Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-02-12
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our snoreS lie, poor man, has been expOStula-
ting with you for the last twenty years against
your cruel, unnatural, irrational, unchrstian and
inhuman treatment of the brave, athletic, High
land white sons of Japhet; but no English or
Scottish duchesses and ladies took any notice of
him, nor convened meeting to sympathize with
him, or to demonstrate with Highland despotc
slave-making proprietors to discontinue their I'M
righteous depopulaton of the country and their
ungody draiHng away Of the best blood from
the nation. Hence aver that these ladies'
would never convene sympathizing meeting for
the benighted Africans, should their own African
chiefs, kings, and queens. destroy them by the
thousand; but because they sell them, and we
buy them and take of them, English femi-
nine hearts sympathize with them. This is a
fine opportunity for Donald M'Leod. Let him
now speak out and make haste, and we promise
him quick and extensive sale for his Cabin of
unvarnished facts.
The Duchess of Sutherland got very warm on
the subject. After she read the sympathising,
demonstrating address, (which need not be quoted
here, being long ago before the public she with
great emphasis, said, 81 hope and believe that our
efforts, under Gods blessing, will not be without
some happy result; but, whether it succeed OF
fail, no will deny that we shall have made an
attempt, which had for it's beginning and end,
GLORY to God in the highest, on earth peace and
good will to men,. 1t seems that effrontery is
become very lofty and hgh-voiced, under the
protection of Understanding English titles, when
the Duchess of Sutherland could presume to
mix such notorious hypocrtical winnings as these
with "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace
and good will to men, for no other cause or de-
sign than to whtewash from some public odium
already out, or to screen from some that is ex-
pected come from what quarter it may. Surely
this cannot be the Duchess of Sutherland who
pays visit every year to Dunrobin Castle, who
has seen and heard so many supplicating appeals
- Gcbo
of Golspie, soliciting liberty to take mussels from
the Little Ferry Sands to bait their nets-a liber-
ty which they were deprived of by his factors,
though paying yearly rent for it, yet returned by
his Grace with the brief deliverance that he could
do nothing for them. Can l believe that this is
the same parsonage who can set out from Dunro-
bin Castle, (her own Highland seat,) and, after
travelling from it, then can ride in one direction
over thirty miles; in another forty-four miles; in
another direction (by taking the necessary cir
cuitous route) sixty miles, and that over fertile
glens Valleys straths, bursting with fairness,
which gave birth to, and where were reared for
ages, thousands of the bravest, the most moral.
virtuous and religious men that Europe could
boast of ready, to man, at moments warn
ing from their chief, to rise in defence of their
king, and country; animated with patriotism and
love to their chief and irresistible in the battle
contest for victory. But these valiant men had
then a country, a home, and chief worth the
fighting for. But can tell her that-she can now
ride these extensive tracts in the interior of
the country without seeing the image of God upon
a man travelling these roads, with the exception
of wandering Highland shepherd wrapped up
in gray plain to the eyes, with colly dog be-
hind him drill sergeant, to train his ewes
and to marshal his tups. There may happen to
travel over the dreary tract geologst, tour
list, or lonely carrier, but these rare as a
pelican in the wilderness, or a camel's convoy
oara in ha 1pcq 0f Arab tn
few English sportsmen, with their stag.hounds,
pointer dogs, and their servants, and put them
selves and their bravery together, and company
of French soldiers would put ten of them to q
disordery flight to save their own carcasses, leav-
ing their ewes and tups to feed the invaders =!
The question may arise, where those people who
inhabited this country at one period have gone
In America and Australia the most Of them will
be found. The Sutherland family and the nation
had no need of their services; hence they did not
regard their patriotism or loyalty, and disregard
ed their past services. Sheep, bullock, deer. and
game became more valuable than men. Yet
remnant of them, or in other words, skeleton
of them, is to be found along the sea-shore, hud-
died together in motley groups upon barren moors,
among cliffs and precipices, in the most impover-
ished, degraded, subjugated slavish, spiritless
condition that human beings could exist in. Ii
this is really the lady who has GLORY to God in
the highest peace on earth and good will to men,
American statute which ''denies the slave the
sanctity of marriage, with all its joys, rights and
gations-whch separates, at the will of the
master, the wife from the husband, the children
from the parent" would advise her, in Gods
name, to take a tour round the sea-skirts OF
Sutherland, her own estate, beginning at Brora,
then to Helmsdale, Portskerra, Strathy, Farr,
Tongue, Durness, Eddrachillis, and Asynt. and
learn the subugated degraded, and impoverished,
uneducated condition of the spiritless people of
that sea- beaten coast, about two hundred miles
in length, and let her with similar zeal remon-
strate with her husband, that their condition be
bettered; for the cure of all their misery and want
is lying unmolested in the fertile valleys above.
and all under his control and to advise his Grace,
her husbandt to be no longer guided by his Ahitho-
phel, Mr.. Lock, but to discontinue his depopula-
ton schemes, which have separated many a wife
from her husband, never to meet-which caused
many premature death, and that have separated
many sons and daughters, never to see them; and
by all means to withdraw that mandate of Mr..
Lock, which forbds marriage on the Sutherland
estate, under the pains and penalties of being
banished from the county; for it has been already
the cause Of great amount of prostitution, and
augmented illegtimate connections and issues
fifty per cent above what such were few years
ago. before this unnatural, ungodly law was
put in force When the Duchess will do this,
then, and not till then, will 1 believe that she
is in earnest regarding the American slaves. Let
her and the other ladies who attended the Stafford
House meeting be notlike the believers and follow
eIs of Jupiter, who were supplied with two bags
each, the one bag representing their own faults,
the other their neighbors' faults-the one repre-
senting their neighbors' faults suspended before
them, and the one representing their own faults
suspended behind them, so that they could never
see their own faults, but their neighbors' were
seen at all times. All ladies, change your Ju-
piter bags, that you may discern your inconsis-
Iency and connection with those to whom you
owe your position, your grandeur, your great
ness, and all your enjoyments.