Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-01-26


FOUNDED ON FACT.
Scene on board New York Steam Packet for
Charleston, S. c..
DRAMATIs PERsoNE:
Mr.. CorToNADE IA NorthernCopperhead.)
Mr.. MAY.
STEwARDEss.
Miss LINDA-(A quiet, refined, ladylike wo-
man.
(Scene on deck)
Miss Lindd.-(To the stewardess. )-"Will
YOU be kind enough to snow me my stateroom?
| do not know its number
Ste,cardess.-I will speak to the captain.
(She goes out and soon returns) The captain
says you are not to have state-room your
place will be in the steerage. will show you
to it.
Miss Linda.-The steerageP l do not un-
derstand this My state-room is paid for. l
must see the captain.
Sterardess.-There he is; you can settle the
matter with him.
Miss Linda.-Captan, think there is some
mistake here. The stewardess refuses to show
me 10 my state-room, and says am to 20 as a
steerage passenger.
Captain. She is right, very right have
too respectable people on board for you to he
allowed to mngle with them. am taking the
Rhetts and Barnwes 10 Charleston, and OF
course they would not endure being brought
into contact with you. We must respect their
feelings, madam, and therefore your place will
be with the steerage passengers; very good
people ma'am.
Mr.. Cottonade.-(Patting him on the should
er.) Right, my good fellow, right. We will
sustain you in this course It's time we took
some stand in this matter, or we shall be trod-
den under the feet of this scum of the earth. |
admire your spirit, captain; you are brave
fellow.
Miss Lindd.-(With heightened color, but
quiet dignity) Brave, indeed, to insult a wo-
man. demand, sir, if this is the position you
take, to have my baggage put on shore, and |
will wait until | can find a vessel with a captain
who has manhood enough TO protect the op-
| pressed My passage was paid, and my state
room engaged, and you are bound, by every
| principle of right, to give me the place secured
for me by my friends. go as the accredited
agent Of religious society, and for their sake,
as much as my own, | will not quietly submit
10 the insult you would put upon me. Again
l demand my state-room, or that my baggage
and myself be put on shore.
Captain.-NCt quite so fast, Miss Linda
believe that is what you are called. am mas
ter in this ship, and none of your Northern alb
olitionsts have any right to control me. | vii
order things as | please. know too well m,
own interest to.allow it to be said in Charles
ton that let ne-I beg your pardon, col
ored person. insult my aristocratic passenger
with her presence. So you may take YOU
place quietly in the steerage and on that con
dition will carry you to your old home, wher
perhaps you can find your master again.
Mr.. Mdy.-(Who has been near enough Il
hear all that has passed) Stop sir in your in
suits to this unofending woman. If you hav
the Rhetts and Barnwes on board your YES
sci, YOU also have some true Northern mer
who will not tamely stand by, and see North
ern principles thus desecrated and yili6ed.
is a burning shame and disgrace to your man
hood. that you can thus stoop to win the poo
favor of the South. (Mr. Coltonade sneaks of
| leaving the captain To bear the attack alone.
DO you call yourself man, and yet trampl
upon the delenceless, put your heel upon thos
suffering ones who have been already crushe
to earth? Is it in vain that Northern bloc
has flowed Is it in vain that Shaw, and Low
ell, and Parkham, and Hodges, and host
Others have laid down the lives they had COZ
secrated to reedomp You sir, are aNorther
man but your Northern home should spur
you. You are not worthy TO have been Dor
on the tree soil of New England, and | am nj
willing to believe that her bracing air nouris
: ed your infancy. 1t should have winnowed o.
I the chaf Of trucking meanness, which leat
you TO disgrace yourself by thus treating W
man placed under your charge, and trusted
your honor, by her friends Now, sir, ha
spoken freely to you let me know what y'
intend to do for can tell you that there a
those on board will not stand iamely by, n "
persist in depriving this woman of her rights
The fallen and sullen) s
may occupy the state-room engaged for her, {
condition she does not come to the table. b
tah es her meals in her own room.
Mr. Mdy.-No such conditions shall he
tached. She shall have all she is entitled to
Linda. da.-Pardon me, sir, but would mu
n. prefer this arrangement. | would not ha
asked for it, but l consider it far the mt
r. agreeable. ! have no desire to meet those .
=, Jle men and women, for whom the capta
seems to have so much respects and, for !
*, own part, would much rather belong 10 Il
OR people who have heen always faithful and lc
mt al, than To the traitors Of the South. Iha
~, Nv you sir, for your kind interest. 1t is not
~, first time have been taught TO feel there
kindly hearts, and high.principled men IN
'"' North, who will yet free the country from
he stain of unjust predjudiee, and allow to
hitherto degraded race, an opportunity 10 I
to the position Of true manhood and wom
= hood.
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