Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-11-29
chr ID ailp pp.
Sonthern s.I.nu.n

The Southern paprrs have been very indignant at
Frederika Bremen, the Swedish author, because, in
her letters from this country to her friends at home
she expressed her aversion TO slavery, She praised
the natural beauty Of our couutry-s boundless min
eral aud agricultural resources--lhe industry Of our
peop!e-Ihe enterprise Of our business uren--the
home virtues of our women, md the general benign,
lily OF our iusrituonsi hut she moralEed upca sIa-
very, and denounced ii as disgrace to to us, Our
southern neghbors gave her no credit for her praises
they only called her wgraIelu fer her censures.-
They SAID she had paItaken of southern hospitality,
and ia return had had the bad taste to make onlay
otable criticisms of southern institutions. We sum-
pose she accepted the hospitality Of individuals in
the south, and that her structures on slavery were
general. But Miss Bremen never said ANYTHING hall
SO strong agains! thai system Of organized brutality
called slavery, as the telegraph from Norfolk, Va,
did few days ago. 1t informs us that s'Mrs Mar.
garet Douglass was tried at Norfolk, on Thursday
last, Tor teaching negro children to read and write.
She pleaded her own cause eloquently, and caused
much sensation in the count. The penalty for the
Offence in fine and Imprisonment. Her daughter.
who is indicted on the charge, has fled to New
York. The result is not Known
When We learnt by the European news, Ia,ely.tbat
Scottish Lady, named Cunning han, was imp~iso,ed
at Milan, for giving Bible to poor man there. our
Protestant Indignation aroused against the shirt
OF Italian despotism; and we thanked God, that, in
oul country, the Bible free; bu, we forgot thai
worse despotisin than even that OF Milan prevailed
down south, and that, not only the Bible, but the
alphabet, was prescribed
The glory and stability of law consists in making
criminal that " hich is morally wrong; and in nm
holding and encouraging that which is approved bv
virtue Under true state Of law, criminal in
dcthent is always Infamous, and prison is The re-
ceptace for those only, who deserve the condempa-
ton Of the just; but southern legislation reverses this
state oil things, it places government in opposition
10 goodness and slorifes prisons by the confinement
OF Oaristian martyrs. Under such system, rebel.
lion against, 70 called. law, is moral virtue; and
the hole organization Of government deeenerates
into brigaudism.
Here Is woman possessed OF all the graces of
religion, and all The accomplishments of education.
condemned to imprisonment, in Virginia. for teach.
ing negro children to read and write. We were
horr'hed in lS49, to read Of Hungarian women being
logged by the mIscreant, Hayusu, because thew
would not betray their husbands; what shall we
think OF an American woman being doomed to
dungeon, by so called Christians, because she will
not be'ray her Lord2 Virginia has for her arms
PROSTATE king and fallen with liberty standing
triumphant over them, excaiming $50 let it ever be
with tyrants." We think she would more annro.
Priately symbolic the spirit of her laws, if she
would substitute woman for the king, the Bible for
the crown, and an execuliOner fer liberty
Until we have rendered it impossible for such
trials as that of Mrs Douglass to happen, we ought
to rest very meeky under such condemnation as that
which was dealt out against the 'peculiar institu.
ton" BY Frederika Bremen