Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-02-16

they not so stubborn as to refuse to stu
dy it.
Mrs. Ex-Preside Mt Tyler and the OUCH
ess of Sutherland.
The following is an extract from the
letter of Mrs. Tyler, wife of ex-President
Tyler, in reply to the letter of the Duchess
of Sutherland, concerning the institution
of slavery in the United States
Z" If you wish a suggestion as to the
suitable occupation of your idle hours, 1
will point you to the true field for your
philanthropy-the unsupplied wants of
your own people of England. In view
of your palaces, there is misery and suf-
fering enough to excite your most active
sympathies. l remember to have seen
lately, that there was in the city of Lon
don alone, 10000 persons who rose in
the morning without knowing where or
how they were to obtain their daily
bread and 1 remember, also somewhere
to have seen, that the Eleemosynary es-
tablishment of England cost annually E1O,-
600, 900 sterling--a sum greater than that
expended by the frugal and economical
government of ours, with its army and
navy, and civil and diplomatic BILL
Surely, surely, here is a field large
enough for the exercise of the most gene
rous sympathy; The most unbounded
charity. Go, my good Duchess of Suth-
erland, on an embassy of mercy to the
poor the stricken, the hungery and the ma
ked of your own land-cast in their laps
the supcrAuxed of ybur enormous wealth !;
a single jewel from your hair, ii single gem
| from your dress would relieve many
| poor female of England, who is now cold,
and shivcring. and destitute. 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 al
leviate the sutferings of their dependents,
while you take care of your own.
" For another bject quite as fruitful of
sympathy, l need only refer you to the
condition of Ireland. with its population
but recently starving for food, which was
freely supplied from our granaries, and at
this moment craving mercy from avari-
cious landlords, who, to extend the era
of grazing lands, are levellng their hum
BILE cottages to the ground. and sending
them forth to die upon the public high
ways. Women of England, go thither
with your tender charities. There, on
the road side. sinks an attenuated and ex-
hausted mother. still SS:trra ii ner perish
ing child to her breast, while the unhappy
husband and father, himself foodless and
raimentless, sheds drops ofagony over the
heart-renderlng scene. Spare from the
well-fed negroes of these States one drop
of your superabounding sympathy, to
pour into that bitter cup which is overrun-
ing with sorrow and with tears. Poor suffer
ing. down-tr odden Ireland! land of poetry
and song, of noble deeds aud generous
emotions--birth place of the warrior, the
room for you in the sympathizing hearts
of the women of England. Let the
Celtic race be driven by starvation from
the land of their fathers. and it's exodus
would be regarded not with sorrow. but
with Joy and gladness by the secret heart
of England"
This letter of Mrs. Tyler's was elected
by an appeal which was made to the fair
I authoress through a communication in the
Richmond Enquirer. the writer of which
thinking suitable response should be
made to the British ladies by one of those
to whom their appeal was addressed. sug-
gested Mrs. t. as the proper person as fol-
lows:
g will venture to suggest that their re-
sides, gentleman, in your neighborhood, a
lady born and educated in the North, and
fully possessed of the feeling in regard to
slavery who has travelled extensively in
Europe and observed the condition of the
{ lower classes in free countries, (God save
the mark y and yet lives at the present
time, and has done so for years, in slave
holding community, an owner of slaves,
to whose happiness she thereby contri-
butes far more efficiently than the
whole host of abolitionist. This lady
might and would be heard with interest
by all parties to this controversy"
Il And truly she has responded with abil,
ity and eloquence. The letter, the Alex,
andria Gazette says. does great credit to
the intelligence and heart of Mrs. Tyler,
and, says the Richmond Enquirer, eve
respect her still more for the faithful exc
cution of duty, because, in behalf of hel
insulted and injured country, and in the
viudication of truth, she has had the mo-
raj courage to attach her own name to her
admirable production"
In this last she has set an example
which many of the valorous men, who so
, often desire to write for the press, would
do well to imitate.-SUn.
me- The Pittsburg Union, of Friday.
states that Foster has brought out " IN