The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-02-16

ranaries, and at this mouient craving mercy
rom avaricous landlords, who, to extend the
rea of grazing lands, are dwelling their humble
ottages to the ground, and sending them forth
D die upon the public highways Women Of
England 20 thither with your tender charities
rherr. on the roadside, sinks an attenultcd and
xh,usted mother, still strlining her perishing
hid to her breast, while the unhappy husband
nd father, himself foodrss and ramentltss,
heds drops Of agony over the heart'rend,ng
Gene. Spare from the well fed negroes OF these
States one drop of your super Astounding sympa-
by to pour into that bitter cup which is overruns
ling with SORROW and with tears. Poor, suffer
ng, down troddlng Ireland land Of pu<try and
song, of noble feeling and generous emotions
birth place of the warrior, the statesman, the
orator there is no room for you in the sympa.
lhizing hearts of the women OF England Let
the Celtic race be driven, by starvation, from
the Ian ] of their fathers, and it's exodus would |
be regarded, not with SORROW, but with joy and |
gludness by the secret heart of England. ''Re.
ligious liberation" is but an unr,eaning phrase
with the people of Great Britain--t extends not
qeyond the lips. A difference in creed has been
the death blow to Ireland.
treason not with you the subject Of our
domestic Institutions. Such as they are,
they are ours. eve fear the Greeks
through bearing presents" Never was adage
more applicable; although protesting friend.
ship and sympathy, we cannot consent that
En- land shall mix herself uplwith our concerns.
We prefer to work out our own destiny. When
she IN ght have done so, she gave not relief
we asked her for bread, and she gave US a
stone. The African, under her policy and by
her laws, became properly. That property has
descended from father to son, and constitutes a
large part Of southern wealth. We desire no
intrusion Of advice as to our individual property
rights at home or abroad We NEEDLE not
with your laws Of primogeniture and entail, al.
though they are obnoxious to all our notions of
justice, and are in violation of The laws of Ma
.ure. Would the noble ladies' of England feel
no resentment if we should address them upon
those subjects And yet is there certainly
that our voice would not be heard by the telling
and landess millions in favor Of system which
We consider more wise, more just and more
consistent with the holy word Of God We
| however, preach no crusage against aristocratic
estab lishments. 1t is enough for US that we do
not allow them to exist among ourselves. We
| are content to leave England in the enjoy ment
of her peculiar Institutions; and we insist upon
| the right TO regulate ours without her aid
pray you to bear in mind that the golden rule Of
Life is for each to attend to his own business, and
1T his neighbors alone This means peace,
love, friendship The opposite means hatredt
ill.will, contention it destroys the peace o
neighborhoods, and is the fruitful cause OF dis
core among nations | must also say to you
frankly that we regard England as an indifTar
ent adviser on the subject Of negroe slavery.
Her regard to the West India Islands, would
give her exalted position; unless, indeed, ia
natcism be good advicer, and ruin aud desc.
lation evidences of wise and sound policy No
we prefer to our own conce pion Of what it is
proper tor US to do. Our eyes are turned across
the ocean, not in the direction Of England, but
to Africa: The footprints OF our policy seen
in the colonies there established, already be-
come independent States-in the voluntary EN-.
anci patton Of slaves by our citizens, are prepa
paratory ofemigration to Africa-a course OF
emancipation ah CHI, from 1890 to 1850, has in
creased our table in Virginia, free negroes, in
the ratio of 30l per cent, while the white popu
Iation has only increased 1921 per cent, an
the slaves but 6ia per cent. These interesting
statistics extract from memorial recently
/ presented to the legislature of Virginia, asking
additional aid further the colonization of freel
negroes in Liberia. Thus we seek to reiribu,t
the wrongs done by England to Africa, by re
turning civilization for Observation-Disclosures
for idolary We desire no such boon as Eng
land bestowed on her islands-no blight so abb
ding, no mildew 80 destruciive-no ultimat,
wir between the races, bloody desolating, ant
finally annihllating: Steam is con quering dis
lance, and Africa will be brought nearer ant
nearer to our shores with each revolving year
and the result ola policy, at one wise and dis
Greet, commencing with slaveholding Virginia
and extensively ad ped by the people of tn,
United States, will claim, sooner or later, thu
admiration of mankind.
America might love England if Engl .nt
would permit her A common descent, com
mon language, mutual interests, aud to grea
extent common heritage Of freedom, shoult
draw the two nations together. The disposition
Of the southern mind q speak what know i
10 cultivate the closest friendship with England
Nearly all of the southern people are the descer
dants of the first settlers. They have kindre,
blood, almost unmixed by emigration, f,win!
IN their veins. Their interests lead them L
cherish the principles Of free trade. Their cot
on their rice, and other produc ions of the soil
find extensive markets in Great Britain The,
would have them still more free-stll NOR
widely open. For myself, when have viste
England it has been with emotions ofreverenc
growing out OF the recollections of the his.ori
page. Westminster Abbey, with its undyn
memorials The noble monumen OF the pas
scattered over the face of the cour ry-:he yer
ruins spoke of an ancestry alike dear to til
American and Englshman. My intermixtur
of Scotch blood, derived from lrader of tw
Scottish clans, who lost life, castle, and estate il
the wars OF Ming SHdrlie, Will Tie pure any 10
Saxon, in no degree abated my ardor and enthu
sasm, when looked upon these memen,oes G
the mighty past, in which may of Us her
claim common interest with you. But
England will sever these ties; ifinstead of cult
vating good feeling with Us, she chooses rathe
to subject TO taunt, to ridicule, to insult in il
grossest form, and, above all, improperly to in
terfere in our domestic affairs; if she scatter
f her nobility among us, first to share our hospi
tally and then to abuse US if, what is sti
worse, she sends her emissaries, in the person
of members of Parliament, to stir up our peopl
to mutny and revolt; if which is quite as objec
f tionab!e. her public press shall incite her VIC
men-and the more illustrious for birth tn
worse it makes the matter-to address us hom
lies on justice, humanity, and philanthropy, a
if we had not, like themselves the advantage q
civilization, and the lights of Chris.anity-wit
f all the desire to cultivate relations of undyin
amity, the men of the United States, derlvin
their spirit from their mothers and their wve.
may be forced into the adoption of very differ
ent feeling with regard to Great Britain.
J JULIA GARDINER lyle
SHERWOOD FOREST, (Va.,) Jan. "a, 1853.