The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-21
THE STAFFORD HOUSE MOVEMENT.

THE STAFFORD HOUSE MOVEMENT.
We think we have announced the fae'' tas'
some few weeks since, number OF Do"agefS
met at Stafford House, one OF the many semi
reenl establishments Of his grace the Duke OF
Sutherland. the wealthiest nobleman, we be-
lieys. in England, and calling her grace the
Duchess Of that ilk, to the chair, solemniy de-
termined that African slavery, as il existed in
he United States, was sin. Other resoiu-
lions, in keeping with tie place and the per-
sons, were solemnly passed. but the sum and
substance of them all, were such as is above
stated. In another column we publish the re-
marks CT the London Times upon the rose
wafer proceedings of this delicatey aristocratic
CLIQUE. promising that so far as we are con-
eerned, we are Away glad TO find any evidence
that persons in the position OF her Grace, and
OF her Grace's gossps entertain any, even the
slightest and most perverted feeling Tor any
class of their fellow creatures. Nay it is re-
freshing to find that persons thus educated
and inns nurtured, are willing TO admit that
thew belong TO the class of humanity at all, tor
II is certainly more than could have been ex-
pected ofthem. Their charity, ii is true, has
not exactly obeyed the laws laid down by the
Scriptures, for the regulation Of that most &C.
ceptabIe Of all virtues. 1t did not begin at
home, but then it weat an immense distance
from home when it had fairly started on It's
travels, and it is to be hoped that when 1t
shall have become tired OF wandering, 1t Will
pay at least a passing visit 10 that spot,
which should have been, but by some incident
was not, its birthplace. Perhaps, ii II had not
begun in the wrong place, it might have halted
while in Ireland, or even have made short
visit to the manufacturing districts of Great
Britain. But as it has gotten so far on It's way,
we hope il will circumnavgate the globe. Ii
j, will only call at Madras, or Calcutta, and
take trip along with one Of those annual ex-
petitions fitted out TO burn the Indian towns
cut the throats of their inhabitants, turn men,
women and children out Of doors to starve, it
will, doubtless, find ample occasion to exer-
else all its industry. The German traveller
Kohl, who visited Ireland about fourteen years
ago, processes never TO have seen wretchedness
worthy to be named in the same day W it'll that
he Witnessed in Ireland, and Sidney Smith ad
vises the British Government not to attempt
the conversion Of Hndostan, because when
bible shall have been put into the hands Of the
Hindoe, he Will discover, for the first time, that
the English are forbidden to rob and murder!
No inference DIR lwn from any conduct Of theirs
could possibly ever have led the dusky native
OF the East to sus pest that such prohibition
existed. Here, then, the charity of these la
dies might fad ample employment, for cen
fury to come and when returning, after ha-
wing ex hausted It's strength, it need not call on
Persia, or Egypt, or Turkey, nor need it in
spect the condition of the Polish selt, or the
Turkish slave, for all of these had the German
traveller seen, in their lowest state of slavery
and deg radiation, and he plainly and in SO many
words tells US, that their several lots are
many gardens Of Eden compared to the coadl-
ton of Ireland. Let this aIistocratical charity
then hasten to the Emerald Isle; that and In
dia will be rs much as il can attend TO, though
itwere as expansive, and as comprehensive, as
the atmosphere which surrounds the earth.
We do not observe that these artist ocratic
ladies propose to relinquish any OF those luxu
RES of life, which, to them, have become neces-
sary. The very camel's hair that covers Their
sofas is the product ofslave labor. They sip
the tea, cultivated by slaves, out OF silver dug
by slaves, from china manufactured by slaves,
sweetened with sugar, produced by slaves,
their feet resting upon Turkey carpets woven
bv slaves, their persons glittering with da-
1nonds procured by slaves. The mahogany OF
their furniture is Thy slaves, the cigars with
which my Lord regales his company are made
bv slaves, the income which he derives from
his enormous estates, comes from the proceeds
Of crops sold in markets established by the
products of slave labor, his title, his dignltles,
his estates, are all dependent for their very ex-
istence upon slave labor. Possibly if the lady
of each Lord were to take these things into
eCnslderation-were to reflect that if there
were no more slaves there would be no more
c0ttGn-if there were no more cotton there
would be no more Manchesters and Leeds-if
there were 10 more Manchesters and Leeds
there would De no more King Lords and Com
mons-lft there were no more King, Lords and
Commons, there would be no more exclusive
classes-lt there were no more exclusive ella $.
ea, there would be no more diamonds, and
drawing-roolns, and gold and silver plate and
luxurious dlnners-perhaps, we say, if they
would reflect upon all the entities to which the
absence OF one entity would put an end, their
charity might not be quite so enthusiastic as
II seems 10 be at present
LADY LOVELACE.
ihe death OF this lady, the only daugh of
Lord Byron is announced in the last papers
received from England. Lord Byron said that
his mother was an only child, his father was an