17/17 (Female Society for Setting the World to Rights) that "army folks were a low, dissipated set, for they put wine in their _puddin_ sauce." I do not mean to say liberty is not, next to life, the greatest of God's earthly gifts, and that men and women ought not to be happier free than slaves. God forbid that I should so have read my Bible. But such cases as Susan's do occur, and far oftener than the raw-head and bloody-bones' stories with which Mrs.Harriet Beecher Stowe has seen fit to embellish that interesting romance, Uncle Tom's Cabin.. |