The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-06-16

among tuS IdttcI, VI "iii1A -, siAoe oe'i
to abolitionists an ameliorated condition 0
the slave. The reverse Of this is as wei
an established fact in our mind, as the sim
!, plest effect of nature philosophically defined
but we will not quarrel with our friend
about mere difference Of opinion.
Ed. GAz.
Another Reply to the Duchess.
"A Southern Woman" who is describe
as "one Of the most respectable and intiuen
tial ladies of New Orleans" has written
reply to the Duchess of Switzerland and he
associates. This lady is about sevent,
years of age, and has resided in New Or
leans thirty-fve years. Her letter is some
what different from Mrs. Julia Gardner Ty
Ter. The New York Evening Post has OBJ
tanned copy of it from which we make ar
extract She says:
81 think may truthfully say majority
some southern women-noble specimens
feel with me decided and unconquera.
| BILE aversion to the system of slavery, as il
exists in these southern States, and would
wish so to be represented, and who are
deeply grieved to see the favor it obtains,
not only from those on whose hearts the
spirit of Christianity has not operated, but
from professed of Jesus Christ, a portion of
whom sustain it, most lamentably SO because,
they say, on Bible principles.
We, then, embracing such portions OF my
countrywomen as coincide with me in opin-
ion on this subject of African slavery, ac-
knowledge to have received your address in
the same spirit Of kindness in which we be-
leve it was dictated. We do not believe
that the 'fngers Of statesmen guided it,
or that political subtlity was its object. We
are unwilling to attribute such unworthy
motives to your husbands, fathers, or broth
ers, as to suppose they would make you
their willing dupes. We do believe it was
the honest dictation of sympathy for the suf-
terings and moral degradation of our slaves.
"You have appealed to our sympathies iu
behalf of oppressed men, women, and chill
dren in slavery, who have been placed in it
by cupidity, and retained in it by the num-
bers that are interested in supporting it,
with no other authority for it than what
time has sanctioned. Such state of things
has been incorporated into tangible, regu-
larly licensed system for the protection of
the booty thus acquired and thus held styled
the "Southern Institution" This "South-
ern Institution" thus worked up of flesh and
blood, has reached the dignity Of a political
right known more definitely as Southern
right, and is now being claimed as such at
the expense of the Union, by southern peo-
pie, to whom the northern people succumb
lor office, even to the Presidency. As ana
ton, ladies', you are justly responsible for a
large share Of this guilt-the largest share
of. because you have fastened it upon US.
We appreciate your acknowledgment OF it.
Deeds have spoken, as well as words. We
also appreciate your hint of the enlightened
age of the nineteenth century; for we do not
believe in the doctrine that we would have
done right if we had not been admonished
of doing wrong. We believe, if the dispo-
sition exists to do right, that no misguided
zeal of sympathlzers would be able so easily
to turn US from our purposes; (admitting 1t
to be such;) such doctrine has been most
successfully applied to the much hated and
contemned abolltionists, to whom the slave
owes his ameliorated condition.
sHs physical condition has been much
improved within the last twenty years. His
spiritual condition is receiving some cons.d-
erable attention from some quarters-wlth a
strict guard upon his intellectual condition.
We, who profess to wish their emancipa-
ton, are teaching them, as far as we can.
within limits of law, (some few 60 beyond
IT'D and we are aiming to treat them kindly.
w look to Liberia us the best home tor them,
but we do not prohibit any other to which
they would wish to 60 or stay. We here
propose to those who favor the Llberian
scheme for abolishing slavery, (ofwhich we
think most highlv,) to let US see them put 1t
in practice. Let them 60 Immediately to
work, and teach them, prepare them Tor LII
IBERIA, and send them away. Then we will
believe in their sincerity. But alas! while
we can see from one OF our broadest streets
suspended from the tops OF the houses, across
the street, pennon, bearingi in large letters
this inscription: TALBoT's SLAVE DEPoT-
with lower floor filled with men and women
for sale-specimens of them at the doors
and the very high prices which these victims
now command, we fear that Virginia and the
other exporting States will send down more
slaves for Talbot, than free men tor Liberia.
"We will ask Christians, politicians,
mothers, north and south, to suspend ordi-
nary thou ,lt TO-. two minutes, and si them
selves the question, What does Southern
right mean! The process OF thought will
bring up the Constitution. Then think how
a portion of the men who framed it object
ed to the clause, Persons bound to labor,
&c, being inserted in it, but did consent to
it, to cement the Upton at that critical stage
OF our lberty's progress, because the own
ers of sluves woald not make compact
without it. Think why the term person
was used instead OF slave
..Think again, would our model man, our
loved Washington, have sanctioned tug-
tive slave law IN 1853! He lett all his slaves
free in 1900, and provided means for them to
be taught to read and write, Think, north
ern or southern mothers, how you would
feel to have promising daughter OF fifteen
taken from you, and when asked Where is
shep to be unable to say more than 4 don't
know. After Master Tom took her away
he said he put her in the Traders Yard, and
didn't know where she was sold. expect
to Red River Or how would you teel'
when the Negro Trader in Kentucky is gath
ering up his gang for the New Orleans mar
ket, to be put in it at few hours notice.
to leave a little child or children-chained
ii you resisted!
..Such things are not the alleged tctions
of Uncle Toms Cabin They are undeni.
able truths; and because they are truths, we
ask you, Christians, politicians, mothers, u
think of them! Ponder ever them, and ienC