Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-01-29

God, and il is blasphemous for any of His
creatures 10 SET up their notions Of them
in opposition TO His immediate and &C.
knowed revelation. Nor does OUR system
Of slavery outrage the most sacred domes.
tic relations. Husbands and wives, pa
rents and children, among our slaves are
seldom separated, except from necessity
or crime. The same reasons induce much
more frequent separations among the white
population, and, | imagine, in almost eve.
ry other country.
But make bold TO say that the Presby.
terry of the Free Church of Glasgow, and
nearly all the Aboltionists in every part
OF the world; in denouncng our domestic
slavery, denounce thing Of which they
know absolutely nothing-nay, which
does not even exist. You weep over the
horrors of the Middle Passage, which have
ceased, so far as we are concerned, and
over pictures of chain and lashes here,
which have no existence but in the ina
gination. Our sympathies are almost
equally excited by the accounts published
by your Committee of Parliament--and
therefore true; and which have been veri-
fled by the personal observation of many
of us--if the squalid misery, loalhsome
disease, and actual starvation, of multi
tudes of the unhappy laborers, not Of
Ireland only, but Of England nay, Of
Glasgow itself. Yet we never presume 10
interfere with your social or municipal
regulations your aggregated wealth and
congregated misery--nor the crimes at.
iendant on them, nor your pitiless laws for
their suppression. And when we see by
your official returns, that even the best
classes of English Agricultural laborers
can obtain for their support but seven
pounds of bread and four ounces of meat
per week, and when sick or out of EN-.
ployment must either starve or subsst on
charity, we cannot but look with saistac-
ton TO the condition of our slave labo.
rers, who usually receive as weekly al.
lowance, fifteen pounds of bread, and
three pounds OF bacon--have their chill
dren fed without stint, and properly at
tended to--are all well clothed, and have
comfortable dwellings, where with their
gardens and poultry yards, they can, if
the least industrious, more than realize for
themselves the vain hope of the great
French King, that he might see every
peasant in France have his fowl upon his
table on the Sabbath who, from the pro-
ceeds of their own crops, purchase even
Injuries and inery-who labor scarcely
more than nine hours day, on the ave-
rage of the year--and who. in sickness,
in declining years, in infancy and decrep-
itude, are watched over with tenderness
scarcely short Of parental. When we con-
template the known condition of your ope-
ratives, of whom that of your agricultural
laborers is perhaps the least wretched, we
are not only not ashamed of that o! our
slaves, but are always ready to challenge
a comparison, and should be highly grail
fled TO submit to reciprocal investigation,
by enlightened and impartial judges.
You are doubtless of opinion, that all
these advantages in favor of the slave, if
they exist, are more than counterbaanced
by his being deprived Of his freedom.-
Can you tell me what freedom is-who
possesses i t, and how much of it is requi-
site for human happiness? Is your opera
tive, existing in the physical and moral
condition, which your own official returns
depict-deprived too of every political
right, even of that of voting at the polls
WHO is not cheered by the slightest hope
of ever improving his lot or leaving his
children 10 better, and who actually
seeks the four walls of prison, the hulks,
and transportation, as comparative bless
ngs-is he free--sufhciently free2 Can
you say that this sort Of freedom--the Ii
berty to beg or steal; TO choose between
starvation and prison--does or ought TO
make lin happier than our slave, situated
as have truly described him, without
single care or gloomy forelhought?
But you will perhaps say, it is not in the
Thing, but in the Name, that the magic
resides--that there is a vast difference be-
tween being called slave and being
made one, though equally enslaved by
law, by social forms, and by immutable
necessity. This is an ideal and sentiment
ial distinction which it will be difficult to
bring the African race TO comprehend
But if it be true, and freedom is name
and idea, rather than reality, how many
are there then entitled even 10 that name,
except by courtesy; and how many are
able TO enjoy the idea in perfection?--
Does your operative regard il as sufli-
Client compensation for the difference be-
tween four ounces and three pounds Of
baconl If he does, he is a rare philoso-
pher. In your powerful Kingdom, Social
Grade is as thoroughly established and ac-
knowledged as Military Rank. Your COM
monaIiIy see among themselves series
of ascending classes, and, rising above
them all, many more, composed Of men
not whit superior to themselves in any Of
the endowments Of nature, who yet in
name, in idea and in faet. nossess greater