Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1838-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
FIRST SIGHT OF SLAVERY.
"Ed 10, chavez di riguarder desio,
La condicion, che tai fortezza serra,
Com i fu dentro I'occhio intorno invio,
Evegglo ad ogni man grande campagna
Piena ad duolo, e di tormento rio."

Evegglo ad ognl man grande carnpagna
Pena ad duolo, e di tormento rio."
DANTE.
From the day of my entering the States till
that of my leaving Philadelphia, | had seen So
ciety basking in one bright sunshine of good
will. The sweet temper and kindly manners
ofthe Americans are SO striking to foreigners,
that it is some time before the dazzled stranger
perceives that, genuine as is all this good,
evils as black as night exist along with 1t. |
had been received with such hearty hospitality
every where, and had lived among friends so
conscientious in their regard for human rights
that, though had heard of abolition riots,
and had observed somewhat the degradation
of the blacks, my mind had not yet been really
troubled about the enmlty of the races. The
time of awakening must come. 1t began just
before left Philadelphia.
was calling on lady whom had heard
speak with strong horror of the aboitionists
with whom had then no acquaintance,) and
she turned round upon me with the question
whether would not prevent, if could, the
marriage of white person with person of
color. saw at once the beginning of endless
troubles in this enquiry, and was very sorry it
had been made but my determination had
been adopted long before, never to provoke it
but always to meet it plainly in whatever form
1t should be presented. Ireplied that would
never, under any circumstances, try to sepa
rate persons who really loved, believing such
to be truly those whom God hath joined but
observed that the case she put was not likely
to happen, as believed the blacks were no
more disposed to marry the whites than the
whites to marry the blacks. "You are an
amalgamatlonist p cried she. | told her that
the party term was new to me but that she
might give what name she pleased to the princi-
pie had declared in answer to her question.
This lady is an eminent religionist, and denun-
Citations spread rapidly from her. The day
before left Philadelphia my old shipmate, the
Prussian physician, arrived there, and lost no
time in calling to tell me, that must not go a
step farther south ; that he had heard on all
hands, within two hours of his arrival, that |
was an amalgamationist, and that my having
published a story against slavery would be fatal
to me in the slave states. / did not give much
credit to the latter part of this news, and saw
plainly that all had to do was to GO straight
On. Ireally desired to see the working of the
slave system, and was glad that my having
published against its principles divested me al
together of the character Of a spy, and gave
me an unquestioned liberty to publish the re-
suits of what might observe. In order TO see
things as they were, it was necessary that the
peoples minds should not be prepossessed by
nv friends as to my opinions, and conduct
apd therefore forbade my Philadelphia friends
to publish in the newspapers, as they wished,
an antidote to the charges already current a
ganst me. sis 500 ass
The next day / first set foot in a slave state,
arriving in the evening at Baltimore. dread
ed impressively The first sight of slave, and
could not help specializing on the lot of
evcry person of color / saw from the windows
the first few days. The servants in the house
where was were free blacks. 9'2ii
Before week was over perceived all that
is said in England of the hatred ofthe whites
to the blacks in America is short of the truth.
The SANDERS that heard of the free blacks
were too gross to lnjure my estimation Of any
but those who spoke them. In Baltimore the
bodies of colored people exclusively are taken
for dissection, "because the whites do not like
il, and the colored people cannot resist. :" II
is wonderful that the bodily structure can be
with the exception Of the coloring ofthe skin)
thus assumed tobe patterns Of that Of whites;
that the exquisite nervous system, the instru-
ment of moral as well as physical pleasures
and pains, can be nicely investigated on the
ground Of its being analogous with that OF the
whites that not only the mechanism, but tho
sensibilities of the degraded raceshould be ar
eued from those of the exalted order, and that
| men come from such study with contempt
| for their brethren in their countenances, ha'
tired irtheir hearts, and insult on their tongues.
I These students are the men who cannot say
| that the colored people have not nerves that
ouiyer under moral injury, nor brain that is
On FIRE with insult, nor d pulse that throbs unl
der oppression. These are the men whoshould
stav the hand Of the rash and ignorant pos
SCISSORS Of power, who crush being Of creatures
like themselves, g fearfily and wonderfully
made Butto speak the right word, to hold
out the helpiur hand, these searchsrs INTO
! mai, have not lirh, nor strength.