Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-18
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rur DUCHESS or SUTHERLAND Is the kind
| hearted Mrs. Jellaby. whose sympathies are so
| deeply enlisted in behalf Of the sorrowing aud
| suffering slaves ofour Southern States! When
! Granny Stowe visited England the Duchess tnok
her under her august patronage. aud played the
phanthrop-t vrry prettily.as she thought. in the
eyes of the grand world. Who would have sup.
posed that 80 comprehensive humanity as that
which reached across the Atlantic and distressed
itself about the affairs of alien aud different
color. would have overlooked scenes and sources
Of misery nj home. upon her own estates aud
among her own peasantry. from which the very
saYages ogour frontier would revolt.
Tho Northern Ensign Scotch paper has the
following:
In a small house IN Tubeg Skerray, in the par
isi Of Tongue. lived n Highlander and his wife.
within less than quarter of mile OF the house
in which they both born and brought up,
and which their fathers still occupied tenants
under the Duke of Sutherland Mr.. Robert Hors
borough being factor Shortly before the occur
renee which contemporary relates. william
M'kay's wife was confined of her fourth child,
and was still in bed, and unfit to be removed from
il. But on the 10Th Of June. neighbor informed
M'kay that party OIL officers were coming
10 turn nlif ana fhnlly out. ne HHspand 4itS-
tened Ia the house to inform his wife and, of course
console her. In an instant the messenger at
arms, with his party, at the door;thelr speak
ing was heard by the poor woman, and she be-
gan TO trembe; cold perspiraton covered her
body all over: the officers came in and soon clear
ed tho house of every article of furniture; and.
lastly, the wife end her newly born babe. must
be turned out too. The midwife demonstrated.
but in vain. The law officers said they
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The poor woman was, in spite of every remon-
STRANGE, doomed to be removed. These eNecu-
TONERS of Justice had, they sud- their instrue-
tons-but NAV il not be said, wanted the ten
derness which would suggest to them the delica-
cy and danger of interfering with woman in
such stated They surrounded her in the cor
ner in which she lay. laid hold Of the sheet or
erine which wusun der her, carried her outof the
house, and placed her the ground at istancc
and sped back 10 the work ri demolition; diVots
and cnbers wrre thrown IN all directions; the
Ratchet cut down the couple tree and IN very
short timo the roof of the hut Disappeared and SO
did its destroyers. They had more work ofa
kindred nature to perform that day. In agony OF
feeling, the husband ran off IT distance five
miles to procure medical aid while his wiie,wth
her new born infant lay little straw upon
the ground and it not till night that. by the
kindness of her poor neighbors, she and her Chi
dren were deposited in an empty barn
We cannot, except in some of our English poor
law cruelties recall such circumstance which
has occasoned US deeper Indignation than the
incidents of this painful narrative, nor one which
demands stricter investigation. In the former,
we have, indeed, had cruelty in its worst posi-
bic form as far rs the acts themselves are con
ccrned. We can understand the work house Of
fetal, snatehed perhaps from starvation by the
salary he receives, and enger to recommend him
self to his employers by an economizng use of
his functions, committing acts of inbumanity Mt
which one feels Mortified. But that such THINGS
can take place under the eyes Of the Duke of
Sutherland fills us with much astonishment as
nnin.