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A writer in a very respectable publication at the North, already
referred to, gave us several years ago a curious piece of criticism on
some publication which he regarded as too favorable to slavery. His
pages, some of them, were crowded with daggers, in the shape of
exclamation marks,--two, three, four, and, in one instance, five, at the
end of quotations from the book under review. It was he that made the
assertion about the "arsenic," as being "universally in the hands of the
slaves."
I shall now let him review my little stories. I quote many of his
words:--
"'To show the ignorance and simplicity of our travelling' lady, we give
the following,--and what will the North say to this new argument in
favor of slavery? namely, a truckle-cart! a black boy riding!! two white
boys giving him a ride!!! and three girls, one of them black! arm in
arm!! romping. 'It is not the fault of this writer, that she cannot
understand a principle;' 'she is a New England Orthodox,'--'and a fair
specimen of the limitations of that type of mankind.' 'But does not the
lady know,' why negro boys are put in truckle-carts? 'If not, any of her
Southern friends could have told her.
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