New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-01

horrepce Of the state of terrorism maintained
| throughout the Slave region, but does not exalt
our opinion Of Messrs. Strickland * Co.. who ap-
pesr to have been yictimized without reason or
| palpable object They never had but two copies
If Fred Duuglasss Memoir and one of " Auto
graphs for Freedom" How the latter came 10
hand, they do not know: the former they or
dered, thinking no evil. The following affidavit
from one of their clerks says all that is essential
to their yindication:
Il was IL the employ Of Strickland Co. booksellers,
Mobile from Noveb, o. 1854 July = 1856 n tae capacity
Durug tie p.riod bu; more especial during the last
looks: and wen they arrived my special duty 10
open item compare them with the n'oc' an marx the cost
til, FAN Of 1885 several friends Of the house called and
fr s,.c, +" hen yu.r announced
afw ops. Nj srciaTd was appealed TO- aad replied
ni.hi rider two coPie which wa done. g.,
land. desk drew his attention 70 it. lay there several
dsys and eventually psced win he other copy On the
shelves with books OF similar size in the rear q the store
No o;heI ps The wors were ordered OF received inr
cope. which ordsred above hen in he
ioe md were BY written a. II" inventory oo;te; aad
from that boter pied INTO The inventory book Mr. Sck
position and dufe. in the house re such a. TO render
impossible the Introduction Of any ne" books without my
NV con.,sn. employment in the department their
business necessarily rendered familiar with that ca,s
their than either OF employers o any clerk in the
took complete list fher book stock in 1855 and also in
1886 positively state that the only books H. their ps
1t iuceidry character durns the Whole period OF
stay with them copy Of Autographs Of Feton
the copies Fred Dousss book ordered in the Fall OF
1853 copy the hey Iucr Toms Cabin; al Of
which the hes; Of my knowledge and belief
hcr wheH left then employ on the In u July 800
"Th.r. were no.rs th,r stock which had bocl
condemued and be- returned to Newiork with other
Ny thorough knowledge Of books and general intimacy with
al book Puh,hed n ih Uhrd sia;e en-e- me to gay tea'
dsry or abolition character "'I = ihS H6 T ser
-" sworn before me ,h. 2g'h Aug. 1876
"[CoP. FEHN4NLo WooD M.yor ofthe City Of New York"
The pretense that "incendiary" books were sold
By this house to slaves, or to free negroes, was not
even set up on the mob "tria' Of Messrs. Strich-
land & Co.. and never had shadow of foundation.
The author of the whole trouble appears to have
been Rev. Mr.. Hawthorne, who, having been
told by Louisianan that Strickland Il Co. had
Dougass's Memoir for sale, communicated the ap-
palling fact to "Col. Jones, by whose direction
the Rev Mr.. II. sent his sOn-in-law, Dr. Cragin,
10 buy copies, which he did-One for the Rev. Mr..
Hawthorne. the other for Col. Jones Thercupon
the Rev Mr. Hawthorne called on DR.. WOOdcOcH
Or. lie Vert, Judge Dargan, Judge Lesesne, Mayor
Withers, &c, by whom Lynch court was speed
lily instituted, Strickland Il Co. summary tried,
condemned and driven out of the cty-tleeing, Mr..
Strickland says contrary 10 my own judgment,
but with the advice may almost say coercion,
If many friends" Had Mr.. S. been the servant
of God and man his accusers 10 have supposed
him. lie would have resisted all such friends
But on his trial. he told the Court-we presume
truly:
81 have been resident in Mobile yesrs-ry
nv sttentioI to small Bal Estate which
.hspr Men MY en- ployrf James sumwaltJ died
went MO bu'ibes, my own account ad nec.ay heyaea
properly and real estate as -oon possible and placed the pro
creta in my business.
Nv hole o.pt. las been in that business for
increased extended beyond most sangune expee
suded to the peculiar difficulties Of conducting tho book
bu.ne.-thst. rule We had SIMPLY TIE us 81 BOOK o TO
sold many and other ePhemers books "ch nAy have
vtdse at any hand aos.ed circulate at '
Soua 'ueh boks seJe al onc ioripsed ~ IoI ret.r"
ordered that the hurry OF business such books could
.nd. 20 Unee Tom. Cabin had utterly f1.ed 20
sell il. We had two copie. believe sen TO u.s. icH were
wto.e curiosity lad been .Icej believe there
then in the room " ho had read one of them
Had occurred Re should naye told them ordered
50 copies the chp edition several months alter Il vas hEs
nd. from the interior who .ceedn ely anxious
copy and who, presumed sdch would ece the
eomPlHirEni, h.,. aoo,lv ,or.n,o, mo g., ro .,r.
This them hey found the order Tor the - copies "aen
they tIhnincd our paPcr' a.,
Il should certainly have ststedi bad occurred 70 mind
while VI" speaking
How Mr. Strickland can have been condemned
on such a state of facts is nscrutabe; but - the
wicked fee when no man pursueth or, as
Shakespeare phrases il, IT'S conscience that
- makes towards of US all" 1.-THE thief doth fear
each bush an ofIicer; and the guilty soul of OPP
preston covers and shudders at the very name of
Fred. Douglass.
The most striking feature of this and kindred ex-
hbitons is the contempt for Law habtlaliy eyinced
by the Slave Power. Slavery rests on law, lives by
Jaw. becomes mere piracy in the absence OF law;
vet none among Strickland * Co.'S despoilers ever
seem to have even inquired whether they had yiO
lated any law, or proposed to send them before Il
legal tribunal Yet it is perfectly easy TO have any
| law passed in Alabama that may be deemed essen
tial TO the security Of Bondase-eyen though death
were made the penalty OF possessing and reading the
| Declaration of INDEPENDENCE l. Slavery ashamed
10 display lis mere hdeous features On the statute
book If not, Why not shape its laws so that book
sellers and Others HAY know what is required Of
them and not be subjected to after ruin while limo
! cent If any conscious Onense whatever
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