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use an Incendiary paragraph bully Brooks and colored Contentment dare South Carolina secede? the consequences of Secession punishment at the Sugar House Charles Sumner's Namesake story of a slave how he knowed his parents like a book the captured negro's conduct slaves willing to fight raised and growed Paddling the bonstituents of the assassin Brooks —— fit men to celebrate his memory and to revile, with worse than fiendish glee, the sufferings of his pure-hearted victim, Charles Sumner! *I never spoke to any poor whites of this State, in order to learn their feelings towards slavery and slaveholders. Yet it may be interesting to the frie, as an indication of sentiment, that there is a native-born child of South Carolina parents, who reside in the capital, named after our torch-tongued orator, Charles Sumner. Story of a slave. The concluding portion of the narrative that I sub join, related to me by a slave, whose answers I took down in short hand as he utt
p my mind to leave. . . . . ‘Spect I better not tell de way I comed: for dar's lots more b<*> comina same way I did. V. Scenes in a slave prison. Dr. S. G. Howe Extract from a private letter from Dr. S. G. Howe, of Boston, to Senator Charles Sumner, describing a visit to the prison of New Orleans, and published by permission of the writer, [From a private letter to Charles Sumner, by Dr. S. G. Howe, of Boston.] I have passed ten days in New Orleans — not unprofitably, I trust Charles Sumner, by Dr. S. G. Howe, of Boston.] I have passed ten days in New Orleans — not unprofitably, I trust — in examining the public institutions, the schools, asylums, hospitals, prisons, etc. With the exception of the first, there is little hope of amelioration. I know not how much merit there may be in their system, but I do know that in the administration of the penal code, there are abominations which should bring down the fate of Sodom upon the city. A man suspected of a crime and awaiting his trial, is thrust into a pandemonium filled with convicts and outlaws, where, herding and sleeping
butors, and disbursed the treasury of desolation and civil war as the exigencies of their guerilla forces and armies required. This firm has made millions by the government contracts. For a specimen of the manner in which they have been rewarded, I refer you to the last report of the Secretary of the Treasury, from which you will see that they have been paid at the rate of $187 per barrel for transporting each and every barrel of flour forwarded to the army at Utah. If, then, as Charles Sumner says, he who is not for freedom in her hour of peril, is against her, be true, and be equally true of slavery, how will the South and her oligarchy ever be able to defray their indebtedness to the Democracy? and how, too, will New England and the North ever be able to square their accounts, even when the terrible day of reckoning does come? Iii. Slave-hunting in Kansas: fate of the Shannon guards. the most romantic passages of Kansas history have never yet been penned. I will r