The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-12-15
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bLAoAaooD's MAoA2ISE for September,
has ihe following comment % 1rs Stoves
book entitled Sunny Memories.
On the whole, ve are inclined Is think
that lie american public viii not derive
much enlightenment on Che subject Of
Scotland and the Scots from tie revelations
Ia Mrs. Stowe can assure them that
the general aspect tone andseniiments here
do rot 81 al correspond With what IS repre-
sented IL her pages. II Il mol the fael hat
the greater part q our tine Is occupied ~
delivering q listening . wish Vastly plat.
form speeches, or even Us ID have the prom.
ising fault oftoo much elaboration OF orna-
ment, on the subject Of tee-to- talism, olive.
IlaseTy, Of any Of he other wild absuridities
lof the day. # Is not the fact that We have
losi al grateful memory for The Warlike
deeds Of our ancestors, Of for The poets who
have worthily recorded them And above
al. it's not tie fact that Mrs Stove had j
fair opportunity Of forming ! judgement On
almost any point Of The views entertained
By the bulk ofthe more educated classes of
society.
We confess to have been greatly disap-
pointed il The pelusal Of her northern tour.
We hadHexpected % derive some amusement
if not edifca,ion from The remarks Of a Ia-
dy whose previous publications had mans
tested considerable power il The depletion 81
character not unmixed with occasional
gIimpses Of humor; the more especially As
there is much il the northern idiosyncras
which must appear peculiar in the eyes oi
& stranger. Nothing Of that sort. however.
IS tob be found ID the pages Of Mrs. Stowe.
Read her work, emitting the familiar names
of places and enc would Sc Is ii loss
"a suppose lhaI shs S describing Scotland
aid IS inhabitanta eilbes inWardly ZIG
wardly.
There are many proofs contained in these
volumes that Mrs. Stowe IS something
more than passive spectator 81 The Trans
atlantic for establishing whatare called the
Rights Of Woman in more vulgar IN.
guage the superiority Of the grey mas
the supremacy Of the pettieoat
breeches Now. as to the supr
women, we never had any doubt a.
few men. who have been marriedit
can be sceptical upon that point
utmost that men can demand fron
wives IS q the respective ranking he
garments, Is, ii tie ancient and significant
language Of the Highlanders to Be allowed
] 70 cast their clothes together. Moreover
to the wife IS invariably committed thai
highest symbol Of authority known as the
power Of the keys; 50 that she has i II Der
power at all times to coerce her husband b.
the simplest and readiest means. II fact
she has him at s dead lock and possesses
the entire command Of the press. Young
Hempden may talk IS much as be pleases
athis club, about the liberty Of the press,
and its being as essential IS the air be
breaths; but when be returns home about
one in the morning he IS very fain to take
his candle move upstairs as quietly Is pos
sible without attempting 70 eniranchise any
incarcerated spirits.
Now il may be thought very strong
statement on our parI, but We venture &
say, that we're slavery existing II tie pres
ent time ii Great Britain and were the kind
service proeurable On any terms 10 better
than .hat which Mrs. Stowe and ali othei
writers have described asexisting il Amer.
lea emancipation wouldbea decidedly IN.
popular proposal ID these Islands. IS i
possible to doubt that2 Look st he histo
y ofthe factories biz. opposed defeated
and eyaded II every possible way BIZ y,
very same men who proclaim thomseives .,
the warmest friends Of the negro. They
thought itas nothing that he bodies ana
souls ofthe young children within theiI
factories should BE- destroyed and uncarel
Tor, whilst 81 the same lime they we're res.
dy to ezpend their graluitous sympathy q
The American Slave. Our remark applies
to every class; and II put the question j
she ladies Of this country from the Dutch
Of Sunderland d0rnuafds whether.
they lad bssn slave Wners they would
once have relinqnished their control oxe
those whom th could treat kina ans
81 hose affections the7 could secure y pas.
system which would aVs sent them down
RON Tie drawing foonn 70 slave themselves
Iin the pantry 81 81 kilohen