The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-28
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IT.. sxc;,emeu, of two popular vo"'s' -
wsek has caused us, in great des'' 60
s-o,,ooL The reception Of Mrs. Stowe At
o., un,se and we now proceed TO a'o"'' %
e mac.n. for the omission. BE II n"0""'
then. that on Saturday, The -" oay o;rh, hnn.
,h. wear of our Lord one 'h0uSs"u D.
arsa and i;f,y three, that high ana ,"'s"' '
"'e1 D.,.bess of Sutherland, having oeeh
I ,ror, the sublime duty OF attending
ie'ea' ~. concb of her Majesty, Queen veto
ep's a. ,hrow open the palace, usually CAMEO
s.ss;,rd House, to such of the vulgar puo''c us
80 70 feast their eyes upon the American
VS. .,,boress of Uncle Toms Cabin, ct
Tor, ., cetera, ct ce,era; and that the said
l;oness did, on that occasion, present heTsen u
a.. sam;r;pe gaze Of her numerous ana ar
dent worshippers. There were present any
number of Lords and Ladies, knights ana
Son;res. and gentlemen OF lower degree 10
80 ro,b;ng of that undistinguished crowd
~ M, being entitled to frank letter for the
.,., of,;ce. are. of course, TO be classed among
rho melodies, who are always sufficiently hu-
,,,s,ops on such occasions. The company, on
their arrival, were ushered through the magni-
scent suite Of rooms, on the principal floor, 10
the ricture gallery, at the East END, where the
Duchess of Sutherland, and distinguished
party, received her guests. There, too' her
Grace. received Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stove
who. we are informed by the veraclous chf"hi'
cler of the events, is rather below the niduie
size-was plainly a,tred, and, wonderful TO
ro,.,e wore no head dress, therein offering
remarkable contrast ITO the numerous groupes
If ladies arraye 4 in all the brilliancy and va
rie,y Of demie toilette"
The Duke of Sutherland having introduced
Mrs. Stowe. she was addressed by the Earl OF
Shsftsbury, the same who thinks so little OF
the christian religion as 10 believe that 1t Will
he entirelJ overthrow If Jews are allowed 10
sit in Parliament, or TO enjoy any other OF the
priyileges of England, save that very desirable
one of paving taxes. That estimable Peer
could not, of course, open his mouth, without
betraying vi hat is sufficiently apparent, without
the bray that always proceeds therefrom. On
this occasion, he manifested the same intimate
ACQUAINTANCE with American affairs and sentl'
ment that English statesmen have been emf
nent for possessing ever since the revolution,
BY expressing the belief that he was fostering
the most friendly feelings between his country
and ours, in contributing his mite TO entertain
a lady whose mouth-piece had preached at
Glasgow but a few weeks before, deadly hosti-
lily TO the Union, contempt for the laws OF Con-
gress and the Constitution, and the extinction
OF slavery in the blood of the slaveholders.-
His Lordship has, apparently, placed no very
high estimate upon the moral character of our
people, yet he understands them fully as well
as Lord Castelreagh did when he spoke Sc
riously of Furnishing the Americans by de-
throning MIR. Madison, and sending him to
some transatlantic Elba.
The Rev. Mr.. Beecher, Mrs. Stoves bro
Their, answered this address, and introduced
letter from Cassus NJ Clay, in which that de-
vout parsonage, who has established his claim
to rank high among the saints, with those po-
tent arguments, the bowie knife and pistol, ap-
peals TO the Almighty with an JUNCTION highly
DOCouiHS HE 5uC4Cu 4tO
in-the.Lord and-keep your owder.dry" follow.
er Of Cromwell ever made freer or more
audacious use of his Makers name when
about to sack city, or massacre a
body Of his fellow men. Instead of ex.
citing disgust, which it ought to have done,
considering that the scheme upon which he
invokes the blessings of Heaven, involves the
most frightful catalogue of murder that the
mind Of man ever conceived, the letter OF this
miscreant was received with applause by the
whole assembly.
The initiation being over, Mrs. Stowe took
her seat between the Duchesses of Sutherland
and Argyle, and every body that chose came
and spoke 10 her. The nairete Of the old la.
dy, as detailed by the chroncler before alluded
to, was charming, delicious, more highly fla.
vored than champagne ofthe most unexceptien-
able brand. She told her eristocratic friends
probably she believed what she said-certaiu.
ly her friends took it all for gospel" that the
press in America had invariably spoken fayo-
rably of Uncle Tom.' and that the first article
ever written against it, appeared in the London
Times !" The old ladys memory must be
bad, or she must never have seen any of the
thousand and one philIipcs with which Uncle
Tom was greeted before he had ever crossed
the water, or she must mistake Boston Com.
mon for the United States. as many of her
Yankee brethren, especially writer's of history,
have done before her, or, in fine, she labors un-
der most agreeable illusion. Itwould be un.
gallant to imagine, even, that lady said what
she knew not 10 be true, and We are, therefore,
PANIED to find Mrs. Stowe forcing upon il con.
cepiops of which it would fain be rid.
We cannot give The same measure of indul.
gence, however, to the masculine writer in the
London Express, who tells his readers, that
"of all the foes Of American slavery none live
in such anguish of hostility to the institution
as the ~omen Of the Southern Ssases q,
the Union. for reasons which are obv;on.
enough, when we consider The -,
that coexist with slavery" The ;ns;nu.
ton conveyed in this sentence ;nn,;oa
infamous Islander. We do not be,;eva i. .
the whole South, one hundred sho,,;a no. II
could be found among ladies' ho,,