.
Philanthropy, we mean public philanthropy,
has its modes and its fashions. II is high
ton in the sentimental circles of England to
weep and wall over the sufferings of Ameri
lean slaves. The female members Of the
aris,ocracy, whose role it is to sympa,hise
with our well-fed negroes, while their own
white sisters are wearing out their lives in
crowded factories or dying at the needle, 60
to Exeter Hall as they 60 TO the opera or to
Almacks, simply because it is one of the
recognized amusements Of their casfe.-
These proud women would not stoop to as
soclate with a white mechanic or trades
man-that would be treason to their gene
alogy but introduce to these high born
danes big, ordorous negro, with no more
forehead than a monkey, and a nose and
month to match, and they will ''cotton" to
him Immediately, put their fair white arms
through his, talk TO him, dance with him,
weep over him, and call him Ga man and a
brother" We expect, one Of these days,
10 hear that "Box Brown" fellow who
would black boots and shake carpets in this
country, has been made an English barone,,
perhaps peer Of the realm. 1t is said lha,
he now has the entree Of the establishments
TO which few white Americans would be
admitted on equally familiar terms. Box
Brown is married, we believe-otherwis
he might have the honor of introducing
black blood into the peerage by marrying
titled lady. Twenty years ago, we heard
the daughter Of an English gentleman de-
clare tina, she would rather marry black
man then white one, and The taste for ebony
has gained strength considerably in England
since then.
The latest transatlantic outbreak of anti
slavery fanaticsm occurred ct Stafford House
on the 26lh Of November. The Duchess
of Sutherland headed the movement, assist
ed by two other duchesses, four countesses,
two vlsconntesses, seventeen baronesses,
&C., and long string Of mesdames, includ-
ing Mrs. Charles Dickens, Mrs. Tenny son,
Mrs. Mary Hewitt, Mrs. Rowland Hill,
Mrs. Macauley, "wi,h others Of lesser po-
sition." These very excellent ladies, in
convention assembled, concocled an address
to the sisters, wives, and mothers Of Ameri-
ca, calling upon them TO 'raise their voices
10 their fellow citizens and their prayers to
God, for the removal of this affection from
the christian world" The address is par
icularly designed for the ladies of New
Y ork, we understand, who, we think, might
very properly respond as follows: IF air
sisters, we are at present engaged in reform
ing the morals and ministering to the ne
cessities of the miserable creatures at the
Five Points-a region where more suffer-
ing exists within The space of ten square
acres than amongst the the entire slave po-
pula,ion Of the Union. We have understood
tina, in ST GIes's, Seven Dials, Westminis-
ter and various other parts of London,
,housands-ay, tens Of lhousands-of men,
es, body and soul, for lack Of food, medi-
cine: wholesome shelter, warm clothing,
moral culture, and christian sympathy
When we have finished our Home Mission
among the unfortunate Of our own color,
and you have placed food, clothing, shelter,
and the gospel within the reach ofyour own
degraded poor, we will join y GU, if ou insist
upon it, in sympathising with the fat, shiny.
faced, lazy Dnahs and Cuffees of the south,
who, before the aboli,ionists taught them
to be miserable, considered it an insult to
have their condition compared with that of
poor white people,"
Tell the Duchess of Sutherland to put
that in her pipe and smoke il.-Brother