The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-24
Voice Of the People
4 Virginia ,vomnn,s view Of s,hycry.

Virginia ,vomnn'S View of Slavery.
| TO the Editor Of The Times Dispa tch:
! Str--ln an editorial few days ago
| you attempted to belittie the state
mehts Of recent English writer on
| the horrors OF slavery It Is time that
Southern papers should not shrink
4 from letting tho truth he known to
| inns generation. yet. ms one of this
generation know that 1t is always
hidden The older generation. tho
| papers OF the South. ncy Tie truth
/ about slavery because they are now
ashamed Of what Is blot on any
/ country that tolcra ties the traffic in
human flesh and human misery.
| The editorial says that the state-
! rnent in regard 10 the horrors OF
slavery arc untrue. Let us see &c that
| Nirginian that ever lived said on this
| subject:
| The whole commerce. between mas
! Ter and slave is PERPETUAL exercise
| Of the most boisterous pnsslons: thu
! most unremtting despotism on ono
I part and degradation and submission
on the other. Our children see this
! and learn TO initiate IT, Tho
man must be prodigy who can retain
! MS manners aud morals undeprav = ed
by such circumstances. with what
| eNccration should the Statesman be
loaded who, permitting one-half OF
| tho citizens to thus tramplc on the
! rights of the other, transforms those
| into despots and thcse into enemies.
thought secmse when we have removed
their only firm basis--a conviction in
| the minds OF men that these liberties,
are the gift OF God: that they arc no.
! TO be violated but with Ills wrath?
Indeed. tremble for my country
| when reflect that God is just: that
Ills Justice cannot sleep forever" Docs
any EnElishman. and abolitionist. make
| charge any more violent than this Of
Jefferson himself against the wicked
ness Of Slavery?
Mason. a Virglnian. the author OF
The celebrated Bill of Rights. says or
EiaNefy The augmentation OF slaves
| wehKens the state, and such n trade
is dinbolical I'm itself ana disgraceruI
h, 20 mankind. yet by this Constitution
, 1t Is continued for twenty years. AZ
much as value union of ali the
states. l would ot'admit tho Southern
| states into thu UAuon unless they
ngrce to the discontinuance OF this
disgraceful traffic because 1t brings
Weakness not strength, to the Unlon.".
Could Lincoln. could any Northern
aboli Zionist. have expressed sentiments
Calhoun, while advocating the seces-
sion OF the South In order TO protect
! slavery. admits that Slavery in the
abstract is crime" Evidently he
thought II all right In the concrete
Davis, in his Rise and Fall Of the
Confederate Government" says on
page 8. The idea OF slavery is re-
pellant to the moral sense OF man
Stephens says that Slavery is the
| cornerstone OF the Confederacy"
TWO hundred years ago the Massa-
chusetis people burnt witches: that
was according to the laws and ideas
| Of the day. For any one to attempt
In this day TO defend slavery as
| right would be task as impossible
as TO show that burning witches was
n virtue. The slavca were stolen from
their homes were worked as beasts
are. for shelter and food: they had no
rights any white man was bound TO
respect; they coulo be whipped; they
were by law deprived OF any educa-
| ton; they could not go off the planta-
tion without passport; they were
sold. fathers and mothers away from
| each other; mothers torn, away from
! their children; the relation of mar
riage was seldom respected: the negro
! girl was at tho mercy OF the masters
| lust.
| There Is no use in the papers of the
| South denying 1.-THE truth-the. old
| statutes OF Virginia are still extant.
That there We're individual cases OF
horrors of the system and the laws
which protected II. IT only shows
| that some people were better than the
| laws under which they lived The
that does not make the condition of
(! the Jews in Russia just one. This
| prating by The Times Dispatch about
the relation of slave and master sim
| the eyes of the coming generation by
| concealing the truth about the horrors
| of the traffic in human flcsh of the
| buying and selling of souls, of the de-
graduation Of part OF tho human
] race all under la flag which is sup
! posed to have been born under a law
that declared "all men Tree and equal"
| Of course. there were many kind
masters. OF course, there are many
! kind Russian noblemen. But the
system i'm Russia, the laws Of that
| country allow this most abominable
! cruelties TO be practiced on the Jews.
| Would Your writer say that, because
some individuals are kind the whole
| system towards the Jews is right?
] Hardly. The Englishman who wrote
| that book told the truth: he told of the
/ laws, he told of the system ms il was.
| and 1t Is useless for any one to at
| tempt to deceive educated people on
| this matter. Let 1t be relegated to the
past and acknowledged, as the burn
| Ing OF the witches is. and explained
| honestly on the grounds thatiit was
| in accordance with the times Per-
! haps that writer may not be aware OF
! the fact that England refused to treat
| with the South as Confederate ma
[. ton on account OF the existence and
! protection Of slavery in It's borders
! the cause witch gave 1t birth.
! A VIRGINIA WOMAN. "
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