The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-01-06
THE DAILY DISPATCH
From the Boston Post.
FRESH SLAVERY AGITATION.
Impudence of British Aristocracu.
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impudenee Of British Aristocracy.
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But there is a closer view yet to take of th;s
aristocratic advice to our fair countryyomen.
u Is the home view. 1t is the relation which
their gilded saloons bears TO the things about
it. To let the negro go. We ask: what CON
sIderation would induce this duchess of Su,h.
erland to invite to her reunions the wife of
John Smith, master overseer of Durham
mine? Perhaps her character. talents, educa
ton and merit, IN every way, may be infinite
ly superior TO this parsonage, yciept duch-
ess. All the graces that adorn the Christian
or the wOmanly character may be united in
her person; and yet, such is the severity of
British caste, that the suggestion of such an
| approach TO equality would be considered by
this duchess of Sutherland as mortal offence
to her pride. Yet such as she are the person.
ages who assume to lecture American women
on The duties they owe to their race! These
are the arrogant, self appointed regulators of
| American society.
ou' u'suppose this inquiry were pushed closer
nome, and so close as to deal with the lordy
mansion OF Stafford and the noble family of
outhefiand What were their origin? Was
not tne marcnloness Of Sutherland mother to
| Me present duke, one of those who came by
ner doma,ns, as large as some of the depart
ments of France, by drsyiag fifteen ,bousand
peasants from'their homes? Did NOT her a~ent
put fire to their houses before he could com.
| pei them to clear the country? And who wara
placed there instead2 I'rentv nine Eom;l;es
| and an hundred thousand sheen. And ROW
was this barbarism justi6ed' Why, forsooth.
because some musty piece of hereditary right
gave all this land TO this Stafford family, Now
this very family, in whose behalf monstrous
injustice was perpetrated, is at the head of this
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men of America! Was there ever seen such
piece of bold impudence?
But why do these phlanthropic duchesses
and countesses confne themselves to this re.
public? Is there no work needed elsewhere
even in the anti-savery cause How stands
the slave trade now? How is it with the slave
markets and slave caravans of Egypt! What
is going on at this hour in Cuba and in Brazil?
Is not the captain general in league with the
slave dealer? Are not slave ships filled with
slaves, the ignorance and brutality of which
have only had their parallel in our day in the
British coal mines, at this hour on their way
TO Cuba and Brazil Why does not their
compassion take that direction? Is il not be.
cause of British hatred to republican insttu.
tons Is it not because these duchesses and
countesses know enough ofpoltics to feel that
while the ancient and monstrous system of
privilege and monopoly by which thew live.
has nothing to fear from the weak empire of
Brazil or the imbecie dynasty of Spain. vet
that every hour of continued success of this
nation shortens it's duration After all, doest
not the sum and substance of their arrogan.
and patronzing philanthropy consist in stir,
ring popular prejud ee against rising America
If net, if it is only righteous Indignation
against wrong, and evil, and slavery, why do
they not appeal 10 the women of Egypt, of
Spain, and of Brazil ? But above all things,
why do they not first, in alleviatng British
misery. begin at home, and then follow the tap
of the British drum round the world
Such are a few circumstances and facts in
answer to the queries as to the state of society
around the abodes of these intermediates with
America. There is a wreichedness, an gno-
rance, a poverty, at their doors that makes an
imperious demand on all their philanthropy.
They have none to spare for America British
slaves yearn-so they swear before high hea-
ven-to take the pla.,es of the American sla-
very that these duchesses would abolish -
They would rather be owned and cared for
than see their children starve before their
eyes. What lesson is all this. How il de-
monstrates the unfaithfulness of British wealth
and station to its duties. What is the use of
denying it-why present things moral, feli-
gious, to masses sinking to starvation point
As we'll talk to the winds. The need things
fabric. There can be no progress without it.
There is a mockery in presenting, as q rene.
dy, religious consolation to the starving man /;
and vet large portion of British society is
but little removed from the starving point,
and demands all the efforts of true philanthro-
py. A British writer (l85ll well says "The
existence of such barbarism in the mids of our
so-called civilization of such squalid poverty
in the midst of superabundance and refine
fho 1uiIv hv fho
distressed needlewomen and others similarly
circumstanced, is the scandal of our age and
country" Would not the duchess of Suther-
land and her associates be better employed in
removing this scandal than in impudently and
arroganily uresumiDg TO lecture American wo
men on their duties!
We have presented details relative to the
British laboring classes-ihat portion Of Bril-
fish society whose only property consists in
their labor, and who live by selling this labor
to other classes. All British authorities, the
stiff British tory and the liberal British radical,
in a multitude of essays, speeches and VOL
umes, agree as to the fact of physical misery
and moral degradation of this clfss, and that
il constitutes the bulk of British population;
and the only difference is as to the remedy
And as to this what has been the process =
EAery few years, for halt century, some in
dignant democratic retormer, or some patron
lolDS Dtlttsil tOIUg LuS tuuuC q OdotuCoS W Ca-
pose to the public gaze some crying abuse
such as the disgusting atrocities OF the British
mills the cruel employment of infant Labor
the brutality of the women in the mines the
murder OF parish apprentices in the work
shops the torture of boys in the chimneys
the cursed trade in pauper children the ap.
palling increase of juvenile ignorance aud
crime the abuses of union workhouses the
keen distress If British needlewomen the Bit
ter discomfort Of the white slaves of England
the desiituton and starvation Of Ireland the
flih of British lodging houses, and accumuia.
tive evils Of four or FIVE millions Of BRUSH pau
pers.
When these expositons are made 10 parlia-
ment, tho lords spiritual and temporal and the
snobbish middle classes roll up their asionish-
ed eyes, grufly assent to the truths OF the 'n-
dignant reformer, or promptly praise the con.
dcscension of the noble lord" enact sirin
gent law, aud, self satisfied, return to their
trading and luxurant living while anethef
crying abuse makes head to be in due nme ex-
posed, to create new astobishment, make
new reputation, and cause new law: ih's
has been the way OF British Reform. Notn'ng
radical has been done. Human toll Is Jsst as
hard, and mental culture just as low es ever
So the philanthropic reaper has wide field
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