The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-02-10
50 WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY TO- 1859.

morning glories of most of US, however shell
tered, more or less, sooner or later. Why should
not negroes be turned out to bear the brunt
When the common lot of humanity must, at
any rate, be SO hard, why should we try to
soften theirs?
Herman, however, was young and Utopian
and he did think that he should have liked to
try the harmless experiment Of taking those
little children, rolling in the dust or on the pi
azza in front of the cabin, or sitting placidly
imbibing their thumbs in the pen, Ia sort OF
human hen-coop in which those that could not
yet stand alone were kept from crawling into
harms way,) and distributing them among their
cow-like mothers, to let them taste freely of the
wholesome sweetness of maternity and kiss, and
babble tender nonsense, and fondle, at their
| FILL and to see whether they could not learn OF
these yet unperverted creatures, fresh from the
pure handsof the Creator, to smile innocently
again, and hope, and love, and trust. He long
ed to let them become acquainted with their
| children, and ill for future DAYS that domestic
sweetmeat store-closet of dear little infantine
savings and doings, preserved in parental re
membrance, which must be stocked for life in
the season of those sayings and doings, or MOI
at all. He longed to take away their hoes, put
needle-books and scissors into their awkward
paws give them back the work which God gave
wives and mothers to do-the care of their own
little Ones husbands and selves, and see il, by
the natural attempt to do it, some kind of natu
raj faculty to enable them to do it might not
be developed in them. He longed at least, to
make some approach to setting the solitary
again in families, to break up those monotonous
assorted squads of men by themselves, boys by
themselves, women by themselves, and girls by
themselves, to let daughters work beside their
mothers, helping one another, and cheering one
another, and sons by their fathers. But dear
me! if big Quashy and little Quashy and big
Philly and little Philly, and big Ben and little
Ben, once got mixed up together, what would
become of order or discipline? Don't you
see that they might soon get to talking and
laughing, and neglect their work, and look uI
from the earth and the mud into one another's
faces? And then | should like to know what
would become of our Gotten crop! And do not
you see that they might grow fond of each
other? And then that big Philly might help
little Phllly to make an unreasonable noise II
the driver happened to strike her with his whiI
for not minding what she was about all thf
time; or big Quashy, under the same circum
stances rashly double up his fist, at similar
Judgments alghting upon little Quashy? And
then, do you not see, still further that if Colone
Rochemaurice-as has happened to many 6
prudent and economical man before and mus
again-shouh lose his money, or if for any othel
cause he should find it unayoidally necessary
to separate them for life-they would suffer very
much? Oh, it is all much better as it is AL
low father and mother, brothers, sisters and
babies, to assemble together only when theil
eyes are too sleepy 10 see one another, or on .
holiday or at a Dance when there are a good
many other things and people for them to see
and they will be much the less likely to become
dependent upon one another, or to form i'm
prudent attachments to one another
| TO BE Continued