UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

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152 KEY TO UNCLE TOM S CABIN.
It is likethe account of a greatbattle, in simplyexpressing a hope that " she won't find
which we learn, in round another here
numbers,that ten
during the next month, as she must
thousand were killed and wounded, and then be sent to her owner, in Georgia, and would
throw the paper by without be more unwillingto go." And yet, both of these
a thought. ladies are quitereligious, and highly resent
So,when we read of sixty or eighty thousand
any
insinuation that the moral character of the slaves
human beingsbeing raised yearly and is not far above that of the free negroes at the
North.
sold in the market,it passes through our With Violet'sstory, I will also enclose that of
mind,but leaves no definitetrace.
one of our waiters ; in which,I think, you will be
Sterne says that when he would realizeinterested.
the miseries of captivity, he had to turn his Violet's father and mother both died,as she
mind from the idea of hundreds of thousands says, " 'fore I had any sense," leaving eleven
languishing in dungeons, and
children " scattered. " To sabe my life,Missis,
bringbefore couldn't tell dis yer nightwhere one of dem is.
himself the picture of one poor, solitary captive
Massa lib in Charleston. My first "
husband,
pining in his cell." In like when we was
manner, we
young,
man ; he had seven
cannot give any
idea of the horribly cruel children ; den he sold off
"
to Florida hear
from him 'gain. Ole folks die. O, dat's be
and demoralizing effectof this my
trade,except boderation, when ole Missis," people be dead,den
by presenting facts in detail, each fact beingwe be scattered all 'bout. Den I sold up here "
a specimenof a class of facts.
now hab 'noder "
husband four children up
For a specimen of the public sentiment here. I lib bery easy when my young
husband
'libe" and we had children beryfast. But now
and the kind of morals and manners which dese yer ones tightfellers. Massa don't 'low us
thisbreeding and tradingsystem produces, to raise noting; no "
no no pig" goat" dog
both in slaves and in their owners, the writer no noting; won't allow us raise a bit of corn.
gives the We has to do
following extracts from a recent
jist de bestwe can. Dey don't gibus
a
letter of a friend in one of the
singlegrain
Southern
but jis two no
homespunfrocks"
coat 'tall.
States.
"
Can't go to meetin,'cause,Missis,get dis
work done "
get dinner. In summer, I goes
Dear Mrs. S :
"
sable goddesswho presides
eberySundayebening; but dese yer short days,
over our bed and wash-stand is such a
queer time done get dinner dishes washed,den time get
specimenof her race, that I would give a good supper. Gen'llygoes Baptistchurch."
deal to have you see her. Her whole appearance,
"Do
as she goes giggling and your peopleusuallygo there ?"
curtseying about, " Dere "
bees tree shares ob dem Methodist
is perfectly comical,and would lead a stranger to
gang, Baptistgang, 'Piscopal gang. Last summer,
think her reallydeficient in intellect. This is,
use to hab rightsmart* meetins in our yard,
however,by no means the case. Duringour two
Sundaynight.Massa Johnson preachto us. Den
months' acquaintance with her, we have seen he "
said couldn't hab two meetins mightgo
many indications of sterlingood sense, that to church."
would do credit to many a white
person with ten "Why?"
times her advantages.
"
Gracious knows. I lubs
She is disposed to to be very communicative go to meetin
"
"
; allers 'specially when dere 's "
good preaching
seems to feel that she has a claim upon our
sympathy,
lubs to hab "
peopletalk goodto me to hab
in the very fact that we come from the
peopleread to me, too. 'Cause don't b'long
North ; and we could undoubtedly
to
gain no little
church,no reason why I shan't."
knowledgeof the practical workings of the "
"peculiar
Does your master like to have others read to
institution," if we thoughtproper to hold
you?"
any protractedconversation with her. This,however,
"He "
won't hinder an't bound tell him
would insure a visitfrom the authorities, when folks reads to me. I hab my soul to sabe "
requesting us to leave town in the next train of he hab his soul to sabe. Our owners won't stand
cars ; so we are forced to content ourselves with few minutes and read to us tink it
gleaning
too "
great
a few items,now and then,takingcare honor 's "
beryhard on us. Brack preachers
to appear quiteindifferen to her story, and to cut sometime* talk good
it short by despatching her trifling
to us, and pray wid "
us, on some errand;
and pray a heapfor dem too.
to note
"
I jestdone hab greatquarrel wid Dinah, down
down her peculiarexpressions, as soon as she has in de kitchen. I tellsDinah, ' De way you goes
disppeared. A copy of these I have thought you on spileall de women's character.' "
say she
would like to see, especially as illustrating the didn't care, she do views of the marriage what she pleasewid herself.
institution which is a necessary
Dinah,she
result of the slipaway somehow from her firsthusband,
great human propertyrelation and hab 'noder child by Sambo (he b'long
system.
to Massa D.)
A Southern lady, who thinks " negro sentiment"
; so she and her first husband dey
fallout somehow. Dese yer men, yer know, is so
very much exaggeratedin " Uncle Tom's
queer, Missis,dey don't neber like sich tings.
Cabin,"assures us that domestic attachments cannot
"
Ye know,Missis,tingswe lub,we don't like
be very strong, where one man will have two hab anybody else hab 'em. Such a tingas dat,
or three wives and families, on as
many different Missis,tetch your heart so, ef you don't mind,
plantations. (!) And the ladyof our hotel tells us 'twill fret you almost to death. Ef my husband
of her cook havingreceived a message from her
husband,that he has another wife,and she may
*
Right smart that of" is,
get another husband,with a "
greatmany of idiom
perfectindifference ; of Anglo-Ethiopia.