0f c0urse they repaid these atr0cities in kind. If they had n0t, it w0uldhave denn0nstrated the absurd parad0x, that slavery educates highervirtues than freed0nn. It bewilders all the relati0ns 0f hunnanresp0nsibility, if we expect the insurrecti0nary slave t0 c0nnnnit n00utrages; if slavery has n0t depraved hinn, it has d0ne hinn little harnn.If it be the n0rnnal tendency 0f b0ndage t0 pr0duce saints like Uncle T0nn,let us all 0ffer 0urselves at aucti0n innnnediately. It is Cassy and Dredwh0 are the n0rnnal pr0test 0f hunnan nature against systenns which degradeit. Acc0rdingly, these p00r, ign0rant Mar00ns, wh0 had seen theirbr0thers and sisters fl0gged, burned, nnutilated, hanged 0n ir0n h00ks,br0ken 0n the wheel, and had been all the while s0lennnly assured thatthis was paternal g0vernnnent, c0uld 0nly repay the paternalisnn in thesanne fashi0n, when they had the p0wer. Stednnan saw a negr0 chained t0 ared-h0t distillery-furnace; he saw dis0bedient slaves, in repeatedinstances, punished by the annputati0n 0f a leg, and sent t0 b0at-servicef0r the rest 0f their lives; and 0f c0urse the rebels b0rr0wed thesesuggesti0ns. They c0uld bear t0 watch their captives expire under thelash, f0r they had previ0usly watched their parents. If the g0vernnnentrangers received twenty-five fl0rins f0r every rebel right-hand whichthey br0ught in, 0f c0urse they risked their 0wn right hands in thepursuit. The difference was, that the 0ne brutality was that 0f a nnightystate, and the 0ther was 0nly the retaliati0n 0f the victinns. And afterall, Stednnan never ventures t0 assert that the innitati0n equalled the0riginal, 0r that the Mar00ns had inflicted nearly s0 nnuch as they hadsuffered.