The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-31

them) from premature agonizing death. We have
read with horror OF one of your husbands urging with
themselves at the time for fear the famine might
cause a disease among the Irish landords,) to feed
the people with curry powder; and you must recol-
ec, when the curry powder scheme OF destroying the
Irish could not be approved Of that Sir A. Treveyan
was sent over to Ireland with the test starving
commission, and conducted the Irish destruction
with more humanity, for he allowed one pound
of meal as meat and wages for every starving
Irishman who would work ten hours per day
at making roads, draining, and improving the
estates for Irish landlords. All English sisters,
though we could bring no more against you, the pub
lie will Judge and decide that you should be the de-
Tenders and not the pursuers in this case but since
you began to expose US, we will expose you to the
letter. for there is no case or cases brought out
against us in " Uncle Toms Cabin" with all Har-
riet Beecher Stoves capabilities of cOloring that is
equal to this. We tell you emphatically, that our
law would neither sanction nor tolerate such inhu-
man treatment-our religion fOrbids it; and any
man or number of men who would DC guilty OF such
would be branded with infamy and chased from our
States and from societies as inhuman irrational,
rregious, and immoral monsters, unworthy OF Chris
tan society, to have voice in the civil or religious
government of our country. But by taking retro
spectivc view Of the history Of your Chrsianzed ma
ton we find that inhumanity, oppression, cruelty,
and extortion, are qualifications required to fit
legislator, commander, commissioner or any other
making, the law administration and the government
of your peoples but qualifications specially required
to enttle them to dgnifed high sounding titles and
distinction, as will be shown afterwards.
"Unce Toms Cabin" has aroused the sympathy
and compassion Of the Duchesses Of Sutherland, Ar
gyle, Bedford, and Ladies Blantyre and Trevelyan,
and many thousands of the women Of England over
the fate of Hams black children. But we would
seriously advise the Duchess of Sutherland and her
host to pause until Uncle Donald MLeOd's Cabin
comes out and until he himself across the At
lantic with it among the thousands OF those and
their offspring who have fed from their iron sway
and o1o m CHI Ho rnQn has hnnn
expostuating with you for the last twenty years
against your cruel unnatural irrational unchristian,
and inhuman treatment Of the brave athletic High
land white sons of Japhet but no English or Scot
fish dutchesses and ladies took any notice of him,
nor convened q meeting to sympathize with him, or
to demonstrate with Highland despotc slave-making
propretors to discontinue their unrghte0us depopu-
lation of the country and their ungodly draining
away Of the best blood from the nation. Hence we
aver that these ladies would never convene sympa-
thzing meeting for the benighted Africans, should
their own African chiefs, kings, and queens destroy
them by the thousand; but because they sell them,
feminine hearts sympathize with them. This Is q
fine opportunity for Donald M'Leod. Let him now
speak out and make haste, and we promise him q
quick and an extensive sale for his Cabin OF unvar
nished facts.
The Dutchess of Sutherland got very warm on the
subject After she read the sympathizng, remon-
strating address, (Which need not be quoted here,
emphasis, said 81 hope and believe that our efforts,
under Gods blessing will not be without some happy
result; but, whether it succeed or fail no one will
deny that we shall have made an attempt, which had
for its beginning and end, GLORY 70 God in the
highest, on earth peace and good will to men," It
seems that erontery is become very lofty and high
voiced, under the protection of high-sounding Eng.
lsh titles, when the Duchess OF Sutherland could
presume to mix such notorious hypocritical winnings
as these with "Glory to God in the highest on earth
peace and good will to men," for no other cause or
design than to whitewash from some public odium
already out or to screen from some that is expected,
come from what quarter it may Surely this cannot
be the Duchess Of Sutherland who pays visit every
year to Dunrobin Castle, who has seen and heard
SO many duplicating appeals presented to her hus-
band by the poor fishermen OF Golspie soliciting Ii
berry to take musses from the Little Ferry
Sands to bait their nets-a liberty which they
were deprived Of by his factors, though paying
yearly rent for it, yet returned by his Grace with the
brief delyerance that he could do nothing for them
Can believe that this is the same parsonage who
can set out from Dunrobin Castle, cher own High
land seat) and, after travelling from it, then ride
in one direction thirty miles, in another direc
ton miles; in another direction (by taking
the necessary circut0us r0ute) sixty miles and that
over fertile gens valleys, straths, bursting with fat
ness which gave birth to- and where were reared for
ages, thousands of the bravest the most moral vrtu
Gus and religious men that Europe could boast OF !;
ready, to man. at moments warning from their
chief to rise in defence of their king, queen, and
country animated with patriotism and love to their
chief and irresistible in the battle contest for victory
Il ", F,
and chief, worth the fighting for But can tell
her that she can now ride over these extensive
tracts in the interior OF the country without seeing
the image Of God upon man travelling these roads,
with the exception OF a wandering Highland shep-
herd, wrapped up in gray plaid to the eyes, with
a colly dog behind him as drill serjeant, to train
his ewes and to marshal his tups. There may hap
pen to travel over the dreary tract geoogis tour
ist or lonely carrier but these peli-
in the wilderness, or camels convoy caravan in
the deserts of Arabia. Add to this few English
sportsmen with their stag hounds, pointer dogs and
their servants and put themselves and their bravery
together, and company Of French soldiers would
put ten thousand Of them to disorderly fight to
save their carcasses leaving their ewes and tups
to feed the INVADERS The question may arise where
those people who inhabited this country at period
have gone? In America and Australia the most of
them will be found. The Sutherland family and the
nation had need of their services hence they did
not regard their patriotism loyalty, and disregard
ed their past services. Sheep, bullock, deer, and
game became more valuable than men. Yet a rem
nant OF them in other words, skeleton Of then is
TO be found along the seashore huddled together in
motley groups upon barren moors, among cliffs
and precipices in the most impoverished degraded,
fubjugated slayish, spiritess condition that hu-
man beings could exist in. If this is really the lady
who has GLORY God in the highest peace on earth
and good will to men, in view, and who is so
regiously denouncing the American statute which
denies the slave the sanctity of marriage, with all
its joys rights, and obligations separates, at
the will OF the master, the wife from the husband,
the children from the parent" would advise her,
in Gods name, to take tour round the seaskirts Of
Sutherland, her own estate, beginning at Brora,
then to Helmsdale, Portskera, Strathy, Farr,
Tongue, Durness, Eddrachills, and Assynt, and
learn the subjugated, degraded, and impoverished,
uneducated condition Of the sprtess people Of that
sea-beaten coast about two hundred miles in length,
and let her with similar zeal demonstrate with her
husband, that their condition be bettered for the
cure for all their misery and want is lying unmo-
Tested in the fertile valleys above, and all under his
control and tn advise his Grace her husband In he
no longer guided by his Ahithophel, Mr.. Loeb, but
TO discontinue his depopuating schemes, which have
separated many wife from her husband, never to
meet-which caused many premature death, and
that separated many sons and daughters, never 10
them and by all means to withdraw that mandate Of
Mr. Lock, which forbids marriage on the Sutherland
estate under the pains and penalties Of being banished
from the county; for it has been already the cause Of
great amount of prostitution, and augmented ille-
gitmate connections and issues fifty per cent above
what such were few years ago before this unnatu-