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Show GS NOTES ON NOTE 7 .-EFl'ECTS OF SI~AVEH.Y ON '!'Jig NEGRO. I have alrc:ttly remn rkcd, in the introdnction, that the simple test of the right or wrong of the continuance of' slavery, in any given case, is, its effect upon both parties. It becomes import:tnt, therefore, to inquire _what has been, thus far, its effect, here in the U nitcU States, upon the negro. I have already alluded to the subject, (Note 2,) but something more than an allusion is needed, especially as the matter is very generally misapprehended. 1\Irs. Stowe charges slavery with having "barbarir.cd" the negro: " rTo fill up Liberia with an ignorant, incxpcricncccl, Ita if-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises." (Vol. ii. p. 318.) And again: "On the shores of our free States arc emerging the poor, shattered, broken remnants of familics,-mcn and women, escaped, by miraculous providcnccs, from tho surges of sla.vcry,-fecblc in knowlcdgr, and, in many cases, infirm in moral constitution, from i\ system which confounds and confuses every principle of Christi~nity ~nd mor~lity." (p. 317.) And the L ondon Examiner, in a review of her work, chimes in with her: "'Ve n.rc for our own parts disposed to regard as the chief evil the fact which is sometimes adduced in extenuation of the ·whole crime against human rightsth~ t under the slave system the negroes have been plunged into such depths of ig norance and brutishness, that they have acquired not only the brute's vices, but in a. great measure even the brute's haLit of unquestioning content with his position. * Not more than two negroes in five thousand yearly have the spirit to attempt to escape. They go to their cabins as the oxen to their stalls. And that by deliberate denial of education, by~ long course of UXC I.!:;: ·ro M 'S CAB IN. d~ba::;ing treatment, human beings should have been r educed to this-is in our opinion a more horrible result of slavery than e\'Cn the tea ring of the child from the slave parent, or the selling of a. husband by auction out of his wife's arms." And again : "'l'hc comPlete acceptance of the slave's position indicated by Aunt Chloe in this last extract, the contempt of their own skin whioh negroes acquire from tho habitual tone adopted by their white oppressors, that clement of degradatiun upon ·which we h:wc already dwelt, is happily touched in many portions of the book." (Sec Littell's Living Age, No. 430, p p. 102 and.J.05.) 'l'hc charge here is, that American Slavery has caused the negro to degenerate. In r efutation of this charge, I appeal "from Philip drunk, to P hilip sober," ' from Mrs. Stowe the Advocate, seeking to bolster up a bad etlnse with worse argument, to Mrs. Stowe the Judge, g iving, in the person of George Harris, an obiter (and, therefore, un prcj udiccd) dict.tm: " 111be desire nnd yearning of my soul is for ai! African nationality. I want a people that shall have a tangible, separate existence of its own ; and where am I to look for it? Not in Hayti; for in Hay ti they hat! nothing to start with. A stream cannot rise above its fountain. 'l1hC race t hat formed the chnra.cter of the II~tyticns was a worn-out, cflCminatc one ; and, of course, the subject race will be centuries in rising to anything. "Where, then, shall I look? On the shores of Africa I sec a. rcpublic,-a republic fo rmed of picked men, who, by energy nnd sclfMcducating force, have, in many cases, indi~ vidua.lly, raised themselves above a condition of slavery." (Vol. ii. p. 300.) Now the mcnniog of all this is very pla.in; it means that as the feeble character of 't110 lJayticns was formed in slavery to a " worn-out, efiCminatu race,'' so the energetic |