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Show lSG NOT 1-: S ON l\irs. Stowe affirms that it is a. custom of the trade, also, to part husband and wife; aml to p1·ove this custom she brings forward two witnesses, (white ones, for a wont.I er,) who testify each to one isolated instance! 'l,hat tho thing is occasionally done, no one doubts; but that it should bo done customarily I have shown (Note 5) to be contrary to known principles of human action. Cha.ptcr 1\vclfth treats• of " the degradation of the negro's position," a.D"d contains a. letter from tho Rev. Dr. Pennington, (formerly u. slave in :Maryland,) in which is the following:- " 0, :Mrs. Stowe, slavery is an awful system ! It takes man as God made him: it demolishes him, and then miscrcatcs him, or perhaps I should say mal-creates him!" If Dr. Pennington means this of slavery as it exists in Africa, it is true: if he means it of slavery as it exists in America, it is fal se. American siavery takes the negro as slavery ·in Africa has made him, a brute in human shape,* (sec Appendix, ll.) and humanizes him, and Christianizes him, and elevates him to a man; and of thi!:!, Dr. P ennington is in his own person an illustrious example. lie shou\J. be the last one to speak ill of American slavery : it has made him nil he is, and nil he hopes for. But for it, he would have been a degraJed creature in the land of hi~ ancestors, with Reason and Conscience, those glorious endowments of humanity, undeveloped, and nothing but the "hum:ln form divine" to say to the bcho!Jer, rnliS is a man.-And there are hundreds of Dr. Pennington's, aml hundreds of thousands, ay, millions,_of approximations to emendation was considered rn.thcr doubtful a t the time; but r am in clined to think it would now come in very pat: certainly Yte ltavu hnd plent.y of conlributionR, within the last yen.r or two, to the 1\ ntiSlavcry Caws; plenty of iterations n.nd reite rations. • Or if it has not made him so, it ha.s found him so, and lr>fl him so. UNCT.P. TOM'S CABIN. 187 him,-made so by their "position;" and when as a 1'ace th.ey ~h:~ll have attai~led _his sta ture of hurna.nit;, America!~ ~la_vcJ>:" IS doomed: It will fall to pieces by its own weiaht. ~.: tt cl!d not, the outra?cd sen timent of Christendom w~u\J liSe en masse to exterrrunate it. '!.'he thirteenth chapter is devoted to the Quakers I have sp~ce to notice only two or three passages in it, which are p~rtrcularly noteworthy us partially letting us into tho authors Idea ?~ Christianity, and showing that the K<'y, as well as the origmal work, is anti-christian. It seems that "a family, consistino- of Samuel II· ·k· f h' . o a'\ ms, n reeman, IS Wife Emeline, and six cllildrcn who wcro afterwards proved slaves," wcro arrested and c;mmitted as such to Newcastle (Delaware) jail; and that, at the in stance of John Garret, a Quaker, who supposed not only the father, but the mother and the "four youngest children," free, the were bro~ght by ltabeas corpus before Chief Justice Boot!;, and by hrm set ~t liberty, on Ute g•·o•md of defect in the eomnutment. 'lhe rest of the account I . . G , own words: ' gl\'e m nnct s "'L'hc day was wet and cold. one of the cl .ld I ld · ' II rcn, t 1rec years o ' was a Crlpple from white swelling and cou\J t walk a. step; another, eleven month~ o!J '• t th b no d 1 . · · ' u o reast · an t ~o pa:cnts bemg desirous of getting to \rVi! nJin ton' ~.ve m~l~s dJsta~t, I ~sked the judge if there would Leg an ' l JSk OI unpropnety m my hiring a conveyance for the m ot h e~ and four young children to " ' ilmino-ton. His 1"<' J . 1 presence of the shcrifr and my :Jt~orney ,, .• s tiP y, 111 tltel not b I ' " 1ere cou r t t·: anhy. then rc~ uc~tcd th e sheri ff to procure a hack o r ,a e t em over to 'V!lmmgton." I he whole family esc· d G . convicted and£ d ~ .. ;re . a.net was broug!Jt to trial, and $1 900 nc $u, 00; $3,500 for hiring the" !Jack,'· whol ' ' ~s the value of the sl aves. If this were the S e story, •t wotlld be a hard case. But let us I . III . towe: ICat IS. |