Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-09-10

Charity, in this enlightened country OF ours oc
cnSlnnal!y plays very fantastic tricks" II to-
frequently OVeTlookS the misery which lies at Oh
own doors, and flies away 30 the utlermost ends o
the earth to find objects upon which tc manifest
IL spurious kindness. We have OuE associations
fur the abolition OF slavery in America, aud our
organizations Tor the conversion Of black heahenS,
while the very parties by whom such combinations
are supported not unfrequemtY treat their own de-
pendants much worse tran the American planters
do their slaves, aud leave large section of their
Immediate ne,ehbors 10 PERISH Tor nmght they
tor lack OF knowledge. The Mrs. Jellaby Of
Dickens, who works morning, noon and night Tor
the advantage OF an African missionary settlement
while her own household and children ale left 10
Prov up in Ignorance aud discomfort, is really no
fictitious character. She has her prototypes ''iu
mumLrrleSS" in the wcrtd we live IN. Out upon
suCb heartlt IS and hypocEIticai Seuiimentlity:
We have been led 10 make these IrmarkS by
circumstance Of peculiar cruelty and atIocity, for
we can characterize 1t 10y no other terms, which
has just Came 10 our knowledge. and which, We
think shout! be held up to public repVoUation. Ev
cry one will remember an appeal which was rr
Gently made by The ladies i'll Englend 10 their SIS
teIs IN America, on behalf OF The poor blacks who
held in bondage in that great and free country.
The toTmeSt name upon this eloquent document
that ofthe Duchess OF Switzerland. Yet, will
IL be believed, that things are at this present mo-
ment being done upon the territories OF the said
Duchess which would disgrace the vecieSt LegTee
that ever lifted lash? II the Duchess has sym
pa,hy TO spare, let her turn it, by all means, 10
the benefit OF her,own mos. cruel matTeated ten
antry. Let her listen to the following plain and
unexaggerated story; and if she has tears. ''pre-
pare TO she'd them now" and if she has any re.
gard lOr consistency, let her also prepare TO adopt
such steps as will abolish n system to which the
black Slive murket OF America can alone furnish
inadequate parallel. II she fails to do this, let
her hencefOrth, and by oil means, GorSivear her
Ntl.s
colored fellow creatures.
In snail sheiIing at Tubeg- Skerroy, in the par
iSh of Tongue, and on the estate OF the Duke of
Sutherland, there lived, until the preSen! summer,
a poor man namad VIM. Mckay, with his wife and
family. For centuries his father had lived upon the
same spot, and according to the old clan law, he
Yves, 10 all inenlS and purposes, lis real and abSo-
lutte proprietor Modern law, however, had or
laned otherwise, and, accordingly, he duly paId
rent for his holding to the Duke. The factor of
his Grace-a Mr.. Robt. Observation-Disclosures how
ever to drive away the peasantry from the locality,
for the purpose OF giving greater scope to the
bree,liuS of pheasants and other game. The gen.
tleman's sports must be gratifed, although the poor
man and his little ones should thereby be left with
out house Orhome. NPKay was warned to leave;
but with the instructive love OF the Celt for hi =,
native hills and genS he continued to cling to tbs,
spot. This the factor was determined not to al.
low, and steps were taken for having him iorcibly
evcted. In the beginning of June last M'Kay'S
wife lay in of her fourth chld, and afterwards con-
tinUed in somewhat critical situation. Under
these circumstances, the law officers undertook
the eviction. They entered the house, and pro
ceedei uncermo1IOusy 10 clear it of every article
OF furniture. Having concluded this operation.
they next approached the bed, and taking the
mother and her infant, turned them out into the
open air. The midwife, and the husband, and the
poor woman herself, appealed to theirmercy; but,
alas, they had none! The poor creature was tremb-
ling violently, while cold sweat broke over her
body. but The myrmidouS of his Grace nf Suther-
land cared for none of these things. "They sur
rounded her," says the northern Ensign, which,
OF all the north country journals, has alone had
the courage TO give this Infamous transaction
publicity:-
"They surrounded her in the corner in which
she lay, laid hold OF the sheet or covering which
was under her, carried heI out of the house, and
placed her on the ground at distance and sped
back to the work OF demolition; divots and ca6ers
were thrown i'll all directions; the Ratchet cut
down the couple tree, and in very short time the
Ioof Of the hut disappeared, ami did lis destroy
eCS. They had more work OF kindred nature to
perform that day. In an agony Of feeling, the
husband ran off distance of FIVE miles 10 procure
medical aid, while his wife, with her bonn
infant, lay on little straw upon the ground; and
it was not till night that, by the kindness OF her
poor neighbors Rhe aad he: children were deposit
ed in empty barn."
Such is plain uuyarnshed statement of one
item in this Infamous TRADE against the poor High
ia udeTs. That there have been many such, and
even worse, is beyond doubt. Old and young, the
grandfather and the helpless infant are all turned
out tothe mercy Of the elements, that my Lord Duke