The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-05-16
who was in destitute circumstances in any
of the Southern States.''

of the Southern States.''
L. MARIA CHILD.
Soon after the story was sent to me in
the Estates and Union of Washington;
and returned to tho editor the same
statement have written above. Wheth-
er either of the papers ever corrected the
false statement they had made, is more
than I know. But presume not; for
that is not the fashion of pro>slavery pub.
locations.
Having been thirty years an active aboil
zionist, have had q chance to become
used to all sorts of Misrepresentation; and
they trouble me very little. say with
Lamartine. "Let our names perish 50 that
our principles remain .
For myself, never enter into newspa-
per controversies; deeming it a better en-
ployment of time to aim blows at slavery,
than to defend myself The story has
been very generally contradicted by the
Republican papers; but the Democratic
papers go on repeating it oil the same
Even if the story were true, the circulation
of it would be very poor answer to an
ti-Slavery facts and arguments acduced
In my correspondence with Gov. Wise and
Mrs. Mason. One cannot bat smile at
the weakness of cause which resorts to
such weapons. Yours respectfully.
L. MARIA CHILD.
The following is the article published
by US and referred to in the above letter:
Mrs. Child, the sympathiser.
"Mrs. L. Maria Child, made herself no
torious by begging of Gov. Wise the priv
ilsge of nursing the "sainted Brown
After getting the privilege she did not go.
Her expectation doubtless was that she
would obtain large quantity Of cheap
glory by being refused.
At the time of the Pemberton mill ca
lamity, Mrs. Child was near the suffering
but paid not the least attention to them.
It appears, as further evidence of the hy-
pocrisy of her pretentions to philanthropy,
that she had a daughter living at Point
Coupee, in Louisiana. teaching school -
This daughter became helpless by disease
of the spine, and wrote to- her philanthro-
pic mother for aid Lat received none. She
is now lying in room and living upon a
stipend of two hundred dollars q year,
provided by the charity os a slave holder.
This may be ON extreme case, but it is a
truthful representation of abolition phil
anthropy. Where there is niger invol-
we'd their self-sacrifice is fanatical, but
when only whites are to be beneticiaries
they lack as much as they seem to have
excess for niggers."
When We published the abovewe had pre-
cisely the same authority for doing so that
we now have for publishing the contradic-
ton: namely, copy of letter stating the
facts. 1t will be seen that she says not a
word in regard to the Pemberton mill ca
Iamity, which, as she denies the other, it
might be Inferred, she tacitly acknowledges
But observe the overfowing fanaticism in
her letter. She evidently believes every
democrat to be dishonest. She says
nearly all republican papers have contra
dicted the story. This may be true, but
We probably see as many republican pa
pers as she does, and we have never seen
the contradiction in any of them, or in any
other paper.
1t is strange, how this abolition makes
such unreasonable fanatics; or is it the
other way! That they must be fanatics
before they can be Abolisionists? They
think niger, talk niger and dream mig
ger, until they become, if not John Browns,
at least advisers and sympathisers with
John Browns,