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Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
negroes. It is indelibly associated in my memory with the recollections of my long journey; for often, when alone, I repeated it aloud in the pineries of North Carolina, and the cotton and rice fields of Georgia and Alabama. It is entitled-- Nebraska. I. There's a watchword, weak and timid, Watchword which the gods despise, Which in dust the poet tramples, And that word is — Compromise! Word of spirits, feeble, fallen, Creed of dollars and of cents, Prayer to the Prince of Darkness, From aner and captive Not be loosened on parole, But released as the descendants Of the sires your fathers stole. VIII. Not as foe, as man and brother To the South I say this word: What is past is past — the future Frowns upon the negro's lord! Give Nebraska, give the future To a crime and to a lie? Rather leave the land a desert, Rather battle till we die! IX. Let the hearts of cowards wither, Let the pale intriguers flinch From a visionary peril, Say we — Not another inch! Not one forward step, <
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
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
eeks; sailed down the romantic Alabama to Mobile; in that place rambled for twenty-four hours; and then entered the steamer for the city of New Orleans. I passed the winter there. For reasons that I have already stated, I did not speak with the slaves on the subject of bondage during the earlier part of my sojourn; and, as I was obliged to leave the city in a hurry — to escape the entangling endearments of the cholera, which already had its hands in my hair before I could reach the Mississippi River--I never had an opportunity of fully ascertaining their true sentiments and condition. I saw several slave sales; but they did not differ from similar scenes in Richmond. The Higher Law and old Abraham. Let me recall one incident. In the courts of New Orleans there is an old, stout, fair-complexioned, grey-haired lawyer, of Dutch build and with a Dutch cognomen. I saw a pamphlet one day — his address to a college of young lawyers — opened it, and read a most emphatic denunciat<
Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
conversed with many of the poorer class of whites in my journey. All of them were conscious of the injurious influence that slavery was exerting on their social condition. If damning the negroes would have abolished slavery, it would have disappeared a long time ago, before the indignant breath of the poor white trash. But — it won't. A know nothing. I slept at night at the house of Mr. S----n, a planter and Baptist preacher. He has a farm of six hundred acres overlooking the Appomattox River. He has some thirty slaves, old and young. I rode down with one of his slaves to Wattron Mill — a mile or two. He had lived seven years with his master; did n't know how old he himself was; didn't know how many acres there were in his master's farm; did n't know what land was worth, or how mules, horses and other farm stock sold; could not read nor write; had never been at City Point, which was only three miles distant, according to his own account, although, in point of fact, it
City Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
r. S----n, a planter and Baptist preacher. He has a farm of six hundred acres overlooking the Appomattox River. He has some thirty slaves, old and young. I rode down with one of his slaves to Wattron Mill — a mile or two. He had lived seven years with his master; did n't know how old he himself was; didn't know how many acres there were in his master's farm; did n't know what land was worth, or how mules, horses and other farm stock sold; could not read nor write; had never been at City Point, which was only three miles distant, according to his own account, although, in point of fact, it was nearer six; did not know how many slaves his owner had, or the name of the county we were in! One item of information, however, not generally known by slaves, nor always by whites, he did possess: he did know who his father was! So he was a wise boy after all — or the proverb is rather too liberal in its scope. Farming Utensils. Mr. S. walked down his farm with me in the morning.
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<
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Cilt --he touches his hat reverentially. In Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, and even in somdid once see a girl killed on a plantation in Georgia. He said that he heard his boss, a person ofral districts of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, receive one peck of Indian meal per week. Or of my space to the slaves and the States of Georgia and Alabama. Postscript.-Malden, Massachhese, however, is extremely small. Viii. Georgia. A plague-stricken city the crabbed orescued and set it at liberty again! Ix. Georgia notes. The ghost, or the haunted cabuck nigger, who had run away from his boss in Georgia four years before. He had lived there ever s! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! X. Georgia. Self-educated slaves Pursuit of kn I walked the entire distance from Atlanta, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama. As I intend to revish Carolina, and the cotton and rice fields of Georgia and Alabama. It is entitled-- Nebraska. I[7 more...]
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
y missus got hold of my spellina books thrice and burned them. You taught yourself? Yes, sir. How did you learn the alphabet? Well, sir, he replied, out in----county, near where the boss's plantation is, there's a schoolhouse. The well is close by, and when I used to go for water I got the boys to teach me a letter at a time. I used to give them nuts and things to teach me. Then, after that, when I come to ‘Gusta, --------(he named a young white mechanic), him that came from New Jersey, ga'en me a lesson in writing once in a while, and I learned that-a-way. You married? I asked. Yes, sir; I's got a wife and three children. Where is she? I rejoined. Out in----county. Is she a slave? Oh yes, sir; she lives with her boss out there. How often do you see her? ‘bout once every two or three months. Great domestic institution that! I have met several slaves in the course of my journeyings who had taught themselves to read and write, with as li
Fayetteville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
tle log cabin, so made that it is only a shelter from rain, the sides not being clinked, and having no more furniture or pretension to comfort than is commonly provided a criminal in the cell of a prison. They will cultivate a little corn, and possibly a few roods of potatoes, cow-peas and coleworts. They will own a few swine, that find their living in the forest; and pretty certainly, also, a rifle and dogs; and the men, ostensibly, occupy most of their time in hunting. A gentleman of Fayetteville told me that he had, several times appraised, under oath, the whole household property of families of this class at less than $20. If they have need of money to purchase clothing, etc., they obtain it by selling their game or meal. If they have none of this to spare, or an insufficiency, they will work for a neighboring farmer for a few days, and they usually get for their labor fifty cents a day, finding themselves. The farmers say that they do not like to employ them, because they cann
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
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