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Show NOTES O X upon under (1.) or will be under (18. ), with the single exception of tlJC last sentence, "Low as he is, you cannot say that there arc not m~1ny such." Yes! That is just what I can sny: there certainly nrc not many such; were it not that I dill not like to contradict a la.dy, I should sny thrrc was not one such; as it is, I suppose I must admit the existence of one, though l think that o11e has about as much to do with "flesh and. blood," as the "chime1·a bombinans in vacuo" of the School men. But more of Legree, by and by. (Sec Note 17.) "Yl: say that the interest of the mast,er is a sufficient safeguard for the slave. In the fury of man's mad will, he will wittingly, and with open eye, sell his own soul to tho devil to gain his ends; and will he be more careful of his neighbour's body ?" (1G.) What was soid under (9.) will apply here. I will merely add that if a f.rmcr will not ordinarily pay one hundred dollars for a horse or a yoke of oxen and then turn round ancl beat them to death, ajvrtiori will not a. planter, ordinarily, pay one thousand dollars for a slave, an(! then destroy his own property. I say, ordinarily: the extraordinary mtSes the Jaw takes care of, to the extent of its power. "'Do!" said Legree, snu.pping his fingers scornfully. 'I'd like to see you uoing it. Where you going to get wit· nesses ?-how you going to prove it ?- Come now!' George saw at once the force of this defiance." (17.) Then George must have had ~ very short memory, for Legree had just before confessed the deed to him: "I g~rc him the cusseuest flogging I ever gave nigger yet. I believe he's trying to die; but I don't know as he'll ma.ke it out.'' (P. 278.) Now if Mrs. Stowe docs not know it, I will inform her that George had only to testify to this confession of Legree's and to the condition in which he found Uncle Tom, and any Southern jury would have brought in a vcru'"' UNCJ,E TO),t'S CAlliK. 55 of Guilty, so fa.r as testimony was concerned, almost without leaving the jury-box; for Southern juries, in these cases, bring in a. verdict according to the la.w und evidence, as they arc sworn to do: I wish I could say as much for all Northern juries. "~1ha.t the tragica.l fate of ~rom, also, has too ma.ny times had ItS para.llcl, there arc living witnesses all orcr our land to testify." (18.) ' ' . If i;, has "had its para1lcl" once, it has been "too many times; but the author evidently me~ms that there have been a .good many instances, for she says that "there are living Witnesses, all over our land, to testify." "'hy, then, has she not brought them forward? She has brou"ht forward n. witness to prove the business capabilities ot the colored people of Cincinnati, the city of her former residence, and. where, therefore, she might be supposed to }msc some personal knowledge of the matter; but, here is a. large number of alleged facts of which she pretends to no personal kn,owledgc; and yet she has not attempted to substantiMc them by testimony, though she tells us "there arc livin" witnesses all over the land" to prove them. Are we, thCJ~ to. undcr~tand that the fact that •ix colored people in c,_ncmnati, (sec P.· 320. vol. ii.) have maclcthemsclvcscomparahvely nch by thmr own. energy, is so incredible in itselj~ that the auth~r must brmg forward a witncss,-nnd that, too, a. tbcologteal profcssor,-to back it, while these other alleged facts arC', in tltemselves, so credible, that though she pretends to no pcrso?al knowledge of them, she may safely 1 est them o~ her zpse~I beg her purdon,-ipsa dixit? If so, then, 1t speaks poorly for tho fitness of the colored people, gcnorally, for freedom. ~o! let ~s have tho witnesses; let her give tho particulai s,-tbc time and the place. Possibly she may be ablo to produce half a dozen instances, ou the outskirts of ch•ili |