The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-01-26
Slavery---Blackwood's Magazine.

MANY Of our Southern papers have been
copying articles from the English Press, de-
precating the novel of Mrs. Stowe" Uncle
Toms Cabin" The December number of
Blackwoods Magazine, contains an article,
commencing this Literary work of Mrs.
Stowe, few extracts from which we will
give for the purpose of showing what erro-
neous and foolish opinions men will form,
when in fact they have no knowledge what
ever of the "great evil" Gas they term itO
which they speak of, viz negro slavery.
An Englishman, by the name of Sullivan,
has been travelling through America, and on
his return to England, as is usually the case,
gives IN account of what he saw and heard
This book of Mr.. Sullivan's, the Editor of
Blackwood's Magazine in reviewing, makes
the remarks to which VIC have allusion.
"One subject" he says, "therc is, which
cannot be passed over, and that is, the cxs-
tance of slavery, in its worst and most hide
Gus form, III the United States of America
AT the present moment, it is, perhaps
useless to write dispassionatcly upon such
Stove, is in the hands or thoughts of every
one, and must rank hereafter, infinitely less
rs Il great literary triumph, than as II noble
and sublime protest in the cause of outraged
humanity. We are glad t. observe that shchas
maintained the distinction, which writer
who feels so strongly as she does, would
have been apt to have overlooked, be-
tween the general treatment Of the colored
population, and the detestable instances of
cruelty which the law permits. That she
has not exaggerated the atrocities which
have been perpetrated under the sanction of
that law, is clear upon the testimony ofman-
y well-informed and impartial witnesses"
The Editor of Blackwood then gives as
one of the witnesses, m extract from Mr..
Sullivan's book. This case is an isolated
one. He tells of n young man who had
been going.a little too fast" who was taking
down the Mississippi, half dozen negroes to
New Orleans to sell.
These poor negroes" says Mr.. Sullivan,
" were chained together. two and two, by
the wrists, rs If they had been convicts on
their way to prison, &c"
Mr.. Sullivan further says
"The most natural instincts, which are
denied to the negro. The affection of the
mother for the child is not weighed in the
balance for n second against the almighty
dollar. Mother and children are sold separ-
ately, without any sort Of compunction. As
for the father, he never knows anything
about his children. As often as he changes
his master ne changes his wife"
Much more is said by Mr.. Sullivan on the
subject of slavery, and the Fugitive Slave
Bill, which Iill, he says ;" is the most iniq
uitious bill, ever framed by human beings"
Mr.. Sullivan dispairs ofany change for the
better, and urges several reasons, one OF
which is that to indemnify Southers slave.
holders for the loss, (even were they will.
ing TO renounce slavery0 would take too
large an amount Of money. One other rea-
son he gives, which we will give in his own
words -
"The abolitionists are q very small minor
ity Of loud talking men, who are just tolera-
ted in the North, but who dare not show
themselves in the Western or Southern
States and am convinced that the aboli-
tion agitation is only thrown in the teeth of
the South, more to annoy them, than with
any idea that it Is consummation likely to
take place, or even to be desired. Another
very embarrassing fact is, that many of the
Southern properties, with their attendant
slaves, are mortgaged to Northern capitalists
and catch them giring up one single bright
dollar, 10 iiberdte one single black negro"
The reviewer does not coincide with Mr..
Sullivan in regard to the impracticability of
liberating the negro race ultimately, and as
preliminary step, suggests that the colored
portion, or mnlattoes be first manumitted,
and adds -