Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-12-24

Wen VIII 20, IL vii! be properly applied.
Whether there will be enough of means to pay
ont, depends on the circulation; and what thi.
is. we have no means of knowing-RnOrvilEs
Wing.
Southern Literature VS.. AboIItIonisnn.
Now, when we are constantly reading in
the daily papers Of detested Instructions
among our slaves; when we see the spread
of abolitionism, and the determination of
the north to trample upon southern rights,
it behooves rs to be mindful of the style of
literature promulgated through the south
We eagerly snatch up all the incendiary
works that, under fancy titles, are being
constantly distributed among US, with the
full intent and purpose of creating diSsen-
sion and dissatisfaction among both white
and colored Tales of noble minded men
and women (who, despite their ebon hue,
are not to be equaled by the white race)
suffering under the lash, tortured by de-
based and cruel whites, are written in as
fascinating style as possible, and sent forth
among us to make their imprint for i'll.
And do we not sometimes meet with
wolves in Sleeps Neutrality-suspicious. who,
pretending to be producers of southern lit
erature, disseminate northern principles !?
Lately have been reviewing some novels
of Mr.. Southworth's, lady residingin Vir-
GINA, who has written some very readable
tales, but lately has either imbibed aboli-
ton notions, orl ike the weather vane, turns
as the wind blows, and under the idea that
snti-slavery tales will sell better, has given
Us two very decidedly abolition novels, viz:
India, or the Pearl of Pearl River. and
her late edition of Retribution, which, if
my memory serves me, has undergone
somewhat of change since first passing
through the printers hands? They can
not be surpassed, nay, nor equaled, by
Mrs. Stoves Uncle Tom, for they are writ
ten in far more engaging style, and Mrs.
Stowe has had the candor to ayow her real
sentiments. Freedom is no doubt very
glorious thing-a something for which men
and women have bled and debut even
among the white races how many under
stand the meaning of the word, and how
many are fitted for its liberties, tits bat
myth to one half of the white races of
Europe; and if we must meet fanatics with
fanatical answers, have we not as good
biblical authority for slavery as we have
for the divinity of our Saviour? and are
not our slaves in far preferable condition
TO the hound children of the free States
and the factory children of England?
An instance or two that | can relate
and nat from hearSay either, may perhaps
tend to confirm this opinion. | know of
socalled lady in one of our largest free
State cities, the wife of man high in the
community, and a loud professor of
Christianity, who thought it would be far
easier for "camel to go through the eye
Of needle, than q Shareholder to enter
the Kingdom of Heaven" being guilty of
burning little bound girls nose until she
was dsfgured for life simply because the
child, carelessly or inadvertently, heated
the curling irons so hot that she had burn
ed her hair while dressing on the Sabbath
day for church; turning deliberately around,
she caught the child's nose with the tongs
and held her until her screams aroused the
neighbors. But as she was only an or
phan white child, with no legal protectors,
it did not create any very great excite
ment among negro-worshipping Abolition
ists--it had long been known that she had
passed days and nights tied hand and foot
in an open wood shed, with a crust Of dry
bread and cup of water for her food; but
so long as she was not mercifully killed at
one blow, none had felt themselves called
upon TO see that the little ichite slave was
not gradually murdered-killed by inches.
Another instance when a little child,
about twelve years old, but stunted from
ill-treatment until she was not larger than
a child of ten years, came TO my guardi-
an on a cold winter day, clad in one gar
meHt; her feet bare and frosted; her hair
cropped close to her head, and sobbihg,
showed her little limbs and shoulders all
cut aud bleeding from the cash She, too,
was an orphan hound girl, and with no re-
latiVe to protect her, had felt the tender
mercies of an Abolitionist, who could
"shed no tears by the barrelp as the preach
er said, over the woes and suiferings Of our
doiontrOdden slaves.
These, though perhaps exceptions to the
general treatment of bound children, are
as good criterion 10 judge by as any isola-
ted cases Of cruelty TO slaves must ever be,
while the masters interest, If not his heart
and conscience, show him that kindness
and care bat increases the value Of his
property.
Ills time, therefore, that the south pos
sess laws prohibiting the sale Of all works
Of freesoil tendency-works where ne
groes and quadroonS are painted as saints
aud angelic beings, while vice, cruelty and
brutality are the softeSt traits given 10 the
Anglo-Saxon.-- Cor. ". o. Crescent.
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