New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-02
Mrs, Stowe.

ENGLAND. distinguished attention from nobility and
gentry. Her merit, in the estimation OF the English,
consists in her jealous efforts to render her own coun
try contemplate in the eyes of foreigners, and IN
writing fulsome flattery Of Engishmen and English
customs under the title Of Sunny Memories" The
pnbic nature of the attentions which she has recev
ed prevents her. even if so anxious, from seeing
things in their true light, and qualifying her for max
ing lust report. Wherever she goes care is taken to
exhibit to her the sunny side of things in hope that
she may be guled into writing more "Sunny Memo
ries'' But there is at least oneAonest in Eng.
land who warns her Of her danger; and that man is
Douglas Jerrold, one of the best writers in England.
In letter which he addresses to her while the guest
of the Duke of Sutherland, he alludes to her well.
known weakness of being too easily beguiled by the
attentions of persons Of high rank with whom she
has been so unexpectedly brought into contact. The
noble Duke, and Mrs. Stoves friend and patron, the
Duchess who have been driving the poor of Scot
land from their homes to turn the lands into hunting
grounds for the people Of quality would do well 10
remember that charity begins at home" Mr. Jer.
rold writes to Mrs Stowe:
It is also stated that during your stay the annual--
exhibition of the industrial product is to take place,
and that more than usual effort is to be made to get
the females in the district to turn ont in their best
radiant with than ordinary smiles, and that the
farmers and factors, with their families and their de-
pendants to swell the gathering so as to make Its
proportions and appearance bulk before you as
largely and respectfully as possible.
| Thus madam, will the former handful OF dust be
thrown in your eyes, with the view to obtain from
your pen another testimony to the operation OF that
system of civilization which is still struggling in.
that country. You will see decent vel clad Highland
girls kindly spoken to by the titled party visiting
| Dunrobin you will be pointed to the nicely white.
washed cotter's houses skirtng the highway of the
Eastern District, and you will be told that these are
Hf,y, rtinf,p f HIN
has represented as being downtrodden and oppressed
So far, well. But, madam, every landscape has
background every picture has its shade. ica sea
but little Of Sutherland when you travel from the
Moikale Ferry to Dunrobn, or inspect the druggets
and stockings and plading OF the Sutherland females
in the show-rooms opposite the Gespie inn. These
are but the gaudy trappings OF the country these
are but meretricouS adornments, gingerbread
appendages, superficial gewgaws They merely re,
semble the balls and meny-makings that are oeca
sionally to be the worst slave States OF the
Caronas, and are no more far speclmenS OF SAshet
land than is little Eyas father OF the average charae
ter of the slaveholding fraternity. Madam, i'm
plore you not to be again fascinated and HOODWINKED
by the obsequious attentions paid YOU Or by the got
ten up for the occasion display when you will wit
ness at the exhibition room, nor by the external
pelsh and air Of cleanly comfort which the white
washed cottages of eastern Sutherland exhibit. Il
you found on these your opinion Of Sutherland asst
is you will leave il with an impression az false and
incorrect as if you had looked upon Of the woEs.
of George Sands novels as the embodiment OF moral.
ty from having read one of its most moral pages.
MAY beg o! you TO take solitary tour to the ives.
of Sutherland Keep aloof from tlct0r Or commits
sioners have your eyes and ears open, and with the
feelings OF the authOrcss Of Uncle Toms Cabin, in.
vestgate for yourself into the present and past con-
dton Of the general body Of the Inhabitants. Gota
Arnadale and inquire for one ARGUS Sutherland gs
to Tubug skurray aid ask fer look at the site whts
the house OF one William Mckay stood inquire
into the history of the treatment OF these and tloas
ands of other men, active, able and willing to work,
bat with their wives and little cast out. Yolae
a mother, Mrs. Stowe you have given proof that
you can, in large measure, sypathise with mother
in her maternal yearning after her little ones. viii
you, therefore, kindly ask the wife of Angus SGS~'
" erand how she felt, when less than three months
ago, she and her little onestlen iii OF the meases
were thrown ont Of their humble home VIII YOU get
: the wife OF VIM. Mckay to narrlte TO you how, only
last year, few days after suffering tie pungs and
going through the pers Of maternity, she with her
j. newborn white babe, and other little ones were ms.-
cilessly carried out in sheet and left to bvouacIl
a bare hill, without home shelter.
