Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-14
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A correspondent of the southern Journal,
who signs himself ''NIutton," gives glowing
account Of barbecue, which took place re-
Gently on the Pearl River plantation of 5. A.
Douglas. Mutton" was at that barbecue,
and seems to have enjoyed it immensely. He |
enioved the prandial Z" dainties and delicacies'
that were presented there-the cake and Gus
tard the "sheep-meat and coffee he
also enjoyed the beautiful moral aspects Of
slavery that clustered round the hospitable
board of the senator from Illinois. "Muttons'
heart swelled with love towards the "minute
giant" as he gazed upon 100 of his adult
chattels /" pitching into the good things set
before them; and smile suffused his waist
coat and face as his delighted eyes fell upon
$40 little snow-balls rolling their heads from
side to side, and examining in the food" Here
was slayery-patriarchal kind, comfortable;
slavery, saying grace with a long face, and
feeding its hclots at long table. of course,
0Mutton'' could not look upon such a scene
without being pleased with the institution of
Slavery, and feeling indignant towards the
Abolitionists, who so persistently denounced,
and SO, like every other mutton-headed NOR
aJist who has eaten Southern dirt, he did be-
come tremendously indignant towards those
"fanatcs and sham philanthropists.
"Mutton" experienced one regret in rela-
ton to this barbecue, and that was on account of
the absence of Douglas himself. If Douglas
l. 70 Inf
at would have added new eloquence to
his tongue, new strength to his genius, and
energy to his soul, and afterward when fanat-
icism should drop the slanderous falsehood
from its tongue, to have described in his own
strong and vivid language, the sight he beheld
on the banks of the Pearl, in the slave State
of Mississippi, and to have told the revilers Of
our institutions, with his natural boldness
that this was not an isolated instance Of the
southerner's humanity to the slave-but tina
it was the same everywhere-oyer the full
length and breadth Of the beautiful and snl
ing South. 1t would have been a good hin
to such a man as Douglass TO have those char
latans in literature, those Pharisees in philan
thropy, and that immodest womanhood of tn
North, what we know the truth to be fro1
actual observation"
Now, Mutton" in the above extrac
moralizes and writes, about Douglas and sl'
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enjoyment in life than that Of animal repl
ton; he is not able to conceive of any positic
in society more sacred than that of slav
owner. He is an animal in all his perception
and is a proper advocate of that system
pure animalism which, bloats, befouls, al
beastifes the South
Slavery is inhuman, unchristian and ami
American. For each and all of these reason
we, and all anti-slayery men, oppose it. A
though all theslayes at the South were to no
perpetual saturnalia, with their maste
smiling over them, we should still denoun
slavery. 1t is not just, and therefore meri
the condemnation of all true men, as much a
the splendid barbarsns of monarchy and al
istocracy merit the condemnation of the tru
democrat.
"Mutten' has very conclusively, ostablishe
one fact, however, in relation to Senator Doug
las. He has shown that he represents h
own Pearl River plantation, in the Unite
States Senate, and not Illinois. 1t is a phi
that his southern slaves and northern consti
uents have not equally the privilege of shal
ing him off. We apprehend his slaves ha'
not SO high an opinion Of him as q Mutton