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Mystic River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
night-time I should unquestionably have fallen, and been lost in the black slushy depths of the marsh. Columbus is a beautiful little city; but as the letter in which I described it, and my journey to Augusta, was unfortunately lost, and as I am too faithful a chronicler to rely on my memory alone for facts, I will here close my chapter on slavery in North and South Carolina, and devote the remainder of my space to the slaves and the States of Georgia and Alabama. Postscript.-Malden, Massachusetts, Dec. 30.--In my communications to my friends, written on this tour, I strictly confined my observations to the slave population — the colored South. The evidences that I saw daily of the injurious effects of slavery on the soil, trade, customs, social condition and morals of the whites I reserved for editorial use; to advance, from time to time, to such enlightened fellow-citizens as are incapable of seeing or appreciating the self-evident truth that every crime is necessarily a cu
Warren (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
s oracle; and hence, being a serf, it commands no respect. The Peanut Seller's Triumph. I heard a good story of Young America at Atlanta. It shows what manner of individual that young gentleman is. I believe I have forgotten to state that I w full speed, seldom exceed the rate of three miles an hour until they reach a considerable distance from the city. Young America attached a piece of string to the pork, and went down with another boy to the place where the grade is steepest. Nhis willing and laughing comrade. The rail, of course, was rather greasy. The freight train came up. Puff-uff-uff! Young America screamed with delight. It was literally as he said, No go, nohow! For two days the engine vigorously puffed from to call in the aid of another engine. Thus concludeth the instructive history of the Peanut Seller's Triumph; or, Young America's Revenge. Xi. Alabama. A journey afoot Contentment of slaves in Alabama railroad hands their allowanc
Rockbridge (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
their future histories, the difference which naturally results from a country free, and a country afflicted with the curse of slavery. The same may be said of the two States of Missouri and Illinois. Surely this is satisfactory testimony? Thomas J. Randolph spoke next, and in the same strain as the preceding speakers. Is slavery a curse? Marshall, Barry, Randolph, Faulkner, and Chandler answer in the affirmative; and thus replies Mr. James McDowell, junior, the delegate from Rockbridge: Slavery a Leprosy. Sir, if our ancestors had exerted the firmness, which, under greater obligations we ourselves are called on to exert, Virginia would not, at this day, have been mourning over the legacy of weakness, and of sorrow that has been left her; she would not have been thrust down — down — in a still lowering relation to the subordinate post which she occupies in the Confederacy, whose career she has led; she would not be withering under the leprosy which is piercing her t
Brunswick, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
s Faulkner, of Virginia: Sir, I am gratified to perceive that no gentleman has yet risen in this hall the avowed advocate of slavery. The day has gone by when such a voice could be listened to with patience, or even with forbearance. I even regret, sir, that we should find those amongst us who enter the lists of discussion as its apologists, except alone upon the ground of uncontrollable necessity. And yet who could have listened to the very eloquent remarks of the gentleman from Brunswick without being forced to conclude that he, at least, considered slavery, however not to be defended upon principle, yet as being divested of much of its enormity as you approached it in practice? Sir, if there be one who concurs with that gentleman in the harmless character of this institution, let me request him to compare the condition of the slaveholding portion of this commonwealth — barren, desolate and seared, as it were, by the avenging hand of heaven — with the descriptions whic
West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ry servitude. Their discontent is passive only. They neither hope, nor grumble, nor threaten. I never advised a single slave either in Georgia or Alabama to run away. It is too great a responsibility to incur. The distance is too far; the opportunities and the chances of escape too few. The slaves, I found, regard themselves as the victims of a system of injustice from which the only earthly hope of escape is--the grave! Railroad hands. The shareholders of the railroad from West Point, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama, own all the slaves who are employed in grading, pumping, wood cutting, engine firing, and in other necessary labors along the line. These men are the most favored sons of Africa employed in the country, in the States of Alabama or Georgia. They are hard worked from sun to sun, and from Christmas to Christmas, but they are well fed and clothed, and comfortably lodged — comfortably, that is, for negro slaves. Their allowance. They receive five pounds of