VIII you ask the oldest inhabitants Of the barerVk
sides along the bleak and ragged shores Of bc West
how it happens that they starye out drilling exist
f snce on those unproductiye wastes, while scores
miles ten thousand times ten thousand ayaE.ae aCrs
lie in bleak and barren dessoilton! vii! you ask
them to tell you how happens that the whole tFaiha
r and gens, once vocal with the merry laugh Of hnn
drcds Of happy cotters children. now echo uaagEt
save the bleating Of sheep, the huntsman5 hornG
the sportsmans rife VIII you inquire how it hap
i pens that the population Of Larg is only thld 81
what it could boast in 1901; how 10th has dninished
a third hildOHan by three fourtls Creich by $780,
and other parishes to less extent 50 That the whole
county Of Sutherland has not increased Der cent
during the whole Of the last fifty years.
Will you ask it be true that the county which Oh
tanned distinguished iet in the annals ofthis
\ try for the number and prowlee OF its soldiers
not now get halff dozen of its TO recruit if
for the militia oy to act voIune in being merely
trained for the defence OF the east; if it be fact
that since the co nmencemem OF the present cent ~,
more than fifteel thousand ri tue aboriginal iuhaby
FAINT iAan bairF
ancestors from traditionary ages occupied aud thrust
ont, not because convicted of crime, not because
guilty of aznesS not because Of arrears of rent not
because of immoral conduct but to convert their hold
ngs into monster sheep walks and grouse grounds if
it be true that the result Of this system of ceaance
has been serious loss to the noble proprietor and
that the whole issue has been the shame aud cosS
sion of face TO the promoters Of the Loeb policy
which has been known to have been in its invention
selfish and heartess, in its development merciIcss and
nhuInan, in its operation unpatriotic and unsucce
+ full and in its general results u moCkcry de,.sia
and a snare! ~
, Obtaining, by personal inquiry, irrespective of the
chapters in your Sunny Memories, the facts OF the
G and coming into personal contact with tie iRhabi
tants, you will venture to assure you, have abundant
, materials for work which will rival even Uncle
+ Toms Cabin and which will give chapter on chapter
g OF plots and incidents, scenes and slttrngs patient
endurance and Christian resignation, and other mani
v fold heartstirrng sketches, which will prove
world that the author of Uncle TOMS Cabin is too far
seeing, too much animated by Christian principles
ana too independent IN sentiments and in feeling, 10
be betrayed by mere conventional hospitality into
e endoIsation of such policy; and that not event
G new commissioner, trained in all the subetes Of the
q bar Will succeed in again committing you to proclaim
ms fathers policy as an enlightened attempt to ala
II the struggles OF modern civilization, but that you will
il unhesitatingy brand it of the most reckless
and cruel attacks on the rights and liberties Of an
4 offending people, and proclaim your from
personal investigation, that He who hears the cries Of
n the prsoncr-the righteous God-who has affixed bis
cdteat to even the removing ancient landmarks has M
s mstaka!y shown by the complete failure OF the policy
nave named his adherence othe treatment to which
e the people Of Sutherland have been subjected since
the dawning OF the present century and that you
l. will not leave the proud walls of Dunrobin Case
y without honestly and faithfully entleating its nobg
J. poSsessors to gain for themselves good report and
/. earn the gratitude Of noble race by once more ten.
antng the desoate gens of their beautiful estate and
/ restoring to the people the occupation Of that land
which has for generations been sacred by tadtiony
story, and which will again be the happy abodcs ola
1 happy people.