Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-11-06
From the New York News.
Douglas Jerrold and Mrs. Beecher Stowe.


his infamous conduct TO his wife: This ex-
posed him TO many retorts from his literary
enemies. In this point the authoress of
bred and Uncle Toms Cabin resembles the
Irish author, and like him, she now and then
catches Tartar.
Mrs. Stowe, who bewails the fate of the
niger, has no compassion for the million of
overtasked and half starved whites, especi-
ally the poor needle women Of her own
country. go
Douglas Jcrrold has lately addressed,
through the columns of the paper he edits,
Lloyd's Weekly, letter in whi,h the match
less hypocracy of Mr.. Beecher Stowe is held
up to public contempt. 1t is u matter Of
history that the most depraved and brutal
of Southern planters never treated his re-
fractory negroes as the Duchess of Suther-
land has the hard working peasants Of Scot
land. In this there is not a pin TO choose
between the tyraut of Naples and the wolf
of Sutherland, but SO bigoted are the Eng
fish as to the right of property, that even
the free press has but little power 10 pre-
vent these infamous exercises Of despotisn.
To create park this Duchess Of Suthar-
land elected thousands Of the poor tenants
and left them to perish on the roadside:
Jerrold, in his letter TO the Black IRE
publican" hypocrite thus letes the weeper
over the wrongs of fat and overfed negroes
into the character of her ducal entertainer,
and throws her false humanity into her
teeth:
"MADAM: You are now visitor at the
princely castle Of Dunrobn, and will be
there for brief season, the guest of their
graces who own it. You will there meet
with all that wealth can purchase, all that
influence can command, all that art can can
produce, and all that ducal hospitality can
do TO make your stay desirable, You will
receive that attention and kindness which
the Duke and Duchess award 10 their visi-
tors, and you will perhaps leave Sutherland
shire with its sunny memories engraven
on your recollection, and the sentiments to
which you have already given expression
regarding that county more deeply impress
ed on you mind.
at is also stated that during your stay the
annual exhibition of industrial products is
TO take phase, and that more than usual eff
fort is to be made to get the females of the
district to turn out in their best, radiant
with more than ordinary smiles; and that
farmers and factors, with their families and
their ependants, are to swell the gather
ing, SO as 10 make its proportions and ap-
pearance bulk before you as largely and re-
specially as possible"
After telling her Of the bogus prosperity
which will be trumped up by the She Hound
of Sutherland, to throw dust into her eyes,
he advises the authoress of Uncle Toms
Cabin to write an Unc'e Sandy's Cabin.
The rebuke is SO temperate, that for the
benefit Of the Greeleys, Becchcrs, CARR
sons, and their brother fanatics, we quote il
entire, despite its length. Should Mrs
Stowe write the sufferings Of the Scotch
peasantry, under the regime of this Mrs
Sterne, we promise to find her publisher
"May beg of you to take solitary tour
TO the west of Sutherland? Keep aIoof from
factor or commissioner; have your eyes and
your ears open, and with the feelings of the
authoress Of Uncle Toms Cabin, investigate
for yourself into the present and past con.
dtion of the general body of the inhabitants
Go to Armadale, and inquire for one Angu:
Sutherland. Go 10 Tubeg Skerray, and ask
for n look Of the site where the house of one
William Mckay once stood. Inquire intr
the history of the treatment of these ant
thousands of other men, active, able, ant
willing 10 work, but with their wives ant
little ones cast ont.
"You are mother, Mrs. Stowe. You
have given proof that you can in large
measure sympathize with mother in hei
maternal yearninss after her little ones -
Will you, therefore, kindly ask the wife o.
Angus Sutherland how she felt when, less
than three months ago. her and her little
ones, then i'll of the measles, were thrown
out of their humble home? Will you gel
the wife of William Mckay to narrate tc
you how, only last year, few days after
going through the periIs of maternity, she
with her newborn white babe, and other
little ones, were merciessly carried ont in
sheet, and left to bivouac on bare HILL
without home or shelter? Will YOU ask
the Oldest inhabitants of the bare rock sides
along the bleak and rugged shores of the
West how it happens that they starve ont q
drizzling existence on these uuproductive
wastes, while for scores of miles ten thou.
sand times ten thousand available acres lie
in bleak and barren desolation? Will yor
ask them to tell you how it happens that
whole str0ths and glens, once vocal with the
merry laugh of hundreds of happy cotters
children, now echo naught save the beatine
of sheep, or the huntsman's horn, or III,
sportsman's rifle? Will you inquire how i
happens that the population of Lairg Is on
ly third of what it could boast of in 1901
how 10th has diminished a third; Kildonar
by three-fourths; Creich by 800; and othe
parishes to less extent, so that the who'll
county of Sulherlond has not increased sew
en- per cent, during the whole of the las
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