The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-02-16
TO the Duchess Of Sutherland q
the Indies Of CmClnnA

I'd IN our public journals, should be acknowledg.
fd by some one Of the vast number Of those tn
whom it is addressed, without awaiting the pub
lication of the more formal commuuca'ion.-
There are some of the concerns of Ifs in which
conveni"nalties are properly to b. dlsregarded,
and this Is one of them A reply to your adt
dress must necessarily be the work Of some one
individual among us, or mist 90 altogether un.
performed Woman, in the United States, with I
b few exceptions, confines herself within that
sphere for which the God who created her
seems to have designed her. Her circle ia, 1T |
orally and emphatically that of her family and
such she is content that it shall be. Within
that circle her influence felt the relations
of lie, as wafe, moth n, mistress aud she
discharges the duty If one all Of these rrla
tidns so is she respected or otherwise. Tocast
doub, upon her fidelity in any one of them is
To excite against her the ndiurn Of the commu-
nifty, and, in great measure, to dethrone her
from her high position. She knows nothing of
political conventions, or conventions of any 9TH
or sort than such are held under suitable pas
tors of the church, and are wholly directed to
tie advancement Of the Christian religion
such is emphatically the case with the women
of the southern States Do you wish 10 SEE
them, you must visit their homes. DO you de-
sire to ascertain the nature of their enploymenis,
you must enter their family circles and believe
me, good sisters Of England, you would find in
their Christian department, and perfect amiabil-
ity of manners, enough at once to inspire you
with the most exalted respect and esteem
You might find no splendid yes'ments of dress,
no glitering diamonds, no arstocratic Displays
No, the vestments they wear are those IF meek
| ness and charity, their diamonds are gems of
the heart, and their splendor the neatnPss and
order and contentment which everywhere greets
the eye and that nea,ness, that order, and that
! chs ruohI han
| in the wel-clothed and happy domestics who
welcome your arrival, and heap upon you every
comfort during your soj1urn under the roofs Of
| their masters You will see then how utterly
| impossible it would be to expect the women of
the United States to assemble in convention,
either in person or by proxy, in order to frame
an answer, to your address. Nay, | must more
over, in all frankness, declare to you that the
women of the South especially have not receir'
ed your address in the kindest spirit. They re
gard 1t as entirely incompatible with all conf.
dence in or consideration for them, to invoke the
interposition of the women of what are called
the free Sales in matter with which they
have no more to do than have yourselves, and
whose interference in the question can produce
no other effect than to excite disturbance and
agitation and i'll will, and possibly, in tie end, a
total annihlaion Of kind feeling between geo
: graphical sections.
1t is the province of the women of the south
ern States TO preside over the domestic econo-
my OF the estates and plantations Of their hus
bands; il is emphatically their provimce to vis
the sick, and attend to the comfort of oil the
lahorers upon such estates; and ii is fell t.
be bu; poor compliment to the women of the
! South 10 suppose it necessary t. introduce o.he
sup rin,endeace than their own over Tie condi
ton Of their dependents and servants They see
too or fancy they see, in the fact that the adj
dress which you have made them was hand,t
to you already prepared for sigma ure, by til,
editors OF the newspaper press OF England, ant
, that, according TO The admission of the Duches
of Sutherland in her opening address to you
convention, your convention itself is but tn
offspring of the same political newspaper press
| say, they see enough in all this to excite no
their sympathies but thei- apprehensions. The,
also see, ur fancy they see, in your movement
the fingers of their greatest statesmen. Tn
Countess Of Derby, The Viscountess Palmerston
the Countess of Carlisle, Lady John Russell
not to mention others OF distinction and motto
riety, would scarcely Dc mplmented b. a sup
position that they had signed or openly approv
:, ed such an address without the concurrence @
their husbands. The women of the southern
States are, for The most part, well educated in
deed, they yield not in this respect to any fe
! males en- earth, and they have peculiar opportu
mites Of acquiring knowledge in regard to tn
public concerns Of the world. Politics is aln,os
universally the theme of conversation anon!
the men of all their lotteries and social gather
: Ings, and the women would be stupid indeed
they did not gather much information from thi
$ abundant source. Hence they are not ignoran
! of the rapid growth of their beloved country, o
Of the promises of its early future. Thcl
mothers knew this land when it contained bu
$ three millions Of inhabitants, and numbered bu
thirteen States. Their children kn w il now a
he great confcderated republic, who's. popula
ton already equals 26.000,G0O, and whose do
min;ons are washed by the waters of two oceans
Believe me, that its magnitude now, and Inpor
= lance III the future, is fully known 20 III
women Of the United States as it is to ynu
, husbands, and editors, and statesmen Ga
census tables show duplication of our popua
ton in every cycle of % years. so that by lh
time tie infant, now in the cradle, shall hlv
attained the age of manhood, that p pulalio
Will have increased to 50000,000; and By tn
time that same infant atiains TO middle age,
will have swollen into l00,000,O00 We nee
:, 60 no further in the estimate in order TO unve
that immense future which lies before US
future unrvalled in point Of power, by anythn
4, the world has heretofore seen-a future whic
already fixes upon it the intense and steadlas
. gaze Of the statesmen of other countries-a FL
ture, which unfolds a new DESTINY happie
!, and brighter one, trust, for the human fanl
"a future TO be regarded with rapture by til
: lover of man, and which may cause privilege t
shiver and tremble with fear in all its fibres an
:, arteries | alude not to any power nf th
sword. No, aludc to power more resiSlles
= and more certain in its results-ths power c
= example-the example of a free, prosperou:
and great people, among whom all ARTIFICIAL dis
:, tinctions of society are unknown; where pre-
ferment is equally open to all, and mans capa
: city for self government is recognised and con
8 clusively established
: The women of the United States foresee a
this, and they also thoroughly comprehend tn
: fact that all confederacies have heretofore i
: the history of the world, been broken up an
: destroyed by the Vaccinations of foreign gov
ernments; and if such has been the fate of othe
= confederacies, how much more vgiant ougl
we TO be TO guard against the fatal r suits whic
! have attended on others, and to look with sus
pcion, come from what quarter it may, a
interference in our domestic concerns! If tn
Achaian and other leagues could not withs,an
the Vaccinations of the powers of their day
how truly sensitive ought we to be on a poir
J which proved g, fatal to Them and if The fol
> eign States by whom such confederaces wrr
surrounded felt ii to be due to their own safet
to destroy them by their Vaccinations, hav
we HOT reason W suppose ldt teH.iolh Inel
est is found in case, in view of the rapi
n growth of the United States, and in the earl
i development of that future which will cloth
D this country with all The elements OF Iconrt
e in the affairs Of the world! Government, an
! countries which are now looked upon as stars {
the first magnitude will, ere long, if the Unite
States roll on in tn ir present orbit, be secor
dairy and tertiary in the political hemisphere
This is quite as thoroughly known by us as b
you, wome of England, and therefore yo
e should not be in the slightest degree surprise
? at the suspicion with which your address is re
garded by all the thinking women, not only G
= the Sonth, but of the whole Union. We kno,
that there is but one subject which there is
possibility of wrecking the barque Of this Unto
. "a possibility however, which trus, is yer
remots-and SO that very subject you have Civ
) en- your attention; and not only so, but hav
: subscribed an address, not prepared by your
selves, as the emanation of your own suscepti
bic hearts, but the admitted production of tn
newspaper press of England, which affects
nav kish sensibi!ity a subjec, with which
. has nothing properly to do, and all for end
| which rptspct11O n, nj fail