I have come to know more,
however, than I did when I could have had such amiable but unenlightened
feelings. I have read the "Key to Uncle Tom" and the "Barbarism of
Slavery."
Still, I am sorely puzzled. "Kate," she says, "wanted to have it go, it
had been sick so long; but I knew, when she said it, she did not know
what the parting would be."
"The parting!" Has she read our Northern abstracts and versions of the
Dred Scott Decision, and are there, in her view, any rights in a negro
which she is bound to respect? Has she not heard that the Supreme Court
of the United States has absolved her from all her feelings of humanity?
"The parting!" Where has she lived not to know how, according to our
lecturers, families are parted at the auction-block in the Southern
States without the least compunction? We are constantly told,--has she
not heard it?--that the slave at the South is a mere "chattel," and that
a slave-child is bought and sold as recklessly as a calf, and that a
parting between a slave-mother and her children, sold and separated for
life, is an occurrence as familiar as the separation of animals and
their young, and no more regarded by slave-holders than divorcements in
the barn-yard.
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