The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-02-13

In former letter exposed some OF the errors aud fall
sihcalions OF backwoods Magazine in its late crusade
against Inc character OF the southern people OF the Uni
ted Sales and their institutions II you deem
OF place, propose 10 furnish your readers. in this. with
some faes connected with the social and moral condition
81 Inc people oil England TO show the deep hypocrisy OF
the misapped sympathy OF all these Bfltsh writer's Tor
the degraded condition" Of the " slaves OF this
Blackwood is not alone in this crusade. The Edin-
bagh The Westminster. and the London Quarterly have
all hosled The iag The msa is not confined TO the he.
views, or even 10 The men The Duchess oil Sutherland
and lew other titled ladies' in London, not long since
presumed IN the overflow OF their affected
address formal circular OF enrea,y or remonssnce.
hardly know which, to the ladies Of the United States
upon the subject OF the suffering Africans this cont
nen' THIS certainly novel proceeding. And the sin
cey Of the motives which prompt the singular appeal
be the better Judged OIL when what these sell con-
stucd eiormers OF the world are doing for the ameora
ton OF the wreched at their own doors To listen 10 their
pharsacal cant one might suppose that they had amongst
them none who stood in need OF either their charity or
sympathy hal the whole population there well sup
Piled with shelter, iood and aiment that and desl
tuon were unknown that vice had existence that
England was Paradise, and that her people fit in
strumens, under Heaven become not only propagan
lists OF berty, fraternity and equality" but missionaries
OF religion morals, and humanity throughout the world
When people SET about inquiring into their neighbours
conduct and giving them lessons OF propTety, either
polcs or ethics, they should at least show themselves
10 be worthy the exalted vocation Their precepts
should be sustained by their practice And it ill becomes
any people 20 put up mock lamenlalion the
anced failings shortcomings, and delinquencies of
others, and 10 raise the cry of shame and degradation
against those who vastly their superiors in all those
social virtues and qualities which characterize Christian
civilization Let us see, them upon what foundation these
preenders stand, and how lar they entitled to even
our respect much less to our docy pupils to receive
their lectures Is the social condition of the South or
the condition of the SLAVES OF the South such as to
justify this extraordinary OF these apostles of
self righteousness Ii not, lei their anathemas be hur
ed back upon themselves
The burden OF their song-the graDGmen OF their
plant-ls agains! the "dtgradati0n OF the Slaves,
their bad treatment, wants. sutferngs, and msees."
How then, do these compare with the wants, suffer-
ngs, and miseries" OF The people of England Is the
physical condition OF the African slave in the southern
Sales-embacng all the comforts OF lie. house, food.
and clothing securing health and vigor of body, with
emption from pain--worse than that of hundreds and
thousands and millions OF the population OF Engand'
IL upon this point propose TO furnish some facts
And these fats shall no! be taken from founded on
excerpts from such trashy hctions "Uncle Toms
CABIN which has aroused 10 such unusual degree the
sensbIltes OF the ocogenaran danes and ses OF that
would be. thought-,o-be model country for mankind:
have before report made the 7ih day OF June,
1s4s. by Lieut. Col w. II. Sykes, " p r. s.. DR. Gay,
and F. p Nieson. ESQ., who had been appointed by the
Statistical Society of London investigate the OF
the Inhabitants and their dwelling in Church lane, St
Giles parish, in that CITY, These gentlemen. thus APP
pointed say in their reports, after enumeratng particular
scenes and instances OF wretchedness OF the most revolt
ing character:
human wretonedness, filth, and brutal degradation the
chief features Of which are disgrace TO civilized coun-
fy and which committee have fear from
letters that have appeared in the public journals is bat
nifty, whether located in the small ill-venlated of
manufacturing towns, or IN many OF The cottages OF the sg
and both fathers and daughters mothers and sons
gown-ap brohsrs and sisters, sanaef adult males and
females and swarms of children hs SICK the dying and
the dead. herded together with a proximity and
tual pressure which brutes would resist"
Can the editor OF Blackwood or Lady Sutherland see
nothing 10 excite their compassion in these realizes in
actual life in their immediate vicinity, that they
must travel the Atlantic 10 lecture distant people
upon niseIes which never bad existence in the
imagination Of Mrs. Stowe What southern plantation,
even IN the imag OF this fair lady, exhibited
such scene OF degradation as is here presented land
that too, by Official report, and in "Robnson Cru
Soc" or "Uncle Toms Cabin stories Here
Englishmen reduced TO state of degradation that
the "brutes would resist ~
Blu, again the London Quarterly says, speaking on the
same subject:
"a large proportion of those who dwell in the capital of
the British empire crsmmed into regions of fifth and
darkness the ancient but solitary reign OF the and
toads"
And after speaking OF the of purifying matter
The houses the lanes and alleys the writer pro.
ceeds;
The interior OF the dwellings is in strict keep with
the small of the apartment, increasing of course
the evils that prevail without damp darkness dirt and
fsul Many wholly destitute Of furniture. Many
contain nothing e1cepta table and chair Some lew have
a bed for all ages and both sexes but large pro-
portion denzens regions lie In heaps OF rags
more nasty than the floor itseliH ~
These real descriptions Of the habatons, dwellings,
OF Engand Would the slaves SINGLE plantation,
the worst governed from the Potomac 10 the Rio del Norle
exchange comforts with them! Who would Insult any
negro slave in the United States by asking him il he
would exchange conditions with such people have one
picture to presentit is from the speech OF Lord
Ashley made in the British House of Commons on the
9th day OF June, isss. He said
al will read description OF the lodging houses Many
OF them which / havs abomin able but tho
statement will lay before the House given the
Inspect and report the subject II IL exaggerated
description OF those places. where hundreds aud thousands
OF the human conRregaud The city missionary,
speaking OF lodging house, and referring the paor-
for have many esphonious terms to be apped-saidi
- The paor measures eighteen feet by Beds
arranged each aide OF H. composed oil rags, and
shavngs Here are twenty seven male and female adults
nnd thirty children with several dogs In all hfyeght
human beings In contracted den, from which light and
air automatically excluded IL IL impossibe, he
TO convey idea OF their stache quantity of vemin
is amazing have entered room and in lew minutes
have felt them fail my hat from the ceiling like peas
They may be gathered by hsndus observed Of The in
mates, could gathers pail full in a lew minutesp
There mt" said Lord Ashley. ARE by
eIsggcra;ions would what do If did
do so on my own personal knowledge"
And in the speech he gives an account of sixteen
hundred persons, mostly boys who bad been examined.
essed tina, they had been prison. not only
sixteen bad run away from their homes one hundred
and hftyhfee had lived together by begging two hun
dred and sixteen had neither shoes nor stockings two
hundred and eighty had no hat or cap or covering for the
mad gaA nd bad lie, h..pl al