Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-02-11

slavery, whether proceeding from the ugly s'uu -"
ented authoress of Uncle Tom, or from the equal
" ugly but untalented old tabbes assembled in con-
clave Dire either at Stafford House, in London or at
any other point for the purpose Of meddllng with
other peoples business, while negectlng their own
We have waded through mass of reading OF this
class lately, enough in all conscience, to have set
any unacclimated head aching; and we would con-
fess that it had produced the same effect upnn our
own. were we not conscious that it world be deci-
dedIv uneditorial to acknowledge ennui from any
cause, no matter how much fatigued by the perusaI
of stupid documents, or bored by listening to vapid
discourses.
We rlust confess that we think undue prominence
las been given to the address to the women OF the
United States issued by certain MISUNDERSTANDING
members of the British female aristocracy, headed
bv the Duchess of Sutherland. 1t is simply ana
purely twaddIe of the most disgusting character;
and in right of its native dizziness and Mlss-Nancy
ish stupidity, would have sunk of its own accord
had not the press of the United States by the notice
It has taken of it. elevated its vapd naDites into
something like the position of recognized arguments
The cant of distant philanthropy is the unfailng re-
source of the super-annuated intguant or blaze wo-
men of fashion The state of things portrayed by
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existence in England, and in all alike, lachryr ose
pietv and devotion to the wooly -heads, takes the
place in fashionable female affection which no lover
can be induced longer to occupy.
Mrs Julia Gardner Tyler, the wife of Ex-Presi-
dent TYLER has come out in the Richmond Enquirer
with an answer to the Duchess of Switzerland Co..
which, as compositions reflects credit alike upon her
head and heart, and places in clear light the acu-
al advantages enjoyed by the negroes of the South
ern States of this Union the aboring classes of
Great Britain-their eater physical comfort, high
err moral condition, and less laborious existence
With the most marked kindness and courtesy, but
at the same time with irresistible force and truth,
she directs the attention of these British philanthropy
lists to the terrible misery surrounding them at
home Well does she administer, and we'll has she
right to administer the rebuke contained IN the
admonition g Physician, heal myself"
Yet while as compositions, we cannot but admire
the able and elaborate answers furnished by Mrs
TYLER and Others to the impertinen address in ques
ton the ludicrous image acU present itself to our
mind of people firing off ten-pounders to kill hor'
nets, or. perhaps, we should say drones The fun
merry illusions of Stafford House worthy of Meth
err the attention, nor the heavy metal which has
=, been devoted TO them.
The leading article in Backwoods Ednbure
Magazine for January is also devoted to the slave
question: and is entitled Slavery and the Slave
Power in the United States of America" For i'm
pudence and false statements, this article goes a
far beyond the Sutherland address, as it exceeds tina
: composition in ability and power to deceive. Thu
fsity of its leading statement, and that upon which
i its main argument depends, is glazing as to b.
: contradcted by even the New York Tribune itself
In attempting to show the evil effects OF slavery up
on even the white themselves it gives the fol
lowing statement from the two censuses of 1910 an
1850. 1t says, " In the two censuses of lo4O an
$780, the total free population in the free and sav
e States, was as follows:
Free States. ,G54SG5 13.533.32
u Slave States ............7 290719 6,393, IS
So that while in the last ten years the populatio
D of the free States increased by nearly four millions
that of the slave States though Texas has been ado
ed to them has been diminished by nine hundre
thousand"
These figures are correctly copied from the Ame
Id lean Ananrc which the writer in Blackwood quote
as his authority for the statement but, referrn
of to the tables of the Amanac it will be that til
l84O is given for that of the free population in tt
Or same year so that deducting from 7,29O,79, tt
total population of the slave States in 1910 the
Der of the slaves 248l532, we have 1900, l87
id the true figures of the free population in that yea
n The total free population in 1850 was 6,4l2 10
it, which shows an actual gain of l6O2974, instead
he loss Of nine hundred thousand, alleged By IL
- writer in Blackwood Thus much of his argumer
therefore, is waste paper, for which he must thar
re the confused statistics of the american almanac.
AS is proper to remark ALSO that this papable blund
Dr. has been repeated for two years in that pubcato
1t will thus be seen that it is such dirty BIRDS
IS Mrs Stowe and the publishers Of Northern Aim
be macs, who actually give circulation to the most ly
and sandorous reports of that portion of their oV
MS country which lies South of Mason and Dixor
lid line
in We are somewhat surnr;se1 n find this writ
II. quoting, with emphasis, statement that by t
Oh census of 1910, free person in nine in Nor
ny Carolina was unable to read and write We shou
lc- think that British writer's would see the prudence
raj being silent possible upon this score, since
Id census Of 1850 shows that in England one pers
ge out of every four cannot read-one out of eve
1r eight is pauper; and that while the tax to supp
- the poor of England is six millions of pounds ste
ing per annum, the tax to support public educat
OF is only one hundred thousand pounds, or one S
ar tieth the amount of the tax for pauperism
ny 1t is worthy of remark, that in this, as indeed,
all the other attacks upon the slave power, fatteri
- allusion is made to such parsonage VIM. H. Sc
ard, and his coadjutors, and Harriet Beecher Sto1