The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-31
THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.
THE WHITE SLAVES OF GREAT BRITAIN.



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Mrs. Ex-President John Tyler to the
Dutchess Of Sutherland and Others.
from the Richmond Enquirer, Jan. 2s
TO THE DUTCHEss OF SUTHERLAND AND TIE LADIES
OF ENGLAND.
Your address TO your sisters, the women OF the
United States, the subject OF domestic slavery as
t exists among which has appeared IN our public
journals, should be acknowledged by some one of the
vast number of those to whom it il addressed with
out awaiting the publication OF the more formal COM
munication. There are some OF the concerns OF life
in which conventonaites are properly to be dis
regarded, and this is one Of them. reply to your
address must necessarily be the work Of some one in
dividual among US, or must go altogether upper
formed Woman, in the United states WIN out lew
exceptions confines herself within that sphere for
which the God who created her seems to have de-
signed her. Her circle is literally and emphatically.
that of her family and such she Ia content that it
shall be. Within that circle her influence is felt over
the relations of life, as wife, mother mistress
as she discharges the duty of all Of these
lati0ns, 80 is she respected or otherwise. To cast
doubt upon her fidelity in any one of them is to ex-
cite against her the odum of the community and in
y great measure, to dethrone her from her high
position. She knows nothing Of political conven-
tions, conventions Of any other sort than suoh
are held under suitable pastors OF the church, and
are wholly directed to the advancement Of the Chris
tian religion. Such is emphatically the case with
the women Of the Southern States. Do you wish to
see them, you must visit their homes. DO you desire
to ascertain the nature of their employments, you
must enter their family circles, and believe me- good
sisters of England you would find in their Christian
department, and perfect amiability of manners.
enough ut to inspire you with the most exalted
respect and esteem. You might find no splendid
vestments Of dress no gttering diamonds, no arsto
cratic displays. No, the vestments they wear are
those of meekness and charity their diamonds are
gems of the heart and their splendor the neatness,
and order, and contentment which everywhere greets
the eye and that neatness, that order and that
tentment, is in nothing observable than in the
well clothed and happy domestics who welcome your
arrival and heap upon you every comfort during your
s0journ under the roofs of their masters You will
then how utterly impossible il would be to expect
the women of the United States to assemble in con-
yention either in person or by proxy, IN order to
ffane an answer to your address Nay, l must,
women of the South, especially, have not received
your address in the kindest spirit They regard it
entirely incompatible with all confidence in or con-
women of what are called the free States, in mat
ter with which they have no more to do than have
yourselves, and whose interference in the question
can produce other effect than to excite disturbance
total humiliation Of kind feeling between geo.
graphical sections. II is the province Of the
Of the Southern States to preside over the domestic
economy Of tho estates and plantations Of
their husbands it is emphaticaLy their pro-
vince to visit the sick, and attend to the
comfort of all the laborers upon such es-
tates; and it 10 felt to be but poor compliment to
the women Of the South to suppose it necessary to
introduce other superntendence than their own over
the condition Of their DEFENDANTS and servants They
SEQ, too or fancy they see in the fact that the ad
dress which you have made them was handed to you,
already prepared for signature by the editors Of the
newspaper press Of England, and that, according to
the admission Of the Duchess OF Sutherland in her
opening address to your convention, your convention
itself IS but the O1sprng Of the same political news
paper preas-I soy, they see enough in all this to
excite not their sympathes but their apprehensions
They also see, or fancy that they see in your move
ment the fingers Of your greatest statesmen The
Countess OF Derby, the Viscountess Palmerston, the
Countess Of Carlisle, Lady John RUSSELL not to
ton others of distinction and notoriety, would
scarcely be comphmented BY superstition that they
bad signed or openly approved such an address
without the concurrence Of their husbands The
women Of the Southern States are for the most part
well educated; indeed, they yield not in this re-
spect to any females on earth, and they have
peculiar opportunities OF acquiring knowledge
In regard to the public concerns OF the world.
Politics Is almost universally the theme OF converse
ton among the men, in all their coteries and social
gatherings, and the women would be stupid indeed if
they did not gather much information from this
abundant source Hence they are not ignorant OF the
rapid growth Of their beloved country or OF the pro-
misses Of its early future. Their mothers knew this
land when it contained but three millions of inhabi-
tants, and numbered out thirteen States. Their
children know it as the great confederated re-
public whose population already equals $4,000 600
and whose dornini0ns are washed by the waters OF
two oceans. Believe me- that its magnitude now,
and its importance in the future Is as fully known to
the women Of the United States, as it is to your
husbands, and editors and statesmen. Our census
tables show duplication of our population IN every
cycle of twenty-three years so that by the time the
infant now in the cradle shall have attained to the
age Of manhood thatpOpuation will have increased TO
SO 900 900 and by the time that infant attains
to middle age, it will have swollen into 100 900 900.
We need 90 farther in the estimate in order to UNI
veil that immense future which lies before us-a
H.,kvr Had vza,nf nfv hU
thing the world has heretofore seen--a future
which already fixes upon it the intense and steadfast
gaze of the statesmen Of other countries-a future
which unfolds new destiny, happier and
brighter one trust, for the human familya future
to be regarded with rapture by the lover OF man and
which may cause privilege to shiver and tremble
with fear in all its fbres and arteries. allude not
TO any power Of the sword. No, allude to power
more resstless, and more certain in its results-the
power Of example-the example OF free, prosper
Gus and great people among whom all artificial dis
tinctions of society are unknown where preferment
is equally open to all, and mans capacity for self
government is recognized and conclusively es-
tablished. The women OF the United States foresee
all this, and they also thoroughly comprehend the
fact that all confederacies have heretofore in the
history of the world, been broken up and de-
stroyed by the Vaccinations of foreign govern
ments; and if such has been the fate OF
other confederaeies, how much more vigilant
ought we to be, TO guard against the IA
tai results which have attended on others, and to
look with suspicion, conc from what quarter it may,
ON ell interference in our domestic concerns. If the
Achaian and other leagues could not withstand the
Vaccinations Of the powers Of their day, how truly
sensitive ought we TO be on point which proved 80
such oonfederacies were surrounded, felt it to be due
10 their own safety TO destroy them by their machi
nations have we not reason TO suppose that tsnfod
interest Is found IN our case, in view Of the rapid
growth ofthe United States and in the early deveope
ment Of that future which will clothe this country
With I'll the elements Of control in the affairs OF the
woeid7 Governments and countries which are now
looked upon a. starr Of the first magnitude, Will ere
long the United States roll in their present or
bit, be secondary and tertiary in the political hem
sphere. This Is quite % thoroughly known by us as
By you women Of EAgland, and therefore you should
not be in the slightest degree surprised at the sus-