The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-11-27

Very respectfully, sir
Your obedont servant
H (Sg0cd) goa a7te JOHN NELSON
81 ga .ft.,I = .
From the Nev York Courier 8, ENQUIRER. j.
We hail with pleasure the appearance 10 our CO.
amns Of a contributor, who will always meet with
hearty welcome from US, and whose practical essays
are certain to do much good The story Of George
and John Evans, concluded to-day IL very forcibe
illustration Of wbatwe have always iHsisted to e the
fact viz that the position of the Southern siGDe Is
altogether preferable to that oil the laborsr in England
The crazy Abolitionists both in England and the
United States, who seek 10 abolish slavery at the
Pense Of our Union, ought also 10 BIZ and probably ore
aware OF the fact that n they should succeed in their
unholy crusade against the continuance Of our Union,
their very success will prove the greatest hat
could possibly betai the slave population Of our coun-
try. Weare familiar with this horrors Of slavery;
but we know, too, its blessings Would to Cop that
there were not slave free black in our country
but we should be opposed to their being liberated even
oy the voluntary action OF their masters, unless they
could at the same time be removed out Of the coun-
try. Oftwo erits, we would select the least.
! GEORGE AND JOHN EVANS.
STORY on sLAyERy--No H.
When the two brothers arrived at the old paternal
residence OF uah-yer-der Elyth, in Wales there was
trouble atng them. Committee, or " Commis-
sion" from Parliament, had just been there exam
lining into the state and condition of the ,poykiu~
classes" certain eenen or chite operaue, are cali
ed in that quarter. All work had been suspended
Tor some days, and these ftetmen were gathered in
groups here and there by day, and many of them
being missed al night were strongly SUSPECTED ia be-
long to Z" Rebeccas" clan, then engaged nightly in
destroying toll-gates and committing other outrages
There was no joyful gathering of people to welcome
the return Of the Iroo master - shey looked sullen
| and stupid. T ae 8t8 fE
and John, the Planter was astonished-buf he made
no remark. As it required some days to unpack and
make himself At hoae, no waited till George should
invite him to visit his mines and FORCES, before max
ing any inquiries or INDUCING his natural curiosity
One morning al breakfast George opened the SUBJ
ject by expressing bis indignation that Government
should trouble itself about the condition Of the ,porne
classes and disturb the harmony and industry of the
country. 81 never suHerany TO bother me, SAYS
he, "about low wages and hard work, and why the
devil should Parliament be sending their agents here
to disturb u.s. :" Iron is low and coal is low and
therefore rages low and ii Corn is high that is
not my fault. don't receive Corn--and how can
be expected to keep people from starving unless
get enough out Of their labor to feed them by their
wages-if government expects me to feed people
because they work for when their labor gives me
inadequate return-goyernment is mistaken that's
ai'--this was his preface 10 volume that John the
planter was just about to open and read. So after
breakfast he sailed out take look into tie actual
condition Of the teemen of the mines and FORCES Of
I" Math-yer-ser Elyth,' the workmen, workwomen
and workchldren of which, had the day before, re-
many hundred yards into the bowels of Coal
Pit; there he found whole families, men, women
and children, engaged in the occupation Of min
ing Coal They had down for the week
not one of them would daylight again for several
DAYS. Damp, cold and dreary indeed was that abode
of human labor and human suffering Not smile,
not expression of cheerfuness animated any coun
teDance in that region. | forgot to mention in its
place, that John had brought his body servant Gum
DO along with him, and Gumbo had been BODY SER
eyprA he lost ivtf NJ
MASTER and on this occasion, though reluctantly had
gone down with his master into the mines. Once in
while during the descent he would interrupt the si-
/ lence with "Goramny bless you, masss, where are
We gongi" And whilst stumbling and STOPPING along
by lamp light through the subterraneous channels he
would cling to the coat tail Of his master and tren-
bic with fear, repeating occasionally in soto vocen
q dis is dc VERY place dc parson said Gumbo would
20 to if he was bad niger"
Never there happy a negro as C,,nbo when
he and his master reached day light again Their
next visit 10 the Iron works-wbere the never
ending fires md hammers and rollers work
day aud night increasingly; and where the worxuaen
employed, though above ground, UNCONSCIOUS
81 sunshine or shower-palid and mrky, and worn to
the bone by labor, and dcaiened by the din Of ham
and roar Of fires, they resembled demons more
than men, and Cunbo thanked his stars he was not
Of them.
Ia all the regions about squalid poverfy-wo-
men whose husbands and friends had died in service
Of the Iron Master and who were surrounded by
children too young even TO carry coal or sweep elm
ders-were literally starving for want OF food. Old
and infrm sick men, who had been fused mn in
mines and furnaces, and unable TO earn any thing
were in like condition.
"Gumbo," says his master, 'my brother George
has proposed 10 me TO make freeman OF you, and
SAYS, if you disposed, as you are now in land
of liberty, you stay here and learn the business
of digging coal or melting iron along with these other
freemen, and be no longer ooiton-pokng slare-how
would you like IT. Come, Gumbo, YOU shall have
your chocc-e,ther to stay here and be freeman or
return with me and continue negro slave"
" Nhaugh-ha, ha ha-phew"-was Gumbo's
irstresponse and then he,contnued "Why, mas
50, tnk Gumbo a fooli What, stay here and go
down dare to the deb-or 20 into de fire, dig dare
and hammer here and neber de blessed sum- No
fiddle, rest eat nohin but ruff wits and berry
little oh dat; and when Gumbo git old turn him out
like old horse TO starve-or when he git sick, nobody
10 take care OBJ him-phew, waugh, waugh, ha--ha--
ha-phew. No, no, massa, take Gumbo back to
Carol ma black niger dare--white niger here-but
white Niger here no more like black niger dare daa
put your finger in de fire and take him out aginn
The two brothers discus sed together fully and free
y the great and tring question of arery in the alb
sract and in the concrete, and ike all such questions
the real and true view The practical and II any
man desires TO have that let him 90 to Wales Man
chester, or Brmngham-look into tie actual condi-
ton of the king classes there-andhen 20 John
Evans plantation in South Carolina, and contrast the
condition Of the porking classes tbere-and especially
let INN listen to the story of Gumbo which be related
TO his companions his return homo, and their
shouts Of laughter their superior comforts CON
trasted with the suffering OF the uht negroes OF Mah
yer-der-Elyth, Wales.
, From The .Ntn York Comm ercoi advertiser.
THE POST MASTER GENERAL AND THE
PRESS.