New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-31
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tention is called to an article in which Mrs
Stoves infamous libel upon her own country i
warmly commended for the accuracy of ii
statements, as well as for Its extraordinar
and popular talent" This veracious critic {
Derbyshire thus discourses upon Mrs. Stowe
key:
When in court Of justice criminal is convicted
the cearest evidence of against tn
laws Of God and man, when all the winding and ntrca
ces OF ln9uty have been exposed aud the deeds done
darkness have been laid bare the condemna
ton Of all men nothingis common than to hear tn
convicted felou perstng in his entire innocence denying
every fact that has been proved against him and asev
Grating that of the witnesses produced has per
ured himself and that there is not one word OF truth
from beginning to end the accusations brought agan
him So stands the with regard TO the slave own
Of the United States arragned before the tribunal tn,
world We have long had partial revelations of the in
Equities of TIE slave system OF America and dark surmise
Of the dreadful wrongs on the African race
an eye and witness Of the abominaton keep 81
ence longer but gives utterance in slave of ex
traordny and popular talent to the atrocities of the
| domestic institution Her book is read by millions il
in itself internal evidences its truth and the
voice Of civilized Europe rises in condemnation of this
monster evil
We have always heard that, outside of Lon
don, it would be difficult to find thicker head
ed and muddier Drained people than the Eng
fish. Derbyshire, we are told, is pre-eminent
in this Saxon stolidity for surprising that OF
Beotia. =, The leading journal of that region is
certainly worthy of the people whose organ ii
is The foregoing extract is conclusive proof
oft None but Derbyshire boor would argue
in the style of this extract
Mrs. Stowe writes a romance, in which she
takes the usual liberty of novelists and fiction
mongers, to invent her faces; and when those
facts are pronounced falsehoods, she collects a
| number of certificates from Brown, Smith and
johnson, stating occurrences, of which they pre-
tend to have been witnesses, retailing what they
heard from Tom, Dick and Harry and possibly
stating some real particular isolated case of
cruelty to slaves This proceeding is assimi-
lated by the Derbyshire logician to process in
court of justice, when the witnesses are pre-
scented in a real and tangible character, are
cross examined, their testimony thoroughly sift-
ed by the accused and conviction obtained
after full and fair hearing 1t may be that
Rhadamanthus holds court in Derbyshire, but
| in no part Of the civilized world would such n
proceeding, as this writer suggests, be regarded
otherwise than as stupid, unjsst and preposter.
| Gus. Common sense, an article which is no
doubt stamped too high for general use in Der
byshire, would suggest that, before Mrs. Stoves
witnesses be admitted, their characters should
be established; and before either is done, the
reality Of their existence should be proved
We know that all Mrs Stoves names of per-
sons In this vicinity. whom she cites against us,
are quite as imaginary as 90 Uncle Tom - and
" Aunt Liza" and we presume that the others
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spectacle class called clock-peddlers, who have
been driven from some gentleman's plantation
for selling liquor to slaves, or of school-mas-
ters who have lost their places in the South by
their immoral conduct. Such are the wit
nesses who are to convict the Southern peo.
pie of this Union of crimes and outrapes.
which, if true, could only be paraleled in the
annals OF the crimes of the lower classes Of
Great Britain. The Derbyshire man is not sat
listed with false logic-he must add false state.
ments. He says that Mrs. Stowe describes
matters, of which size has been an eve and ear
witness. 1t may have been ignorance, but we
incline to the belief that it was wilful meldacitv
which induced this writer to place Mrs. Stowe in
the position of resident of the South an actual
observer of slavery when in truth, she never was
in the South in her life, never saw slave and has
gathered her information from the most unreli |
ibie and polluted sources. The Derbyshire |
PAPER, however, does present piece of evidence
rom Mrs. Stowe, which is entitled to some rel-
nee. 1t Is the report of a case tried in North
]arolna, in which the Supreme Court decided
hat the killing of a slave, by excessive and
ruel beating, was murder in the first degree
ut one of the Judges undertook to say that the
aw would not interfere with masters in the ex
rcise Of their right to correct their slaves
There death did not ensue, on the ground off
eing malicious and excessive. This decision is
Al from being the law generally in the South
ut even, as stated, it is not stronger or broader
han the English law relative to the power of the
ather over his children. Nor, we may add are
UGH cases of cruel treatment of slaves by their
lasters as common as the examples of excessive
nd brutal conduct Of English fathers to their
fspring, nor as common as the murder of wives
y their husbands in England Indeed, in this
cry number of the journal sent to us, in the
ext column to the critical notice of Mrs Stoves
ey, we find the report Of case which is quite
revolving as any of Mrs S s fictitious exam
es We commend it to any modern Nautilus
conclusive argument against marriage and
lie increase of population-quite as conclusive
the argument against slavery founded upon
dividual instances Of cruelty and abuse of
ithority in masters
BRuTAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN sy THEIR F.ruys-
efhehnfH Taylor was charged with deserving and
uely itrestng his children James Taylor aged ten
d Jane Taylor aged eight.
Mr. Brchmore, of st Paneras parish said the
arge which he was now prepared to substauiae again
prisoner had been mentioned by him in that court
days ago. when u warrant on his application WIS |
anted for his apprehension which was effected on tp
evious night by Lambert the officer who found in his
session the sum OF IS 1Ss.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that Mr. Birchmore had acted in a
ISL humane and proper manner, and sincerely did he
Pc that other paroehial authorities would follow his ,
example.
me children, who had very sickly appearance were
IN brought forward, and their bodies being uncoycre
lgh oil most heart rending nature presented to
W. Their hesh being severely marked with bruises !
caroline Taylor aged 10, progressing person. said
at her brother and sister brought home on Mon
morning and she her father beat them very much
the bedroom with strap. Ut with difficulty this
lch could be ELECTED from her. She was TREMBLING
d evidently in fear of her unnatural father)
Mr. Birchmore said he had had much diflculty to oh
evidence the prisoner being terror to all who knew
H. lie asked the witness if her father had not so +
aadtully beaten her about the head disable her
IN putting on her bonnet. Witness said he had He Il
fhed her INTO the street ten months ago and had e
snty Infused her She got work at cotton factory
received os per week The prisoner resided in Eae