Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-11-27

opinion upon which mankind rests for happiness III ts
world and the hope of better and more glorious here
after. If this christian lady is one of those who
"Turn every man the wrong side OUT
And never gives to truth and virtue that
Which simpleness and merit purchaseth'
we can appreciate her and her mission. It's but talr
to say that she is good natured easy, christian wo
man-as the world goes-wth sense oil DUTY hanging
heavily upon her who has for the better part OF her
life seen little else than the worst part OF human ma
ture in her associates who is familiar with the malice
of kind people, and the perfdy ofthose who white
neckcloths and surplices She is doubt profound
" pious and her ambition is of that enlarged growth
which, being dissatisfied with doing the will of God
within sight of her own door, she shoulders the Cross
and carries her gospel into distant Chimes Ifthis fair
sister in the church of the new Revelation is the phi
lanthropist her book may lead the world suppose, it
is fair to ask why it Isl that she expends her strength,
her time and her Abilities in attempting to reform an
evil that confessedy lies the other side of the great
line of demarcation between great human good and
great moral curse. 1t seems that common sense if
not the higher incentive, regard for humanity, would
teach her to attempt to meorate the condition of the
labornr classes within the large cities of the North
No man who has tolerabe idea of slavery as it exists
in the South who is familiar with plantation life and
the labor of the African would for moment, hazard
the opinions that fourth Of real suffering be
found throughout the and sugar growing States
that BE found within the limits of the city of New
York alone. Half starved and half clothed negroes are
things (which read but rarely ever found in
tual life. Can the same be said of numerous white po-
pulaton in the Northern cities Are there not thous
ands who drag out existence intensely miser
Ill a., +,
ing overseers! We know that there are. Exposed
to scenes of dissipation moving within the fetid at
mosphere of Righteousness soul damning than
all the accumulated evils attributed to the much der
ded and gnoranty abused system of slavery the poor
white of the Northern cities, fall unwilling
prey to destiny from which there is escape but by
eXertons that almost superhuman under the penal
ty of which, thousands sink to an untmey grave The
human frame may not be overtasked with impunity
1t must have its hours of relaxation and rest it must
be nourished by food and those kindly restoratves
literally and provdently furnished the negro slave
Our records unfold awful picture of Life among
the Loug, in Northern cities, and large manUlac-
turing towns. The heart of the most obdurate would
be chilled at the honest recital Of the scenes of woe
and the nhumanity of man, practiced upon the white
daughters of the Ango-Saxon at the North. Il
is not bread alone of which they are deprived yet
the lack of raiment-neither of which do they have
any to spare-of which they complain. 1t is OF an
evil more fearful than that of death, to minds consttu
ted Alright and which prizes the smiles of Christ
than the froWns of DEATH 1t is Prostitution And il
employing the term, confine it to a meaning some
what different from that in which it is usually ap
Piled We have record evidence that thousands o
women are made the victims of system to b.
cursed than any Of Or all the evils, chargeabe 70 sav
cry. Many women sought with kind and gentle
words, and then-betrayed. Many others yield to tn
qualification of overgrown and disgusting vanity
Such lost to virtue by shining bauble new bon
net, shawl or dress But there is another class AIT
we hope God in His infinite goodness, will temper hei
punishment in accordance with that righteous rule b
which, taught to believe he measures His an
ger What would be thought OF that morality, (which
among large and powerful class has obtained tn
o North, not alone Judgment, but in some sort, tn
countenance fthe administrators of-Just.ce. We
= men, sometimes with children-children sometime
with parents, brothers and sisters support are to
# frequently thrown upon chance employment to Obtain
= means to keep Famine from their doors If feature
form or faded beauty but happens to meet under tn
desolate roof, the eye ofthe bldnous and heartles
found installed in familiar intercourse with the wretch
IF ed inmates His purse is ready at the first hour
his sympathy. He supplies their little wants and tn
desolate are, henceforth his debtors. Reader how
II you suppose the power these poor human crea
l., lures is exercised You saw how it was acquired
g need we say how it was used Do you suppose tn
IS Fiend ever reents, and permits the cry of Virtue
rise between him and the qualification of his passions
Suppose, reader, that this amiable good pious Mrs
Harriet Beecher Stowe ostles in her every day walk
al the befowered and painted Jezebes who make tra
10 of chastity and carry virtue in scented bottle tina
she may bow graciousy to the scoundre who has be
ID rayed the confidence of his friends wife, or smile be
,r ngnantly upon the gentleman, who has prosttuted tn
VI poor miliner the dress maker that poor creatur
n who her daily food by making shirts at dime
Of piece and this, too because gold buys position an
n tPositon commands respect Suppose tell you re;
10 DER that Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe the sister
t that famous fashionable Divine, Henry Ward Beecl
er the tones of whose voice be heard from his pu
pit swelling out area populated by class tn
" subjects of more want and human woe, than can /
{ found within the limits Of our State. Was it wis
20 then, in this christian lady, to seek evil at such d
IL lance fromher own door Was the design, chart
rs able, christian one !
or If Mrs Stowe possesses the unbounded love for til
negro race that her book indicates if her charity
Of equal to her religion which she seems to delight
q whisk into the face other reader at every turn let h
m practical missionary Let her commence her mission