The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-31

cupied by a degraded and furnishing popula-
ton, compared with whose condition that
of the slaves of our Southern States is en-
vable abundance and happiness. And if the
Duchess of Sutherland has been thus far igno-
rant of the suferings and wrongs inflicted upon
her own tenantry it is time she were informed OF
them, as she doubtless soon will be from her vain
and silly interference in the domestic affairs of
transatlantic people, Of which and Of whom
she is as ignorant as most of the English Jour-
nalsts are of American geography.
The immediate superinducing provocation to
this remarkable abolition manifesto of the
women of England, was no doubt that fanatical
compilation Of trashy, wishy-washy abolition
sentimentality, called Uncle Toms Cabin. y
The authoress, however, has probably gained
all her desires in that production, Of pecuniary
profit, . worldwide notoriety, and the applause
of all the most virulent enemies of her own
country, at home and abroad. From the bgot-
ed and contracted circle of an abolition conven-
ticle she has made q martyr Of Uncle Tom,
a heroine Of herself, and the terrors of Rus
sian barbarism of Southern slavery. We APP
prehend, however, that time, experience, and
common sense, in this country and in England,
to say nothing Of patriotism, will confirm the
superiority of Mrs. Tyler's position on the sla-
very question, over that of the exaggerated
fable of :" Uncle Toms Cabin" The condition
of that wretched caricature of free negro en-
pire in Hayti the constantly deteriorating free
blacks in Jamaica; the decline of the black
population in all the emancipated British West
Indies, from idleness, restitution and crimes
and, above all. the horrible barbarism of
the black nations, or tribes, Of Africa-lords
of the soil from the days Of Ham-shggest
q totally different set of colored characters
for novel than the comparatively refined and
improved and humanized subjects Of Mrs Stoves
seditious romance. The religious and social
sentiments of her heroes and heroines are not
to be found with the African race, except where
it exists in state of dependence upon the white
man. The amiable. religious, and kind-hearted
Uncle Tom is Southern slave. He is not a
native African, nor subject Of Soulouque.
We might, perhaps. with some profit,
here advert to the cotton argument in be
half Of Southern slavery, and to the depend
ence, from day to day, of four or five millions
of England's population upon her supplies
of raw cotton from the United States. But
the more sagacious Of the English journalists
have already exploded the maudling abolition
sympathy of the "Cabn' on this vital and
practical question. We will not longer detain
our readers from Mrs. Tyler's lady-lke, yet
spirited and pungent letter. We trust it will
tell home upon the noble danes of England,
and to the substantial and timely relief of the
swarming thousands Of objects for benevolence
and British emancipation, that surround them
on every side.
Truth, history, and experience, are powerful
reasoners. The delusions of fanaticsm and the
arts of deception, however plausible, vanish
at their touch. But the institution of slavery
in the South has proved itself equal to the test.
Under it the white and black races live harmo-
niously and happily together. Abolish it, and
all is confusion, bloodshed and desolaton. Do
nestle benevolence directed to this end is little
better than domestic treason; and British phi
lanthropy is British arrogance. ignorance, or
hypocrisy. Of course, we mean no offence to
her Grace, the Duchess of Sutherland, and her
associate memorialists. But let them answer
Mrs. Tyler, if they can. If not, let them here
after hold their peace on American slavery, if
they can AT all events, let their charity begin
at home.