The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-04
BRITISH
Worse Than Black Slavery
Stand BY the Abolition Bible.

Undoubtedly some do not fully COM
prehend the force and effect contained
in the Hazard circular published last
week. We ask the old Abolition Re.
publicans, you who hated the aristo'
cratic slave owner of the South, even
though they were kind masters. yet
you hated them as much as you did the
black slave drivers, the Legrees, and
both as much as you hate the very dey-
il himself, we ask you to take your old
political bible down from the shelf,
brush the dust and cobwebs from it,
for you have not looked at it for 30
years. Open the old
ABOLITION BIBLE,
Uncle Toms Cabin, to about the mid
die of the 10Th chapter and you will
find the following words:
tSt. Glare is the kind and indulgent master OF
Uncle Tom. Alfred is his despotic brother who
lives Oh the plantation inherited by them.
Ophelia is the cousin of ST. Glare from Vermont,
who is helping tax care of st. CARES invalid
daughter Eya.l
st. Glare said, ats all nonsense to talk
to me about slaves enjoying all this! To
this day, l have no patience with the unut-
terable trash that some of your %patronizing
northerners have made up, as in their zeal
to apologize for our sins, We all know bet
ter. Tell me that any man living wants to
work all his days, from day-dawn till dark,
under the constant eye of a master, without
the power of putting forth one %irresponsi-
Bile volition, on the same dreary, monoton-
Gus, unehanging toll, and all for two pairs
of pantaloOns and 4 pair of shoes a year
with enough food and shelter to keep him
in working order! Any man who thinks
that human beings can, as a general thing,
be made about as comfortable that way as
any other, l wish he might try it. I'd buy
the dog, and work him, with a clear con-
science!'
""I always have Supposed said Miss
Ophelia, that you, all of you, approved of
these things, and thought them right-ac-
cording to Scripture
"'Humbug! We are not quite reduced
to that yet. Alfred, who is as determined
n despot as ever walked, does not pretend
to this kind of defense; no, he stands, high
and naughty, on that good old respectable
ground, the right Of The strongest; and he says,
and / think quite sensibly, that The american
planter as only doing, in another form, fehdt
The English aristOeracy and capitalists are do
ing BY the lOEer classes; that is 1 lake ii, dp-
propriating them, body and bone, soul and
spirit, to their use and convenience. He de-
tends both-and | think at least, consist
emily. He says that there can be no high
civilization without enslavement of the
masses, either nominal or real. There
must, he says, be a lower class, given up to
physical toll and confined to an animal ma
ture; and Il higher one thereby acquires
leisure and wealth for n more expanded in
telligence and improvement, and becomes
the directing soul of the lower. So he rea-
sons, because, rs | said, he is born an arts
tocrat; so ] don't believe, because 1 was
born a democrat
"sHow in the world can the two things
be compared?' said Miss Ophelia. The
English laborer is not sold, traded, parted
from his family, whipped
"He is as much at the will of his em-
ployer as if he were sold TO him. The slave.
owner can whip his refractory slave to death
the capitalist can Stare him to death. As
to family security, it is hard to say which
is the worst--to have ones children sold,
or see them starve to death al home
""But it's no kind of apology for slavery,
to prove that it isn't worse than some Other
bad thing"
so didn't give it for one-nay, I'll say.
besides, that ours is the more bold and pal
pable infringement of human rights; actual
ly buying a man up, like a horse-lookinl
at his teeth, cracking his joints, and trying
his PAGES, and then paying down for him
having Spectators, breeders, traders, anC
brokers in human bodies and souls-sets
the thing before the eyes of the c~ivilizet
world in n more tangible form, though tn
thing lone be, after all, in its nature thu
same; that is, appropriating one set of hu
man beings to the use and improvement o
another, without any regard to their own.
'"I never thought of the matter in thi
light, said Miss Ophelia,
"Well, I've Travelled in England some
and I've looked over q good many docu
ments as to the state of their lower classes
and l really think there is no denying Al
fred, when he says that his slaves are bet
ter off than a large class of the population
of England. You see, you must not infer
from what / have told You, that Alfred i
what is called a hard master; for he isn't
He is despQtic, and unmerciful to insubord
nation; he would shoot a fellow down witt
as little remorse as he would shoot a buck