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Wise (search for this): chapter 6
ution is in de oder scale agin us, and de Northern folks here's too light agin it. This theory — Garrison's Ethiopianized — was probably gathered from some Only Wise politician's speech, or allusions to the Federal Constitution. Iv. Fairfax county. Fairfax Court House a white slave his story Northern Renegades pand they associate without concealment in the house; whites and blacks talk together, walk together, ride together, as if they were men and brothers. Why is Governor Wise so silent on this dangerous indication of the amalgamation and equalization-ward tendency of Southern society? What say our Northern Democracy to these negr Soon may you sup, The bitter draught you give to others-- Your negro sons and negro brothers! Soon may they rise, As did your sires, And light up fires, Which not by Wise, Nor any despot shall be quenched; Not till Black Samson, dumb and bound, Shall raze each slave-pen to the ground, Till States with slavers' blood are drenc
Warren (search for this): chapter 6
rned off the turnpike about three miles from Warrenton. We had passed through two or three hamlets — New Baltimore and Buckland I remember — but they did not afford anything worthy of notice. I walked, through a drenching rain, to Warrenton, which is a pleasant country village. In entering it, I asked for the best hotel. I was directed down the street. On looking up at the swinging sign, I read, with astonishment, this horrible announcement, equally laconic as impious and improper: Warren Green HEl Nothing daunted, I ventured, with perfect recklessness — or in the spirit of the Six Hundred of Balaklava — into the very month — the open door-way — of this terrestrial H El. Astonished to find a room in it without a, fire, I instantly ordered one, regardless of consequences. And here I am, for once, in a very snug old room, with a blazing wood fire, as comfortable as a Boston traveller can be, at so great a distance from the old folks to hum and the mellifluous nasa
Wallace (search for this): chapter 6
se satisfied nearly all, but several still seemed disposed to maintain that negro evidence, as against abolitionists, was as good as good need be. Up jumped Capt. Wallace, a fierce, very vulgar-looking bully, with a pistol stuck conspicuously in his belt. I move, he shouted, that he be given fifty lashes. Another fellow movelittle children and the dogs; feathers enough to have given the prisoner a dozen warm coats, and left sufficient for a pair of winter pantaloons. Now! said Capt. Wallace to Atkinson, in a savage tone, now, stranger, to save trouble, off with your shirt! With imperturbable coolness, and without opening his lips, the prisoner o d — d easy, said a second. That's a fact, chimed a third. By this time the prisoner was entirely naked, from the loins upward. Come out here, said Captain Wallace, we don't want to smear the floor with tar. Silently and carelessly Atkinson followed him. A ruffian named Bird, and the wretch who proposed to burn the
Virginians (search for this): chapter 6
said without a leading question, but he added instantly-- Dey soon learns Virginny's tricks. What do you mean? Why, dey soon's hard on collud folks as Virginians. I have heard that, I said, but was unwilling to believe it. Well, mass'r, he said, it's a fac; dey soon holds slaves, and sells him, too, after dey stayshe had recently incurred. I went up to his farm and looked over it. It is very good soil, indeed; commands a beautiful prospect, and is cultivated as well as Virginians know how. I asked him if there were many Northerners settled here? Yes, he added, a good many; and pointed out the farm of one gentleman from New Jersey. He said the Northerners, somehow, made more money, raised better crops, and worked less to do it, than we Virginians. Somehow, he thought, after they were here awhile, they seemed to get an idee of the land, and make it do ‘sactly as they wanted to. The Northerners didn't own slaves. They said slaves cost too much. You buy one,
Underwood (search for this): chapter 6
Atchison had said that had it not been for Mr. Thayer, and his Emigrant Aid scheme, Kansas ere this would have been a slave State. Then, sir, said the politician, sternly, if he comes to Virginia with such a reputation, he will be met as he deserves — expelled instantly or strung up. He did not believe that a single responsible citizen of Virginia would aid or countenance his scheme of colonization. He did not believe that Virginia had contributed $60,000 of stock to the Company. Mr. Underwood was an impertinent intermeddler; he had been always kindly treated in Virginia, although his free-soil sentiments were known; but, not content with that, he must go to Philadelphia, pretending to be one of us, and, if you please, sent by us to the black republican convention, and make a speech there, indorsing a party whose single idea and basis of organization was hostility to the Southern people and to Southern institutions. Did I suppose the Southern people would endure that? They r
Eli Thayer (search for this): chapter 6
