The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-03-29
Abolitionism at Yale College.

We hope all our readers viii peruse with
special care the article from the New Haven
Register, signed James Hamilton, which we
publish, 1t is written with force and elegance
is dignifed and good tempered, while it de
tails facts well calculated to stir Southern
blood "to mutiny and rage What gives
additional interest and importance to this ar
tiele, is the circumstance, that the writer, Mr..
Hamilton has lost his diploma on account Of
the authorship of this manly exposure of the
abolition influences at work in Old Yale.
And has it come to this that abolitionsm
has taken such deep hold upon that ven
cradle institution, that Southern student is
to be ignominiously denounced and arraigned
by the learned Faculty as a criminal, for hay-
ing dared to vindicate the institutions of his
native South from the vile ISLANDERS of its IA
natical assailantsl
Has it come to this, that the pious and ,ohi-
banthrQpic sympathies with the maudlin sem
timenialism of female romancer, who has
woven fantasies tissues of improbable events,
and wept false tears over imaginary woes of
the negro race, can tolerate no criticism upon
its absurdities, and would strangle all investi-
CATION of the extent to which abolitionism has
possessed itself of their own lecture room ,
Verify, il half of what is here narrated be true,
Yale College is an unfit place for a Southern
student She is utterly unworthy the counte-
nance of Southern member Alumni, scat.
tered throughout the Southern States, should be
among the first to denounce her fanaticism.
and turn the footsteps of our youth, seeking
collegiate advantages, away from her aboli.
tion-stained portals.
Why should 50 many of our Southern youth
continue, year after year, to turn their backs
upon our excellent Colleges at home, and
waste themselves in the dstempered wrangles,
on the slavery question, or submit, in morti-
flying, perhaps degrading silence, to calumni-
ous assaults and irritating taunts, upon their
own homes and the usages and traditions Of
| their fathers
In the article quoted from the Palladium.
which gave rise to the exposition so dreadfuly
obnoxious to the Yale College Fathers, there
is an obvious error, as to the original scene
of the outrage described The Clarion is pub
lished in Mississippi, and Paulding is the
name of the town of its publication. Georgia
is innocent of having produced such a mon
strosity as the man have described If the
outrage really occurred, this man Clarke was
certainly insane who perpetrated it. To in
sanity, and not TO the system of domestic
servitude prevailing among us must such con
duct be justly chargeable. No system Of gov
eminent or laws can protect society from the
freaks of madmen. The article is as follows
YALE COLLEGE, Feb. %, 1853.
To the Editors of the New HaUen Register:
While casually looking over the files of this
months Palladium" Of your city, my atten-
ton was arrested by the following article, CO.
pied from the Springfield Mass. Republican
"U'ncte TOMS Cabin Vindicated.-Will those
who insist that the pictures in Uncle Toms
Cabin are over-drawn, read the following,
clpt from the Paulding Georgia. Clarion,
and then favor us with their opinionsl
The entire article is too long for insertion
here, but in substance is as follows A few
weeks since, man by the name Of Clarke, Of
Clarke county, Georgia, assaulted his negro
woman, and afterwards in the most barbarous
manner commenced pitching his knife at her
point foremost, covering her with about fifty
bleeding punctures. The same day, he whip
ped his wife, most cruelty gashed her all over
the head with his knife, cut off her eyebrows.
On the succeeding day, he wound up the afro
cious drama by shooting to death man
slave. Clarke was subsequently arrested and
committed TO prison for murder"
1t is not my intention, sir to review Mrs.
Stoves book, nor show in what particular she
has overdrawn her pictures" The book has
had an unprecedented circulation, and the au-
thoress, her admirers, and proselytes, will
doubtless continue for a time yet, to enjoy its
success-well aware, as ! am, that in the pres
ent state of the public mind, no objections,
however well supported by facts or arguments,
can correct the wrong she has done, or arrest
her own convictions, hedged in as she is by a
family Of pulpits, and beguiled by the adula-
tons which daily reach her womans ear.
What | have to do with at present, is to
notice the means resorted to by large por-
ton of the press, to persuade the public that
the work is no fiction. In this connection, l
wish to call your attention to the condition Of
the anti-slavery sentiment and the agencies
now operating toward its increase.
The article above quoted, is conspicuousy
inserted in the Palladium Of the 3rd instant,
without single qualifying remark thus Ieav-
ing the direct impression upon the readers
mind, that the editor himself requires no more
conclusive evidence to vindicate the most ne
farious chapter in Mrs. Stoves book. To any
candid mind, need not argue the absurdity
OF such eoncIlIsion-the facts stated prov