The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-02-23
From the New York Independent
Testimony of Sir George Stephen,
Of Uncle Toms Cabin, and HiLfrctis W1he

! The review In the Northampton Mercury (Eng.)
of Oct. 2. 1852 written by Sir George Stephen.
now Professor of History ia the University of
Cambridge. and formerly for a long time Under
Secretary for the Colonies, referred to by our
English Correspondent week before last, who also
sent copy, which IS SO weighiy in its matter,
aud SO important by the source from which it
comes, that publish it entire.
! THE same cause will produce the same effect
is axiom in moral as well as in physical phloso
ply. In whatever age clime slavery has exist
ed. the condition has been marked by the same
characteristic features and, therefore. it excited
no surprise in US TO find Mrs. Stowe aud Mr. Hsl-
dreth describing slavery in America, exactly as it
obtained among ourselves in the colon:es Eve and
twenty years ago. Scarcely scene or incl
dent is given by either of them to which the Anti
Slavery Reporter when under the editing of that
able and truthful man, Zachary Maeauaiy, will not
supply parallel. Does the fiend Legree order
1.-TWO gigantic negroes y TO give this dog, Uncle
Tom, such breakiu' in as he won't get over this
month" which order is executed in blood We
can match it with flogging yet mere severe given
to old and faithful female slave for over-dress-
| ing turkey for Christmas dinner! aud i'll this
case the foggiag was directed by slave dealer,
but by reverend divine, distinguished by his liter
AIRY talents less than by his orthodoxy! Did
the n,iscreant Of Mrs. Stowe exuliingly toist, 81
gave him the cussedest fosgng ever gave niger
| yet. b'iieTs he is trying to die > We can
outdo him By the tale of master who flugged his
slave into insensbility, aud anointed her eyes with
cayenne pepper to recover her to a sense of pain.
Does the driver throw down peck of corn before
the furnished laborer for weeks allowance,
Thar, niger, grab, take our. ye won't get
| no more this yer week J In an English colony.
rot iVe-aad- thirty years ago. it is in evidence that
| slaves habltualy dug up the buried carrion of dis
eased cattle TO satisfy the cravings of hunger. and
were fogged for the theft. 1t is in evidence that
young girl sos few handfuIs of rice to prevent
deaIh by starvation and was sentenced by her in
human mistress to carry pitcher every morning
TO the river, half mile off, fill it, and bring it home
or her head, when it empiied on tlls ground
to be thus re-flled six times. Alter this whmsi-
cal preparation for tho torture, she daily received
| ten lashes. The punishment was to continue for
three weeks; but long before the expiration Of tia,
,ime the unhappy girl threw herself into the river
| and was drowned. IF the case admits of aggrava-
ton. it may be found in this that the punishment
and the suffering were daily Witnessed by many,
cfiee's and pfiyates. bat dared to interfere.
ls the following n fair picture of the policy of
buying in preference to breeding D
"Stout fellers last six or seven years; weakly
ones gets worked up in two three. used to,
when fuzt began, have considerable trouble fussn
| with 'em, and trying to make 'em hold out; doc
terin' on EN- when ,hey'r sick, and givin' on em
ri fnfh nh ptats ,af
| 'em all sorts o. decent and comfortable Law,
'twasn't no sort of use. lost money on 'em, and
'twGs heaps o. trouble. Now, you see, Just put
'sm straight through, sick well; when one mig
gers dead I buy another, and / find it comes
cheaper and easier every way"
! What is this buta petty item in the grand re-
suit. which exhibited by the same policy in
colony Of eur own, ths Maurtu tus, where, after the
lapse of ten years, the slave population remained
without increase, beng still between sixty and
seventy thousand; though. during those ten years,
it is in evidence that 60 600 slaves were felonious-
y smuggled into the island!
Or, if any think that individual instances of this
low esiimate Of the value of negro life. in colony
on the buying system, more impressive than
these large statistics, we may quote from the slave
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der order of the House of Commons, cases
where one mistress put out her slaves eyes with
red hot knitting needles; and another where the
owner also female, baked her slave to death in
an oven. 1t must be admitted that, in this latter
case, the argument is scarcely sustained, because
the slave was an aged man, no longer fit for work;
but if we mistake not, for we have not the speech
at hand, Sir Fowell Buxton, in his celebrated ex
position of the subject in the House, proved that
such was the wear of life in our West India Colo
nies, where no supply could be obtained by SNUG
Cling that the slaves would became extinct us
class in fve-and-twenty years.
CASEY, or Cassnndra, is quadroon; it ia SO long
since the public attention has been turned 10 such
matters. that it may bs necessary to explain that
quadroon has only fourth part of Af ican descent,
, and may, therefore, be pearly white as an Eu-
ropean From this very limited mixture of Afii-
can blood, the quadroon females are often women
of great beauty, and sold at high prices as fancy
articles" Classy is described as one of these
wretche,l slaves. She was bought for mistress,
and compelled by the lash to assume the character.
!, No wonder that the unfortunate woman thus de-
seribes her feelings and her state. She has been
advising Uncle Tom to submission to his diabolical
master, to which he replies with a groaning
! prayer
80 Lord! . Lord he groaned. how can
give up?'
, "'There's no use calling on the Lord; he never
hears,' said t.re woman steadily. There isn't
any God, believe; or if there is he has taken
sides against u.s. All goes against us; heaven and
earth, everything, is pushing US into hell! Why
shouldn't we go?'
"Tom closed his eyes, and shudderod at the
dark atheisic words.
"You see,' snid the woman, you don't know
anything about it. l do. l'se been in this place
five years, body and soul under this mans foot I;
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