The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-04-07
THE DAILY DISPATCH
THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND.

The name of the Duchess of Sutherland
,taa ,he late apneal of the Women Of Eng
land 10 the Women of America, on the subject
Of slavery, and to her belongs the credit OF
HAVING out on foot this notable scheme OF fe-
male flbusiering. A London correspondent
of the New York Tribune, who is himself an
Abolitionist, gives some OF the nooie iady
antece1en,s, which show what clam sue mas
10 the title of ph,lan,hropist. After rema,Sing
thai the history of the Sutherland ianiiy Is
the history OF the ruin and spoiia,ion OF me
Scotch G8lic population, and explaining al
considerable length the nature OF Inc tenure
hv which the clans held the SOIL, the writer
II was only after 1911 that the ultimate and
al ra,rpation was enacted, the torcIble trans
formntioyi of clan property INTO me pirate
,roDsyty in the modern sense, % He IhtrJ:-
fra no son who stood at the head OF this
ns ar,r,;.si revolution was a female Mehemit
Al; 80 had well digested her Malthus-Ghe
Snnr,sss of Sutherland, alias Marchioness of
1t MS :irst state that the ancestors of the
u.,cb;oness of Stafford were the "great men,
nj The mos, northern part OF Scotland, of very
near three.quarters OF Sutherandshre. This
country is more extensive than many French
Departments or small German Principalities.
When the Countess of Sutherland inherited
these estates, which she aiterward brought to
her husband, the Marquis of Stafford, after
ward Duke of Sutherland, the population of
them was already reduced to Is 600. My lady
Countess resolved upon radical economical
reform, and determined upon transforming the
whole tract OF country into sheep-walks.
From 1914 TO 1920, these $4,000 inhabitants,
about 5000 families, were systematically ex-
neIled and ex,erminated. All their villages
were demolished and burned down, and all
Their fields converted into pasturage. British
soldiers were commanded tor this execution,
and came 10 blows with the natives. An old
woman refusing TO quit her hut was burned in
the flames of il. Thus my lady COUNTESS ap-
propr!aed 10 herself seven hundred and nine
ty-fou- thousand acres of land which from
time imnemorial had belonged to the CLAN
In the exuberance other generosity she alIot-
ted 10 the expelled natives about 5000 acres
2 acres per family. These 5000 acres had been
having waste until then, and brought no reve-
nue. TO the proprietors. Ihe Countess was
generous enough to sell the acres at %. Ga. on
an average, 10 the clansnen who for centuries
past had sned their bl5od ior her family. The
whole of the unrightfully appropria led clan
land she divided into 80 large sheep farms,
each Of them inhabited by one single family,
mostly Eng ish farm laborers, and IN 1921 the
$4,000 Gauls hadalready been superseded by
l3l 600 sheep.
portion of the aborigines had been thrown
upon the sea shore, and attempted to live by
fishing. They became amphibious, and as an
English author says, lived half on land and
half Oh water, and after all did not half live up.
on both.
The process of clearing estates which, in
Scotland we have just now described, was car.
ried out in England in the 10th, IL IN, and 18TH
centuries. Thomas Morus already complains
of it in the beginning ofthe 10th century. Ii
was performed in Scotland in the beginning of
the 18th, and in Ireland is now in full progress
The noble Viscount Palmerston too, some
years ago cleared of men his property in Ire
iand, exactly in the manner described above.
The above Turkish reform by the Countess
of Sutherland was jusfable, at least from a
Malthusien point Of view. Other Scottish no.
blenen went farther. Having superseded hu
man beings by sheep, they superseded sheep
by game, and the pasture grounds by forests
AT the head of these was the Duke of Aihol.-
"After the conquest, the Norman Kings alfor-
ested large portions of the soil of Englan in
much the same way as the landlords here are
now doing with the Highlands"
AS for the large number of human beings ex.
PEELED 10 make room for the game of the Duke
of Athoi, and the Countess of Sutherland
where did they fly to, where did they 6nd a
home?
In the United States of North america.
The enemy of British Wages Slavery has
a right 10 condemn Negro Slavery; Duchess
of Sutherland, Duke Of Athol, Mancheste
CoIt0niOrd-never!