The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-06
From the Richmond Enquirer.
ABOLITION HYPOCRISY.

From the Richmond Enquirer.
ABOLITION HYPOCRISY.
The Northern Ensign Scotch paper, gives the follow
ing details of the shocking brutality perperated on the
estates of the Duchess of Sutherland @s
In small house in Tubeg Skerray, in The parish Of
Tongue lived Highlander and his wife, within less than
quarter Of mile Of the house in which they 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 occurrence
which our contemporary relates, William MKays wife
confined Of her fourth child, and still in bed
and unfit TO be removed from it, But, the Goth of
June ncighbor informed MKay that a party of law
officers were coming to turn himself and family out
The husband hastened to the house to inform his wife,
and OF course, console her. In an instant the messen-
ger-at-arms with his party, at the door; their
speaking was heard by the poor woman, and she be-
gan trenbe; cold pcrspiration covered her body all
over the officer came in and soon cleared the house Of
every article of furniture; and lastly the wife and her
newlyborn babe be turned out, too The midwife
demonstrated but in vain The law officers said they
would DO required to execute their commission The poor
was in spite of every remonsrance doomed to be
removed These execnoners Of justice had, they said
their Instructions but may il not be said wanted the ten
derness which would suggest to them the decacy and dam
ger OF interfering with woman in such stated They
surrounded her in the in which she lay laid hold
of the sheet covering which under her, carried
her ont of the house. and placed her the ground at
distance and sped back to the work of demolition;
divots and cabers thrown in all directions; the
hatchet cut down the coupetree and in very short
time the roof Of the hut disappeared and did lis de-
stroycrs. They had more work OF kindred nature to
perform that day. In agony Of feeling, the hus-
band off distance of five miles TO procure lned-
cal aid, while his wife, with her newborn infant lay
little straw upon the ground; and it was not till night
that by the kindness OF her poor neighbours she and her
children deposited in empty barn. We cannot
except in Of English poor-aw cruelties, recall
such circumstance which has occasioned deeper in
dignaton than the incidents of this painful narrative
which demands siricer investigation In the former
have indeed had cruelty in its worst possible FORM
fair the acts themselves concerned We under
stand the workhouse official snatching perhaps from star
von by the salary he receives and eager recommend
himself to his employers by an economzng use of his
functions, committing acts of inhumanity at which
feels Mortified But that such things take place under
the eyes of the Duchess of Sutherland fills with much
astonlshmen pain. 1t is not many months since the
ladies of England appealed to their sisters in America
behalf of the poor blacks mporng them to exert their
influence 10 put end to the deplorable and shocking
system Of slavery and the first name which the signature
to that appeal bore the of the Duchess of Sut
erand Will that look at home and think of poor
William MKay's WIFE carried in sheet out of her hut,
and laid trembling on the ground with her newborn in
FAINT in her arms
This is the same Duchess Of Sutherland SO hearessly
cold to the suerngs of the white slaves her estates
who time since startled the sensibtes of her sisters
of the nobility and the ladies of England by her mock tears
the evils inflicted by southern people imaginary
Uncle Toms three thousand miles Distant The libel
ous pictures of Mrs Harriet Beechcr Stowe reused the
ympahics of the noble lady and friends such extent
tnnt Mrs SoWe Was lcteu IN tnelr splendid palaces her
hghlycolored work cxtoed true picture of the con-
don master end slave in the United States and most
nammatory appeals made publicly and privately against
American Shareholders. The whole civilized world was
invoked to point the finger Of at the American
federacy which would allow the contamination of slavery
and the noble ladies' with The benegolet Duchess at
their head oiciousy thrust themselves into our own
domestic institutions and directly attempted to inaugu
rate movement in our midst whose only fruit
he pofv
of millions happy beings starvation and
misery. This foreign interference and practical appca
ion of womans rights met at the threshold by our
indignant people One Of gifted ladies stepped
orth in defence of her malgned country, and with the
of cloqucnce and logic and in the OF true be-
nevoence overthrow the msy creations Of the over-cxc
ed foreign abotonists in female garb The Of the
Duchess of Sutherland has been lost in the failure of eypo
led and Quxotic schemes until it is revived in the
startling details Of the gross outrage upon humanity set
orth above The world win look with amusement and
upon unparalleled barbarity prac,ised her
estate and with the full knowledge and consent OF the
oble Duchess whose tender sympatbos exclusively
oted to the manufactured suerngs Of slaves in tho SOUTH
States thousands Of miles distant Public sentiment
win demand that she clear her skirts of nhumanity
the suffering poor her premises before she again
enures upon crusade OF sympathy for American slaves
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HunpoLpr.--A Paris letter says: -
aThe venerable Alexander Humboldt celebrated his
ighysxth birthday the l4h and this in the full en-
'yment Of all his intellectual powers