Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-03-29
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O''''''9 A1e'@st' VINO recently spent
three months in the South, has been giving
his readers the result Of his observation there.
The following extract from one Of his leaders.
viii be found highly interesting:
''It viii be remembered that the work of
Mrs. Stowe soon after its appearance, was de-
nounced by the conservative press and pull
pit even, as a tissue of les made up of i'm
possible horrors, and designed as studied
misrepresentation of the slave system The
N York Observer rolled up its eyes in holy hor-
ror and called upon heaven to witness that the
enormities portrayed were enormities of the
authoress's Imagination. Its echoes, religious
and secular, denied that there were any Le-
grees at the South denied That families were
separated at the auction Block; denied that
bloodhounds were kept on the larger planta-
tons, to hunt up such 'fugitives' as might
take 1t into their heads to run away; denied
women were logged Ike beasts on their bare
backs; that young mulatto women were sold
as mistresses TO any who paid most denied
that slaves were Hogged to death and roasted
alive; denied in short, everything except that
Slavery was beatiic in its influences alike
upon black and white.
81 took some pains to verify, both by OBJ
servation and the admission OF Southern men,
the statements of Uncle Toms Cabin Most
OF the results have already given. l spent
less than three months in the Southern States
saw, of course, comparatively but little of
Slavery. And yet, during this short period,
l did see families separated at the auction
block; children that were almost white torn
from their frantic mothers; beautiful slave
girls sold tougly looking men; vigorous mulat-
TO women bring high prices on the recommen-
datlon that they were good breeders; delicate
women logged by brutal oyerseers blood
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avowed purpose of 'hunting up runaway
'chattelsi And these things are SO common
are regarded so much as matter Of course
as to create no surprise or comment. sAn &C.
caslonal logging does niger good, remarked
very good natured and gentlemanly individ-
ual to me oneday, on a Mississippi steamboat;
some can get along withoutit for a long time,
while Others wait it every few days. Some
ringers seem to like it. 1t does EN- good.
'Ihey grow fast under it. Give niger
Enough to eat, and an occasional walloping,
and he is the most happiest creature alive
Sc What do you think of "Uncle Toms
Cabing" asked a gentleman in New Or
leans, and STAKEHOLDER to boot. "A great
work, Sir; true every word If you remain
IN New Orleans long, you will find out the
truth of most of it. The fidelity of her por-
traitures is wonderful. 1t seems to me that
she must have repeatedly visited the slave
markets and auctions of New Orleans, to
have painted them rs she has. But" re-
marked, ''wMle great many people admit
that there are Legrees in the South, they
claim that such characters are only exception
al. "Mrs. Stowe, remarks the gentleman.
"does not intend Legree as the type of a class
OF shareholders; she only illustrates through
him wha6 mag and does sometimes occur un-
der the operation of the slave system"
One OF the largest planters in Louisiana re-
marked to me "Uncle Tom's Cabin, regret
to say, is book that contains a great deal of
truth; indeed, don't know but every state
ment i'll it has its counterpart in everyday
life at the South" "Haye you any Legrees
III louisiana" l asked. les, sir, aud YOU
need mt go up the Red River to find them, Ell
Their. Slavery tends to make naturally vicious
men perfect monsters of cruelty. Give a bad
man absolute control over two or three hun
dred people-make them in all things the
ministers of his avarice, his lust, or his pas
slons, and there is nothing too monstrous for
him to do. You have bad men at the North,
haven't You? Well, human nature is no
better here. But with you one man is pro-
tected by the law from the violence of anoth-
err; on plantations, the only law is the mas
ters will. Why, in this very parish--not
three miles from where | live-is a planter,
who, | have the best reason to know, has
JtDyYe6 TO teSS tdfb titfee negroes 70 dedtG With
in the past two years. ''But is there no law
to punish such monster?" ''Certainly, but
of what use is it The only witnesses are
his overneer and his slaves. The one con't
and the other cant give testimony against
him. So, you see, he is above the law.
81 have received admissions equally flank
and liberal from azores of other planters A
few with whom talked, denounced the book
as pack of lies In fact, imagine that its
truthtulness is what makes it so much dread
ed at the South. 1t is regarded only the
more dangerous, from the fact that it is so
true. During my stay in New Orleans, one
of the city papers grayely called attention to
the fact, that certain yender of cheap publ
cations had a number of copies Of that ,incen-
diary publication, Uncle Toms Cabin, and
trusted the authorities would take prompt
measures to have the hrebrand extinguished
awhile such admissions come from South
ern men-while the evils, social and moral,
of Slavery are so frankly confessed, and sim
cerely deprecated by those who have been
reared amid its iAhuences-whi its blighting
effects are SO abundantly and constantly mani
fest-is it not enough to disgust one with HUI
man nature to find such shallow. pated twad-
oilers as the Rev. Dr. Adams, of Boston, writ
ing eulogies upon and proclaiIning the blessed
ness of bondagel South Side View of Sla-
very, 'forsooth! One would imagine, from the
sickly lucubrations of this Reverend pIattler,
that Shareholders were a race ofIIowards, and
slaves all but angels singing praises to the
God that gave them so favored lot. Said
gentleman to me in Montgomery Alabama:
The man is either fool or knaye, or both
though l think the fool predominates. Why,
the man has seen more virtue in Slavery dur
ing the few weeks that he was in Georgia,
housed up as an invalid, than l have seen in.
all my life. We don't pretend that Slavery is
right, down here; we only claim that it is
the best state of thing we can have just now.
But this holy man no sooner sees the elephant
Of Slavery than he falls down and worships it.
What an ass the man must be
81 may here add, that Ihaye been frequent
ly met with the taunt, why, n'syou NORTH
erners that come down South, rake up enough
money to buy few niggers, and try TO ape
Southern manners and habits, who become
the noisy advocates of Slavery. Give a North
ern Abolihonist an acre OF ground and mig
ger, and he viii swear by all the saints IN
Heaven, that the slave system is the beau ideal
Of social perfection. But enough"
INTENSELY NATIVE EDIroRs The Albany
discourses upon three of the
leading X. N. papers OF that State-.rhe AL q
oany Register, Rochester Ansorican, and Buff
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