Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-01-03

ters the women Of the United states OF
America.
Signed by
ANNA MARIA HEDLoRD. Duchess Of Bedford.
OLIVIA CFCr1A CowLEY Countess Of COwley.
Constance GRosvENoR Countess Grosvenor.
IlARRItT SUTHERLAND. Duchess Of Sutherland.
ELHaBtTH ARGYLL. Duchess Of Argyll
ErIzABtTn FoRTEsCUE Countess Forlescue.
kM,LY SHArTmBuRY, Countess of Sbsftesbury.
MARY kuTnvEN Baroness Ruthven.
NJ. A. MnMAN. Wife Of dean Of St. Pauls.
r. BUxroN, Daughter Of Sir Thomas Fowell
Buxton.
CAROLINE AMELIA OWEN, Wife VI Professor
Owen
MRs CHARLES WIYDuAM
G. A HATHERTuN Baroness Hntherton.
EL1EABkTn DUcfE. Countess Dowaaer Of Ducie.
CECILIA PARKE, Wife Of Baron Parke.
MARY ANN CnALLIs, Wife Of the Lord Mayor
Of Lopdon.
E. GoRDoN Dnchess Downger Of Gordon:
Anna NJ. NJ MELVILLE Daughter Of Earl Of
Leyen aud Melville.
GEoRGrANA EBRN GToN, Lady Ebrington.
| A HILL Viscnuntess Hill
MRs GoBAT, Wife Of Bishop Gobat Of Jorusa.
E. PALaEnsroS, viscountess Palmerston.
aud others.
SIsTgRs,-More than eight years ago you
sent to us n America d dOcument With the
above heading. 1t is as foliows:-
- "a common origin common faith. aud,
we sincerely believe, a common cau,e, urge
us, Mt The present moment, to address you
on be subject of that system Of negro slav.
cry which still prevails SO extensively, aud.
even under kindly disposed masters, with
such frighiful results. in many oil the vast
regions Of the Western world.
I'VE will not dwell on the ordinary top.
ics,-on the progress Of civilization, Oh the
advance of freedom everywhere, on the
rights and requirements of the nineteenth
century but We appeal to you very seri.
| 0usly TO reflect aud TO ask counsel OF Gnd
how far such IL state of things is in accord.
auce with His Holy Word, the iualiendbe
right of immortal souls, aud the pure ana
mrrcful spiri, of the Christian elgion.
We do not shut onr eyes To The d firuliicS,
nav, the dangers, that might beset the i'm
mediate abolition Of thu: lOug.es abshed
system. We see and bdmit the Necessity
of p eparatloD for 80 great AN event hut,
in speaking of Indispensable ptellmlnalie,.
We cuunOt be silent on those laws If your
conntry which, in direct cOntravpnllon of
God's own law, Instituted in the time OF
man's iunocenry,' deny in fleet TO the
slave the sanctlty Of marriage, with all its
joys, rights, and obgailous Nhich sepa.
,ate, at the will of the muster, the wife
from the husband aud the children from he
parents Nor can We he s,leu, on that
awful system which either by statute or by
custom luterdicts to any race Of man or any
8 portion of he human family education in
| IL, - 81 iTgst
of Christianity. "A remedy applied to
these tao evils alone wOuld commence the
amtliorniUn of their sad condi ion. We
appeal o you, then, rs sisters, aS wives, as
V;berS, 10 RAISE you voices TO your fel.
low clizrns aud your prayers 10 God Tor
the removal OF thi, eli cuoI aud disgrace
tom Vie Christiun worII.
1--WE do not say these things in spirit
Of self compincency, as though our nation
were Ice IRON The guilt it perceyeo in 9th
Crs.
I'VE acknow ledge with grief aud shame
our heavy share in his great sin. We ac
know ledge that onr foretathcIS introduce |,
nay, Compelled The Adoption Of slavery in
those mighty colonits We humbly confess
it before Almighty Goo and it is because
We SO deeply ieel aud SO unfeignedy avow
our own cOmphciy, that We now venture
10 implo'e your aid TO wipe away our com.
mon crime aud cur common dshunor."
This address, splendidly illuminated on
vellunl, was senI to our shures at the head
Of twenty six folio volumes, conlaiuing con
Sidefbbly more than half a million If ,igns
uleS OF b / ,sh w"mcn Itwas torwa, drd
to me with a etier from a British IohIcmau
now occupying tne OF the highest efical
p' slionS in England, wiIs a r,qneSt on be.
h::i. h.:::. u ,n,se ladleS That ii should he in any
4 possible way prerGped TO the attention OF
my counlryW omen.
This memorial, as it now stands in its
solid oaken case, with its heavy tolios, each
beating on its back the imprint Of the
Anne lean eagle, forms a most unique lib.
rary, q singular monument Of an in terna.
tionu expression OF moral idea.
No right thinking person can find aught
to be OF jccled against the substance or The
form of This memorial 1t is temperate,
Just, aud kihdy aud on the high ground OF
Christian equality, where il places itself,
may be regarded as a perfectly proper ex
pres sion Of sentiment, as between blood
| ltlullOno duu NHuoiS ih wv h'hSANhb
tons.
j The signatures to this appeal are not the
E least remarkable part of it for. beginning
at the very steps OF the throse, they go
down to the names OF women in the veIy
humblesi conditions in life, and represent
; all that Great b ilain possesses, not only
of highest aud wsesl, but of plain, homely
common sense aud good feeling Names of
= wives of cubinetmlnlsters appear on the
same page with the nunes of ~lves of hum
be laborers,--uames OF duchesSeS and
eounlesSes, oi wives Of generals, amhasSa.
dors, savurs. aud men Of letters. mingled
with nalnes Iracrdan trembling charac ers
|, 10y hund, evidently unused to hold The pcn
c and suffeued 10y lowly toll Nay SO deep
aud expansive VAS the feeling, that British
SUI jeclL in foreign lands had their represen'
talIou. Among The signalares are those
of foreign residents from Paris 10 Jerusa'
lem. Autographs 80 diverse. aud collecI ed
from sources 50 various, have seldom been