The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-08-18

know or care how extensive system of fraud
may be practiced by noisy fanatics against the
fugitive taking advantage Of both his igno
rance and his gratitude, to make him labor (as
is done to frightfu extent,) until strength fails
and health is exhausted, and then turn him off TO
find his way into some anIess, filthy cellar IN
the city to die? There is fearful amount of
such inhumanity heaped up against some Of The
most rampant Of these pretended friends Of tie
slave. There is much misery of deplorabe
kind owing to its origin, directly or indirectly.
to those who picture out imaginary negro horrors
at distance bat have NJ heart for that infn-
Iitely more deplorable cruelty that condemns
amiabe, respectable white females to perpetual
and unrequited toll. Let the mind that has so
much sympathy to poor out on imaginary hor-
rors, dwell for moment on the condition of the
iseamstress, whe tolls for the eighteen hours out
OF twenty-four, dragging out her sad existence
on plttance which barely keeps her alive
There may possibly be some scenes Of &" Uncle
Toms Cabin" that have really existed, though
over-colored and exaggerated by the same fanat-
ical influence that has been most active in pre-.
venting the correction of the very abuses itnow
Portrays. There are slave abuses and slave suf-
fering. but what are they, after all, to the real
bitter, intense oppression that in our own midst
sweeps its thousands out of life of penury in
to premature graves?
Fine, profitable speculations may be made
from negro fiction. Wrought up into touching
pictures, they may, under the spell of genius
look like truth and have the semblance Of reali-
hut 4ba Il,
that exist in our own cities ito awaken sym
pathy that shall give strength 10 The white,
weeried, worn out daughters of toll?
For our own part, we have no liking for sla-
very OF any kind, and hence it is that we depre-
cate the madness Of those reckless intermediates
in the affairs of Others. The last steamer brings
us developments, made in the British Parla-
ment, which confirm our apprehensions of the
ill-elect of oficious and impertinent interfer-
ence of the fanatics who let their own white
bretheren starye at home while their sympathies
are worse than wasted abroad. The deplorable
effects of il-timed and lIladvised emancipation
in Jamaica, Antigua, and the Maurtius Islands,
wassuch, the Earl Of DERBY himself declares, that
the blacks were rapidly relapsinS into state OF
baTbarism. Were our mock philanthropists here
to have their own way, what wretched condi-
ton would they eventually sink our black popu
lation to, and in their disunion madness drag
down even the high hopes Of our own glori Gus
republic. To pull down and destroy, is all they
can ever accomplish, and this work of destruc-
ton can only be, if ever, accomplished by such
specious and plausible deceptions as form the
staple of g Uncle Thom's Cabin" Its sole tenden
cy, if not its sole aim is to keep alive the bitter
prejudices that unhappily existed, to excite bit
Ter passion and adherence, where brotherly re-
gard should alone prevail.
Heaven knows, ne would rejoice to abolish
my and every species of slavery, the black well
as the white, in the North as we'll as the South
We would gladly effect universal emancipa-
ion of all classes, could it be done without in
ustice to any; if in eradicating one evil. we
hould not be overwhelmed with others Of ten
old greater magnitude. Though we know that
most of the evils of slavery which fanaticism
rumps up have either no existence Ia fact, or
re the indirect results of disunion fanaticism
tself, we should still rejoice to see the bondsman
o free, and every slave walk forth in the light
f liberty. Let slavery of every kind be forever
bolished. Such, we trust, will be the happy
ermination of the bitter contentious, the pref
dices and discordances that have so fearfully
hreatened the stability if not the existence of
ur republic. But falsehood, nor misrepresenta-
ion, nor detraction, however eloquent or plausi-
lie, can have any other possible tendency than
o keep back the great work of emancipation,
work that can alone be accomplished BY those
0 whom the matter solely, justly and properly
elongs,