New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-01
THE PATRIOT JULIA.

bas been induced 20 sign her name TO lester
Of reply to the Address Of the Duchess OF
Sutherland and other English ladies' to the Wo-
zen Of America on the subject Of Slavery. We
are heartily sorry for her. Literature was
never Julia's best point, for hitherto she has
achieved less distinction with her head than
her heels but we are quite sure she never
cOncOcted this silly, heartIess, pettifogging pro-
ductiOn. 1t rsds a good deal more Ike her
husband, though we should suppose even his
reservoir Of ignorance could hardly have sup
Piled all the misstatements crowded into its
three close cOlumns-like the following;
"You have subscribed an Address, nos prepared By
yourselves a. the enanstion Of your own Susceptible
hearts, but t< adined Prodzc;ios Of is sse1P Press
The African, under her lEnsland,l policy. and By
LT i0os becomes property IN her American Colonies
This untruth is repeated in substance half
dozen tiInes-the fact being that slaves were
imported into Virginia, sold and worked there,
before England had any policy or laws on the
subject And even now il would be hard to
find any law whereby Slaves were ever held in
British Colonies except those made by the
slaveholding Colonies themselves.
"The separation Of husband and wife, parents snd
chidrcu under system Of negro slavery, Il uals
orGTs occsTsres among Us and then attended by Pc
culsr circumstance
Now the writer Of this letter knew perfectly
well that there has not been time for years
when families we're not offered for sale together
or separately, as they would bring most, in
that very Richmond Enquirer through which
his performance is given to the public, aud
that hundreds if not thousands Of cases OF
such separation occur every year in Virginia
alone
We have intimated that the spirit of this
letter is deeply discredtable to the writer,
and reflects miuriously on the lady whose name
is appended 10 it. For instance:
"The crocodile good sisters OF England Is sad 70 cry
mot poOusly IN. woe 30 the unhappy traveller who Il
beguled by is tears
INC nevstaper press Of England affects a mswkish
sensbiity On subject with which u has nothing pro-
pery 10 do and al for ends which every rejecting per
son cannot fail 20 understand"
The African under her policy, and by her laws, be-
came property. That property has descended from
father 10 son. and constitutes large part OF Southern
/ wealth. We 0etIe no intrusion OF alNtcc a. u uut
individual property rights, at home or abroad We
NEEDLE not with your laws Of prmogeniiurc and entail
although they are obnoxious 70 al our boos Of
and are In violation Of the laws OF nsture.
I'VE content 10 leave England IN the enjoyment
finer peculiar institutions and insist upon the right
10 regulate ours without her aid pray you TO bear in
mind that the golden rule Of life 10 for each 20 attend to
bis own business and let his neighbors alone
And this same rude, heartless consciously
guilty Mind your own business is reiterated
at every turn, with the concurrent assurance
that IRE never NEEDLE with other folks con-
Germs; and all the time the writer's telling the
British ladies' how their own poor in London
need all their sympathy-how they have eI-
lied the Scotch Highlanders, starved the poor
Irish, &c. &c. And all this is said in spirit
Of taunt and recrimination, and with no inten-
tiOn of procuring amendment Of the wrongs
thus reproved Now we do not care pin
whether Julia had seen fit not TO twit the Brit
ish Aristocracy Of their own Shortcomings or
otherwise; but to affect prudery and forbear-
ance on the subject, and yet do the very thing
for which she berates the Stafford House gath
ering, is ridiculous.
Julia assures the ladies Of England that our
Southern matrons are models of " Christian
department and perfect amiability Of man.
ners" To have given an air Of FEASIBILITY TO
this assertion, she ought TO have further APP
prised them that she is Southern only by mar
rage, having been born and fully developed at
the North. For whatever of ill-breedng her
letter eyinces, the South, therefore, should not
be held responsible.
Profundity was never esteemed an attribute
of Mrs Gardiner Tyler, but she has been at
school and can read, 50 that she cannot be so
downright a natural as to suppose the Stafford
House ladies intended by their meek and tim
orous Address TO explode the American Union.
she ought not, then, TO have permitted such
sad trash to 60 out over her signature as all
the rigmarole about Ladies Pslmerston, John
Russell, the Countesses of Derby and Carlisle,
&c, having probably consulted their husbands
before signing the Address, and that there ia
room for suspicion that this is one step in q
conspiracy for "wrecking the bark of this
/ Union. Nc, Julia you are not silly
enough to be earnest in this.
You grayely inform Stafford House that
The women Of the Southern sates are, for the most
part well educated; indeed, they yield in ths
spect to any females earth and they hsye peculiar
opportunities Of acquiring knowledge in regard 70 the
| pubic concerns OF the world
Well, then: How could you embody in your
Reply all that meOnshine about " Poor jack
and the Press-gsng," in which You are evident
ly laboring under the Authorization that British
vessels are ROsc manned by means of Impress
ment Surely, when YOU talk Of British ignor.
anee Of American institutions, you ought 10
have been better posted than this signifies.
And besides, Julia, YOU ought to know the
difference between the evils which men suffer