Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-17
Blackwood's Magazine on American
 Affairs.

4 friend has kindly presented to us reprints of Blackwood's Magazine for April and May, and the Edinburg Review for April, 1862. The most interesting article in the Review is one en- titled .sCotton culture in India The statis- t;cal facts embraced in the article and the statements concerning the area in cultivation and the quality of cotton, are interesting and we will try and embody them in 3ubsequnt article.
 Baclwood, for April, contains a review of a work on the American Union, by James Spence, which was lately published in London. It is an arau nentative. liberal article; and one lea' ture is the tone in which it treats of the ques- ton of slavery. The whole article will amply repay perasal, but as our hafsheet precludes us from copying 1t in full, we must content our selves with extracts. After some disquisltions mn a republican form of government, the re- viewer talks thus mildly of our peculiar insti' tuition:
 "Tbat the condition of the slave has beer ,ointed in rdicuously exaggerated colors by aentiuentalists and writers for effect, no candid 7noujrer can doubt. Nevertheless, even those who are too shrewd and fair to believe that the xceptional eases quoted by abolitionists estab I:aA 3 rule, remain still impressed with genera iJ on the subject which are unjust to the It 'aer For instance, there Is no incident si. which has SD powerfully reused feel d;.. nation and compassion as the com -DS ---1 ion of negro households by sel 'e rr'arab. to different owners. The ,,ai natIoe Which nav be wrought out of such sit P"..o' P aaJia NLer and child torr shreking apart, never more l a- and wife becoming strangers, ~1 'ro :aJ owner may thus add few dollars L. lhe', 'A " what more is needed for the condem.' 'ati9H V the system than the existence of such inhuuaa abuses? Yet we have been assured by Geor- gan gentleman, than whom no more unques- tionabIe authority can be found, thatIn all hls experience of the South he has known but two attempts made to conduct sales on this principle, and that both failed. One of these cases was that of planter who had been succeeded in his property by relative who knew nothing person aliy of the slaves whom he inherited, and who advertised them to be sold separately, as more profitable than selling them Tn families. For seme time no auctiOneer could be found to con- duct the sale--at last one offered himself, and he was 2 northern man. When the sale com menced, Judge Barton (who was afterwards lnl led at Bulls Runl got on the table, and, ad dressing the assembly, said that an attempt wa being made to outrage public opinion, and tha he hoped the audience would mark their senst of the proceeding by declining to bid. Accord ingly no offer was made, and the owner wa compelled to sell the families together.
 From the same authority we learnt that for mery negroes were on many plantations syste matically educated and encouraged to learn Rut when abolition emssaries began to hawl incendiary books through the States, calculates to excite the slaves to rebellion, the risk becam so oreat that education was checked with str9,g hand. In this case as in many others tLe aboiitionist has been the worst enemy ( tbe negro. In view of the trightful consequer ces of slave insurrection, it is difficult to blam