The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-06-15
TEAR SIsrERs:-


eeIyed by the steamer Artie, aud we hasten
to acknowledge and return you our thanks
for the sincere expression Of your fraternal
love.
We regret that the urgent claims of DO
meslic duties upon our time prevents our
replying at length to your very feeling and
benevolent address.
AS we consider that charity should al
ways begin at home, we are in the habit of
looking first TO the comfort apd happiness
of our own families, and next to the calls of
distress from cur immediate neighbors.
We seek the amelioration and elevation
Of our own race and color which surrounds
US, by aiding in the education of the rising
generation, including all ranks and condi-
tons. teaching thep a knowledge Of their
political rights. as well as their duties to
their God, and to their country.
! Ne find our benevolent exerlions and SYM
pathies severely taxed, by our attempts to
assist and protect the friendless aud destitute
population cast upon our shores from Great
Britain, and other parts Of Europe. Our
Almshouses are crowded with poor and af-
hieted foreigners, driven to America by the
oppression Of munaic chical governments in
Europe. We are both panied and perpley-
ed in our efforts to fnd employment for the
adult emigrants, and to gather their children
into our free schools and academies, with 2
view of alleviating the condition ef the old,
and training up the young to comprehend
and appreciate the responsibilities and duties
of American citizens.
| Being nearer to the colored population of
the South than you are, we are happy to in
form you, that we understand their real con-
ditIOn better than you, who view it at dis
tance, and throug gh a cast-of pair OF Uncle
ToM's cracked, distorted, and vision perver-
ting spectacIes. We are happy to inform
you that our negroes are al! doing very
well; that their cannubial ties and privileges
are duly respected, and that their church
accommodations are ample, and about equal
10 those OF the whites; and that they are
well fed, clothed and cared for.
We have lately taken count of them
and the whites, and find that while one of
the whites in about 1000 have gone de-
ranged, only one negro slave in 1000 has
gone mad. Among The blacks We have sci
tree, one in 800 has gone insane. Nearly
the same discrepancy holds with regard to
idiocy, blindness, deaf mutes, and Crime
The insanity among the whites exceeds that
Of The slaves in your country as well as in
this, and it is feared that many have been
crazed by locking through the delusive
glasses OF Uncle Tom. We are also glad TO
inform you that, while the free black SUBJ
jects Of her Majesty in Jamaica have been
decimatEd with Ii the past past year by small
poX and famine, that the blacks of the South
have escaped both.
Our dear siSters--0ur hearts are not so
much troubled about tie sleek and happy
negroes at the South, as they are for the
Sulferings of those of our own color, kin
dred and race, within your own dominions.
IL causes our hearts TO bleed with sorrow,
when we think of the mlseries ofthe whites
IN Great Britain, whose images have been
stamped by God with hkenesses which
bear a much closer resemblance to your
features, and to those of ourselves, than to
the blacks. Our souls thrill with torror
when We contemplate the sutferings Of your
miserable, down'troden poor, crowded to-
gether in your union warehouses;, where
aged couples in their last days, with all earth
ly prospects blasted, and nothing left but
their own affections and their hopes Of
Heaven, are torn assunGer and consigned
to different apartments, or driven aga'n in
to the worlt TO starve. Our boSoms, as
mothers, heave with grief, when We think
OF these among you, who claim the same
ancestry with yourselves, and many who
may wear the image of Shakespear, Milton,
or Newton, are consigned by absolute want
to premature grave. How many struggling
mothers gather their haggard ami ragged
children around them, and, while watering
their pale cheeks with their burning tears,
yet with wasted forms and sepulchral voices,
plead in vain through your streets for
bread. Our soirlts slcken when we think of
the squalid misery, the starving, torsaken,
and forgotten whites, who crowd, amidst
pestilence and crime, the dens OF st. Giles,
Saffron Hill, Spita!ieds, and other wre.ched
haunts, in your own metropolis.
Should your charity not find objects suf-
fcient for its exercise In London, nor among
the overwCrked and wretched population Of
your manufacturing districts, you have only
10 look across the channel TO Ireland.
Dear Sisers-Let Us, in the spirit of sin
cere kindness, beseech you to spply your
selves, with share of the great wealth you
possess, to the amelloraLion OF the suffering |
whites among you, who with us and with
you, claim common ancestry. Above all, |
dear sisters, strive for the establishment OF
free schools and academies in Great B. itain;
in which the children of the poor shall be
usefulIy and practically educated, and
taught knowledge OF their political rights
and duties. Strive fol Free Church and
the abolition Of church tythes TO have ef-
fected the last traces of feudalsm, the relict
OF lyrancal age. Endeavor to extend the
elective franchise, and to establish liber Il
principles OF government, and secure their
permanent stability in the support Of the
people, whose improvement and elsyation
you have labored to promote. Thus caus-
ing reformation which is more consistent
with the spirit OF the nineteenth century, and
with the Struggling advances OF that Blush
Saxon race, on whose language the sun ne, :
er sets.
We have the honor to subscribe ourselves
in the bonds of good will and peace. your
obedient seeva1ts,
[Stgned by Mrs Eliza Fairplay, chair.
man; Mrs. Jonathan Spec ltime, NJ. o., sec
retary; Mrs. Harre' Homespdn, Mrs jose
phine Makeglove, Mrs. Nj. hopegood. Mis-.
Rachael Earlywork, Mrs. Abigail Knitwell,