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Show 28 NOTES OS (2.) "Nevertheless, as this young man was, in the eye of the law, not a m::m, but a thing, all these superior qualifica. tions were subject to the control of a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical master." (p. 28.) (3.) "It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do what I please with him,-thafs it!" (p. 31.) (4.) "Don't you know a slave can't be married? There is no law in this country for that; I can't hold you for my wife, if he chooses to part us." (p. 36.) (5.) "And she was whipped, sir, for wanting to live a decent Christian life, such as your laws give no slave girl a. right to live." (p. 1GG.) (6.) "Tiut now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me clown· into the very dirt! And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was; he says, to teach me that I am only a nigger ! After all, and last of all, he comes between mo and my wife, and says I shall give her up, and live with another woman. And all this your laws give him power to do in spite of God or man." (p. 166.) (7.) "!Gnu families get in debt, and the laws of our country allow them to sell tho child out of its mother's bosom to pay its master's debts." (p. 1G7.) (8.) "The feeling, living, bleeding, yet immortal thing, which American State l:m coolly classes with the bundles, and bales, and boxes, among which she is lying." (p. 191.) (9.) "It is commonly supposed that the p>·ope,.ty interest is a sufficient guard in these ca.scs." (Vol. ii. p. 7.) (10.) "Here is a whole class,-dcbascd, uneducated, indolent, provoking,-put, without any sort of terms or conditions, entirely into the hands of such people as tho majority in our world are; people who have neither consideration nor sclf·control, who haven't even an cnliglttened regard to their own intcrest,- for that's the case with tho largest half of mankind." (p. 7.) U N C L E T 0 l\i ' S CAn I N . 29 (11.) "All government includes some necessary hardness. General rules will bear hard on particuln.r cases. This last maxim my fa then- seemed to consider o. settler in most alleged cases of cruelty." (p. 17.) (12.) "Miss Ophelia well knew that it was the universal custom to send women aml young girls to whipping· houses, to the hands of the lowest of mcn,-mcn vile enough to make this their profcssion,-thcre to be subjected to brutal exposure and shameful correction." (p. 147.) (13.) "And that soul immortal, once bought with blood and anguish by the Son of God, * * * can be sold, leased, mortgaged, exchanged for groceries or dry goods, to suit the phases of trade, or the fancy of the purchaser." (15,1. )_ (14.) "Here, a. worn old ncgrcss, whose thin arms and ca.llous fingers tell of hunl toil, waiting to be sold to-morrow, as a cast.otl' article, for what can be got for her." (p. 158.) (15.) "'You must not take that fellow to be any specimen of Southern planters," said he. 'I should hope not,' said the young gentleman, with emphasis. 'lie is a mean, low, brutal fellow,' said the other. 'And yet your laws allow him to hold any number of human beings subject to his absolute wi11, without oren a. shadow of protection; and, low as he is, you cannot say that there arc not many such.' " (p. 173.) (16.) "Y c say that the interest of the master is a sufficient safe-guard for the shwc. In the fury of man's mad will, he will wittingly, and with open eye, sell his own soul to the devil to gain his ends; and will he be more careful of his neighbour's body?" (p. 2GO.) . (17.) "'Do!' said Legree, snapping his fingers scornfully. 'I'd like to sec you doing it. Where you going to get witnesses? !low you going to prorc it? Come now!' George saw at once the force of this defiance.'' (p. 282.) (18.) "'l1hat the tragica.l fa.tc of ~eom, also, has too many times had its para1lel, there nrc living witnesses, all over c* |