Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-03-25
Correspondence of the Baltimore Clipper


Washington. March Is, 1850.
Southern Shares and their .uasers- Condition Of the
Sares.
| am southern man love the South; Ills the home
of my chldreo the birth place oi my ancestors; all ny
happes asso alion, my boyhoad Fairgrounds and hunt
ngs, in the evergreen pllns Of the sunny south!
nero my nurse she Is gone To the nome oil
her fhprs; hut her kindness and efecl0n tor me can
never be forrnitedi Negro boys my play ie
l,ws associates and fren s. Hell devotion TO me can
never be fnrgotten of Them vet live and no north
ern or other man, who never so lived can understand
or value or appreciate the feelings now existing
in NY heart when think Of my god old nurse aud my
pllynlates of early and bYg me days Seldom. very
sedlm there aught but love and god feelings known
between The southern slaves and her mas eTS, and
mistrpsSes and their children. And may the curse OF
heaven be- upon those who would spw dis'eniions be-
tween them No friend of the slave would do or say
anpt to cause him 10 bate oJnry his master. here
are some few cruel masters now and there are me had
slaves nlwiheir numbers cannot be les'ened by the m
reference Of nolthfrn abfansts, who know nohlng
whatever Of the relations existing 5etw en- masters and
slaves
II miuht have been better for the South, for the I'm.
ion if slavery ha never existed it now xsts-bnt
that is doubtful. and that is not The question The
institution exists, and It's Is OF ton much Importance, TOO
GREAT magnitude be destroyed at once or triled with.
either by tn Sc who are deeply interested or those
miserable fanatics who medlle, having noinerest. !
will not 90 into history defence of slavery but
will say that slavery. absolute slavery has existed IN
some shape or other since the creation OF the world III
we believe the Old and New Testament and | have
~ doubt it will exist in shape other so long
this world exists. The Creator of the Universe has
decreed God I'd not intend all men 10 be eqal or he
would have made them 50, physically and m 'nialiy-
Fnuay never has existed and never will exist IN this
world Some men are born t. command, and others 10
obey-that is the tGu,h-but why | know not. The
Almighty knows and | am content. Happiness here
and hereafter the aim and end oil all human eXeftons
have seen much of, and have known this world long,
and do not hesitate say That the s'uheTn slaves are,
at this moment, as holy, more truly happy, just as
they are than the same number OF any other body OF
class Of human beings he face OF this eafth Certain
northern persons who cursed with morbid, hawk-
ish peversion of Christianity and ciaIly for Objects be
yund their reach Of whom they IN TACT have no know
eue would do and be much wiser and better u NEEDLE
no more with The happy slaves their masters; and APP
ply their surplus aims Of charity to Their next door
neiuhbIs. The cxertons OF fanatics North VIII nVer
abolish slavery or an,eorate the condition OF slaves
South; and the temptations made TO lhlucs desertIol
rivets the conplaned Of feters .Iaissez nous fare.
believe that negro slavery in his Union is an lnstllu-
ton intended by the Almighty for Christian and meTc
fn purposes believe thai will ultimately en'9he"'
chfsanze and The millions now In, darkest saw
age. cruel bnndage in Africa >.
There lives no people Of kinder hearts, Of pnrcr friend
ships, or more dsn ed aft cioas, han the southern
slaves M malice or envy exists in tner hearts; they
can forgive INJURIES they can be Chrlsahs-anu thry'
in cd lime will be the Of dung more good to Inc
than all the trloe OF aOolitlOnlSt ever I'M
ARMED or conceived. Let this agitation .! the slave
question in Congress cease-ioo much has heea said
et the cons ituion be the guide for the people Let
the people meet throughout the Union, and In mass
Meetings instruct all their members IN Congress who
have been ultra in their speeches, all who hint or nave
bred Al dsunon even as lat Iesor for pretended az
oresslns whether Of the North the South, TO resign
If ihey believe in the right of Instruction and let me
people supply their places with men who VIII supper. 'e
Union-wlh men who, after swearing !" suPPol' 'ne
constitution will moi ampe upon it, and talk Of high.
er powern to Iule this constitution and Cnon-dcVo'cd
Pc p'o'