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Show 12G NOT l~ S 0~ contribute for the purchase of slaves; bcnr ficcncc to one family ma.y, and probably does, hinder the final exodus of the race. * * "But if we arc to break over this rather hard, though just rule, and contribute to the relief of individual c~scs, we further desire to choose for ourselves as to the obJeCts of our charity. * "It is from no lack of objects of philanthropy that we do so little. Tho difficulty is not in beginning; the question is where shall we end? But when we arc con· scious that with our present means we could not ransom half the natural inevitable increase of the sbves, and further, that such occasiona.l emancipations and _r~mo\:al..; only prune and invigorate tho old Upas trce-gl\'Jng It a new lease of lifC', is it not enough to make us turn awa,yhowever sorrowfully-and strike at the root of the whole system, trusting that God in his good time will a id ia its overthrow ?" Now for the application of the above "rather lmrd, tlwugh iust rule:" "Unless a very strong case is .~adc out it is by no means a duty" to help off the fugJtJvc; "b~nefiecnce to one" may be, and probably, nay, certainly, is, cruelty to a hundred that remain _behind on the same plantation, antl who arc n ecessarily sub.JCCtcd to greater ~·c· straints and dcpril'cd of many of the indulgences to wh1ch they have been accustomed, and which, but for the run. way, they might still be enjoying. And "'when we arc consc10us that" a case, strong enouglt, cannot be ''made out," but that on the contrary, every time we help off one, we only dra'~ the chains the tighter on a hundred others, "is it not enough to make us turn awny- however sorrowfully'_'- from the fugitive, and bend all our efforts to humamzc anti UNC LE TO J\I 'S CADIN. 127 Christianize those masters that need humanizing and Christianizing, so that there may be no fugitives, but of tho idle and vicious? (See Note 16.) So much for the appeal to our sympathies, and the (Jomrnon'Wealtlt's answer to -it. 'V c arrive at the conclusion, then, that the Fugitive Sb.vc Act is not repugnant to the Constitution, nor to the bw of God, and that, consequently, the outcry against it has no foundation in justice or equity. NoTE 12.- PATRIOTs AND PoLITICIANs. These constitute a class for which l\Irs. Stowe seems to hnvc very little respect, if we may judge from her repeated flings at them: as, for instance, (vol. i. p. 190.) "'l'hc trader, who, considering his advantngcs, was almost as humane as some of our politicians," &c.; and again, (p. 05.) "So sp0ko this poor, heathenish Kentuckian, who had not been instructed in his constitutional r elations, and consequently was betrayed into acting in a sort of Christianized manner, which, if he had been better situated and more enlightened, he would not have been left to do." (See, also, pp. 8, 70, 71, and 121; and vol. ii. pp. 10, and 17.) All these observations seem general, but they arc meant to have a particular application. .Mrs. Stowe mentions no names, indeed, but 9vcry one understands tho mark she aims at,-" one gray, ~1Hanic head." ~rhat head is now ]ow in tho dust,-hastencd there by the ficn <lish malice of IIomeo Mann, a~<d followed tltere by the hyrona , Theodore l'arkCJ·, who havmg no reverence for his God, (sco Appendix, 1'.) cannot be expected to have any respect for his fellow man. And what are the charges that they thus bring against one as much therr superior in every clement of intellectual and moral worth, as he was in those physical qualities that " give the world assurance of a man ?" I say, what arc |