The sketch
reminded us of the best in 'Uncle Tom.' We need books filled with such
pictures, to electrify the slumbering sensibilities of the North. Wanton
candor in speaking of slavery, is the most unpardonable of sins. There
is a time to tell the whole truth; but the wise man says. There is 'a
time to keep silence.'"
I did not pretend, Gentlemen Reviewers, that my little, pleasing
incidents were arguments in favor of slavery; you should not have been
so alarmed; you are really rude; I almost feel disposed to say to you,
for each of my tales, as the Rosemary said to the Wild Boar,--
"Sus, apage! haud tibi spiro;"
which, not having a poetical friend near to translate for me, I venture
to render as follows:--
"Thus to the Boar replied the Rosemary:
O swine, depart! I do not breathe for thee."
In noticing the manner in which many Northern writers, some of them
amiable men, receive the candid views and statements of travellers and
visitors at the South, I have been made to think of a company of the
owls, such as you see in Audubon, listening to the reading of David's
one hundred and fourth Psalm, in which he describes nature. Not a smile
of satisfaction; on the contrary, if you
"Molest the ancient, solitary reign"
of prejudice in their minds against the South, they either mope, or make
a sad noise.
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