The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-11-04
Uncle Toms Cabin,

The Courier and Enquirer thus notices
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves fiction;
.eThe same earalassness of rem sentation,
which was practiced towards DIR. Parker,
characterizes her book. "Uncle Toms CAB.
in" is fiction in every sense of the werd
1t is not only untrue, but it is untruthful-
1t conveys erroneous impressions, produce
false conclusions. It is not, as it purports
to be, picture Of slavery as it is. All of
the two hundred thousand Englishmcn, and
no small number of the one hundred th6us-
and Americans, who now have it in their
hands, are duped men. 1t is not one indi-
vidual alone against whom Mrs. Stowe has
borne false witness; she has slandered hun
dreds of thousands of her countrymen. She
has done it by attaching to them as slave
holders, in the eyes of the world, the guilt
Of the abuses of an institution, of which
they are absolutely guiltless. Her story Is
SO devised as to present slavery in three
dark aspects, first, the crYuel treatment OF
the slaves, second, the separation of fdnsi-
lies, and third, their acant Of religious in-
Structioa.
10 show the first she causes reward to
be offered for the recovery of a runaway
slave "dead or alive" when no reward with
such an alternative was ever heard of or
thought of South of Mason and Dixon's
! line, and it has been decided over and over
again in Southern courts that Ga slave who
is merely flying away cannot be killed"
She puts such language as this into the
mouth of one of her speakers The mas
ter,Who goes furthest and does the worst on
ly uses within limits the power that the law
gives him." when in fact the Civil Code of
the very State where it is represented the
language was uttered-Louisiana-
i that -
''The slave is entirely subject to the will
of his master, who may correct and chastise
him, though not 4Cith unusual rigor, nOrso
as to main or nauti1ate him, or to erpOse
ham to the danger of loss oflite, or to cause
has DEATH" and provides for a compulsion,
"When the master shall be convicted of
cruel treatment of his slaves, and the judge
: shall deem proper to pronounce, besides the
; penalty established for such cases, that the
slave be sold at public auction, IN order to
place him ont Of the reach Of the power
: lvltick the master has abused"
!, off any person whatsoever shall wilfully
t kill his slave, or the slave of another per
son, the said person being convicted thereof,
: shall be tried and condemned agreeably to
r the laws"
f In the General Court of Virginia, last
f year, in the case of Souther as. the Com
i monwealth, it was held that the killing of a
: slave by his master, and by Willful and ex.
t cessiye whipping, is murder in the first de-
gree, though 1t may not haze been the par
q pose Of the master and oscaer to Kit tx
f slaUe! Audit is not six months since Gov
: ernor johnson, of Virginia, pardoned {
!, slave who killed his master, who was beating
e him with brutal severity.
And yet in the face of such laws and dc
p cisions as these, Mrs. Stove winds up lonC
o series of cruelties upon her other black per
sonages, by causing her fsultless hero Ton
b to be literally whipped to death IN Louisiana
i by his master Legree; aud these acts, which
n the laws made criminal and punish as such
It she sets forth In the most repulsiYe color
b to illustrate the institution Of slavery!
/ So, too, in reference to the separation Q
J, IehildFen from their parents. A eonsidera
> bic part Of the plot is made to hinge upol
d the selling il Louisiana Of the child Eliza
$ 0eight q nine years cid, away from be
d mother, when, bad the inventor looked i
icl the statute book Of Louisiana, she Eoul
81 have found the following language
81 Every person is expressly prohibited frOl