The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-02

Fresh slavery A Neutrality-suspicious. Of British
ArisIOcracy.

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A fresh phase Of slavery agitation provokes comment
pblanhropc spasm has seized the duehesses count
esses and high ladies OF England, relative 10 certain
kind OF moral and physical evil; and 80 they have
started me plan whereby sarned OUT lhey wi lead ~
wsmen Of America 10 aid them TO abolish American
slavery TO mitigate IFS evils Machinery for this has
been duly set 10 work The Duchess OF Sutherland
called meeting of crowd OF duchesses, counlesses.
marchionesses, and honorabes at Stafford House, TO
whom shs made an agtating speech, and presented
memorial intended for the signatures OF the women oil
England This "Chrsan Address" is directed TO the
women OF America. II assumes 10 instruct them and
quicken them to their duties TO God and their
1t draws vivid picture of American sins and short
cominss, and, with an arrogance exactly British graui
tously advises American women how to act IL was OF
course adopted subcommittee were appointed an
office established; and, alter thanks from the Duchess
OF Sutherland the meeting at Stafford House adjourned
And thus the work commenced.
What special call is there Tor these duchessss 10 travel
three thousand miles in search OF objects OF phsnthrnpc
ehortl Are there al their own doors! American
women before they lake Twice from British women, vii
inquire 10 who gives II and what state OF society it
proceeds from. They well know there is philanthropy
that is pharisaica spurious and bypocrltca II that
that leaves misery at home unreeved as forth
to display itself in relieving misery In foreign lands Do
these ducbesses exhibit this kind OF philanthropy
Here these personages must expect to be treated on par
with Others for no extra blood will be recognised as
cousing their veins And the TO these questions
be sought in The facts and circumstances that
about them If there be wrongs to redress Them the
question will be asked, what have they done to elorate
formers have done, but what have these duchesses and
countesses done! Have they worked in the home field
and been successful in an abolition OF British white
slavery that they say to the American sisters in ref
10 negro slavery, Go and do likewise! The an
10 these questions will decide whether their philan
thropy be genuine spunous If the latter il deserves
Now let facts az to British society say how pertinent
these questions These duchessea and countesses, in
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know of the dark slde-the shame oil their country !!
How often have been depicted the gross ignorance, the
coarseness, and brutality the haggard wrechedness the
hopeless misery OF large portion OF the British popua-
ton Go out 10 the fields, into the factories, or down
the mines, among The children, or over to reland
and facts all these will tell OF the dark shade of
British society In reference to it all the question 49, has
active, philanthropic effort at homo nsgasd this fresh
crusade against evil SO far o Have these duchesses
manifested that interest in the humanity OF their neigh
borhood and country that they now affect to manifest in
American humanity
Take the ease Of the British peasantry We have be.
fore us British description OF the poverty, and want
and distress Of the peasan!y tdeas the lodging, food
furniture, and OF life OF this class OF the Popula
ton The whole is summed up by Lord Nugent .has'
The poor pressed to the earth by poverty want
and distress. and I'd ssae but too generally 10 be wit
nessed but which he should be sorry be called de-
scribe spite of the benefits of all the desirable nsu
tons OF the country take the form of governments
OF which we think our own The best ye: the Condition OF
the peasanlry OF every country was better than the peas
aniry Of England" Here the details: I" The in
mates in some of the houses which visited in the
evenings were huddled together in corner, without
reference to age or SEX or straw to lie On and with
other covering than wfetched rags The stencil issuing
from many of the dwellings almost insudsrable and
IN al! wrechedness appeared to have raised its
awful theme, and to proclaim here reign supreme"
Ii such be the may not the philanthropy OF these
duchess SEES and countesses FIN ample exercise here
Look next at the British operatives IN the factories.
The details here startling, and stated too, by the
sufferers British account reads that there are thou
sands OF human beings muilaied and crippled enaciated
ruined health their spirits broken, their minds and
reasoning powers topping from their seats. and many of
| al aAa, a. 10
themselves from what would be happy release from
their miserable situation" large proportion of factory
hands die early 10 1882 in forty-two mills in Stockport
and Manchester, in which 22o94 hands were employed,
only l43 above forty five years of age, hostile
TO health is British factory life But all efforts at descp
on fail TO give so vivid an idea OF the severity Of these
hardshps as the following solemn statement made by
operative in England
81 wa. six years tho West ndiss between ST. Thomas
and Barbadoes and how the slaves and drank and
do, standing here, say help God, would rather
be slave in the plantations than be a, | now am The
men there have an interest In them as their property and
would do much work twenty OF their negroes |
slave TO the classes above mel work hard and
me or 10 care iof me Every one with Whom deal is en-
deavorng take all he from they have all hand
laying and feeding me and therefore lie down on my
pillow with an empty stomach am, therefore whipped
Of the best"
There ia representative wall OF the abonng classes
This terrible speech IRON sufferer, better than long and
minute detail gives the solution Of those events that
sometimes appa even the stostest British hearts, and
make dukes and counts trembe in their OF power
Now and then, in the midst of his ignorance and suffer.
ing. and brutality the horse feels his power and turns
upon his rider few years ago, in Lancashire, York
shire, and other factoty places, there 10 be
we still quote British authority" not less than four
hundred thousand people wandering about the country in
formidable bodies, unoccuPed and uned" II was in
olerable grievance that drove these poor
operatives into state of instruction What followed
The government was obliged after fortnghts preva
ence OF riot, TO concentrate the military upon them
Blood flowed freely in the collision that followed and
finally order restored. Now the same elements OF
disorder still exist The causes are still unremoved. The
aborng classes still live from hand 10 mouth Hard
times will these scenes 10 view Of this is there
not field enough here for philanthropy Will not duch-
and eounesses find here subjects for sympathy and
charity and political action What these suffering
classes demand, however, not pity but uscea reslo
ration OF political rights Mr. Sader declared tina,
these white slaves Have these philanlhropc wo
men begged their liege-ords grant these 20.
lIlical freedom
Next look at the of the population OF the British
mines Take the appalling details presented in the First
Report OF the Childrens Employment Commissioned
IL relates 10 the mines and coerics II that is pic.
ture OF ignorance brutality and weichedness there ne
er was one Two thousand folio pages of narrowing
details TO infant labor and ulgrown labor told the
powerful story OF criminal neglect! What a tale OF wo
was there There, down shafts sixteen hundred feet
deep under ground along subterraDean roads Tor miles,
from which branch low galleries ways workings.
and in miserable novels l-ibere were found thousands
There were seen men, women, young girls, children,
working all together and IN stale OF nudity But let
British visiter say what he " have men liv-
ing on the diet OF swine, clothed in rags, and waowng
In nth, and yet their miserable circumstances did not
cite my commseration much the reckessness with
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