The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-16
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Mis- Murray On the listed states'
~. puhlished yesterday some tnserestne 81
.....s from a volume of Miss Murray on the T.
s,.teeL lady who has just resigned her pos"'on
:. M.,a Of Honor TO the Queen. on account OF the
-. sxnre<sed by hsr In relation to slavery 10
- ,st,ers from this country. II does not speak
-, ~ ,ha liharsli,y Of the present occupant Of
- p-,.,.h chrome. nor for the boasted liberty Of
:. -, IN England that lady holding the posi-
-. ~ u,ss Murray should not be permitted "a
80, =, hoyest Judgment for herself upon the in
.,,,,,,,ons Of q foreign country under penalty Of
,.o,,v dismissed from her station near the Queen
xy-h,ls, tho Duchess Of Sutherland whose estates
have been the scene Of greater oppression and IN
bnmani,y Il an were ever witnessed in the South''
one OF the chief objects of royal favor lady
conscientiousiy gives her impressions OF the oe
nevolent and patriarchal character OF oou'n'.'
servitude, is ostracised and prescribed "a" ao
est and independent minds will regaro "i'' '.1'
ray with more respect in her independent 'e'"e
ruent than the sycephants who are VIKING " pai'
chase place q. the expense OF conscience ana ~
much more Of n oueen than her imbeeiie mistress
Tha onros;.,on of the English people to slavery
e. No. bowexer as unnatural and irrational as the
amt; slavery of our own country. When slavery
existed In The English colonies it was marked by
sueh systematic inhumanity and oppression that
sery;le insurrec tons of constant occurrence.
No doubt the English idea is that American slavery
Is like English slavery. idea which the account
given by the Northern fanatics seems to confirm
them in If they could come and see for them
selves, they would discover the difference. And
the intelligent and candid among them would &C
knowledge. as Miss Murray has done, that the
entire South presents happy image of patriar
ehsl life, benevolent masters and attached ser
wants. in fine, ''that slavery is the best condition
for the negro race" The masses of the Enghsh
people are no doubt honest in their anti-slavery
prejudiees they know nothing about slavery, and
their rulers don't intend they shall be enlightened
till they have succeeded in effecting dissolution
of the Union by means of abolitionism. The
truth will then gain converts In Great Britain by
multitudes II will be seem first that slavery Is
necessary evil :" next that it is "patriarchal in
stitution," and finally, that it would be a great
blessing to secure the cotton and commerce of the
slaveholding States for old England, even if it
should be necessary for that purpose to form an
alliance with the new Southern confederacy.
In reading the enlightened and liberal comments
Of Miss Murray upon slave institutions, we cannot
trast which her character and course present to
those of our own eountrywoman, Mrs. Stowe, that
living embodiment of .'hatred, malice and all un-
charitableness" Mrs. Stowe goes to foreign land
and misrepresents and libels her own country
Miss Murray returns to her own land and at the
cost of an honorable station and of troyal and
popular favor, speaks kindly and charitable words
Of foreign people Which is the true woman =
There can be but one answer among American
gentlemen. If aught can bring the blush of shame
10 the cheek of complacent sefrighteousness, it
must be the reflection that an English lady has
stepped forward to vindcate America from the
kspersions and reproaches of one of her own peo-
pie Mrs Stowe may possibly console herself
with the idea that she is in high favor with the En-
glisb nobility, but not in higher nor more genuine
favor than was one of her New England country
men, Benedict Arnold, at the time of the Revolu.
ton. Then, as now Englishmen, as well as other
men, might avail themselves of treason, "but des-
pissed the traitor