The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-03-22
The Awful Cruelties Praotised OF
White Slaves in Great Britain.

The Stafford House meeting, at which the
"Chris.ain afEectionate" address Of the ladies
Of Great Britain to their dear sisters in Ameri-
ca was adopted, with the name Of the Duchess
Of Sutherland at the head, followed by her
two daughters,-of Argyle and Blantyre,-
Duchess of Bedford, Lady Travelyan, and
many Others has excited not only digust on this
side of the water, but disgust and something
worse at home, The liberal journals are out
on them in terrible sarcasm; but the most
seathing myechve we have seen isa letter from
Donald M'Leod, in which after adopting from
another writer the rebuke Of look at Home
he proceeds as follows
"But | must 90 further, and instruct the
American ladies in what they should tell their
English sisters to look at home. They can
meet this feminine, English Christian, affection
ate appeal with the same argument thaI the
Cannilba Queen met French philosopher
when he was demonstrating with het upon the
hateful horriyng, aud forbidden practice Of
eating human flesh, and recommending her 20
discontinue and forbid the practice in her
dominions Well" replied the Cannibal
Queen, "Voltaire, what is the difference be-
tween your people and us ! You Kill men
and allow them to rot we kill men, and TO
drown our victory we eat them, and find them
as good for food as any other flesh besides,
our laws demands Of US to eat our enemies"
Now, sir though two blacks will never make
white yet the American ladies may justly
reply and ask their English sisters, What is
the difference between you and us We buy
black African slaves but when we buy them,
we feed, clothe, and house them. No doubt
some ofus whip them at times for disobedience
or for our own caprice; but We heal their
stripes, and take care Of them, that they may
work our work. But you, English sisters, YOU
make white slaves paupers and beggars; and
when you make them this, by depriving them
of all means to live by their own industry,
then You turn them adrift--you raze, plough
up, or burn down their habitations, and allow
them to die lin hundredsl the agonizing, ling
erng death Of starvation on the road sides,
bitches, and open fields, Dear sisters, look at
the history Of ireland for the last six or seven
years, and you will see how many thousands
you have allowed to die by hunger; and con-
slider how many thousands more you would
have allowed TO die similar death, had we
not come to their rescue, and sent them food
until we could remove them from your tender
mercy and from your territories, to feed, clotbe
and house them, and to find employment and
fair remuneration for their labor among our
selves. Look for one instance Of an Irishman
arraigned at the bar Of Justice for sheep-steal-
ing, and his counsel offering to prove that be-
fore he stole the sheep, three of his children
persisted for want Of food, and in the case Of
the last Of them who died, a sucking infant,
the mother peeled the flesh of its legs and
arms; she boiled II, and both She and her
husband, the prisoner, ate il 70 save their own
lives, and the mother died soon after At this
time you, our English sisters, were riding upon
the chariots, rolling smoothly over your extern
siye uncultiyated, dcpopulated domains, upon
the wheels Of splendor and cushions Of the
finest texture, and your husbands, sons, and
daughters, sharing Of your festivities Injuries,
aud unnecessary grandeur; expehdihg more
money and human food upon useless dogs and
horses than would have saved thousands Of the
poor useful Irish with the image Of God upon
them from premature sgohizihg death: We
have read with horror Of one Of your husbands
urging with might aud main upon the govern
ment (who bes,ifsed themselves Al the time,
for fear the famine might caiise disease a.
mong the Irish landlords to feed die pe0pc
with curry powder; and you must recolIeet,
when the curry powder scheme Of destroying
the Irish could not be approved d, that Sir A.
Trayelsan was sent over to Ireland with tbe
test starving commission, and conducted de
Irish destruction with more humanity for he
allowed one pound of meal az 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
70 more against you, the public will judge and
decide that yoh should be the defenders and
not the pursaers, in this case; but since you
began to expose US, we will expose you 70 the
letter. for there il no case or cases broughtout
against u in aUncle Toms Cabin with ali
Harriet Beecher slowes capabilities Of eoloring
that is equal to this. We say emphatically,
that our law would neither sanction nor tolerate
such inhauran tFeatment--our religion forbids
it: and any man or number of men who would
be guilty of sach would be branded with in
fanny and chased from our States and from cur
societies asininman Irrational, irreigious, aud
Immoral monster, unworthy of Christian soei-
ety. or to have voice n the civil or religious
government Of our counify. But By taking 2