The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1861-01-17

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/ show there enaoimehis which naiilfy
/ Me las of God and mako divorce i market
allo and cheap c0nmolhy. ! collect lht
advertisements n your daily p1pofs, III
which lawyers onef 70 procure ilio lcgiI
separation of man and wife fof q stipulated
price, 10 cay nothing IN lhia sacred place
of other advertisements which dcconcY fUr
bids me 20 quote. Then turn 10 n,
records of our criminal courts, md lnd
that every day some cruel husband beat.
his wife, or some unnatural parent murders
his child, or sOmc disconicnicd wife or bus
band seeks the dissolution Of the marrlag,
bond, In the noSt place ! turn to the Or
phan asylums and hospitals, and show ihcr,
the miserable wrecks Of domestic iyranny
in wives deserted, aud children manned by
drunken parents. IN the last place, ~
through our streets and into our tenement
houses, and count tho thousands Of ragged
children, who amid ignorance and filth, arc
training for the prison aud gallows. Sum.
ming all these facts together, put ihcnl
forth as the fruits Of marriage ~ the city
Of New York. and proof that the relation
itself is sinful. II | were novelist. and
bad written book 10 illustrate this same
doctrine, would call this array of facts II
"key." In this key ! say nothing about
the sweet charities and affections that -four.
ish in ten thousand homes, not awcrd about
the multitude Of loving kindncsscs that
characterize the daily life of honest people
about the instruction and discipline that ARE
training children at ten thousand frcsidcs
for usefulness here and glory hereafter; all
that ignore, and quote emily the statute
book, the newspapers, the records Of eria.
inal courts and the miscrics Of the aboics
Of poverty. Now. what have | done! |
have not mis.statcd or aggcra,cd n single
fact. And yet am ] no, falsi6cr and
slandercr Of the deepest dye! Is there a
vrtuous woman or nm honest man in this
city whose checks would no, burn with in.
dgnation at my onc-sided and injurious
statemcntst Now, this is jus, what abo.
litionism has done in regard to sla,cholding.
II hn. un,leftekcn 20 illustrate i,s cardinal
doctrine in works Of fiction, aud then to
sustain the creation Of its fancy, has at
tempted to undcrpin il with an accumula-
ton Of facts. Those facts are collected in
precisely the way ! have described. The
statute books Of slavcholiing States are
searched, and every wrong enactment col
lcctcd, newspaper reports Of cruelty and
crime on the part Of wicked masters arc
treasured up and classified, oil the ou,rarcs
tha, have been pcrpciratcd "by lcwd fel-
lows Of the baser sort, OF whom there are
plenty, both North and South, arc eagerly
seized and recorded. and this mass Of vile
ness and filth collected from the kennels and
sewers Of society is put forth rs faithful
exhibition Of slayoholding. Senators in
the forum, and ministers in the pulpit, dis
iii this raw material into the more refined
slandcr '.that Southern society il essential
" barbarous, and that slaveholling had It's
origin in hell" Legislative bodies enact
and rc.cnact statutes which declare that
slaycholding is such an enormous crime
that il Southern man, under the broad
shield Of the Constitution, anil with the de-
e's,onso' tue supreme 'Ou,s % .ne country
IN his manu- s!iah come W''hin 'nes lars-
alc'len anu SCI uP e,a'ln my, 70 a'us'l'es'asC
thousand dollars and fifteen years imprison.
men'' ms m,.,ioa o' argument -, ,,as con con.
'nuea untll mul','a,ss O' hohe,' ' 1n'''.'a'' ',
people 10 'his anu olher ianus anu. ".,'e'c y. '"a,
s,asenoiu,hs ,he I'm y, slns' w .i san ~ ~
oil s'lls'n.es' Let me Illustrate TINS ~ an
incident IN my own experience. a 'e.
years slnce' ! TOOK rom a 'se c,",eI , .ao'e u
vhr'.t''n iami,y m, N seo',ana' ny won ON,
haa eesn mss' ,s .ln a sn'e''a'".., \, -. oo''
sn''.,ea EN- Lie anu saaane's ;,,;.,an ~ n'. =.
vn the e,allk zeal was , An ins.,,Pu'a. ,sa =.
ting that the book hau been nestoSeh on uns