Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-01-27
A Rowland for am Oliver.

A correspondent. of the New York
Express is authority for the statement
that, in November last. there was, at
public house in New York, MEETING
Of ladies, TO take into consideration the
lamentable condition of the mdnufdcfu-
ring and mining population and star
wing peasantry of England, Scotland
and Ireland. The piih of the matter is
that the great ladies lin ti,le) of Eng
iand-Dowagers, Duchesses, Countess
es, eic.-held a sympathetic meeting,
lamenting the condition Of the Slave
population of this country, and appeal
ed to the American ladies for assistance
in ameliorating their condition. The
response to their appeal is good one,
and ought to be appreciated in America
as well as in sympathetic England.--
Let England open her eyes to the suf-
fering condition of her own flesh and
blood before she lavishes away her sym.
paihy on foreign shores, and less pitia-
BILE objects than can easily be found
by thousands, without even leaving the
limits of the refined and and boasied CT
ty of London,
Mrs. BARNABAs, having been, with
great unanimity,.. called to preside, sta
ted the object Of the meeting as follows:
'Ladies, it is with pain that feel o.
bliged TO make this statement of facts,
which You will grant me your patience
in hearing. and which a recent tour in
Great Britain and Ireland has brought to
my knowledge; in the manufacturing
districts of England and Scotland, the
persons employed work the skin, off
their hands for a miserable pittance,
harely keeping body and soul together;
their children half naked and miserable.
ignorant as savages, with no education,
are taken al an early age into the facto-
ries, and there siarye out. their lives in
turn, and thus generation after genera
ton OF white slaves pass..away. 20
But in the mining districts of Eng.
land, Wales and Cornwall, you Will
scarcely credit the assertion. .eihat there
are hundreds who pass their lives in the
mines, never seeing the light Of day,
old and young, in state of shameful
nudity, cropping in the 'sub,erranean pas.
sages IN the work of their taskmasters.
for paltfy pay and fare much worse than
any gwen In our prisons-no education,
no religion, no morals, no solace in life,
no hope in DEATH Horrible condi,iopr
to which, that of our slaves in the South
is Elysium, who are well clothed, we'll
fed, well lreated,. and many Of them no,
only members but teachers in the Church
of Christ.
As TO the condition of the starving
peasantry of ireland, you need 70 in
formation, for you see every day thou
sands landed in your country, utterly
destitute of everything, and your hus--
bands by their taxes are compelled TO
suppor, them in all the Institutions.
It's hoped that by an earnest address
to the ladies of England, they might be
induced to aid us in relieving.,hs hor-
rors Of white slavery in their own coun-
try, SO far exceeding in misery and
wickedness. those Of the slavery at the
south OF our country. especially when it
is remembered that the last named. are
taken from heather lands in Africa and
introduced to Christianity and fall its
blessings. .-
Miss THANKFUL SMITH then introdu-
ced resolution, that the ladies OF Amer
lea deeply sympathizing with the suffer
ing slaves of the English Factories and
Mines and the starving peasants Of Ire.
land most earnestly basoughs the ladies
OF England. especially those Of rank
and wealth, to devote some of their sur
plus wealth. even if necessary. a few of
their diamonds and other Jewels, (sel.
dom or never used and indeed not nee.
essary, where beauty unadorned is ador-
ned the most) to the relief Of the miser-
able sufferers, to aid liz clothing those
who are now habitually uncloshed, ed
ucaiing those who are as ignorant as
Hoiien,ois. teaching morals 10 those. who
hive like savages, and religion TO those
who know not even the name!
Il was particularly stated that consid-.
erable pecuniary aid might be expected
from the colored slave population a. the
South, SO much happierin every respect,
both as to the interests Of Time and E.
terni.y, than the slaves Of Great Britain.
and who would feel some sympathy for
persons so much worse of than them.