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Show 50 NOTES ON " Like J eremiah's fi g:::, '!'he good arc very good, the ball Too sour to give the pigs." As to the alleged 1:ustom of sending women a.ncl young girls to whipping·llOuses for slight faults, they who k~ow 1nost of slavery will give least credence to the allegatiOn. 'Tha.t the thing is sometimes dono is as true, probably, as that good children arc somctim.cs treated cruelly by bad parcnts,-as true, and no truer. Indcell, the instances of the latter arc, probably, far more numerous than of the former, for '11om, Dick, and Harry ma,y be parents, but '110111, Dick, and Harry cannot be §laveholdcrs. Now and then a vul(l'ar man who has amassed wealth may become one; but it mu~t be recollected that there arc ten vulga.r rich men at tho North to one at the South; ordinarily, in the slave States, wealth and refinement go together; ordinarily, therefore, the slaveholder must be, us I hn.ve before remarked, a man of character and standing in society. "And that soul immortal, once bought with blood and anguish by th; Son of God, *. * * con be sold, leased, mortgaged, exchangecl for groccr!Cs or dry goods, to smt the phases of trade, or the fancy of the purchaser." (13.) . 'l1his is a rouncbbout way, the author has, of 'B:tymg, (what might be much better said in plain and simple lan~ guage,) that the labou.>· of the sbvc can be sold, leased, mortgaged, &c. rr!tis I take to be her meaning, for I have too much ch<1rity for her intellect to suppose that she could have intended, for one moment, that her language should be taken literally. If she means that the master has • tremendous influence over the soul of the sbve, she is right; but then so has the parent over the soul of the child. rr she means anything more than this, she is wrong: so far IS the soul of the slave from being purchased, that not even tho body can be; you cannot, when your sbvc is post UN CLE TOM' S CADfN. Gl 1abottr1 cut l1im up for beef, as you can your ox, or fla.y him, und sell his hide for leather, as you can your horse's, or your mule's. His wool (luckily f~r him) is too coarse to finU a. market, or I would not be certain that his Yankee owner would not shear him, for there is no st.atute, so far as I am awnrc, against it, any more tha,n against shearing the wolf, and the common law would hardly furnish an analogy to settle the point. It is the labour of the slave, then, that is purchased; anU what there is so wonderful in this, I cannot comprehend, for labour is a marlcctn.ble commodity the world ovcr,-the labour of the freeman, as well as of the slave; the only difference being that the laboqr of the free man commands a higher price, as being more proUuctive. If there is a.nything else the master purchases, beside the laborir of the slave, it is the means of enforcing it; and this is what the Northern mastet· equally docs, in taking an apprentice, and the means known to tl1e law arc the same in the two cases, · and the legal remedy for abuse of power the same, with the single exception of testimony, which shall be considered in its place. Of course, I do not maintnin tlwt there is no difference between the condition of the ·shwe and tlmt of the apprentice: but what l Jo say is tl1is :-that so f<tr as the simple selling, apart from its adjuncts and accompaniments, is concerned, they arc on a par; and it is this simple selling, lensing, &c., that ~irs. Stowe, in the paragraph before us, seems so shocked at, as though it were, in itself, a degradation. Elsewhere, it is true, she speaks of its accompaniments; "a.ctu:tlly buying a. man up like a horse,-looking at his teeth, cracking his joints, (wh:lt that means, I, not being versed in the horse-jockey dialect, do not exactly understand,) trying his pa.ces, and then paying 4own for him." (Vol ii. p. 21.) In another place (p. 165) she tclJs us that |