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Show I I I I I ~ I 112 NOTES ON . . 1 tlunkfulncss, and hope :-in faith that he on, JO f~Jth,l ~n< . : , ml prcparillr' the way of the Lord; is fulfilling ns lllJSSJOIIl. ·1' 1 en t-Lk~n from the lowest deep . I kf l'c~s tliat 10 1US uc , Jll t lan" l~ ': " -a Uerrrudation to Lc foumlnowhcre out_ of of <~cgJ,llLtt;n,l· d i~ a condition "hich has elevated lum, Afnca.,-an Pace . 1 1 f being· in hope 01t(l is still elevatiny /lim, Ill t le sc:_l,O 0 f } . ' f . h' thttt a brighter Ucstiny is in store, If not or lllll, or IS pos.tC'rity. .KO'I!~ 10.-~I,HE TNTEHNAT, SLA\'E-TRAOE. On tl,is subject ).frs. Stowe has expended, as usual, abu_nlhnce of rhetoric and very 1ittle logic. She sees the evJls o~· the traffic,-who doesn't sec them. ?-and she, resoh·cs that it must be abolished, without ~t-oppmg to ask ~~1e nc.~c~ d t sk) whether its abolitiOn would not bnng ~~t oes stop o a ' . . l f. . n.n and slw deter-it greater evils: she IS zn t lC !Jlng P• ' . . mines to jump out, without looking to sec w.hcthcrlo I .n~t It is intO the fire that s Il C I.S J·U mp·m g. 1'herc IS an o. lt.. s.l) mg, 1 , ~ and it used to be thought a wise one,, Look_ b:foro you ·a~~); " 'h·1t would be the conscqurnccs of abolis}ung the til .. A ~e lotion of tho slave popula.tion and consequent gut_ m the l!'bor market in the more Northern slave States, wlu~h in less thnn ten years woulJ render sla.vc ry, .~ot -~n y ft· bl but so ruinous to the master that, hom s wcr unpro ' .l c, ' - . I . ld l. ve to turn them .. b"l't to support hiS slaves, 10 "ou_ Hi . 111,1 1 1 y . 1 1 to cm·mci- 1 . t hift for tlJCmselvcs,-m otter wo.n s, .. oosc, 0 s f" t 1 t . l:l.tl\'0 tl TIJen ,\·auld be rcnlizetl the Jrs a CII . ps aotel· cn Ieomf . in the JWCCetl.i ng N otc,-th·a t of un. iversal an. ll ~;H~striclcd competition between black and whllO for daily b ·caJ . a struggle in which the former would be remoi~O· l;ssl 'trample<] under the iron heel of the lattc~·, ~y t .~.~ . '~n.blo operation of the" demand-and-supply-pnnciple' -maenl Id , t Iw "Il Ori.O l.: ·, " "... nd lhe " heart-break" of that strug- UNCLF. TOM'S CA !liN. 113 glc, who can tell? Why the horro1·s and tl1e l•cart-bJ·eak of the domestic sl:wc-Lnule, arc joy and glad ness in tho comparison. NoTE 11.-THI~ FuGITl\'E LAw AND '!'HE HwllER LAw. On this subject 1frs. Stowe makes a most astounding confession. She tells us that after "the passage of the lcgisla.tivc act of 1850," she "heard with perfect smprise and consternation, Christi:m and humane people actually recommending the rcm:tnd~ng escaped fugitives into slavery, as a duty binding on good citizens." (Vol. ii. p. 31-1.) And yet'' Cln·isti:m nntl IJUmanc people" had been not otdy "actually rccomrncnUing" it, but actually doing it, under the act of 1703, for nearly fifty years, und Uuring the last ten of them, at least, she knew that they were doing it, and knew it, too, without any smprisc or consternation. 1 fow comes it, then, that the act of 1850 has so frightened het· from her propriety ? The truth is, but for tho doings of tl10 Abolitionists, that act would never have been needed : the act of 1703 woul(l have been sufficient. In the 'vords of .Mr. "'cbstcr, speaking of this latter, "It was thought wise at the time to lca.\·c the execution of that law pretty much in the h:1.nds of State tribunals; State magistrates, a.nd officers, an!l judges were authorized to execute that law. ·It was so administered fur fifty ye~rs, and nobody complained of it. 11hings weut on until this new excitement of the slavery question, this abolition question, was brought up, and then some of tho States, :1\Iassachusctts, Ohio, and others, enacted Jaws making it penal to execute this law of Congress. " ~J..1hen tho statuto became a dead letter in this part of it; when, of course, it became a matter of necessity to provide for the execution of this Constitutional enactment 15 ,. |