The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-08-25
THE NARRATTVg OF SOLONOy yOUTDTp.

A CITIZEN OF NEW YORK, KIDNAPPED m
n Washington City in 1891, and Rescued in Il s.,
from Cotton Plantation near the Red River in To-
State Of Louisiana.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Portrait of solomon in his Plantation Suit
Scene in a Slave Pen at Washington
Separation Of Eliza and her Last Child
Chaplin Rescung Solomon from Hanging
The Stalking ont and Floggng Of the Girl Patsy
Scene in the Cotton Field
Arrival Home, and First Meeting with his Wife
and Children
One handsome limo volume, $50 pages, price 81 90.
READ WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAY.
The narrative will be read with interest by every
one who sympathize with a human being str,,e-
CLING for freedom BH6aio CO,riey
The volume cannot fail 10 gain q wide Circulation
1t will be read extensively both at the North and 10
South. No one can contemplate the scenes which srs
here naturally set forth, without a new convict IN
of the hdeouness of the institution which the subj Ct
of the narrative has happily escaped ! Thin,
What a tale it tells what ineXpressible reprod3
against Slavery what occasion for shame and tens
the part OF all We think the story as affecting A.
any tale of sorrow could be. We believe its peru al
will not only excite absorbing interest but Minis
ter powerfully to the sound. intelligent Anti Slave ~
sentiment of the country-N T. EuaRRelia
Next to Uncle Toms Cabin the extraordnsry
Narrative of Solomon Northup is the most remafEs
BILE book that issued from the Americ M
press. Indeed il is more extraordinary work H. ",
that because IL is only simple unvarnished tale of
the experience Of an American freeman of the BILE
ings Of Slavery, while Mrs. Stoves Uncle Tom is
on y an ingenious and powerfully wrought novel o.
tended TO illustrate what Solomon saw and expert
eneed-southern Slavery, in its various phases.
D,tyou Tyib1,,.
We hope it will be universally read five do rot
sadly err will prove of vast service in the cause Of
Freedom. If there those who can peruse il uu.
| moved we pity them That il will create as great n
sensation and be regarded equally interesting 81
Uncle Toms Cabin, is not a question fer arpumont
wi lead hat Il,
the popular opinion, and in the aggregate of sales
Buffalo Express.
This il of the most exciting narratives full Of
thrilling incidents artlessly told with all the ma ks
of truth Such tale is moro powerful than any &c
ton which can be conceived and elaborated. Th,rs
depicted scenes in Uncle Tom more tragic h II
rble, and pathetic, than the incidents compassed in
the twelve years of this mans life in slavery.
Cincinnati Jouyn7l
He who with an unbiased mind sits down to he
perusal of this book, will arise perfectly satisfied that
American Slavery is hell Of torinents yet unto!d
and feel like devoting the energies CT his life to Il
extirpation from the face of Gods beautiful earth
Eueaing Chronicle
Ii is Of the most effective books against Slavery
that was written. Archy Moore and Uncle Tom
are diseredited by many as romances; but how the
apologists for the institution dispose of North I'D
we are curious 10 see-SyracuSe JotrnaL
1t well tsd and bears internal evidence of being
a clear statement OF facts There is no attempt a.
display but tho events are so graphically portrayed
IL
to the last Some of the scenes have fearful and az
citing power In their define alton The sunshine of
kind treatment sheds a few broad beams athwaIt he
dark canvas of twelve years of bondage, but In be
main the darker cruelty and wickedness of oppres On
is still more revolving by the contrast.
CayKga chat
1t is strange history its truth is far stranger Ii an
fiction. Think of il For thirty years a man with
all a mans hopes, fears and aspratons-wit wife
and children, to call him by tho endearng names of
| husband and father-with home humble il may he,
but still home) beneath the shelter of whose roof
none had right to modest or make him afraid-tben
for twelve years n thing, chattel personal classe1
with mules and horses, and treated with less consio
GRAFTON than they torn from his home and family nd
the free labor by which he earned their bread al
driven TO unremittng, unrequicd toll in cotton field,
under burning southern sun, by the lash Of inbu
man master. Oh, il is horrible 1t chills the blood
| to think that such are Fred. Douglass Paper.
Itcomcs before with highly respectable voucher,
and is plain and simple state mont Of what happen cd
to the author while in bondage to Southern mastt
While cOncede to the South all the privileges In
respect TO Slavery which are guaranteed to them by
the Constitution, free to speak Of its evils nd
when particular instances of inhuman treatment Of
slaves come TO our notice We shall remark upon th IN
as we please. Ii is we'll told story, full OF intsre Il
and may be said TO be the reality OF life among he
lowly. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
Let it be read by all those good easy souls " no
think Slavery is, on the whole, good thing Let it
be read by all who think that although Slavery "a
politically and economically bad thing il is not ~
bad for the slaves Let il be read by all those NJ Us
and supporters who are always ready tn give thoir
votes in aid OF Slavery and the Slave Trade with all
the kidnapping inseparablc from it, Let il be reao
too by Southern friends, who pity with so mu ch
Christian sensbiiity, the wretched condition OF tho
free negroes at the North and oce the enviahs
condition of their own slayos.-N. T. L,depehden.
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| Aug. 25- Auburn N. Y.