Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-09-04

iJ Aot"i w Holl . poolIlOu anu pioo-
poets to keep a mistress openly, whether
white or black. What Miss Martineau re-
Iates OF young mans purchasing color
ed concubine from a lady and avowing his
designs, is too absurd even for contradiction.
No person would dare to alIude to such a
subject in such manner to any decent fe-
male in this country. If he did, he would
be Lynched-doubtless with your approba-
ton.
After all, however, the number of the
mixed breed in proportion to that Of the
black is infinitely small, and out of the
towns next to nothing. And when it is
that the African race has been
among us for two hundred years, and that
those of the mixed breed continually inter-
rearing large families-it is a
decided proof of our confluence that so
few comparatively are to be found Our
are two fold. From the proli-
fc propagation of these mongrels among
themselves, we are liable to be charged by
tourists with delinquencies where none have
been committed, while where one has been,
it cannot be concealed. Color marks indel-
IDLY the offence, and reveals it to every eye.
Conceive that, even in your virtuous and
polished country, if every bastard through
all the circles of your social system was
thus branded by Nature and known to all,
what shocking developments might there
not be? How little indignation might your
saints have to spare for the RIGHTEOUSNESS
of the slave region. But / think | may
justly conclude, after all the scandalous
charges which tea-table gossip and long
gowned hypocrisy have brought against the
shareholders, that people whose men are
proverblally brave, intellectual, and hospt-
able, and whose women are unaffectedly
chaste, devoted to domestic life and happy
in it, can neither be degraded nor democrat
lied, whatever their institution may be-
My decided opinion is, that our system Of
slavery contributes largely to the develop,
ment and culture of these high and noble
qualities.
In commercial point of view (which
will. not omit-slavery presents some diff
culties. As general rule, agree it mus
be admitted, that free labor is cheaper thar
slave labor. 1t is falacy to suppose tina
ours is unpaid labor. The slave himsel
must be paid for, and thus his labor is al
purchased at once, and for no triAing sum
His price was in the first place paid mostly
10 your countrymen, and assisted in build
ing up some Of those colossal English for
tunes since illustrated by patents Of nobili.
ty, and splendid piles of architecture, stain,
ed and cemented, if you like the expression
with the blood Of kidnapped innocents )
but loaded with no heavier curse than abo
Iilion and its begotten fanatacsms have
brought upon your handsome of then
fulfilled, some yet to be. But besides the
first cost Of the slave, he must be fed ant
we'll clothed, if not for humanity's sake
that he may do good work, retain health
and life, and rear family to supply hi:
place. When OLD or sick, he is clea
Expense, and so is the helpless portion O
his family. No poor law provides for hin
when unable to work, or bring up his chill
dren for our service when we need them
These are all heavy charges on slave labor
Hence, in all countries where the denseness
of the population has reduced it to mat,
ter of perfect certainty that labor can bt
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be forced by sheer necessity to hire fol
the small pitlance that will keep soul ano
body together and rags upon his back while
in actual employment, dependent at al
other times on aims or poor rates in al
such countries it is found cheaper TO pay
this pittance than to clolhe, feed, nurse
support through childhood and pension il
old age, race of slaves. Indeed the adj
vantage is so great as speedily to compen.
safe for the loss Of the value of the slaves
And have no hesitation in saying that if
could cultivate my lands on these terms
would, without word, resign my slaves
provided they could be properly disposed
Of But the question is, whether free OF
slave labor is cheapest TO us in this country
at this time, situated as we are. And it is
decided at once by the fact that we cannot
avail ourselves of any other than slave la
Dor. We neither have nor can we procure
other labor to any extent, or on anything
like the terms mentioned. We must there
fore content ourselves with our dear labor,
under the consolng reflection that what is
lost to us, is gained to humanity and that
inasmuch as our slave costs US more than
your free man costs you, by so much is
he better off, You will promptly say eman-
cipate your slaves, and then you WIFI have
free labor on suitable terms. That might
be if there were five hundred where there