Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-02-12

Oh! listen in mercy ye Of wealth.
Basking in comfort and glowing with health;
GIVE what err we spare, and be ye sure,
III serveth his Maker. who aideth the poor
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THE AWFUL CRUELTIES PRACTISED
ON WHITE SLAVES IN GREAT BRI-
TAIN.
The Stafford House meeting, at which the
christian, affectionate" address of the ladies Of
Great Britain to their dear sisters in America was
adopted, with the name of the Duchess of Suth-
erland at the head, followed by her two daugh-
ters-of Argyle and Blantyre-Duchess of Bed.
ford, Lady Trevellyan, and many others, has ex-
cited not only disgust on this side of the water,
but disgust and something worse at home. The
liberal journals are out on them in terrible sar-
casm; but the most scathing invective we have
seen is a letter from Donald M'Leod in which,
after adopting from another writer the rebuke OF
''Look at Home" he proceeds as follows:
''But Unjust 60 further, and instruct the Ameri-
can ladies in what they should tell their English
sisters to look at home. They can meet this fem
mime, English Christian, affec onate appeal with
the same argument that the Cannihal Queen met
a French Philosopher when he was remonstra-
ting with her upon the hateful, horrifyng, and
forbidden practice of eating human flesh, and re-
commencing her to discontinue and forbid the
practice in her dominions. s.Well," replied the
Cannibal Queen, ssVoltaire, what is the differ
ence between your people and us! You kill men
and allow them to rot; we kill men, and to crown
our victory-we eat them, and we find them as
good for food as any other flesh; besides, our laws
demand of us to eat our enemies" Now, sir,
though two blacks will never make white, yet
the American ladies may justly reply and ask
their English ssters, 1swhat is the difference be-
tween you and us? We buy black African
slaves; but when we buy them, we feed, clothe
and house them. No doubt some of us whip
them at times for disobedence or for our own
caprice; but heal their stripes and take of
them, that they may work our work But you,
English sisters, you make white slaves paupers
and beggars; and when you make them this, by
depriving them of all means to live by their own
industry, then you turn them adrift-you raze,
plough up, or burn down their habtations, and
allow them to die lin hundreds) the agonizing,
lingering death of starvation on the roadside,
bitches, and open fields, Dear sisters, look at
the history of Ireland for the last six or seven
years, and you will see how many thousands you
have allowed to die by hunger; and consider how
many thousands more you would have allowed
to die similar death, had we not come to their
rescue, and sent them food until we could re-
move them from your tender mercy and from
your territories, to feed, clothe, and house them,
and to find employment and fair remuneration for
their labor among ourselves. Look for one in
stance at an Irishman arraigned at the bar of JUS
tice for sheep-steaing, and his counsel offering to
prove that before he stole the sheep, three of his
children persisted for want of food, and in the
case of the last of them who died, sucking in
FAINT, the mother peeled the flesh off its legs and
arms; she boiled it, and both she and her hus-
band the prisoner, ate it to save their own lives,
and the mother died soon after. At this time
you, our English sisters, were riding upon char
lots, rolling smoothly over your extensive, un-
cultivated, depopulated domains, upon the wheels
of splendor and cushions of the finest texture, and
your husbands, sons and daughters sharing your
festivities, luxuries, and unnecessary grandeur;
expending more money and human food upon USE
less dogs and horses than would have saved thou
sands of the poor useful Irish with the image of
God upon them) from a premature, agonizing
death. We have read with horror of one of your
husbands urging with might and main upon the
government (who bestirred themselves at the time,
for fear the famine might cause disease among
the Irish landlords,) to feed the people with
ry powder; and you must recollect, when the cur
ry powder scheme of destroying the Irish could
not be approved of, that Sir A. Trevellyan was
sent over to Ireland with the starving commits
sion, and conducted the Irish destruction with
more humanity, for. he allowed one pound of
meal as meat and wages for every starving Irish
man who would work ten hours per day, at ma
king roads, draining, and improving the estates
for Irish landlords. All English sisters, though
we could bring no more against you, the public
will judge and decide that you should be defen-
ders, and not the pursuers, in this case; but since
you began to expose us, we will expose you to
the letter. for there is no case or cases brought
out in ''Uncle Toms Cabin" with all Harriet
Beecher Stoves capabilities of coloring, that is
equal to this. We tell you emphatically, that
our law would neither sanction nor tolerate such
inhuman treatment-our religion forbids it; and
any man or number of men who would be guilty
of such, would be branded with infamy and
chased from our States and from our societies as
inhuman irrational, irrelgous, and immoral mon
sters, unworthy of Christian society, or to have
voice in the civil or religious government of our
country. But by taking a retrospective view OF
the history of your Christianized nation, we find
that inhumanity, oppression, cruelty, and extor-
ton, are qualifications required to fit legislator
commander, commissioner, or any other junction.
airy to whom you may safely entrust the law ma
king, the law administration, and the govern
ment of your people; and qualifications specially
required to entitle them to dignifed high sound
ing titles and distinctions as will be shown after
wards.
''Uncle Toms Cabin" has aroused the sympa-
thy and compassion of the Duchesses of Suther-
land, Argyle, Bedford, and Ladies Blantyre and
Trevellyan, and many thousands of the women OF
England, over the fate of Hams black children.
But we would seriously advise the Duchess of
Sutherla and and her host to pause until Uncle
Donald NJ Leod's Cabin comes out, and until he
himself comes across the Atlantic with it among
the thousands of those and their offspring who