The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-26
Woman va. Woman.
From the st IOuis Reouhlicau I

THE KossUTM HUMBUG-THE STOWE HUMBUG.
!, This is the age of humbug, and if it is not one
thing 1t Is another some version of mental haluci-
nation must keep the public attention excited and
in my. opinion, the Stowe and Kossuth humbugs
take the lead Of all others in the nineteenth cen
fury.
One short year ago, Kossuth released from the
Turkish thraldom, came to England, and afterwards
to America in imperial state, received as the ina
tons guest;' deluding the people by his eloquent
genius. he has proved himself q humbug, exciting
sympathy, and obtaining money for cause which
he Knows is entirely hopeless His coming and
going have been forgotten. and now we have another
John Donkey" in the field.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, resident of Boston,
an obscure, unknown person. somewhat advanced in
life, being past fifty came forward last summer with
a novel Untitled "Uncle Toms Cabin" AS lite
nary produ ton IL is below mediocry and in regard
to slavery il contains more gross misstatements and
CONGREGATIONS than any work OF the kind | have
ever read
1t was Immediately republished in England, and
being translated into French, German. and Italian,
sold immensely. The people OF England, and Europe
generally, unacquanted with our domestic relations,
imagined the shareholders brutal to their slaves
the piratcal Beys Of Algiers, or the Spaniards of
South America. All England became convused
about the Southern slaves. Meetings were held, and
Mrs Stowe, as the expounder Of abolitionsm and the
advocate OF freedom, was invited to visit England by
the Duchess Of Sutherland, and be present at the Elk
eter Anti slavery Society.
Mrs. Stoves husband addressed the meeting, in
the Southern States to discontinue the purchase
of cotton from the American shareholders until free
labor could be obtained, and recommended the intro
duction of some Of the vagabond Chinese who are
flooding country at present, for the purpose of
deprecating slave labor.
would wish to say few words concerning the
condition of free whites and the African slave.
In the city of New York alone there are computed
to be annually 30 600 persons who arrive in that city
from foreign countries, who cannot obtain labor at
the wages Of starvation. On the contrary on the
Southern plantations slaves are fed, clothed and at
tended to when ill; they not brutay treated,
the purpose of making her book sell. Instead of ex.
haustiDg her sympathies upon our slaves, who do
not need it, would ask the Duchess of Sutherland
to look upon the poor tenants of her, own lands,
whom she and her husband have elected, sending
them over here in want, whilst she exhausts her
sympathes on public entertainments for strolling
abottionist whose only merit is her impudence.
"Charity should begin at home, is an old proverb
with vice-all the result of want. Thousands Of
beautiful young women who, If they had opportun
ties, would become ornaments to society, die de-
PRAYED, unhappy beings, from nothing bnt poverty.
The negro race are incapable, from their mental
as well as physical organization, Of selfgovernment
and social Improvement As slaves they are in the
position for which nature evidently intended them,
obeying their masters and being provided for. As
freemen, in Africa, they are cannibals, barbarOus,
uncultivated, roaming wild over the sandy plains,
very little above the 0urang outang in intelligence
they are only capable of Improvement when brought
under the influence of the white man, and they
speedily degenerate into absolute barbarsm when
removed from them. Sympathy for their condition,
or efforts to elevate them to an equal rank with the
whites is uncaled for and useless they are incapa-
bic of It, but the poor of our own race are and need
it far more.
The Duchess Of Sutherland might easily improve
the condition of those unfortunate people she sent
away by resembling the crushing taxation build
ing new houses. establishing schools for chill
dren, and adding some few improvements to
the wretched condition of those poor people,
or. if she wishes to extend her phil inthropy,
90 into the mines of England and see the
PEOPLE who work there, who never see the light of
day for years, and who generally die from loathsome
diseases unattended and unknown all the result of
want.
! might add thousand such instances but think
have stated enough to show how misplaced, uncall-
cd for and ridiculous is all this excitement about Mrs.
Stowe and her book.
I will add that think large lunatic asylum
ought to be be built for the accommodation of Mrs
Stowe, her husband, and the spiritual rappers and
to prevent the public from being outraged by their
obtrusiveness Very truly.
GFNEVIEVE G. FAIRFIELD.
Planters House, June S.