Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-04-23
BY HER BELOVED SISTERS:
MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, NoRTH CAROLINA,
CnI,rIr q POI fNA Avn Ernpnri

MARYLAND VIRGINIA., NORTH CAROLINA,
SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA,
In ReScuing her from, the Crueltics
OF AN UNNATURAL MOTHER.
Records upon this Consecrated Rock,
The distinguished Virtues ofthese Afiectionate
- Sisters:
MARYtAYD-Th The Man Stedler.
VRGINtA-- The Kidnapper.
NORTH CARoLISA-The Trader IN Blood.
SOUTH CARoLTNA-Ihe Tyraat,
GEoRGIA-1he Murderer
And now what have we done, Sister, to
merit this unkind treatment. What would
you have US do, TO save ourselves from fur
| Their injury and insult, and you, from further
establishment There is but one answer to
| these questions, namely: 'Yos own slaves
and you refuse to emancipate them" Well,
let us discuss the matter calmly. confess it
will cost me struggle to do it, for reasons
apparent through your whole history but |
think, for the ceuntry's sake, | can forget
who you are and what you are, long enough
to discuss the subject with you not only calm
| ly, but fairly.
o,rn s'ares, and sin in so doing Sup
pose that this is all true; now what must do!
Why. emdnclpate them of course" Well,
let us see the end of this course
own two hundred and eighty.one thou
sand slaves OF these, eighty seven thousand
five hundred are under ten years of age two
hundred over hundred years of age and ten
| thousand, between y-fve and a hundred |
set these two hundred and eighty-one thou
| sadd human beings free proclaim liberty to
| these old and decrepld, these young and help
| less. Among them are many sick, lame, blind,
deaf and dumb. | set them adrift upon the
world, houseless, breadless, penniless. Be-
fore the Gsd who made you, Sister Mass, do
you think this would be rights A months
time would bury nineteen-twentieths of them.
&c But you should send them quay" Well, 1
| turn to my benevolent Sisters, who are moving
heaven and earth 10 abolish slavery, and not
one of them will receive them. Oh think of
the RANDOLPH negroes, and try to think how
feel, at the abolition cry from Ohio " But
send them to africa" True have no ships
of my own, and apply to'you, the greatest
ship-owner in the Union, 10 transport them
for me. And you exclaim =" Be off! am
the most mortal enemy to Colonization on the
Globe, and not finger will raise TO promote
it," But keep them yourself, and furnish
the mwith the means Of tiving." Exactly For
how long, Sister? Not more than a year,
suppose. AS they could not embark in the
learned professions, I must furnish them with
AN outfit for agriculture You would not
think half pound of meat day, and peck
of corn week, an over allowance for each,
would you? Calculate the amount, if you
please, Sister. But those capable Of labor
must have at least ten acres of land apiece,
suppose. OF these there are one hundred and
forty thousand. We must give them, there
fore, one million four hundred thousand acres.
But they must have horses, ploughs, hoes, AK
es, &C., or the land will be of no avail to them
and they must be clothed for year, be-
sides. intended to have calculated the a.
mount in money of all these things; but this
would consume unnecessary time. You can
do it; and you will see, that to furnish these
means my own children must be beggared.-
All this proceeds upon the supposition, you
perceive, that when free the slaves, | am
bound to provide these freemen with living.
Upon this head have my doubts; but that
the care of them, in this way, would dissolve
all my social relations, break up my commerce,
my schools, my colleges, my churches--in
short, restore me to a state of nature, have
no doubt. Nor, if the clamorous Sisters of
the abolition faith would receive them, could
endure the trouble and expense of transport
ting them-nor could | possibly send them a
broad, if would. Now, when these things
are spread out before you, and you shut your
eyes to them, and still persist in your machi-
nations and railing against me, to what con-
clusion must the most unbounded charity be
driven? We will reach it anon.
Another long letter is written, and yet |
have not concluded what have to say! Bear
with me, Sister / have permitted the account
between us to run on for long time, without
a settlement and, as is usual in such cases, it
requires longer time to settle than either of
US supposed.
Your prosecuted Sister,
GEORGIA.