The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-08-22

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II those you address we're 10 sPerd one
day IN the South they would return home
With impressions sgaInst slavery never TO
be erased" Bot the fact - universally the
reverse. have known numerous iusian.
res, and never knew q single ooe. where
there vas no other cause Of offence and no
object TO promote by ialsehood, that ,ndlvld.
ulis from tie non slave holding States did
not, after residing among Us long enough to
understand the subject, return home 10
defend our sidrerp. |: is matter OF regret,
that YOU have never tired the experiment,
yourself. DO no, doubt YOU would have
been converted, for give you credit for an
honest though perverted mind. ! OF would
have seen how weak aud futile is all alb
siract reasoning about this matter, aud that
es a building NAV not he less elegant m It's
proportions or tasteful IN ITS ornaments, or
v,tluous N It's uses, for being based upon
granite, So a system OF human government
though founded on force, may deselope and
cultivate the tendsres, and purest senli-
meRts OF the human heart. Add oor patrl.
1rchal scheme OF domestic seryitude rs 10.
deed we'll calcul9tcd TO awaken the higher
and inner feelings Of our nature. IL is not
wanting 10 its enthusiasm aud It's poetry.
The relations OF the most beloved and hon.
ored chief and the most faithful aud admir-.
ing subjects, which from tho tme of Homer
have been the theme OF song, are frigId and
unfeli, compared slIh those existing be.
tween the mnsler end his slaves--sho
served his father, and rocked his cradle, or
have been born in bis house. hold, and
looked forward to serve his chldren-a DO
have been through life the props Of his for
tune and the objects OF his care-who have
partaken o. his grief, and looked 10 him for
comfort 10 their own--whose sickness he
has SO often watched over and relieved
whose holidays no has so Often made Joy
ous by bic bounues ond his presence for
whose welfare when nbseni his anxious soil.
ciiude never ceases, and whose hearty and
affectIonaIe greeting never fail to welcome
HIN home. 10 this cold calculating. ambl.
iioUs world OF ours there are few ties more
heartfelt, or Of more benignant influence,
than those which mutually bind the master
and the slave, under our anclent system
handed down from the Father Of Israel
The unhoiy purpose of the abonionists
is to destroy by defiing il to inluse into il
the gall and bitterness which rankle 10 their
own enyenomed bosoms, 10 poison the
miods Of the master and the servant turn
love to hatred, array "force "dgoina force
aud burl all,
With hideoas ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless Perdition,"
You think Il is great "crime that We dc
not pay our slaves wages" and on this
account pronounce Us robbers" Ia my
former letter showed tina, the labor Of our
slaves vac 10; without great cost to US, anC
that 10 fact they ihemae!sss receive NOR,
10 return for II than your hirellngs do 70
lhsirs. For what purpose DO men labor
bYi TO support themselves and their FAINT
lies in what coBfon they gre able tn,
efforts Of mere physical labor seldom suffice
10 provide mJrc than a livelihood And i
IS we'll known and shocking fact, tha
while fey operatives IN Great Britain soc
coed 10 securing q comfortable living, thC
greater part drag out a miserable exist,
euce, aud sIlk at last, under absolute want
What avail is It that you 90 through The
form OF paying them pltlance Of what yol
call wages" when you do not, IN reiurt
for their services, ailos them ahat alone
they ashland have Just right to dcmant
enough to feed, clo,he and lodge them
10 health and sickness, with reasonable con
tort Though Se do no, give wages
IA money, se do this for our sldres, anC
they are therefore better rewarded thar
y0ars. Il is the prevailing vice a1d error
OF the age, and one from which the AboIi.
ti1nIsts, with all their sanity pretenslons
are lar from being free, TO bring everything
TO the standard Of money. You make gold
aud SILVER test Of happlneso. The Amer.
ican slave must DO vretched indeed, be.
cause he IS not compensated for his scrvi-
ces IN cash. 1t IS altogether pfasewcrihy
to pay the iaborer shilling day ADD Lei
BIN sIatve on it. To supply all bis wants
abundanIy, and at all times. yet withhold
from han mOufy, is among the most Iep
yobat-d ct,mes." The tact csnno, 10 Dc.
MED, that the mere laborer 10 now aud al
ways tas been, everywhere thnt barbarsn
has ceased, ensIayed. Among the innoga.
Lions Of modern times following " The DO
cay OF ylileinage,' has been the CREATION OF
new system Of slavery. The primitive
aad paIuarchal, winch may also DO called
HE sacred and natural system, 10 which the
l4b0rst Is under the personal control Of O
fellow being endowed with the sentiments
and sympaibIes Of humanity, oSIsl among
us. 1t has been almost every whore else
superseded by the modern artificial MONEY
p0ieer system, IN which man, his thess and
sine~s, BIS hopes aud affections, his very
beng, are ell subjected to the dominion oil
Cdpadl-a monster withou, heart, cold
stern, arlthmelicnl, sticking 70 the bend
taking ever " the pound Of 1e-h. working
up human his with engines, aud retailing Il
out by weight and measure. His uame oil
olI sas Mammon, the leasi erected spirit
hat fell from Heaven" AID 1t is 10 ex.
tend his Empire, tia, you and your deluded
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