The daily union., 1852-09-16
Literary Notice.

Aunt PhHliss Cabin. BY Mrs. MARY H. EASTMAN Pub
lished by LrrINcorr, GKAMBo, & Co. Phadelpha.
This book presents series Of graphic and truthful
pictures OF southern life written with life and viva
city. il is designed to show how intimately the state
the negro race, who wrested from their homes in
prior and barbarous age OF commerce. is blended anC
mixed up with southern society. Pictures of the acua
condition OF the slave taken by the writer from al
periods Of life from the cradle 10 the grave They ex
hibit the sympathies which grow up in youth between
the whites and the slaves, and show how those sympa
hes afterwards carried out by the southern planter
when ne comes TO manage his estate, and when the
rights OF the master and slave fully recognised The
heart must be cold, and the mind prone to Injustice
which will not that the duties Of the former TO the
latter are well performed, and with high sense oil
moral obligations TO the slave Coming, these sketches
do, from female heart warm with these sympathies-
from one, in fine, who was born and who passed heI
youth amid these scenes there is evident truthfuness
in the descriptions which free them from all exaggera-
ton. There is attempt in these pages make slavery
appear unmitgated curse, the life of planter
surrounded by slaves as an unmigaed blessing. The
ultraisms OF the maginaon-the cruelies, the whip.
pings the starvings, the unconscionabe tasks, the
generations, the hunting slaves with boodhounds and
all tha-are left to those diseased ances which appear
to delight in brooding over human horrors. Minds OF
such constitution appear TO seize idea, If !,
were submitted to the ordeal of crucibe and must be
kept roasting fire double heated Till it eliminates hor.
rors blood, and DEATH To such writer there tragic
and melo-dramac materials at hand which appear 10
be abundant in proportion the writer is from
the Of action, and profoundly ignorant OF the slave
lie in the South.
Instead of this the author has chosen TO give us
quiet tale OF southern life as il really s plantation
scenes. domestic happiness, journeys, cares, courshps
merry makngs, deahs-scenes that really have their
prototype on every well managed southern plantation
We think the dying OF Aunt Pblls, and the
dents leading TO il, thousand times admonilory
and useful to the Christian heart than all the overdrawn
and abored pages Of the good lady OF the Professor
Bowdoin By the the heart is made better human lily
is vndicated, and common justified. By the other
il is schooled in endsh arts Its hunanites by the
influence OF intellectual lamp of oxygen gas aad its
10 be judged of by the distorted medium through
which the reader is made 10 gaze.
Slavery forced on America by Europe because the
Indian would not work. The African had no such high
notions OF being degraded by labor he was willing 10
work il he could also be allowed TO dance and he
works and dances con,entedly, till he is told by the
abolonist that il he away and fees North he can
live without work. and sing and dance away his life in
new eysum.
Mrs. Eastman. to whose pen we have been previously
indebted in various ways bellies letter writer is will.
ling that the negro should both work and enjoy himself
provided the in also for share She writes
in pleasing conservative spirit, and her book will have
conservative effect, wherever il is read the unne.
cessarly excited state of the public mind respecting
slavery.