The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-25

70 YHB EDITOR OF rae BsRALp.

icai, and not Literary u Is the provinces Of art to-
be true to nature novel ike the present should
present facts with fdslity False amptions ar
iaIsehoods--not only dss'gbrd TO deceive, but for
most nischievous ends la the present. work, il IL
cary to show, that idssy nature add 10 fact has
been>sbandoned for fidelity &c that be priAclple)
to prejudice ard fsnatinism. After absndantlJ
proving such to be the viii shank Jon to per.
NIT consideration she consequences 70 which
the Extraordinary pop lai,y" OF this book, and
ths current agitation Of doctrinss win inevitably
lead us all.
An important inciden. in this work-one upon
which large portion of snperstructus is erect
eds the forced sale spd psration of child four
years OF age nom It's mother Che narrative through
out represents this species Of cruelty common in
the South, as VIII be oy extracts which fol-
low. a lew words will utterly refute this malig-
nant caiumny 80 often prop.gated in its pages No
child under ten years uf age. Tin some States
thDk under twelve per ed 70 be separated FROM
its mother. The law or Louisiana, where Mrs.
Beeoser Stowe. in the eusniDg paragraph, repro.
sents the ''Ieal hands, m ssl'' as hayirg been de-
priyed Of her baby. . sides, and always did
provide, that all children not ten years OF age
are conveyed with the mo her. aud cannot be sepa-
rately sold With this fact ia view, it Will he curiona
to the reader to observe devilish spirit tbs
passages extracted below conoocted BY the au.
thor.
The first chapter introduces 90 man Of humanity"
IN the person OF negro trpderd class wholly d09-
pissed in the South. Tn. dramatic psrscnagss con-
sst OF this person and of Mr. shelby the proprietor
OF the plantation which the scene lies. The CON-
vefsatiOn between ths the sale and
trAnter to the trader of Sh-by's Uncle Tom. and
little Harry, Gid Of four years Of age. Talking
Of his class, this trader i, made to say, (page los
These critters amt like white folks. ycu know they
sets over things only msn.se shs Now they say that
found itso Fact is e,ud DO things up the way
some fei'ers manage tina buD I've seen lem as would
n h 1r,,fo A.r a.
sell snd she ecreeching hse all the very bud
ps Icy dumase the ici.-m.kss quite unit for
Orleans entirely rnioud by this sort o. AAndlng
The fellow that was trading fo hr didn't want her baby
up tell yos shs squeezed up her child in her
arms, and talked AMI wtn, real avfoi. II kinder
MAKES my Deod rn. coa 70 think ont; and when they
carried off the child and 10 sed her up she went
vim mad. and died in week
Again, vol. j, p 100, Marks, another trader 10
represented ~ saying
Nov bought gal whea was In tho trade.
tight, likely wcnch she and quite considerable
fmart-and she bad young rn that unstable sick
~; II had crooked back something other, and
jest gin't away 10 that thought he'd take hs
chance raising ont being It. didut cost nothn'-neyer
thought yer know, OF the gal sakin on about h-but
Lord yer ouahar eeen how no vent ON why roly shc
did seem to to valley the child cause twas Sick
~ and cross and plagued her. and che want making
round As II she'd lost every fisnd she had. It rsy
WAS droA to think ont Lord there amt NO end 70
mems notions
And again, p. 10l: -
Last summer. raid Haley down Ped river, (Louisi.
ana got gal traded of on me- with likely lookn'
child enough and his eyes looked bright yourn bat
come to look, found him stone blind; Faot-he wac
stone blind Wal, " sea thought there warnt
harm in Jest passing him along and not sayn moth
In and d got him nicely s~spped of ss keg Of whis-
like tiger. SO twas befre started and had MT got
my gang chained so what should she do but ups
cotton bale Ike cat, keches knife from Of tho
deck hands and tell ye che made ell fly for a mint,
I'll she saw wsnt no uie ana the jest turns rsnnd and
pitches head fret young snd ell into the r;ver-went
down plump and never lin.
