CHAPTER I.. Which Side of the Question Are You on, Sir?

Which side of the question are you on, Sir?

Ultraists North and South. Writers who disseminate erroneous views. Uncle Tom's Cabin a work of that class,

The Author of our existence made us to differ mentally and physically,

We all look through different glasses, some view objects through a microscope--exaggeration is their forte. Their minds were cast in a fictitious mould,

It is a dire calamity that this class of writers have taken hold of the subject of slavery,

Slavery an evil--but what shall we do with it? Sympathy for the African race, the object of Mrs. Stowe's book--right and proper, if properly directed, but blindfold sympathy not likely to result in any good,

Slaves of the South proper objects of sympathy--so are their masters. Uncle Tom's Cabin, a gross misrepresentation,

Is it right for Mrs. Stowe to present slaveholders, en masse, to the whole civilized world, as a set of hell-deserving barbarians?

No good can result from misrepresentation. "The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." Mrs. Stowe may inculcate resistance to the laws of her country, but so did not Christ and his Apostles,

What atrocious crimes have been perpetrated in the name of liberty! "Show me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are,"

Are there no laws to protect slaves? The Southern slave is not amenable to the civil laws for his conduct, except in a qualified sense,

The punishment of slaves is much more lenient than the punishment of white men for similar crimes. Transportation of slaves for crime,

Ah! don't touch my purse! Your sympathies never leak out in that way. Slaveholders called murderers, &c.,

White and black slavery. Hunger and cold are hard masters--worse than Southern slaveholders. Condition of free negroes, North. Universal prejudice against negroes--their freedom but nominal, &c.