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Show 208 APPENDIX TO NOTES. 4 T,os'::~c/'kf1.~;rt{e~~·~:11;~s~·tatc that, although 1 ~eel deep intr;cst in the n.bolition of slavm·y, (and who docs_ not?) 1 dul n~t aulhorJzc my name to be used in relation to the mcctm;:; at the Staflord House? 'So long as American women cnn justly ~aunt the women of Engbnd with the nc~lcct, il~-usng~, _and stn.rv_ah?n payment of ~ho_lady teachers employed in thou· fanuhcs, there 1s httle hope of then· listening to our protests on the sulUcct of sla\'Cry. • J ... ot us reform our school-rooms, n.ml we may expect them to reform I the en. bins of their sla.vcs. 'J lad not illness prevented my nttcndrmco nt tllc meeting, I should have stated this ns my opinion. '1 nm, Sir, your obedient servant, •JANE'l' KAY SUUTTLEWO!\TII. '38 Gloucester Square, Nov. 30.' "Another correspondent publishes what she predicts will be tlle retort of the women of Amcric:~. 'Vc quote: 'Oh, bcn.r your benign sympathies, gcnUcwomcn of England to your own male and fcnmlc sufl'crcrsl Try whn.t the blessed mflu~ncc of unstained womanhood may yet effect on the unheeded victims of enslaving circumstf\nCci:l, such as it may be the main salvation of ourselves not to have encountered. Apply yourselves to thi ~, and you i,\n\\~;~~~\tf,~g ~:~~~~:~o~0 ~~~:~;g,~~;~r :~n~~~~c k~~,r~-~ ~~~}· J;~~o~·~~lh~~!. llclievo th:\t we arc not so ignorant of womanly pity, so untrue to our sox, so forgetful of our common hum:mity, l~ to acquiesce in nny system of cruelty and torture, wlmtcvcr may be the cxccption:tl instances of such from which romrmcc writcre may draw those conclusions wl1icl1 arc naturn.lly so ata.rtling to you. 'Once more-we will not bel!cvc that you nrc not merely' sighing for wretchedness,' :md 'shunnm,:?; the wretched,' when we sec you mn,king u. truo effort to hu.rmonize, by means of your magnificent rc· sources, those dreadful facc-to-f;we opposites of which we spoke. We will bolim·c that your' feelings' arc not 'all too del icate for usc;' we will bclic\·c tha.t your l'l)'mpa.thics with the remote miseries of which your orators tell you arc more than mere sentiment, when we sec you doing something, making some strenuous s urrender of personal ca~c and comfort, to remove ft·om your doors the gren.tcst spectacle of ' 'it·tual sla\'cry wj1ich (as far ns we can learn,) the whole world con· tains. 'Hesign some lnrger portion of your splendors, your Jlleasurc<~, your vacant hours, your influence, to the uureclaimcd mass that is weltering behind your palaces, cryin~ f\loud, in Litter despair, Usque quo Domine! :\ml convicting you, we tmy not, of conRcious hypocrisy, but of that which su~jects you, in tho eyes of some, to the suspicion uf unren.lity a.nd partisanship. • Believe me, Sir, nothing would induce me to ask to trespass thus on your column~, but that l nm so well assured how unpmctical, how hopeless of result, is this well-intended. scheme of the circle of gcutlowomcn mentioned in the 1'itucl:l. I trust I ha.vo spokon of them with Al'PEXDIX TO NOTES . 299 nll the rcspcctful1lefcJ·cncc wl~ich their sex and their high position dcu~and, and that, however feeble my wort!"', the thought which 1 dcs1rc ~o s~q:~g(>~t m.:~y not IJc L_lttcdy di:,~t·egitrdcd. 1temam, Su·, your f:ttlhful scrva.nt, • R. G. D.' n " From tltc Baltim,orc Sun, n.f Jan. 25tlt, 1853. AltEUICA!'i AND l.NGJ,IS II LA o n:s ANI) Sr.AYF.RY. "We find in the Lnndon U!lily 1\ews tho entire rcsolutiQnS nd t d l1y the Amc;ican ~n.dies 1tt .M ~l;tn, in response to the ladies of ]~ng~~n~, on. the fmlJJCCt of' t>lavcry. I hey arc communicn.tcd to that paper b ]\11. '.~umc, ti~JO 'ctera11 r~formcJ·, l.o whom they wCJ'C sent lJ th~ !:~:~~r~:.n 1J1~~~~:v~~~d who mtroduces them with some most judfcious 'The, rcsoluti~~i·1:~ ag-reed to nt i\Iibn, by the American ladies of Anp;lo-Saxon ongm, :LJ"C w("ll worthy of the attention of the Duchess of.l::iuthcdand, ami. of all those,. her noLle coadjutors, whoso sympa.- !\~~~sh~:~~~0Un~~~~--~~;~~~cl0f~~:1\~~·i~;!'. reports of the sufferings of tho 'Wo Hhouhl .indeed lJC ltappy if misery ond suffering could be removed. ft·om tillS and t.)ther lands; but we arc u~sured, on the best nuthor~~y, tl!at there wdl al\\:ays be poor and suffering mortals, and th:tt lcl:>u;iat.w~ can never Cl~tn·cly pt·cvcnt poverty and wretchedness. But, as Oh~·tsban~ aud consH.lot·ate persons, we ought to look at homo -to wh:.tt ts pas:-;mg houdy bef.Jre our eyes, or within the sound of out' carrwge·whccls-and, ,~·c ma.y add, in a lmost every pnrish in our ~~~~J~,d,, country, and cons1dcr whether our legislation is just and (2.) }i'1·om tlw J.YationallEgis, of April 6tlt, 1853. "'Ve c~nnnt help asking, ns we peruse from time to time the ncc~ unts wl~~eb re:.tclt us o~ the wrongs, abuses, and. sufferings that t:ulliSh the bme of all. 11attor~~o~, and of our common humanity, whether nn;· one o_f ~Ito lcad m::; na~IO!tS of the earth can, with very great propnety, cmnma_te antlrccr·mnnatc upon another. England may truly ~ay to the Umtcd ~tate~. '.You hn\'e, in sdrne of the Stat<Js, Icgnltzt>< l slaver~;' nnd the Umtetl Sl:ltes can with equal truth reply 'You ga\'0 Jt to u~:~, and forced it upon us, against our wishes' Erw~ land may ~ay to us,' :Yot~r ~ou.thcru slaves aro nt tho mercy.of their nw.stcrs, wJth only sul'h lt~nllntJOns as the interests and laws of sln.vcIJ? lder~ tm;y ,su~~cst.;'_ ami .th? United States .n.tay with C\'en greater huth r c~lj, Om. sl.ncs nrc 111. n.. better cond1t ton, morally, socially, nnd phystl.l:tlly, tills day, than mlilions or your subjects, who arc nominally fl'CC< And so the work of mutual crimin!l.tion might go on in n progrcsswn thn.t should end only_ in tho far off, and perhaps seldom he~r~l-of, opprcsswns :tnd abus('s m tho most distnnt corner of tho Bnt1_sh emptre . . And n_s tbe Ur,titcd Stutes have nothing to fear, and nothmg to lo~e, 10 any mtcmatJOnal comparisons with Great Britain, so t_hcy cn.n w1th _ho_not·.dccl:ue, th:tt this present and. prevailing criminahon an.d rccnmtnatton, IS not of their seeking. It begun in }~ngland. Arrstocrats, punm-proud nnd ovCJ·bcaring, alike towards thtlir |