The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-01-05


such ageneles.sit Is in the order of Prov
3idenec thatpthey must come 70 an end by
violence, History is full Of such lessons
Would thar the vail of prejudice could
be removed from your eyes. If yoa, would
icandidly examine the statements of Gov
ernor Hineks of the british West ladies,
aud of the Rev. Mr., Blecby, long tins a
Missionary in those Islands, both before
and after emancipation, you could not
fail to be convinced that Cash is more
powerful incentive to labor than the Lash,
and tar safer also One fact in relation
to those Islands is very significant. While
the working people were slaves, it was al.
ways necessary to order out the military
during the Christmas holidays but since
emauci patton, not soldier is to be seen.
A hundred John Browns might land there,
without exciting the slightest alarm.
To the personal questions you ask me,
will reply in the name of all the wo-
men of New England 1t would be ex-
trcmely difficult to find any woman in our
villages who does not sew for the scor,
and watch with the sick, whenever occa-
sion requires. We pay our domcstics
generous wages, with which they can pur-
chase as many Christmas gowns as they
please process far better for their char
acters, as well as our own, than TO receive
their clothing as charity, after being de-
Fprlved of just payment for their labor |
have never known an instance where the
"pangs of maternity" did not meet with
requisite assistance; and here at the North,
after we have helped the mothers, we do
not sell the babies
| readily believe what you state con-
Cerning the kindness Of many Virginia
matrons. 1t is creditabe to their hearts
but after all, the best that can be done in
that way is poor equivalent for the per-
petual wrong done to the slaves, and the
terrible liabilities to which they are al
ways subject. Kind masters aud mis-
tresses among you are merely lucky acci-
, dents. 1T any one chooses ta be brutal
| despot, your laws and customs give him
complete power to do so. And the lot of
those Slaves who have the kindest mas
ters is exceedingly precarious Ia case
of death, or pecuniary difficulties, or mar
. riages in the family, they may at any
} time be suddenly transferred from pro
lection and indulgence to personal degra-
: daton, OF extreme severity; and if they
should try to escape from such sutferings,
anybody is authorized to shoot them down
| like dogs.
: With regard to your declaration that
no Southerncr ought henceforth to read
line of my composition" I reply that !
5 have great satisfaction in the conscious
less of having nothing to lose in that
quarter. TweDtv-sever years ago pub
lished book called AN Appeal in be-
! half of that Glass Of Americans called At
ricans." 1t influenced the minds of sew
eral young men, afterward conspicuous in
, public life, through whose agency. the
cause was better served than it could have
!; been by me. From that time TO this,
have labored too earnestly for the slave to
be agreeable to slave holders Literary
popularity was never paramount object
with me, even in my youth and, now that
, | am old, | am utterly indifferent to it,
But, if cared for the exclusion you
+ threaten, should at least have the con.
sulation of being exiled with honorab c
, company. DR. ChanninS's writings, mild
and candid % they are, breathe what YOU
would call arrant treason. VIM. G. Brv-
ant, in his capacity of editor, is openly
on our side. The inspired msse of Whit
tier has incessantly sounded the trumpet
for moral warfare with your iniquitous IN
stitutlon aud his stirring tones have been
answered, more or less loudly, by Pier
pont, Lowell, and Longfelrow. Emerson
the Plato of America, leaves the scholas-
tic Secluson he loves so well. and, dislik.
ing noise with all his poetic soul, bravely
takes bis stand among the trumpeters
Geo. W Curtis, the brilliant writer, the
eloquent lecturer, the elegant man of the
world lays the wealth of his talents on
the altar of Freedom, and makes common
cause with rough,shod rcformers.
The genius of Mrs Stowe carried the
Ioutworks of your institution at one dash,
and left the citadel open to besiegers, who
are pouring in amain. In the church, on
the uitra-liheral side, it is assailcd by the
powerful batterng-ram of Theodore Park
er's eloqucnce. On the extreme ortho-
dox side is set a huge fire, kndled by the
burning words of Dr. Cheever. Between
them is Henry Ward Beecher, sending a
shower of keen arrows into your eutrench-
mcnts and with him ride troop of sharp
shooters from all sects. If you turn to
the literature of England or France, you
will find your institution treated with as
little favor. The fact is, the whole civ.
liized world proclaims Slavery an outlaw,
and the best intellect of tho age is active