Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-25
From the New York News.

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The celebrated Laurence Sterne, who wept over
an ill-used ass was notorious for his infamous con-
duct to his wife. This exposed him to many Ie-
torts from his literary enemies. In this point the
| authorizes of bred and Uncle Toms Cabin resem-
bles the Irish author, and like him, che now and
| then catches Tartar. ei4snh ls'aEis.s afts WI
| Mrs. Stowe, who bewails the fate Of the Niger.
has no compassion for the millions Of oyertasked
and half starved whites, especially the poor needle
/ women Of her own country sla ET.
1 Douglas Jerr0ld has lately addressed, through
| the columns Of the paper be edits Lloyds Weekly,
a letter 10 which the nMtchless hypocrisy of MI.
| Beechef Stowe is held up to public contempt. 1t
is matter of history that the most depraved and
brutal Of Southern planters never treated his re-
fractory negroes as the Duchess Of Sutherland has
the hard-working peasants OF Scotland. In this
therei is not pin to choose between the tyrant Of
Naples and the wolf of Sutherland, but so bigoted
arsithe English as to the rights Of property, that
even the free press has little power TO prevent
these Infamous exercises Of despotism. Is 1.J X
/ TO create park this Duchess of Sutherland
elected thousands of the poor tenants and left
them to perish on the road sideg ,E54g n. as
Jerrold, In his letter TO the Black Republican
hyprocfte thus lets the weeper over the wrongs OF
fat and overfed negroes into the character Of her
IFducal entertainer, and throws her false humanity
into her teeth: glolollgI 4a ss.le ~
MADAM: You are now visiter at the princely
castle Of Dunrobin, and will be there, for brief
season, the guest OF their gfaces who own It, You
will there meet with all that wealth can purchase
all that influence can command, all that art 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 Ouch.
ess award to their visiters and you will perhaps
leave Sutherlandshire with its sunny memories
engraven on your recollection, and the senti-
! menrs to which you have already given expression
| regarding that county more, deeply impressed on
your mind. ui fs4 gf5F3 a4gE '..ra'- ~. ,.i.ls
sit is also stated that during your stay the annual
exhibition OF industrial products is to take place.
and that more than usual effort 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 dependents, are to swell the gathering, 80 as
| to make its proportions and appearance ,bnlk be-
fore you as largely and as respectfully possible
After telling her of the bogus prosperity, which
will be trumped up by the She Hound of Suthef.
land, to throw dust into her eyes, he advises the
| authoress of Uncle Toms Cabin to write an Uncle
Sandys Cabin.
| The rebuke is 80 temperate that, for the bene-
it ofthe Greeleys, Beechers Garrisons, and their
brother fanatics, we quote 1t entire, despite its
length. Should Mrs. Stove write the suffsrings of
| the Scotch peasantry, under the regime of this
Mrs. Sterne, we promise to find her a publisher:
l May leg ofyou TO take solitary tourto the
west OF Sutherland Keep aaloof from factor or
commissioner; have your eyes and your ears open,
/ and with the feelings of the autboress Of Uncle
Toms Cabin, investigate for yourself into the pre-
sent and past condition of the general BODY of the
inhabitants. Go to Armadale, and inquire for one
Angus Sutherland. Go to Tubeg Skerray, and ask
for look of the site where the house of one Will
liam Mckay once stood Inquire into the history
of the treatment Of these and thousands Of other
II ohIo aud vuilI N b,,x
! their wives and little ones cast out. ,.,4. 4
are mother, Mrs. Stowe. You have given
proof that you can in large measure sympathize
with mother In her maternal warnings after her
littlo ones. VIII you, therefore, kindly ak the
wife Of Angus Sutherland how she felt vben less
than three months ago. she and her little ones,
then i'll Of the Measles were thrown ont of their
humble homes Win you get the wife Of William
Mckay to narrate to you how, only last year, a
few daysafter suffering the psngs and going through
the perils Of maternity, she, with her newborn
white babe, and other little ones were mercilessy
carried out ina sheet and left to bivouac on bare
bill, without home or shelters Will you ask the
oldest inhabitants of the bare rock sides along the
bleak and rugged shores OF the West how IL hap
pens that they starve out drizzlng existence on
these unproductive wastes, while for scores Of
miles ten thousand times ten thousand available
acres lie in bleak and barren desolstion9 viii you
ask them to tell you how Il happens that whole
sraths and glens, once vocal with the merry laugh
Of hundreds OF happy cotters' children, now echo
naught save the bles.ing of sheep, or the hunts
mans horn, or the sportsmsn's riAeY VIII you
inquire how 1t happens that the population OF
Lairg is only third of what u could boast Of in
1901 how 10th has diminished q third; Kildonan
by three-fourths; Creich by 1900 and other par
ishes to lees extent that the whole county of
Sutherland has not increased seven per cent. du-
ring the whole of the last fifty yearsf ,i,a IS
"Wil you ask II It be true that the county which
obtained distinguished niche In the annals of this
country, for the number and prowees of its col
diers, cannot now get half dozen Of its sons to
recruit even for the militia, or to act as volunteers
In being trained, merely for the defence Of the
cossts IL IL be a fact thst since the commence