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of the upper classes, and their only means ism of honorable Southern men, but which
of consolation is in having a class below they are powerless to prevent. Such was
them,whom theymay
scorn in turn. To the case when the Honorable Senator Hoar,
set the negro at liberty would deprivethem of Massachusetts, with his daughter, visited
of this last comfort ; and accordingly no the city of Charleston. The senator was
class of men advocate slaverywith such appointedby the sovereign State of Massachusetts
frantic and unreasoningviolence, or hate
to inquire into the condition of her
abolitionists with such demoniac hatred. Let free colored citizensdetained in South Carolina
the reader conceive of a mob of men as prisonsẈe cannot suppose that men of
brutaland callous as the two whitewitnesses honor and education, in South Carolina, can
of the Souther tragedy, led on by men like contemplate without chagrinthe fact that
Souther himself, and he will have some idea this honorable gentleman țhe representative
of the materials which occur in the worst of a sister state, and accompaniedby
kind of Southern mobs.
his daughter, was obliged to fleefrom South
The leaders of the communityțhose men Carolina, because theywere told that the
who play on other men with as little care constitutedauthoritieswould not be powerful
for them as a harperplays on a harp,keep enoughto protecthem from the ferocities
thisblind, furious monster of the mob, very of a mob. This is not the onlycase in which
much as an overseer keepsplantation-dogs, this mob power has escapedfrom the hands
as creatures to be set on to any man or thingof its guiders, and producedmortifying results.
whom they may
choose to have put down.
The scenes of Vicksburg, and the
These leadingmen have used the cry of succession of
"
"
"
popularwhirlwinds which at
"
abolitionism" over the mob, much as a that time flewover the south-westernstates,
huntsman uses the "set on" to his dogs. have been forcibly paintedby the author of
Whenever they have a" purpose to carry, a "
The White Slave."
man to put down,they have onlyto raise They who find these popularoutbreaks
this cry, and the monster is wide awake, useful when theyserve theirown turns are
ready to springwherever theyshall send sometimes forcibly reminded of the consequences
him.
Does a minister raisehisvoice in favorof
the slave 7 Immediately, with a whoop and
"
Of lettingrapineloose,and murder,
To go justso far,and no further ;
hurra șome editor starts the mob on
And
him,as
settingall the land on fire,
an abolitionist. Is there a man teaching To burn jwstso high,and no higher."
negroes to read 1 mob isstarted upon The statements made above can be substantiate
him
must promise to give it up, or
by various "
documents, mostly
leave the-state. Does a man at a publicby the testimony
hotel-table express his approbation of some and by extracts from their newspapers.
"
anti-slavery work? come the police, and Concerning the class of poor whites,Mr.
arrest him forseditiouslanguage ; * and on the William Gregg, of Charleston, South Carolina,
heels of the police, thronging round the in a pamphlet, called "Essays on Do-
justice's office, come the ever-ready mob,"
Industry, or an Inquiryinto the
men with clubs and bowie-knives, swearingexpediency
of establishing Cotton Manufactories
thattheywill have his heart'sblood. The in South Carolina, 1845,"says,p. 22 :
more respectable citizensin vain tryto compose
Shall
them ; it isquiteas hopeful
we
to reason
pass unnoticed the thousands of poor,
with a pack of hounds, and the onlyway is ignorant, degraded white peopleamong us, who,
in this land of plenty, live in
to smuggle the comparative nakedness
suspected
of the and starvation? Many a one is reared in
person out
state as quickly as possibleẠll these are
scenes of common occurrence at the South.
Every Southern man knows them to be so,
and theyknow,too,the reason why they are
the power of his masters, and then
results ensue most mortifying
*
The writer is describinghere a scene of recent occurrence
in a slave state, of whose particularsshe has the
best means of knowledge. The work in questionwas
"
Uncle Tom's Cabin."
to the our
patriot- legislature
electioneering campaigns can
of residentsin slave states,
mestic
"proud South Carolina,from birth to manhood, who
has never passed a month in which he has not,
some
partof the time, been stinted for meat.
Many a mother is there who will tell you that her
children are but scantily provided with bread,and
so ; but,so much do they fear the monster,
much more scantily with meat ; and,if theybe clad
thattheydare not say what with comfortable raiment,it is at
theyknow.
the expense of
This brute monster sometimes gets beyond
these scanty allowances of food. These may be
startling statements,but they are neverthelesstrue ;
and ifnot believed in Charleston țhe members of
who have traversed the state in
attest theirtruth."
The Rev. Henry Duffner,D.D., President
of LexingtonCollege, Va.,himself a