Canaan, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
er womb; Yet, what if I sold them? she never complained, From her cradle-bed down to her tomb. Ah! never again will a slaveholder own A darkey so pious as she who has gone. Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! IV. They say that she bore me a child whom I sold-- I doubt, but I do not deny; Yet e'en if I bartered its body for gold, 'Tis God who's to blame and not I, For He in His wrath said that Saxons should own The offspring of Canaan — like her who has gone. Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her home in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her home in the skies. V. Haste! bury her under the meadow's green lea, My faithful old black woman Sue; I'll pray to the Lord for another like she, As dutiful, fruitful, and true! Yet I fear me that never again shall I own A darkey so “likely” as her who has gone! Gone! gone! gone Gone to her rest in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! X. Georgia. Se<
Mount Sinai (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
. They are chiefly by birth Virginians, and were nearly all bought in the Old Dominion eleven years ago. The majority that I spoke with were married men and fathers at the time of the purchase; but, as the railroad company had no need of female servants, their Domestic institutions were broken up, and — wifeless and childless — the poor fellows (as they are called), were transported south, and condemned for life to Alabama celibacy and adultery. Of course, He who, amid the lightnings of Mount Sinai, uttered the command, Thou shalt not commit adultery, was the founder of the system of slavery in America, which breeds such crimes, and many others of the same character, but far more odious in their nature! Of course? Do n't the Southern clergy and the Rev. South-Side Adams, of Instantaneous Conversion and Instantaneous Rendition notoriety, announce the fact? And do n't they know? Marriage and slavery. Several of these hands, as they frankly owned, have cohabited with plantatio
Weldon, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e non-slaveholders here are secret abolitionists. I walked as far as Weldon, North Carolina, from Petersburg, and there I took the cars for Wilmington. On the ronorable and patriotic sentiments on record! V. North Carolina. Weldon, North Carolina, is a hamlet, or town, or city --I do n't know what they call it-consis Talk with a young slave. In returning from a walk in the woods, by which Weldon is surrounded, I came up to a young negro man who was lying on the ground in th of Emancipation, I continue my extracts from my Diary: September 28.--At Weldon. This morning I took a walk in the woods. A colored man, driving a horse and n a public letter, published at this time in an anti-slavery journal — dated at Weldon, or posted there — I offered the following programme of action for the abolitiocript about slaves and other people in the turpentine forests, I remained at Weldon about a week — every day making new excursions into the surrounding country —
Nazareth, Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
gold in the legislative halls of every free Northern State. Here it is An unconstitutional decision of a judge is no authority; and even if confirmed by the highest judiciary in the land, namely, the Supreme Court of the United States, it would still be no authority: no law which any one of the States would be bound to recognize. An unconstitutional law is no law--it is Null and Void--and the same is true of a judge's decision given against the supreme law. Can any good come out of Nazareth? Undoubtedly! There is a gospel of freedom in that one Southern word — Nullification! Is slavery a local institution. It does not suit the South now to admit that slavery is a local institution. It is national, and a blessing now, and claims, the protection of national institutions. It may be well, therefore, to remind the South of her old opinions. Read what Governor Wilson said in his message to the South Carolina legislature — opinions which were enthusiastically indorsed by th
Hamburg, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
fter him. His wife — a quiet, dignified personage — in spite of his frequent, shrieked warnings to her, came kindly forward and gave me a glass. Augusta. Opposite Augusta, on the other side of the Savannah River, is the town of Hamburg, in South Carolina. Although the pestilence had raged in Augusta with terrible fatality for more than a month, no case of yellow fever had as yet occurred in the town of Hamburg. The wind, fortunately for the town, had blown in the opposite direction evHamburg. The wind, fortunately for the town, had blown in the opposite direction ever since the plague broke out. They expected to be stricken as soon as the wind should veer about. Yet they escaped; no single case occurred there ; for the wind was friendly to them to the end. I walked down to the river side. It was sad to see Augusta — apparently deserted — not a human being anywhere visible! When the people found that I intended to cross, they earnestly remonstrated with me. But I went up to the bridge — and stepped on it. It is rather a solemn thing to do at such
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