The Nevada journal., 1853-04-01
From the London Dispatch.
THE AMERICAN SLAVE ABOLITION MOVE.
MENT IN ENGLAND.

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The Dutchess of Sutherland and some
other ladies, much smitten with tho
reading of ''Uncle Toms Cabin" and
an appeal made by the Earl of Shafts
bury, have met at Staffordhouse, and
adopted an address sketched by the phi
lanthropic Earl, appealing to the wo-
men of the United States to help in the
abolition of Negro slavery. The cor
respondents of the journals and the
writers of their leading articles have
criticised the proceeding not uncourte-
eusly, yet the sum Of all their remarks
has amounted to this: "Look at home.n
One has instanced the condition of gov
ernesses in English families We saw
the other day G20 year offered by ad-
vcrtisement to lady who could teach
French and music, "1chere as Other SER
uant is kept" Australia, said we to eur.
selves, will remedy that No woman,
of common spirit, will be q servant un-
der gentcel name 10 be cheated out of
two-thirds of her wages, when she can,
! as q servant, earn 20 much more in o
more genuine state of society. Then
other remarkers have told the gentle
danes just to drop in upon the inmates
of the alleys and courts not far removed
from their own palaces, and to see with
their ewn eyes the destituticp, the deg
radiation the ignorance, the filth and
the vice, worse than any American
slavery can impose, here in this free and
equal England, in this unequalled me-
tropolis, within the scope of their own
rightful undisputed Influence. We can
not forget, for the very title puts us in
mind of it, whole county devastated
and depopulated, turned into sheepwalks,
to the banishment of men and women,
to keep up or increase the means of aris,
tocratic luxury in London. We do not
visit this ancestral sin upon the not uu-
amable, if somewhat mistaken, preten-
ders to benevolence who now are called
by the cminous name. But we do beg
to submit to them and to oil, that we
live in an age when every attempt at
humbug, when every easy vicarous
charity, is very jealously scratinized;
when the proverb that Charity begins
at home," that most glorious Though
much abused law, is beginning to be we'll
understood and when it is necessary
for the professed philanthropist to act
upon it not to lose caste. That pretty
interesting ignorance of what s about
us, which induced the French Princess
to propose cakes to feed q people who
wanted bread, is quite out of fashion.
Do what there is for you to do at your
hand wemen Of England, and so, h.tinq
set an example to the world, without
flaw or blemish, invite your sisters by
your acts to embrace your opinions
While putrldity lies at your doors do nos
hold your noses at faint smell so many
thousand miles off. Awork, quite out OF
taste as a work Of art, but appealing to
| those who will read nothing bul yba.
amUses or excites them, has, by peryer-
ting the Offices of Imagination, forced at.
tention to gross atroeity, and probably
exaggerated it. The ladies must do
something to get rid of the uneasy i'm
preston Of "Uncle Toms Cabin.n They
must have their romantic share in The
catastrophe. They must como in as the
rescung angels. Let them do their
work. as the true work of angels is done,
in their own sphere. They live in Lon
DON Here, with all the unostentatious
charity, they may remove misery and
abatc criminality, which thew will not,
in their dellcacy, allow themselves to
conceive. We honor every attempt to-
wards sympathy with the unhappy We
presume to direct it. We believe that
interference with American habits will
only lead to contempt and recrimination.
But if the illustrious OF our land are de-
tcrmined to make America the field OF
their humane interference, let them 90
thither. We have no right to address
personally the elegant and gentle Ouch
ess of"Sutherland, but we speak to her
as tlfe representative Of the many around
her. If they, or any Of them, will sal,
to New York, open their drawing-rooms
there to a society which will rush to fll
them in all the emulation of funkey.
hood if they will distinguish with theiy
particular regard every black gentle-
man worthy Of that name; if they will
so help towards removing all distinction
of color in the estimation of American
high life, they will do something, con-
tribute the mite Of their cxertion, and
SO sacrifice to the great cause of right
eous equality They will do no little tc-
wards eradicating the prejudice thai
makes the black man morally, as well
as physically, a slave to tho white man.
By what steamer will they set out ?---.
When we hear Of their personal vcn-
ture in the crusade, we shall reckon
their sympathy at much more respec-
table amount than, we are sorry to Coz
fess it, our too rational computation will
permit at present. 7n