The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-01-04
RICHMOND. VA,
Tuesday Morning, January n 1883.
THE NEGRoPHILITE DUCHESSES,

powerful leader from the Boston Post, Design
ed as reply to the impertinen, resolution ana
address of these aristocratic DANES, 10 inc la
dies OF America. II is the best and most the.
roughly comprehensive we have YET seen, en-
brscing the whole subject, and literally sweep
ing the ground clear of everything like struc-
,ure of argument that had been raised upon it.
The very class to which these ladies' belong,
inficls more suffering upon the human race,
Than all the rest of the world put together.
Mans inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn"
Never as the truth Of these lines more am
ply exemplifeG, than it was in the case OF the
Duke of Sutherland, the husband Of this very
duchess who has so XII 'dly volunteered 10
reach the women Of America their duty. Ac-
cordi1g to the statement made IN the article
under consideration, he at one time turned Oft
the Stafford estates more than twenty thousand
human beings, and filled their places with
few hundred. Who can imagine the suffering
the privaton, the deaths that this conduct, all
strictly justified by law, occasioned We do
not learn that this duchess interfered in SIN
gle instance, to avert the execution OF this hor-
rible mandate, or alleviate the misery of a
single one Of those victims, the sweat Of
whose brow supported the splendor from the
midst Of which she speaks to America.
1t is remarked by the Washington Republic
as something extraordinary, that the English
press in general, the influential portion of it
AT least, has taken decided ground against
"Unce Tomitude" in all its vhapes, phases
and degrees. Especially has that ground
been tax en- by the London Times, and by the
Army Despatch, paper supposed to represent
the sentiments of the Army and Navy of Great
Britain. That paper reprobares the extrava.
gancies into which this wild spirit is hurry
ing the whole nation, and confidently predicts
that it can lead 10 no other result than war
The extreme folly Of engaging in a war with
this country, which he represents as the best
A lily that England could possibly have, and
the almost absolute certainty that it would
lead to hoslilities with her dangerous and en-
terprising neighbor, are insisted upon with
warmth perfectly justifable in the organ OF
those branches the service which, being
bound to do all the fighting wish to get on the
right side before they fight at all. That the
continual irritation which is excited and kept
up by the press, is but too certain to lead TO
hostities between two counties, in which the
press is untramelled, cannot be doubted. 1t
sows the seeds of hatred broadcast through
the land, and cutivates them so efectually,
that what was at first only the opinion of an
editor, becomes, in the course Of time, ma
tional sentiment. While the popular mind is
in this combustible state, the sill ghtest spark
will kindle fame, which the wisdom of the
guish. The great question for the English
people, not the government, for the evil is be-
yond its reach, is, is the qualification of o pro-
pensity to malign our neighbors worth the
hostility Of one of the most powerful nations
on earth, that nation being, at present, our
best customer and largest debtor, besides hold
ing in her hands the very staff upon which an
enormous proportion of US leans for existence?
Il may be very agreeable TO John Bull to see
our manners lbelled at the Adelph Theatre,
or in the columns of abolition newspapers
The SOUND of the loud huZzas when the negro
Of the drama escapes into Canada. NAV be
very refreshing to his ears. He may indulge
his taste for discovering horrible crimes in
America, by inspecting oil the abolition print
shops, that sell pictures of negroes in chains
or under the lash. But will this give his mil.
lions of operatives their daily Bread when the
cotton mills shall have been STOPPED for want
Of the raw material, the supply having been
cut off by war? Will "Uncle Tom" satisfy
the cravings Of hunger, or bay clothes and CO.
vering for the naked and destitute7 Can they
depend on those aristocratic ladies' for a
crumb OF bread, or rag of clothing This
is the view which the organ of the British
Army and Navy seems to have taken of the
subject, and il well becomes the gallant and
enlightened officers whom it represents. They
have seen war, and they know what it isl
They are not afraid of the danger which it
may bring 10 themselves. But they feel no
inclination TO 60 10 war with the only free
country in the world, their own excepted, and
above all they are opposed to fighting in q
cause repugnant to their sense of right. If
such ls the general sentiment among them, as
we are led TO infer from the tone of their organ,
we honor them for it. Removed, as they are,
from the influences that are tending to produce
this result, they see il in the distance with
perfect distinctness. 1t is vain TO say that the
idle vaporing of the newspapers cannot pro-
duce such a momentous result. We know
better. Ii has produced il before, and it will
produce it again. And will it not be hard
caee lat two great nations shall be goaded
int bedding each others blood by such eau
ses
NEUROLOGY The New York Exprrss ia
publishing list of the distinguished dead of
the year just gone by, after the fashion Of the
GentlemaH's Magazine. Ii is unusually full.
Among the great names are those of CLAY,
Webster, Sergeant, Greenough, Booth and
Seguin, in this country, and in Europe, those
of Wellington, Marmont, Schwartzenberg,
Moore, D'Orsay, Krudener, Blackwood, Ada
Byron, General Gourga aud, Admiral Wormley,
General Excelmans, and Sir John Harvey.
CHANGE OF PRoPRIEroRs.-Roger A. Pry-
OF announces in the Southside Democrat of
that he has transferred his interest 10
that paper TO j. Richard LeWelleD. formerly