Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-09
THE DAHL Ysa'TMES
FURTHER INTELLIGENCE By TIE
HUMBOLDT.
From the London Times. Feb. L


Mrs. TYLER's LETTER.-The address from
Stafford-house to the ladies of America has met
with just the response that we anticipated for it,
| The high born danes of Virginia, who, with
their mothers before them, have held slaves now
for more than two hundred years, have risen as
| one woman to resent this interference with their
| immemoral privilege Through the columns of
the Richmond ENQUIRE, they have appealed to
| Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler, Mrs ex- President
| Tyler, as she would be described in an American
| Court Circular, a lady whose parentage and ac--
complishments, whose birth and education at
| New ork, whose marriage with the ex President,
| and whose residence for the last eight years OF,
Virginia plantation as mistress of it's colony Of
slaves, render her no mean champion of ssthe So
cial institution" Prompt at duty's call, the il
| lustr1ouS citizen has taken up her pen, and not
laid 1t down till she has done summary iustice
| on the Duchess and her friends Our New York
correspondent critcises its style, which is cer--
talnly the purest American; but perhaps he
scarcely estimates as he should the wrath of rival
goddesses. contendng for their people ami their
cities in the eyes of the world. Mrs. Julia G.
Tyler, notwithstanding her eight years practice
at the head of plantation, is still, we have no
doubt, what the New York Herald describes her,
young, beautiful, intellectual, attractive and
accomplished but she is certainly shrill and
long winded. She extends the Monroe doctrine
OF non Intervention from the soil to the institu-r
tons OF Nerth America, and retaliates on the
Duchess by lndustriously striDgng together all
the unpleasant illusions which her Imagination.
her memory, or her friends could suggest. In
fact, when we come to sit the matter, it consists
nine tenths of retaliation and as it is the pecu
arity of the British press to tell foreigners eve
rything that goes wrong in country the lady's
task is not difficult, and the result will be no
novelty to the British reader, always excepting
the style of the document.
When we have said that Mrs. Julia G.. Tyler's
linz v.,.,1n IL
and lndlscrlminate species, we have expressed
our opinion; both of the Sutherland address and
OF the AmercanEreplJ. No address ought ever
to have been published that could provoke such
retaliation. and when such an address has
once been published and repudiated by the good
sense OF the country where it appears, the per-
sons to whom it is addressed will show much
better taste by leaving it alone than by repeat
ing the error. In fact it is rather to the credit
OF the American ladies that no one has yet been
found to retort but the mistress of a tobacco
plantation, who yields the pen with significant
terceness, and who was singled out as one of q
thousand at reply. Our fair castigator does
not leave raw piece untouched. Ireland, tho
metropolis, the Dunrobin estate, the old slave
trade, the Duchess of Sutherland's diamonds.
our press gang-nay, the very amount of our
poor rates and charitable collections, our Queen
our Bishops, our Statesmen, our cotton imports,
and our crocodile tears, are all dashed in success
sien with merciless dexterity. There is not
point of the whole body polite that does not
come IN for its share of the chastisement. For
all this we have to thank little coterie of ladv
phlanthropists who were too much affected by
tie snfferings Of Uncle Tom and his heroic
young friends to remember that those models of
excellence were born and bred under the yery
system denounced. Our vocation as journalists
brings us into too close familiarity with the brit
tie nature OF our own social fabric, and we hesi-
tate to throw stones which our opponents will be
too glad to throw back at our own heads The
telnerity of the Sutherland appeal served only to
show that the fair appellants were not sufficiently
acquainted with the evils much more within their
reach and their sphere of obligation.
But we cannot be quite resigned under Mrs
Julia's lash. The crushed worm will turn, and
the school-boy will demonstrate from the block,
II ne has shadow of a ground for complaint.
1t is rather too much even for Mrs. EX- President
Tyler to write as if England had done nothing,
suffered nothing, paid nothing, in the cause of
abolition We cannot admit that we are perfect
~ unchanged since the days when Queen Anne
and the King of Spain divided the spoils of the
slave trade, and that our statesmen, legislators,
prelates and Peeresses are just the same sort of
people they have been for two hundred years.
In order to carry out this violent supposition,
the fair Julia is obliged to set down the cause Of
Wllberforce and Clarkson-to what does the
reader imagine? To envy of the United States.
to revenge for their successful revolt, to grief at
the loss of their market (which, by the bye we
have not lost,) to the nefarious design of sowing
dlscord between the Northern and Southern
States, and to various other such motives, inteli.
gble to a certain class of feminine understand
ings, but utterly uncomfortable to any ordinary
man. We must also beg to ask the fair ranger
of Sherwood Forest, Virginia, U. S., Just to look
at the comparative space the map occupied by
her country washed, as she says, BY two oceans
and the British Isles She will see that we NAV
be excused for finding mora difficulty in feeding
thirty millions than the Americans in feeding
twenty.six. If, in defending her own institutions
from British interference, she really let ours
alone, she would do enough, and more than
enough, for her part in the quarrel. But she
does not let our institutions alone, and by at
lacking them at every point, she gives up her
vantage ground, and almost justifes the inter
vention of the Sutherland house philanthropists.
The Royal and arstocratical institutions she
speaks of are more than thousand years old,
and, even if we wished, we could not be easily
rid of them; nor can it be denied that they con-
tributed much to the for nation of that national
character of which the United States are so illus
trious result We have also little affair of
our own to settle with Mrs. Julia G. Tyler.
What right has she to assert that the Sutherland
house address originated in the newspaper presse
We, at all events, never heard of it till it had
passed the concave IN question and received ma
ny signatures To us it is the cruelest cut of all
to be thought accomplices in that singular pro-
ceeding. As for the patriotic euogies of her
country, with which she has adorned her reply,
we are only too happy to acknowledge their ge-
neral truth. We appreciate as they deserve the
territory the rivers the two oceans the soil, the
harbors, the population, the enterprise, the po-
ltcal spirit, the cotton, the rice the tobacco of
the United States; and even though we have
heard all about them before, we are glad to ba
reminded of them by so beautiful and accom-
plished young lady, but we do not see why all |
these magnificent advantages should prevent
measures heinz taken with a viauv IN tho