New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-31
Letter from n Shareholder.

An esteemed subscriber in Knoxville, Ga. directs
ns TO stop sending him The Tribnne because OF lis
AntSlavery tendencies and expressions lie says
he considers ia decidedly Abolition, and, as nc
means by this simply hostile TO Slavery and anxious
10 see the end of it, we shall at once plead guilty TO
,be charge. He saws we have often hitherto endea
yored 10 deny or explain away this charge when
preferred by others. We do not remember that we
ave ever done 60 but at any rate we shall not do
+, in this instance Mr.. Clerk enter our plea Of
Chilly
As we are not at all offended at our subscriber :
withdrawal of his patronage, not desiring that he
nor any other man should take our paper any longer
than he wants it, we shall publish the conclusion OF
MS long letter. giving pcture-we doubt not fair
md Just one-of Slavery on his plantation as ii ap-
pears 20 the owner. He says
Now. A. a few facts will outweigh a thousand false
preiudccs founded olse information. VIII give you
ONE 10 show that Slavery not the curse you denounce
A. observed had owned number OF slaves. have
.ood framed houses. brick chmneys large and comfort
BILE for my negroes 10 live in give them all my men
me half pound of bacon per day my women. boys and
iris Ill who work. three pounds per week-not quite
slfpound per day. / give them meal without stint
VERY family has it, garden with vegetables and its hen
house and raises chickens During half the year while
otaoes are IN season. they have them without curiai
nen of other raliOns which is luxury for nobody can
rnsst polaroe luXunously ms negro. give them
evera dollars piece in cash besides their crops ana
hey have many ways 10 make money too tedious T.
mention give them three suits OF clothes per year
me wooden the other two cotton give them mOlasscs
.agar aud coffee at Christmas IN quantities extra ana
airing the year, whenever sick have the same phys
ian 10 auend them that attends myself and family J
work them regularly but not hard have grown per
rrve one 10 clean up the mouse one 70 COOK one ~
weave and several little negroes and spin. &c
.r Nm il. IA her task rec
helps the North would do II alli believe larg,
,JrOn OF the wealthy planters and owners act very
much as de-. That there are many exceptions J ac-
knowledge
The Greeks and Romans had the power Of life and
caih their slaves when Paul cntrcated ordered
hem 20 be ohedeni their The sexual inter
curse ! acknowledge Is degrading. but nothing more
han Abraham committed with Hagar and is the safety
'ave the Of white females. who far
erior IN virtue 10 your Northern females. could write
much. but limits forbid. therefore desire read
iour paper more but request you 10 change the
tance my subscription TO tina, tor DR. Lardner's Lee
urc- into Oiher useful publication. have paid
wo dollars for IT, fany more is necessary you take
the subscription Of my paper and stop il you
end some other publication for II. Yours sc.
SAML. RUTHERFORD"
We have given Mr. Ruthcriord's statement in
u that may have lis full force in dissipaiing the
false prcudices' Of Northern anti Slavery people
Yet while we do not doubt that Mr. r. is a kind
ana oi MS hldNc~
Is easy az possiblc-whch is the case with grea,
many # not most Slavcholders-we must say that
'ur prcjudiccs, not against his class but against
slavery are rather strengthened by his expose
We cannot help asking wha, security these well
used Slaves have for The continuance of their bless
ngs; and what must be their fate in case he should
lie and his heir prove gambler iyrant debau
'hee-characiers not absolutely non existent, even
II the South. We feel the need of some guaranty
hat the wife shall no, be torn from her husband the
laughter from her parent. either dig in the cane
brakes of Texas satate the demands of the grea,
southern 'saiety-vave of tchite female virtue We
hink these ignorant and helpless human beings
pught TO be protected from cruelty or lust by the
ars Of their State and not by the accident that
h5ir master is good man, which we know does not
ilvays happen. And. when read how munit
'ent our subscriber is in gifts of bread and bacon
o his slaves we can't help asking whose labor it is
iha, produces or earns all this bread and bacon and
whether in the eye Of Justice they don't give him
something As truly he gives them every thing
Good by. friend Ii YOU will only think over the
whole matter. calmly and impariially. and keep
thinking we shall hope TO send you The Tribune
again before many years