Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-13
A LEGAL BAnl.nmsni.
From lhe New York Daiiy NeEs,

whole district of Scotland was some time ago
depOpulated. The people were banished from their
home according to law, and rs the circumstance /
affords good opportunity TO study the nature Of q
statute OF English Jurisprudence we produce its /
details.
The Duchess of Sutherland. who (rules her lord
the Duke,) intimate friend of Mrs Harriet !
Beecher Stowe, is the owner of large estate in
Scotland which, until few years back was pretty
thickly inhabited by Industrious peasantry. Her
Grace is strong theoretical haIer OF black slavery
in America her practical aversion 10 white serfdom
is not marked, as the sequel will show
The Duchess took it into her head to become an
extensive sheep grazer The holdings of her tenants
we're admirably adapted for the pasture needed
having been converted into fertile land from bar
rem fruiess Wilderness by TIE uDtirIng labor of the
occupiers. Then on the verge OF the ocean, Dor
dering reputed valuable herring fishery, lay
| strip of Sutherland property on which no person
coud be induced 10 settle. This fact rendered 1t
| proftless of course. Now to drive the farmers
from the land, and fix on the sterile coast was the
object of the half royal lady, and she proceeded 10
| accomplish it. In vain did the cOntented husbandman
plead for his little farm in vain did lie portray the
unhness Of himself and his family for all save agr
cultural pursuits in vain did he point 10 the cond-
ton OF the land when he got it, and It's state then
Ihe sensitive heart of the Duchess, which thrObbed
| so painfully with compassion for Uncle Tom, was
cold and mpenetrable as ice TO the plaIntive pray
| ers OF the Scotch mOuntaneer. Go, he must. The
| ground was hers, and it would be IN her own
possession! Besides, could he not fish And were
there not millions OF herrings waiting to be caught
| Dy MIN! AND would not comfortable villages De
bullt all along the shore where he could have his
| chOl2e companions as of old? Ejecments were
obtained, the sherfs did theirduty, and whole town
lands were emptied of their inhabitants. Stone res
licences were erected on the cold margin OF the
cherries sea- and sooner than perish houseess il the
cold world, hundreds Of the expelled creatures
took refuge in them.
Meantime, the cOtters little homes were leveled to
the ground walls rose up around the estate, and
| sheep were put in to replace men. Let US hear
what Highlander has said on this subject The
county OF Sutherland, where was born and brought
up, Is almost exclusively the property of the Duke
of Sutherland and his antislavery Duchess. In this
highland county alone you can set compass wi
twenty-five miles Of a radius, but within the cir
conference you will not find one hundred acres
which have been cultivated for the last twenty-seven
years; and | recollect when two thousand able
bodied young men could be raised in the cir
I cult in twenty four hours | have myself seen five
hundred dwelling houses on that estate all in lsmeI
at Once.n
But speculations often fail and that of the Duchess
did. The domestic memories of the farm fireside
were too strongly rooted in the hearts of the poor
Outcasts to let them embrace the perlls and prIva
lions of their new calling. with that energy which
alone ensures success. What multitude Of broker
. ,rts and blighted hopes, true record of tha
little colony would supply. We told that healthy
: old men stood the change no time" mothers 90
other members of the families y ''the young people
ran away to America and Australia" In fact, non,
remained behind but those whose youthful fire wa
| gone Every year emigrants going from thu
fishing depot and Canada, well some part
of the United States, now furnishes home TO NAM
It who were illegally banished'' by 1.-THE anti SLAYER.
q Duchess"
. And the digniied law of free England locke,
placidly at the determination and sanctioned it. T
demolish the arguments of some newspapers tina
% n
) | the number of herrings caught by the unwillin
70 fishermen were published from the House of Suth
. | erlaLd Herrings were poor substitutes for huma
II beings. The difficulty of interfering with Gprivat
l. property is said to be the cause of no law bein
il enacted to stop such cruel acts as this narrated
4 What a shallow pretensel If a man were ric
enough to buy all New York City, even the State
y would the Legislature stand by and see him extel
e inmate our citizens' Property privileges shou
have their Limits and ought not to be permitte
to entitle one individual to ruin thousands.
A learned Englishman, Mr.. Dove, thus treats thi
matter:
s When clearings and evictions are no longer mer
matters OF isolated occurrence, but extending owe
large districts of country and sweeping over Who'll
tribes of people, thsy rob the Queen Of her men an
soldiers it may safely be contended that these clear
) ngs no longer matters OF private right, but o
/ | public concern and that they should come unde
the cOgnzance of the State the Parliament the Gov
e eminent and the Crown Let the English nation al
&c the British Parliament seriously consider this sub
? Ject Let inquiry be instituted regarding 81
II number Of troops that on former occasions Ser
raised in the highland districts, and let the couutr
e be correctly informed whether Britain in the mil
tary strength, has has not suffered by this High
Il land expatrisuOn. Let - know why, when Canad
1t was in insurrectOn. 900 Donads stepped forth
do their duty as British subject and why. durin
the Crimean war, the Isle Of Skye, famous for i
9 soldiers, could not even raise militia II il b
necessary for the country TO maintain large army
let the country ascertain where the 60 CON
from, and why it Is that in the finest nursery of Il
fantry soldiers that any nation could desire. ther
e should scarcely be recruit much less the Irvine
e bic regiments that formerly came forth the M
ton bidding. England. not less than Scotland,
lie concerned. and perhaps the present crisis in GU
n military affairs may not be allowed 10 pass aWa
t. without intelligent inquiry into circumstance
that have no parallel in the history Of any other civ
/ | ilized country
Y We hope that our hberty-loying readers will IT
4 member this case It furnishes good iilustratiO
s of the real sentiments of those British phIlanthrC
e pists who periodically express such horror OF on
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