The book is full of these malicious and npossibs
Inventions, narrated ia the form Of aneodose as IN
cidsnts parallel to that which, in grea. mea-
sure, the whole story hangs-the sale Of tho
mulato child four years Of age.
But these extracts will be sufficiently suggestive
to the mind Of every reader, and viii pass on to
other reflections.
wherever slaves exist in this uuuusrJ, wholly
overlooked by this lbeller, and the laws
themselves made the object Of her sttack. On page
g. VOL j, che says
Whoever visits estaAs {Kentuehyl, And vitncsscs
the good humored indulgence If acme masters and mis-
iesses and the aectioDate of slaves. might
paarchsl institution and that but ever and above
ofIav.
Thus she prepares her readers TO resist tra.h, By
oeNgnatipg great TACT, TithiG her kno Wledge-an
ott.fsbied poetic legend-end substitutes her In
flcions hctions In the plsee of fact. The simple
PROVISIONS OF the law for the security Of the rights OF
every slave nre well knOsn to Mrs Beecher Stove
but OF these she takes care her readers shall know
nothing by any word or sgercy of hers. For in
stance, any magistrate may compel nassr to sell
b slave upon proof Of Ill treatment; and again, no
master cen require his slave work in siokness or
old age, but Is compelled to maintain him men
ZION !nese ms examples. owing that legislation has
PROVIDED all slaves with security for degree of
comfort and enjoyment to which the repr and nm.
friended free hirslng never at.ains
shaii not quarrel with Mrs Beecder Stowe
upon questions which merely involve her parsonaI
tastes but i may be fruitful Of benevolent rslec-
ZION 70 quote another passage, In. 17.) which az
lords rs the usual description Of the heroine OF a
nove.-in this case applied to favorite nulasress
the mother Of little Harry
There needed only glance from the child 10 her uha
Muiafes) TO identify her ne its mother There va.
the same rich fun dark eye with it's long lasbs. the
same rpres Of silky black hair. The brown Of her com
pexon gave way on the cheek to a pc-ocrtihJc ausb
which decpened she the gaze of the strange man
liked upon her, In bold and undifgriaed sdeairston
Ter o w. OF the nestest potibc A. and set of 10
adrMtage her finely moulded shape - delicateiy
"imed hand and q aim ioos and ankle 80
:, y baecons could write as well as Mrs Slows,
,ney woGld, no donbt describo their beroines 10
me shme language; 1t sould be as easily applied,
ana NC equally disgusting But such s.nif rs thi.
complies the most inDecest portions of her work; IL
may NJ Dc what it was not designed to do-amuse
" SoutheEners, or Any that know those whom Mr.,
Beccber Store calls ''quadrsons or muatresses 40
not sliie at tie psraerspa quoted above thew viii
haroiy Ietist doing 20 on reading the next-(o 27)
Tho traveller In the South ust ofsa have ya.a,rhad
that Teeusrsr &c iehnsaent that Of ice ant
manner; "hieh sccGs Ia mary cases to BE- rsrcusY
gu TO the quairoon srd mulatto women.
This coniounding Of the quadroon Tor ousrtroop,
and n.uiS.ress On the part OF Mr. Beschsr Stove,
would rdicate en- ifntrsnce Of her subject Of
which can find no osser evidence. IL viii hardly
DO Mrs Stowe knows that tho euaayuan and
nuatress are tho same than the mai aires,
ana 'he African negroes sre. Size knows that the
mnatress InYoives one act OF amalgamation tho
quadloon four The later are ecldcm slaves be.
cause The child following tho condiseA Of The mo-
nor, freedom ia slmoSt invariably BIOGRAPHICAL
before 60 many removes Her heroine is obviously
a Dulatiess.
IL may be remarked that this nice yal.or' com.
pexion. and the silky" wool. result from social
abuse, which such influential and humane ladies a,
author, coptriba,e sreatly increase by level
ing the conditions Of white and black, and netting