rice of Personal estate my room-talk with a slave girl Eli Thayer's scheme Virginia political Economy Alexandria county great, and verily it covereth a multitude of sins! Eli Thayer's scheme. May 15.--I have had a conversation with a prominent politician of the town, on the plan of Eli Thayer, to colonize Virginia by free white laborers. He launched out inrepublicans and abolitionists of the North. He regarded Mr. Thayer as a braggadocio — a fool — or a political trickster — wingfellow and Atchison had said that had it not been for Mr. Thayer, and his Emigrant Aid scheme, Kansas ere this would havehere. This farm was one of the run-out estates, which Eli Thayer & Co. propose to rejuvenate, regenerate and redeem. Thiad a talk with a Virginian at the hotel on politics, and Eli Thayer's scheme of colonization. He said that in Eastern Virgited whatever figures or opinions their leaders advanced--Mr. Thayer would probably meet with resistance at the outset; but, <
South river (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ghouls, in and around the executive mansion and the capitol of our republic. Sail to Alexandria. Having thus, with expeditious virtue, resisted all offers of official position, I entered the ferry boat — George Page, by name — which plies between the capital and the city of Alexandria. It rained heavily and incessantly all the forenoon. Alexandria is ten miles from Washington by water, but I saw very little of the scenery. What I did see was in striking contrast to the banks of the Delaware. Freedom has adorned the Delaware's sides with beautiful villas, and splendid mansions, surrounded by gardens and fields, carefully and scientifically cultivated; while slavery, where the national funds have not assisted it, has placed negro cabins only, or ordinary country-houses, to tell of the existence and abode of Saxon civilization. After doling out to the captain of the boat, each of us, the sum of thirteen cents, we were landed at the wharf of Alexandria; and our feet, ankle dee
Venice (Italy) (search for this): chapter 6
the price was reasonable. I accordingly went up to the house to make the usual preliminary investigations. It is an old, large, once-whitepainted house, which, like the edifice we read of in sacred writ, is set on a hill that it cannot be hid. It is built on what a Yankee would call, quite a knoll — to-wit, a high knoll, and commands a most beautiful prospect of hill, and dale, and water. A country portico — I had nearly said shed--extends along the entire front of the dwelling. The Venetian blinds on the room windows were shut, and, judging from the thick deposit of dust upon them, had been shut for several months past. I modestly rapped on the door which stood hospitably open. A young negro girl, six or seven years old, came out of an adjoining room, looked at me steadily but vacantly, did not condescend to open her sombre-colored lips, but retired as she entered, without warning, and silently as death. In a moment or two afterwards a young mother entered, a woman of t
Prince Georges (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
rl had been cooking for the family. There are evidences, also, in every paper I pick up, of the beneficial effect of Northern free emigration. Wherever the free colonists settle, up goes the price of land forthwith. Here is an illustration: Rise of real estate. Mr. Seth Halsey, a few days since, sold his farm of 600 acres near Lynchbury, Va., to Mr. Barksdale, of Halifax, for $45 per acre. He purchased it several years ago of S. M. Scott, for $27 per acre. In the county of Prince George, land, it appears, is equally valuable. The Planter's Advocate notices the sale of a farm in Bladensburg District, consisting of one hundred and ninety-one acres of unimproved land, for $3,247--seventeen dollars per acre. Another farm, near Patuxent City, Charles County, near the dividing line, was sold for $8,000; another still, in the same neighborhood, for $41 per acre. The Advocate contains another paragraph, which I cheerfully subjoin, as illustrative of the happy effects o
Charles county (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Seth Halsey, a few days since, sold his farm of 600 acres near Lynchbury, Va., to Mr. Barksdale, of Halifax, for $45 per acre. He purchased it several years ago of S. M. Scott, for $27 per acre. In the county of Prince George, land, it appears, is equally valuable. The Planter's Advocate notices the sale of a farm in Bladensburg District, consisting of one hundred and ninety-one acres of unimproved land, for $3,247--seventeen dollars per acre. Another farm, near Patuxent City, Charles County, near the dividing line, was sold for $8,000; another still, in the same neighborhood, for $41 per acre. The Advocate contains another paragraph, which I cheerfully subjoin, as illustrative of the happy effects of the extension of slavery over virgin territories, in raising the price of Personal Estate in the Southern section of the Republic. The price of slaves in Fairfax County is the same as here given. Sale of servants.-- A. H. Chew and R. B. Chew, administrators of the
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