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Show 1G2 N0'£1-:S ON mony, anJ that from publishcJ documents-worth as a ju!:itification of the r epresentations of Uncle 'l'om's Cabin'? Just nothing at all. 'l'hc allcgcJ. facts iu the Key might, every one of tl1cm, be real facts, without exception, :~nd without exaggeration, anJ Uncle ~!_low':; Cabin still be an outrageous caricature: tho LIJJcy-~kctch of Iloraee, half wom11n and half fish, with a. covering of parti-colorcJ fca.thcrs, is made up of cuust itucnt part~, each of which cxi:sts ·t'n t·erum natura, but the combination never has been seen, and, I 1'at!te1' t!tink, never will be. Some Ulen arc lasciYious, and some are wantonly cruel, but tile two chanJ.ctcrs were never yet found united in tho same person: there are "disjunctive conjunctions" in rhetorical composition, but not in the composition of human nature. BccaU.!;C there is "coat•sc-:finc"* salt in Northern warehouses, it Uoc!:l nut follow that there arc coarse-fine ladies in Somhcrn drawingrooms; bccau::;c "blackberries arc always red when they arc green," it docs not follow that Quashy is always white when he is .ydlow or brown. '11o father all the cruelties to apprentices on one master, nnU all the cruelties to wi\'C:J on one husb::md, and then hold these up as specimens of a. class, and legitimate r esults of a system, woulJ be to follow in ..\Irs. Stowe's footsteps, but it woulJ be a poor excuse for the foul libel, in the estimation of all honoraLlc men, to say that each of the alleged cruelties had been actually committeL!, somewhere, at some time, by some bo(ly, ant.l that very many of them had, through tho imper fection of the law,- or the worse than impcrft:ction of its idmini.:;tration, gone unpu11isheJ. But enough of prclimina.rics : l come now to the work itself, aml shall notice a. few, and Lut a few, of its statements and comments; to 11oticc them all would rct]uirc a volume, awl I can spare but a. few pages. I slut! I follow, for the_ most part, the order of the "Key." r.: So tile Liverpool sn.lt is callcJ in Kcw-Bn;;bnd. UN C J, H '1' 0 M 'S CAB :r N. 103 The .fi1·st ~haptcr of the work is intro(luctory. 'l'ho srconrl IS cnwled, ":Mr. Haley.'' and at tho CIJ(.l of this chapter, (p. ~. ) 1\[r~. Stowe says, "1 f th rrc is an ill-u:o;NI ~}~~~s of men :.n the world, it is certa inly tho sbvc-tr::uler~.'' 1hcsc men, she tells us, "arc exceedingly sensitive with regard. to wl1nt t.hcy con~idcr the injustice of the world in cxcluclmg them from good socicty,n &c.-Now when I shall sec ~Irs. ~towc receiving at Iwr taLic and in her drawingro~ m public whippe1·s (a.nd we ha\·e these last in all our pt.·Isons,-the prison discipline could not be mainta.inccl Without them,) or even horse-jockeys, I shall acknowlcdrrc that she .is sincere, but not tl1at sl10 is right. She forgc~s that Provtdencc makes usc of vile instruments to do thinrrs ~ecessa.r~ and proper to be Jonc, but which arc so rcpulsi~c m the domg that none Uut vile instrum('nts will Uo tl 1cm ._ .t hat ' in t. his world of s·m , mot· aI scavengers arc as necessa' ry .1s r.hysiC.al ones : we may respect ..a. constable, but not a. Pu. bh.c •w hlp[ler '· a u-' ,·ovcI. ' b u t not a IJ Orse-.J ockcy. It mig ht be difiteult. to assign a reason, a prio1·i, wily the profession o~ a horSC-.Jockcy should make a. man repulsive to a person o rcfin.ement and a nice moral sense, but that it docs, as really, {If not to the same extent,) as tLat of a negro-trader lS undemablo. ' rf 'j_:J~e third chapter presents "the fairest sicJc· of Sla\'C- 1 c, anJ as" there is," in the author's view," no 'kin,l of . danger to the world in letting the very fa irest side of slarery he sec n, " an d s I1 e can therefore :dford to be gene-rous, she magnanimously devotes to it tlJC very liLcr·ll allowance of four pages and tlt1'ee-qum·ters out of t : hundred and fifty-six! ' \\ 0 The fourth chapter is devoted to " intelligent" and coloJ·cJ p ·' . negroes I arsons, anu con tams not a few improbabilities t f1 at speak for them seI vcs: t I ~ . ' lC n.uvcrtlsemcnts at the cwl of the chapter, I shall notice further on under the !Jead o outla'ws. ' ' |