Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-11-07
From tho Richmond Enquirer.
Aholltion H1nocrisY.-

brutality perpetrated on the estates OF the.
Duchess of Sutherland
" In small house in Tubeg SSkerray,
in the parish of Tongue, lived a 'Ttigh-
lander and his wife, within less than
quarter of mile of the house in which
they were born and brought up, and
which their fathers still occupied as tens
ants under the Duke of Sutherland, Mr..
Robert marlborough being factor. Short
" before the occurrence which our con-
temporary relates, VIM. M'Kay's wife |
was confined of her fourth child, and was
still in bed, and unfit to be removed from
B. But, on the 26lh of June, a neighbor
Adorned N'Kay that a party of law Off
GERS were coming to turn himgelf and IA
Uily out. The husband FASTENED TO the
house to inform his wife, and, of course,
console her. In an instant the messenger
Gt-arms, With his party, were at the door :;
their speaking was heard by the poor wo.
man, and she began to tremble cold per-
SEPARATION, covered her body all over +; the
officer came in, and soon cleared the house
oteyery article of furniture and, lastly,
the wife and her newly born babe must
be turned out too. The midwife reimon-
strated, but in vain. The law officers
sAid they would be required to execute
their commission. The poor woman was,
In spite of every remonstrance, doomed
70 be removed. These executioners of
Justice. had, they said, their instructions
but, may it not be said, wanted the
tenderness which would suggest to them
the delicacy and danger Of interfering
with woman in such state They
surrounded her in the corner in which
she lay, laid hold Of the sheet or covering
which wasunder her, carried her out Of
tho house, and placed her on the ground
at distance, and sped back to the work
OF demolition divots and cabers were
thrown in all directions the Ratchet cut
aoHn the couple-tree, and in very short
time the roof of the hut disappeared and
80 did It's destroyers. They had more
york OF kindred nature 10 perform that
day. In an agony Of feeling, the husband
Ean off distance Of FIVE miles to procure
medical aid, while his wife, with her new
born infant, lay on a little straw upon the
ground, and il was not till night that, by
the kindness Of her poor neighbors, she
and her children were deposited in an
empty barn. We cannot, except in some
OF our English law cruelties, recall such
q circumstance which has occasoned us
deeper Indignation than tho incidents of
Ghis painful narrative, nor one which de-
mAnds stricter investigation. In the for
mer we have, indeed, had cruelty in its
worst possible form, as far as the acts
themselves are concerned. We can un>
derstand the workhouse official, snatchine
perhaps from starvation by the salary he
receives, and eager to recommend himself
10 his employers by an economizing use
OF his functions, committing acts Of inhu-
mainly at which one feels Mortified. But
that such things can take place under the
eyes Of the Duchess of Sutherland, fills us
with as much establishment as pain. It is
not many months since the ladies of Eng.
land appealed 10 their sisters in America
on behalf of the poor blacks, imploring
Ahem to exert their influence to put on
end to the deplorable and shocking sys.
tenn of slavery and the first name which
the signature to that appeal bore, was the
name of the Duchess of Sutherland. Will
that woman look at home and think Of
poor William M'Kay's wife, carried in a
sheet out of her hut, and laid, trembling
on the ground, with her new born infant
In her arms %
This is the same Duchess of Suther>
land, SO heartlessly cold to the sufferngs
OF the white slaves on her estates, who
some time since, startled the sensibiities
OF her sisters of the nobility and the ladies
of England, by her mock tears over the
evils inflicted, by our Southern people, or
imaginary "Uncle Toms" three thousand
miles distant! The liblleous pictures OIL
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe aroused the
sympathies of the noble lady and friends
to such an extent, that Mrs. Stowe was
feted in their splendid palaces, her highly
colored work extolled as true picture Of
the condition of master and slave in the
United States, and most inAammatory ap.
peals made publicly and privately, against
American shareholders. The whole civil
lied world was invoked to point the finger
OF scorn at the American confederacy
which would allow the contamination oil
slavery, had the Noble Ladies', with the
~ beneOolem Duchess at their head, officious-
lythrust themselves into our own domes-
tic Institutions, and directly attempted to
lhaugurate~a movement in our midst,
whose only fruit would have been the an
inhalation OF vast property, and the con-
eignment of millions of happy beings to
starvation and misery. This foreign in
reference; and practical application Of
Woman''s Rights, was met at the TIRES
hold by our indignant people. Ono of
our own gifted ladies stepped forth in de-
fence OF her maligned country, and, with
the power of eloquence, overthrow the
fiimsy creations of the over-excited foreign
abolitionists in female garb: The name
of the Duchess of Sutherland has been
lost in the failure of exploded and Quix-
otto schemes. until it is now revived in
the startling details of the gross outrage
upon humanity, set forth above. The