The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-10-07

"most invulnerable moral panoply"is thought
to be necessary. | hope 1T may not prove 70
be like Mr.. Clay's Compromises. The South
ern Press says "As for caricatures of slavery
in Uncle Toms Cabin and the White Slave,
all founded in imaginary circumstances &c.,
we consider them highly incendiary He who
undertakes to stir up strife between two indi-
vidual neighbors by detraction, is justly re-
garded, by all men and all moral codes, as a
/ criminal" Then he quotes the ninth com
mandment and adds +" But to bear false VIC.
ness against whole States and millions OF
people, &C., would seem to be a crime as much
deeper in turpitude as the mischief is creator
and the provocation less.O In the first place,
| will put the Southern Press upon proof that
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has told one false
hood. II she has told truth, it is indeed pow
erful engine of :" assault on slavery" such as
these Northern fanatics have made for the
"last twenty years" The number against
whom she offends, in the editors opinion, seems
to increase the turpitude Of her crime. That
is good reasoning | hope the editor will be
brought to feel that wholesale wickedness is
worse than sngle-handed and is infinitely
harder to reach, particularly if of long stand
ing. 1t gathers boldncss and strength when it
is sanctioned by the authority of time, and
aided by numbers that are interested in sup
porting it. Such is slavery! and Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe deserves the gratitude of
Estates and millions of people" for her talent
ed work, in showing it up in its true light.
She has advocated truth, justice, and humani-
ty, and they will back her efforts. Her work
will be read by States and lions of people,"
and when the Southern Press attempts to ma
Ign her, by bringing forward her own avow-
al "that the subject of slavery had been so
painful to her, that she had abstained from
cOnversng on it for several years." and that,
in his opinion, 1T accounts for the intensity of
the venom of her book, his really envenomed
shafts will fall harmless at her feet for read
ers will Judge for themselves, and be very apt
to conclude that more venom comes from the
Southern Press than from her. She advocates
what is right, and has Il straight road, which
few get lost on" he advocates what is
wrong, and has consequently to tack concede,
deny, SANDER, and all sorts of things
With all due Difference to whatever of
just principles the Southern Press may have
advanced in favor of the slave, am a poor
judge of human nature, if mistake in saving
that Mrs. Stowe has done much to draw from
him those concessions, and the putting forth of
this "most invulnerable moral panopiyn that
has just come into his head as a bulwark of
safety for slavery, owes its impetus to her, and
other like efforts. hope the Southern Press
will not initiate the spoiled child, who refused
to eat his pie for spite.
The White Slave have not Seen. guess
its character; for | made passage to New
York, some fourteen or fifteen years since, in
packet Ship with young woman whose face
was enveloped in a profusion of light brown
curls, and who sat at the table with the pas
sengers all the way, as a white woman. When
at the Quarantine, Staten Island the captain
received letter, sent by express mail, from a
person in New Orleans, claiming her as his
slave, and threatened the captain with the
penalty of the-exsting law, if she was not inn
mediately returned. The streaming eyes of
the poor unfortunate girl told the truth, when
the captain reluctantly broke it to her. She
unhesltatingly confessed that she had run
away, and that friend had paid her passage
Proper measures were taken, and she was con-
veyed to a packet ship that was at Sandy
Hook, bound for New Orleans.
Uncle Toms Cabin" / think, is just de-
llneation OF slavery. The incidents are colored,
but the position that the slave is made to hold
is just did not read every page of it, my
object beng to ascertain what position the
slave occupied | could state case of whip
ping to death, that would equal Uncle Toms
still, such cases are not very frequent
The stirring up of strife between neighbors,
that the Southern Press complains of, deserves
notice. Who are neghborsl The most ex-
plicit answer to this question will be found in
the reply Christ made to the lawyer, when he
asked it of him. Another question will arise,
whether, in Christs Judgment Mrs. Stowe
would be considered neighbor, or an incen-
diary! AS the Almighty Ruler of the uni
verse and the Maker of man has said that he
has made all the nations of the earth of one
blood, and man in His own image the black
man, irrespective of his color, would seem to
be neighbor, who has fallen among his enc
mics, that have deprived him of the fruits of
his labor, his liberty, his right to his wife and
children, his right to obtain the knowledge to
read, or to anything that earth holds dear, ex-
cept such portions Of food and raiment as will
fit him for his despoiler's purposes Let not
the apoogists for slavery bring up the isolated
cases of lenency, giving instruction, and atfec-
tionate attachment, that are found among some
masters, as specimens of slavery 1t is unfair
They form exceptions and much do | respect
them; but they are not the rules of slavery.
The strife that is being stirred up is not to
take away anything that belongs to another
neither their silver or gold, their fine linen or
purple, their houses or land, their horses or
cattle, or anything that is their property but
to rescue a neighbor from their unmanly Gu.
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