The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-10
THE DAILY DISPATCH
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 10. 1854.
ABOLITION LIBEL.

The yilest and most indecent libel which
we have yet seen upon Southern slavery .
the first of series of letters on "Ihe Aii'oan
Race in the United States" when Is p.o
E.hed NV the N. York Times, when sPesAs
Of their general fairness" and says :'nes
are written by an English gen1ienisn "nV %
:. onoa man of general science and the tore
800. ,;v;no man of his profession AS an
evidence of the general harness OF uis
,a.,;c;ous and unprincipled calumniator, we
m.te the following extract from his infamous
production:
.r,.,. are also s,ayebyeeding States, in which eve
,nHecency among those even of the tendereH nke,
Il permitted, not to say promoted, io' inc 'A"e "
sTbe traveller In the United States also frequent
Observes the faded complexion of the Huatto. I'M
10 the evidence aud record OF crime IN Ine In
and of shame or more probably OF shame ss,,;
the other and of complicated sin and misery III 'a"i
can more fearful state Of things e1 thsn ina
which have feebIy skefched7 appeal TO the ayInk
f.ths- snd All whether he would not vesene his son
from such an inhertancef appeal to the Lying we
and mother and ask whether hers not oiten
nn,t;on of heart rendins misery; and appeal to the
Sausbter and ssk with what wounded feehnes sne
hesrs Of the births of infants of yellow or oack
nlexiou on the estate without even the semb,ance
81 marriage9 Il it not true that IL Impossible 10
bring up a family OF children virtuously in slave
holding community
A more wicked and INSCRIPTIONS SANDER
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ENG
lish gentleman" seeks to convey by this IN
terrogatory. When the records OF CRIME In
Southern communities will compare with the
records of crime in the free States; when Sc
auctions and adulteries become common IN
stead of rare; when the public morals are SO
depraved that daily paper of the largest
circulation, can venture regularly to.publish
designation notices in its advertising columns;
when our penitentiaries are filled with aeome";
when our streets are thronged with PICK
pockets by day, and prostitutes by night
then we will consent to discuss the question
whether it is not as difficult to bring up ia
mily of children virtuously in the slave as in
the free States Why, inith very number
of the N. Y. Times, containing the malignant
calumny of this English gentleman" upon
Southern morals, there is an editorial article
which, after touching upon the problem
whether it is good policy or not to attempt
regulating RIGHTEOUSNESS by law, thus speaks
"Paris is comparatively free from the disgusting ex
hibion of painted harlots shamelessly promenadine
the streets London swarms with them from cary
nishtfall till late in the morning. New York, while
speaks of the vices of Paris proveTba rapid
coming to rival the great metropolis which far out
stripe Paris in these disgusting particulars There
can be question that the morals of city would
be improved if vice were less fauntingly displayed
for the temptation of the weak. Nor would public
sentiment with all its squeamishness be averse to
the reform Of clearing the streets of the nuisance
Though cannot at once, or entirely heal the ugly
ulcer let u.s. for the sake of decency, keep it COW
cred"
With such state of morals in the non
slaveholding cities of London and New York
itwould be we'll for the English gentleman
to give his philanthropic impulses differen
direction. We are strongly of the opinion
from the facility with which he calumniate
awhole people that it was impossible in tn
place where he was born, to bring up chill
dren virtuously, and that he is one of thos
English gentlemen" of whom the numbe
is not small in this country, who cleft thei
country for their countrys good"