Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-19
Dhksas aud .ibsliiisa.

DieksRs aud .3bsliiisa.
Not having paid divine honours to SLIP, sop,
when BE- was here and in the very zenith of popu-
lar favour, We feel somewhat averse to joining in
the hue aud cry against hin, nov that he is grown
'oui OF suits" with the American word. In gene.
rel, as We found him no better for all The pre-.
posierou, enthusiasm which rhspsodized in his
favour, wa fod him no worse for having fallen
from il! gotten grace. Having, since he was
heradet across the Continent The mos, match.
less OF Literary geniuscs, written only one book
more, and that perhaps not whit moro exhgge-
rated than his preceding ones, We cannot see what
sort OF justice or taste there can be ia voting
him as bad as lac before was ,ranseerdAn'.
This book is, we maintain, quite as much as
to be expected Of either the auho the space for Oh
serva.iou which he had, the successive circum-
stances offolly and Teannes, under which il pleased
a great portion of our eoun,rynen TO show them
selves 10 him.
In ono particular, however, We feel bound, as a
public duty, to rsprehend Mr. Dickens book. The
exsgeeralions in which he freq uently INDUCES, as
to finding the cabin Of his ship turned with the ee>
ing where The floor should be, or travelling in a
stage coach along ROADS so deep that the mud
upto the windows, are natural enough lights Of a
novel writer Of The puppet-show school. Flo who
writes no, popular eIiravasanzis Of fiction. but
Travels in that of vein lets ell who think as
well ieii, know thu, little sober sense or truth
is to be expected of him. Such uumpsry white
lies breed, of course, only contempt for him as q
voyager, il not as burlesquer.
The colour of the unru,h al efs, however, when
he gives Us "bounces" as furious about very seri-
Gus matters. which he deliberately magni6.S intn
atrocities. Les-we can call them no less-lke
the following. to the las, degree seaudsous for
the simple reason thai ,h have not an atom Of
foundaiioni that they are. upon their face, impos.
sibe; and that he who tells them must have known
better
He copies, in his chapter on Slavery, great va
reiy Of advertisements from the Newspapers of the
Solth, 10 show that the Negroes are, every where
IN the United States, most bruillly used and that
mirning them, shooting them, and the like, ore
mere recrca,ions to their masters. Nothing seems
too rabid for his prejudices, nothing too gross for
his crejuiy.
As specimens OF this precious collection of Ecs
lake Few.
"COmmi,tsd to JILL. negro man. lie ha. M
toes on the left foot"
| hcSto Nocncl. has
lest al, her toes. excsp; the large one"
ANow, ks intelligent and veraciou. traveller does
or does not, upon seeing such notices. seek TO learn
whether or not any body had ever heard of a mas
'ers cutting OIL his slaves toss. Ia Eng and, if he
saw horse with but three legs, would he have con
cluded It aeeiden, or deliberate anpu,a.ion by
some feroeious rider1 DID he never hear OF poor
peoples getting their feet frOzs, in Old or New Eng
land1 Does he know nothing Of either Jack Pro,,
or Fire, boh Of whom sometimes bite OF the eY
lrernites7
Another negro "has scar on the riga, cheek. and
appelrsto havs been burn, with po~dsr on the
lef."
Another has "a scar on his arm, from the bite OF
a dog" Ono would think that dogs had no teeth
IN Britain.
Another negro "hls lost an eyes" and vet ano,bsr
"has had jaw broken" We suspect that. in
England, Mr. ID. must have seen whites tina, had
lost both eyes. As for ji~s tho common people
have little occasion for any such instruments OF
maslicaiion there.
The very loss Of teeth, il msntionsd to Identify
slave, Is instantly referred, no. to Academia
causes, but i-usiss; and he deliberately state, il
as a fac, that masters "rn,ki a common practices
Of punching out their teeth !"
Every respectable psrJon, in this coun,ry, would
haye told Mr. p. that these are the rinksst l,l,s.
hoods; inst nobody anong US has ever heard OF
such prac ices; that vio'snecB someuncg occur. "a
in London towards Apprentices boys; but that the
universal feeling an hibit, Of IN, l1nI stisma.iz,
and repre's thsm ani that, on the whole -bs .ides
being infinitely batter cared for, l,dgeI, nurscd aud
fed than Eng'is1 dspondiotS or labourers-our
slaves are never whipped h1lf as severely a. are the
British soldier AMI sailor, Let hin, plsass look at
the late Parliamentary Report az 70 labour in the
Col eriss, and say II no saw or heard any thing
ono hundfejth part as bad m this countryi
But the etoWning, Lsciu5s tbs most Elegantly
wilfu fslsohood, is the following; which admits Of
no explanation, n, pilladon, and iss1 grossly al
surd. that even al EagliSh fnite, with all his pow.
srs Of le-svallowinE. must choke with it. lie Is
citing, mind you, from Southern newspapers, which
are before HIN; and IN then no hnds such Gus a,
the ensuing;
"Cash for negroes" "cish for negroes (" "cash foi
"negroes," Is the heading Of Advertisements in Rrea
capitals down the long columns of the efoWde 4
Journals. Wood cuts Of runavaV negro Win
"manaelsd hands, ey0uehiag bsneath bluff pursuo
"in tap boofs, wh0 havinE caught him. EaspJ Aim D,
fhs throat, agrseably diptrsfJg fhs p,ssaaf TgYT
"fho leading article protests against shat abomi
"nable and helish doctrine Of abolition, which 10 70
"pugnant alike 20 evory Law Of God and nature
1.-THE delicate mama, who smiles her aequisscone,
10 this sprghily writing ne she reads the paper II
"he- cool pIozza, quies her youngest child oh,
"cllngs about her skirts. by promising the boy "a
; "Ohip TO beat the liule nigeers with"
Now, We neod not tell any MN who svsr sec,
Z Southern newspaper that the cut hers describe,
is precisely ono Of those Abolition hgurs', drawn u
. inhims the ignorant at distance with pictures o
he erUeues Of the Shareholder; and that q prio
10 excite sympathy for the fugitive and rspugosnc
against his pursusr would be rather 40 ward al.
, towards recovering tho Save. The tale stamps n
D au ho' s' capable Of the erfsmes folly, ss -,r
the gros'sst misrepresentation.