Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-15
From the New York Express.
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eentrnie all of our surplus charity, and surplus
humanity, upon tho one to tho utter or compare
tvs neglect Of the other. The poor, shverng
beggar- woman, with white face on, that one
meets here and there in the streets, we have al
ways thought at least has = urgent caim on the
syinpnthies. the feelings, and the pockets, as the
man or the woman with the crisp hair, and tho
wo oily bend. A kind Providence made them
without much difference. it is TO DO presumed
far as physical scnsibllity to the pinchngs Of
poverty the gnuwings of hunger and the biting
of Che winters cold, concerned; and we new
could sec, as clearly some other people seem
10 do, why discrimination should be made in
favor Of the one to the rcudco exclusion Of
tho other. Nevertheless, it may be stupidity
or our blindness, that binders us from seeing all
this. In many things be old fogies--a long
ways behind this fast age-and of those many
thing. this may be one.
II WINS but The other day We remember, that the
kind hearted Honorable Miss Murray, an Eng
li-h gentewomnn, who in her day, has filled the
highly honorable place of Maid Of Ilonor-thnt
il to sny,-one of the Maids of Honor to tho
tho Queen,--sent over sum Of money as her
contribution to kansas,-to help the cause Of
freedom there. Indy Byron was similarly moved
and in due time her contribution received aud
acknowledged with flourish of trumpets, by n
certain class Of persons on this side, who were
the recipients. Then, the British Abolition Soci
cities Of Scotland, during tho summer spurred to
| renewed action lay the Kansas strife. also sent
yer all sorts of contributions to swell the exche
qucr of the various anti. slavery fairs here. Aud
nil the while that that this going on, the lea
ding journals were pleading in print, the cause
OF the American slave, and volunteering without
| stint such variety of good advice MS would seem
| To indicate n conviction on their parts that all
the world converted, except the Yankees,
! aud TINT the Millennium had dawned upon every
nation under the sun, snyc only aud except tho
| United States of America. This was the pro-
/ grnlDne of our foreign relations last summer,
/ modified copy Of the ono which had been previ-
ously agreed upon for party and presidential pur-
l poses here.
I But the Presidential election is over, now
aud the noise the foreign abolitionists made about
4 American Slavery and all that, having subsidized,
i time and opportunity now afforded to SEQ how,
] in all that while, things were going lat home"
4 We shall for the present call bat one witness to
|. tho siand-poor old ireland, tho bleeding
4 Kansas" of Great Britain, land what do we see
4 Why,-that, according to tho census tables, just
/ Published, there were f,centy one Thousand ssren
| hundred and strcntySir dedths, in that country,
I from starvation during The past year (2l 776).
This Is nn appalling fact. but figures don't lie
1 1t Is hard Ia believe them,-but we can believe
/ almost anything after contemplating the specta-
\ Gle thus presented of the Lady Byrons aud the
\ Hon, Miss Murrays, in tho the heat of red hot
,ributions to Kansas (where nobody is starving
| 10 deaih, for the sake of humanity" while SO
many unfortunate beings at their own doors. were
perishin- for want of the food and shelter, which
everybody in Amercn, bond or free,--. at the
worst of times rarely obliged TO do without
liho delicate fingers of the ladies of the Scottish
! sristocrney could work, without wearying, by
night and by day, to make articles for sale on the
shelves of the Abolition fas here. to aid we'll fed
fugitive slaves and aggravate our domestic
| sectional cxcitements.-hut the i" Greeks at their
| Doors" were passed by UNDECIDED, and permitted
| To sink down with famine to their graves, thou
| sands upon thousands.
The worst condition of the Southern slaves
physically speaking. lit is not too much to say,
is an improvement upon that of nine tenths of
! the Irish population Mt the present day,-and as
| there is understood to he number of intelligent
aud fair minded English gentlemen, connected
| with some of the leading journals, just II
| visit to the United States,-it is 10 be hoped
they will examine and soc for themselves. and re-
| port when they go home. il such be not the fact
We have now before US some testimony that may
aid them, from respectable Georgia planter,
who asserts it TO bo the almost universal rulo and
custom on the plantations of the South to give to
each negro three and n half pounds OF bacon and
! cno peck Uourteon ponnds) of cornmeal per
| week Besides these rations. tho negroes on
! ninety nine plantations in every hundred are
supplied with as many sweet potatoes. turnips,
cabbagos, peas, brans, pumpkin and other kinds
| of vegetables as they will consume. TO these
AFRO generally added rations of molasses twice or
! three times week;hut fat bacon and corn bread
are the staple diet ofthe negro, and he prefers it
20 all tho delicacies in the world. As to these.
the rule. as stated. is neariy unire rSdi that the
n an who would undertake to put his negroes on
| shorter rations would be regarded a brute
Would that we could say as much for the IRA
tons' of poor old Ireland.
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