The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-31
Germ with politics back to your drawing rooms and

Germ with poiites-back 70 your drawing rooms ana
For another subject quite as fruitful of sympathy,
need only refer you to the condition of Ireland with
its population but recently starving for food, which
was freely supplied from our granares, and at this
moment craving mercy from avariciois Landlords,
who to extend the area of grazing lands are level
ling their humble cottages to the ground, and send
ing them forth to die upon the public highways.
Women Of England! go thither with your tender
charities. There on the roadside, sinks an attenua
ted and exhausted mother, still straining her perish
ing child to her breast, while the unhappy husband
and father himself foodess and raimentless, sheds
drops of agony ever the heart-rending scene Spare
from the well fed negroes OF these States one drop
bitter cup which is overrunning with sorrow and
with tears. Poor suffering, down-trodden Ireland
land Of poetry and song, Of noble feeling and gener
GUS emotons-brth place of the warrior, the states
man the OratOrthere is no room for you in the SYM
pathizing hearts of the women of England. Let the
Celtic be driven by starvation, from the land OF
their fathers and its exodus would be regarded not
with sorrow but withjoy and gladness by the secret
heart of England. Religious liberation" is but
an unmeanng phrase with the people Of Great Bri-
tain-it extends not beyond the lips A difference
in creed has been the death-bl0w to Ireland.
l reason not with you on the subject OF our do
nestle institutions Such as they are they are ours
We fear the Greeks though bearing presents"
Never was adage more applicable-although pro-
Tossing friendship and sympathy we cannot consent
that England shall mix herself up with our concerns.
We prefer to work out our own destiny: When she
might have done so, she gave not relef. we asked
her for bread, and she gave US stone. The Afri-
can, under her policy, and by her laws became pro-
perry That property has descended from father to
son, and constitutes large part OF Southern wealth
We desire no intrusion of advice as to our individual
property rights at home or abroad. We NEEDLE not
with your laws of primogeniture and entail al
though they obnoxious to all our notions OF JUS
tice, and are in violation of the laws Of nature.
Would the noble ladies of England feel no resent
ment if we should address them upon those sub
jects And yet is there a certainty that our voice
would not be heard by the toiling and landless mil
lions, in favor of system which we consider more
wise, more just, and more consistent with the holy
word Of God We, however, preach no crusade
against aristocratic establishments It is enough for
us that we do not allow them to exist among our
selves. We content to leave England in the enjoy
ment Of her peculiar institutions and we insist upon
the right to regulate ours without her aid pray you
to bear in mind that the golden rule Of life Is for
each to attend to his own business and let his neigh
boris alone This means peace, love, friendship.
The opposite means hatred, ill-wll, contention-it
destroys the peace Of neghborh0ods and Is the fruit
full cause of discOrd among nations must also say
ferent adviser on the subject Of negro slavery. Her
statesmanship, if it be judged by her course Of policy
in regard to the West India Islands, would give her
no exalted position; unless, indeed fanaticsm be q
good adviser and ruin and desolation evidences OF
wise and sound policy No, we prefer to follow our
own conception OF what it is proper for to do. Our
eyes turned the ocean, not in the direction
of England, but to Africa. The footprints of our
policy are seen in the colonies there established, al
ready become independent States-in the voluntary
Of slaves by citizens preparatory
of emigration to Africa course Of emancipation
which, from 1870 to 1850, has increased our table in
Virginia Of free negroes in the ratio Of 30l per cent
while the white population has only increased 1929
per cent, and the slaves but 643 per cent These in
teresting statistics extract from memorial recent
~ presented to the Legislature Of Virginia, ask
ing additional aid to further the colonization of
freed negroes in Liberia. Thus we seek to retri-
butte the wrongs done by England to Africa, by
returning civilization for Christianity for
idoatry We desire such boon as England bestowed
on her islands-no blight so abiding, no mildew 30
destructive-n0 ultimate war between the races,
bloody, desolating, and finally annihilating Steam
is conquering distance, and Africa will be brought
and nearer to shores with each revolving
year-and the results of q policy, at once wise and
discreet, commencing with slaveholding Virginia,
and extensively adopted by the people Of the United
States, will claim, sooner or later, the admiration of
mankind.
America might love England if England would
permit her. A common descent, a common Ian
guage, mutual interests, and, to great extent, q
common heritage Of freedom, should draw the two
nations together. The disposition Of the Southern
mind q speak what do know is to cultivate the
closest friendship with England. Nearly all Of the
Southern people are the descendants Of the first
settlers. They have kindred blood, almost unmixed
rests lead them to cherish the principles of free
trade Their cotton, their rice, and other produc-
tions Of the soil, find extensive markets in Great
Britain. They would have them still more free-stil
more widely open. For myself, when have visited
England it has been with emotions of reverence
growing out Of the recolect0ns OF the historic page
Westminster Abbey, with its undying memorials
the noble monuments OF the past scattered over
the face of the country-the very ruins spoke Of
an ancestry alike dear to the American and English
wv into miyfur of
from leader of two Scottish clans, who lost life,
castle and estate in the wars OF King Charlie with
the pure AngloSaxon, in no degree abated my ardor
and enthusiasm when / looked upon these memen-
toes of the mighty past in which many of us here
claim a common interest with you. But, if England
will these ties if instead Of cutivatng good
feeling with us, she chooses rather to subject us to
taunt to ridicule. to insult in its grossest form
and, above ALL improperly to interfere in our domes-
tic affairs if she scatters her nobility among u.s. first
to share our hospitality and then to abuse if,
what Is still worse, she sends her emissaries in the
persons of members of Parliament to stir up our
people to mutny and revolt it, which is quite as
Objectionable, her public press shall ncite her
women, and the more ilustrious for birth the worse
it makes the matter to address us homilies on JUS
tise, humanity, and philanthropy, as if we had not,
like themselves, the advantage Of civilization, and
the lights of Christianity with all the desire to cu
tvate relations Of undying amity, the men of the
United States, deriving their spirit from their mo-
theirs and their wives may be forced into the ad0p-
ton OF very different feeling with regard to Great
Britain. JULIA GARDINER TYLER
SHERWOOD FOREST, VIRGINIA. Jan. "a, 1853.
The Awful Cruelties Practised ON White
Slaves In Great Britain.
The Stafford House meeting, at which the Chris
tan aectonate address Of the ladies Of Great Bri-
tain to their dear sisters in America was adopted
with the of the Duchess Of Sutherland at the
head, followed by her two daughters-of Argyle and
Undergraduates Of Bedford Lady Trevellyan, and
many Others has excited not only disgust on this side
Of the water, but disgust and something worse at
home The liberal journals are out on them in terri
bic sarcasm but the most scathng nvective We have
seen is letter from Donald MLeod, in which, after
adopting from another writer the rebuke Of Look
at Home" he proceeds as follows
But must go further and instruct the American
ladies in what they should tell their English sisters
to look at home. They can meet this feminine, En-
gsh, Christian asctionate appeal with the same ar
gument that the Cannibal Queen met French phi
losopher when he was demonstrating with her upon