The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-28

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01avUFv Movement.
(Froa IL LivWpesl mst, Dee. III
A oonsidsrat2e Number Of our fair country women,
With tAe Dzehess Of Sutherland ct their head, and
who, 1t would seem, owing 70 the prevailing pros
exotic thsi- sympsthy ct homo, have addressed
memorial, or tsndsrlhsartsd remsustranss, 70 the
ladies Of Ameriss. in favsr Of The negrsee.
Gentle DANES have their veaknsssos Ike other
sinners; ard, after the manner Of certain class Of
seatimentalsts. they arc too prone 70 censure In
others evils and vices which thsy themselves en-
courage, If they do not wholly create The
Dushess Of Sutherland and all the ladies Of EGG
drink coffee, and use cotton Tho quantity Of cot
ton imported into this couHtry from America Is
enormous its value being probably about E2 600 900
sterli,g. AL this cotton is raised in the United
oolorsd men; women, and ohildren-WAo are in .
state Of abjoct slavery, and are bought and sold,
hired. separated, and logged like boasts of barden
The cotton, thus slave grown, comes chiefly to this
in bedding, In padding and in dns.y il used less or
more BY the whole Of our population, but chiefly
by the fair sex.
The same VITA sugar, but not to the same extent.
Sugar, the produce Of the British colonies, was
formerly cultivated by slaves, cut slaves never %
cruelty unmercifu treated a. their race are in
America There is no slavery now in the British
colonies but. in an evil hour to the ruin Of thou
sands Of families, and under peddling prstext of
oheapness, sugar, the produce Of Brazil and the
colonies Of Spain, exclusively the cultivation Of
slaves. was admitted into our markets, in o0mpeu
ton with that of our own colonial planters, and
enormous quantities Of 1t are consumed, especially
in . refined state. The coffee trade is much in the
same condition.
Now, we ask her grace the Du ,hess Of Suther-
iaod, with all dutiful submission, upon what just
ground abe can upbraid the ladies Of America with
the to.eraon Of slavery in their country, while her
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grace il no Insignificant encoucsger OF IL either.
Sac and her attendants, and all her household and
servants, use tho aocursed thing. She and her
domestics consume more slave grown cotton. sugar,
his family, and ell his relations. Neither her
grace, ror her husband the duke, may be slave
owners; but this does not signify. She atands in
relation 70 the evil, or tho crime in the same DO.
gree as the receiver does TO the thief and oil the
world knoas what the laws Of England consider
that to be.
Her ladyship, We presume, has no great affection
for poaohers doomed race Of sporting freebooters
In this country, who unfortunately love to roam in
the merry green WOODS on moonlight nights, and
shake the oiolss from the trees when pheasant is
seen ro0sting between them and their hopes; no,
her grace cannot possibly sympathise with them, for
the monsters, they commit murder, if shooting o
gamekeeper can be called murder. Now, suppose
We were TO bride one of those villains to 70 upon the
sutherland estates, and procure us q hare, brace
them, We were to lave them, superbly cooked,
served up to ourselves and friends, that we made
gooGly yspast the ssIne giving them the farewell
OF glass of Glenvet, before drinking her Msjestys
he Attn in bumper of port olaret, who, in that
case. would be the greater denquent-the briber or
the POI cher!
Most assaredIy the gentle heart Of the duchess,
influenced by the Christian virtues, would decide in
favor Of the agent ard against the wicked employer.
On rare Judge!
This is our case against Her Grace and the ladies
OF England who concur with her In the memorial
They do not own slaves, and are exempted from the
daty Of logging them; but they encourage slavery
they profess to dstest; they augment the profits Of
tbs foreign says dealer, and diminish the returns Of
the f-es LABOR culsirator; and We must tell them
frankly. that thsy do this openly, knowingly, and
vilfui.y.
If these Ladies be earnestly DESTROYS to suppress
the slave trade, they have only honest course to
pursue Let them assemb again at Stafford House,
any fabric no sugsr or coffee in any shape, long
as single 0uncs Of the foreign article is imported
into this country. They who lead the fashion in
IN costume, in time, in style in wit,
even il Psrtumery, surely could lead public taste
in this matter. The world, out Of doors, as it is
the sua II they would resolve to drink tea and
coffee without sugar, and allow article with which
cotton 10 iotarm;xed 20 be used in their several ss
and act rigidly up to the resolution,
they would DO more "A twelve months 10 pat down
slavery, than has been done by our enormously ex-
pensive MAYA. ornaments upon the coast of Africa
during the last ten years. Hthey decline doing this
We SHALL, however painful the duty, be compelled to
doubt their sincerity in their Stafford House remon-
STRANGE, and consider that, without cause, and in
tle very wors. possible taste, they have insultsd
the ladies' of America.