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1 Slavery in the South: A Review of Hammond's and Fuller's Letters, and Chancellor Harper's Memoir on That Subject 1 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/slvorhmf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH: A REVIEW OF HAMMOND'S AND FULLER'S LETTERS, AND CHANCELLOR HARPER'S MEMOIR ON THAT SUBJECT, From the Oct. No. (1845) of the Southern Quarterly. AMONG the popular school books, some forty or fifty years ago, was a plain proe edition of Esop's fables. The stories, told in the simplest possible language, were illustrated with wood cuts, very coarse it is true, but sufficiently expressive. One of these represented a naked blackamoor standing in a tub of water. Around bin is assembled a group of women-busy bodies in matters not their own-matrons not over atientive to their own bousebolds-widows seeking somebody to care about- spinsters anxious for notoriety, and not scrupulous About the means for obtaining it. With much clamor and gossip, and infinite zeal, they are employed; some of them in throwing water on the black; some in scrubbing him with mops and brushes; and the rest in encouraging and directing the efforts oftheir companions. The labor oflove was intended to wash the blackamoor white; it ended, as Esop tells us, in the death of the favored party. During the progress of the experiment, the ladies, no doubt, discussed the certainty of its success; the benevolence of their own motives; the folly and ma. lice of those, who refused to believe that black could be made white; and the advantages of amalgamation with the interesting patient, when the process of regen- eration should be over. Esop's benevolent women were the prototypes of the presernt-abolitionists, or ablu- tionists. These also are busy with their tub and blackamoor. Mr. Jay plies his mop, and Tappan his bucket, and John Quincy Adams his newly invented sirubbing bruh- the right of petition-with exemplary vigor, whilst Alvan Stewart, and Cassius M. Clay, stand by in delirious ecstacy, and the Trollopes, Martineaus, and Abby Kellys, with all the abolition matrons and maidens of blushing New-England, are earnest and eloquent on the necessity and benefits of immediate amalgamation. The zeal of these modern transmuters of races and colors, is not only as warm and clamorous as that of their predecessors, but promises the same result to the object of their affection. Ifthe operators could confine their experiment to subjects among themselves, the Southern people would neither complain nor interfere. We should feel some Am- pathy for the poor black, and some wonder at the crazy white, but there is no Paul. Pryism in the character of the South, and we would leave our-neighbors of old, or New-England, to conduct their own affairs in their own way. Indeed we are so far acquainted with the ethics of fanaticism, and have so much cha-rity for folly, as to be willing too excuse the abolitionists, if they should occasionally steal from the Southern States a negro or two for their experiments, as they often do, when their prisons and penitentiaries have absorbed their own-it would be unreasonable to require that a fanatic should'be able to respect the rights of property, or that a party should ac. knowledge the obligations imposed by the decalogue, who virtually reject the author- ity of the Old and New Testarrentg.

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