The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-01-13


ing station in society comfortable subsistence
will perform twice the labor Of the slaves Now in the
SOUTH take hve millions of the white laborers and
know they are set to perform half the labor oths
Same number Of Northern men, ther efore when North.
Southern only produces twelve and half. Were the
system Of society the the SOUTH the man who
now produces only ono hundred and fifty dollars would
produce three hundred dollars Have you thought Of
thisf Well now, as to mental developments! There
was young from New Haven, old class mate of
mine who went to Vgnia to seek his fortune, and in
the peculiar Yankee mode, he published book contain
ing the hist ries ofprvate families in Virginia He
into Kentucky, and said t. him, you came from the
land OF wooden nutmegs and leather pumpkin seeds.
You went into Virginia among the +. F's, the regular
arstocrscy. and what did you 6nd' He answsd me- mot
Connecticut some nfy nine names have shone in the
annals OF their country in various departments. While
of the law there have been no men Of note who are
your historians Have you thought Turn to Girls
woids Poets Of America How many Of them do you
hnd south Of Mason and Dixon's line Go into the
broad world and seek those who have distng pushed
themselves, and who are they Northern men, deve.
loped BY the power Of intellect risen from the people
But yet says the South although you have surpassed
US in all these things, we have governed you. We
declare these things soa,hs1n 40 30. 'ps
Souhero man with Northern feelings love the south,
and because love her and would have her great and
glorious would tell her Of her faults Shall speak
of meras that other part Of human being forming the
great unity They tell in the South that slavery
true 10 not what morast could use such an argu.
ment When We 60 to morality, must take all the
men a. they are, and eli the women a. they are In
your statistics you dot down least three millions
Of abandoned men and women and without going into
the aristocratc class would say, that the morality Of
the South 10 far below that OF the North Have you motto
cd the nswspapers Where the most bloody
tres and murders and duelsf for those are equally
murders in the eye Of God. Where the most
street fights and petitions for divorces pouring
into the Legislature by hundreds But phiioso-
phc eye If he did not know those things to be true
by experience, would know them priorl. One law of
the South is the law Of force, and when the law OF
force Lynch law ceases to exist slavery dies Yet
some smooth back their hair, roll up their eyes,
and say great friends Of emancipation. and We
wish this Clay every success, but he has used
in his own defence, and has kept them in his house.
Well, tell my friends when has fallen among
highway robbers would he his moral suasion his
sword, IL he had one with him ? Voice in the crowd,
!" His sword'D Right II he did not, the rogues would
consider him very good fellow, but would pick every
pocket he had. and take The coat of his back So OH
ye sanctimonious cLurchmen 80 far We know any
thing of the divine nature, slavery subverts it, and
where slavery exists, true morality cannot Yet there
are good in the Southern Statesmen thai love
and reversnce--and because love and them
would them TO beware OF the sandy foundation
on which they standing. Acknowledging, a. do,
that the church Of the North and South contains the
seeds OF righteousness do not denounce IT, but call
upon is members TO examine and whether man
that holds his fellow being in bondage be member
oil the Church Of Him who said, do unto others ~