Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-04-15

4 month Of TIVE since, in commenting on Mi1at
vas done BIT those silly women, the Duchess Of
Sutherland and her associates, took occasion to
adyis. them to look at home.n Our Abolitionist
frepds Waxed very wroth at this and minated that
things were well enough in England, though Eng
lishmgn did now and then sell their wives at
tion with halters around their necks-nothing be-
ing done and very little said against by their neigh
| bors John Bull, howeyer-shall we say it--begins
to think it high time to follow advice. The
London Morning Chronicle of March 18th has a
leading article, commencing as follows
s.The bill for the protection of women and chill
dren introduced by Mr. Fitzroy on Thursday night,
is conceived in the right spirit 1t will go far to
| redeem what is, we fear, national disgrace =
Whether are in any degree indebted for 1t to the
somewhat vvacious and personal reply which the
:" Women of America, sent TO recent address from
their British sisters it is superfuous to inquire
| ANYHOW the stern realities of our Police Courts
EQUALS if they do not surpass the fictitious horrors
of Mrs Beecher Stowe. 1t as high time that ne be-
gin to look at home. Wheth the crimes OF tramp
ling upon wife. beating her with poker, kicking
and acera ~ her person. are peculiar to England
or to own times, we know not. 1t is always dit,
fcut to register the orig progress OF crme-ali
we can do is to detect and suppress It, we suspect
! that even when 8 England was merry England
there was always good deal of coarse brutality a
bout the boasted British character; and savage do
nestle tyranny at least in the lower ranks of socie
ty. is we fear, no new phenomenon in our annals
Still it can hardly be doubted that cruel on:rages
upon women, chiefly perpetrated by their husbands
and paramours, are largely increasing"
This we think, is sufficient TO show that the milk
and water senmentality of Stafford House is held
at cheap rate by sensible people in England, and
that the ridiculous aspect of philanthropy
which melts into tears over a romance while II
shuts its eyes and hardens its heart to the misery
that lies welterng its doors, is beginning to
strike every thinking and feeling individual in that
country. Some of the IS stern realities above re-
ferred to recapiuated in the of what fol-
lows in the Chronicle. They form catalogue OF
horrid brutaliies too painful to quote. We vii
give few of the London editors comments:
Here, then-including Mr.. Fitzroy's list-are
more than twenty instances, occurring within two
months in London alone, of the most foul and saw
age attacks, committed mostly by men, on womer
and defcneeless children. The old chivalry of com
mon life, which held it base to lift hand against
woman, seems to be extinct; and things hare come
to such pass that poor mans wife only claims
from the law of England that measure of protection
which is freely awarded to dog OK
'It may be difficult to assign special cause To-
this frightfu degradation of the national characte
for such We fear it is. We fully believe that thi
mass of misery, domestic hatred, cowardly assaults
and murder, may in numberless instances be traced
back to the miserable lodgings of the London poor
and to the moral disadvantages arising from the alb
sence of those checks which society imposes A Lon
don artisan, ear ~ and late at his work is unnhu
enced by social opnon--he has no neig hbors-an
thus, in the midst of crowded population. he ma.
relapse into state akin to that of the solitary AM
the savage
Stafford House. it is reasonable to think, shoul
keep quiet for WHILE at least the subject o
Uncle Tom. After the wel-fed Duchess has ZACH
rymated her prettiest the pages of Mrs Stowe
let her make real step, with literal shoes an
stockings, into of these stern realitieshe mis-
cradle lodgings Of the London poor''-and remembe
that London is her home, and not When tina
is set to rights let the Duchess and her tender hear
ted associates recommence their denuncations
American slavery; but not till then.
Boston Courier