The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-30

Dor unless compelled by the authority Of The
question is, shall the white man bring disease and
death upon himself by performing drudgery work in
the sun. OF make the negroes do the werk-the sun,
He in the shade abong and managing Tor their benefit
as well as his own-they, IN the sun, working for the
benefit OF the common household, oil which they form
partconstute the relation OF master and slave-an IN
stituton designed by Nature TO be beneficial TO both par
ties and injurious TO neither. Here IN New Orleans, the
larger part OF The drudgey- requiring exposure 10
the railroad making street.pavinE, draydrving
dtchng, building. &c.--is performed by white people
The sickness and mortality among that class OF persons
who make negroes OF themselves In this hot climate are
frighuly great; while the mortality among all those
classes enjoying the advantages OF the relation oil master
and slave you will be surprised TO hear not greater
not as great-as among an equal number IN your own
city OF Boston. Our tables OF mortality, compared with
the cities OF the northern States prove that the mortality
among children not as great here as there thus show
ing that the great aggregate mortality OF New orleans
above that OF the northern cities not owing to the eli
mate locality being unfrendly to human life, but is
mainly owing large class OF persons in this city yo-
lang Natures laws by making negroes OF themselves
Our tables also show that, in all over fifty, the mortality
is less than at the North, for the plain reason that
neither children old persons are much exposed to the
sun. Lest be thought that all the advantages OF the re-
laon OF master and slave might at least be attained for
what you call the colored people, it emanclpaed under
favorable circumstances permit me to inform you that
emancipation in this city many years ago took place from
coored people were not only Set Free but were left hand.
some fortunes likewise All Of the pure blood. unlike
the slaves, diminish in NUMBERS and those OF the mixed
race promise ere long to become extinct
The excessive mortality in this city derived from the
free coored PERSONS who have masters TO take
of them from the halfree slaves, without masters TO
look them who permitted wander about and hire
their own me as il is called from The foreigners, who
arrive here in sckly condition from Europe; but mainly
from the white people, who make slaves OF themselves by
performing drudgery work in the sun. When the mortal
ty. occurring among these different classes of the popua
ton, is subraced from the aggregate deaths. the result
s that there is less mortality among all that large class
both OF the white and the black population, who hold the
relation OF master and slave, than among an equal num-
Der in the northern cities. This brings me to very i'm
know your prejudces, in common with large number
OF the northern people, very strong and bitter against
the institution of negro slavery in the South You have
very scky and un!rendly TO human life in comparison
to the North, without divinng the true cause for its bad
reputation for unheathiness abroad Thry-hree years
of observation and experience in the treatment OF diseases
in the cotton and sugar region have enabled me 10
raize facts and 10 discover the important ruh-no less
important in political than in medical point OF view
that among all that large portion OF the southern popua
ton holding the relation OF master and slave, the
sickness and mortality are not greater than among an
equal number OF people at the North In other words,
negroes who have masters to take care of them,
healthy the South any people in the world and the
white people in the South who have negroes TO work for
them, enjoy generally about as good health, eaeris par
bus, those of Pennsylvania or New York On the
other hand, all those negroes who have masters to
take of them, and all those white people who have
no slaves TO work for them but make negroes OF them
selves by doing drudgery work. exposed TO the hot sum
mers OF the cotton and sugar REGION are cut down by
disease and DEATH like grass before the seyhe of the
mower Hence, would appear that in the cotton and
sugar region Nature has ordained that the negro shall
the white man, and the white man shall take
OF the negro-obedience to this law being rewarded
with the health comfort. peace. and happiness OF both
parties the security of the State and lis strength in
and disobedence punished with disease DEATH and
anarchy
fear, for your patience, but too short for the subject
by actual matter. f-fact company, in
making neghborhood railroad, running through the
battle ground below this city, had standing order for
fifty labores to be sent every day during the hot
Of the TO supply the places of the sick and the dead
Yet much larger number OF negroes in the same vicn-
y, al similar kind OF work in the hot sun,
healthy any people in your native New Hampshire
You are thus told everything in word that have
been trying to tell you Of the imperative necessity Of
gro slavery in the South whether in the Union out
Law law, absiracy right wrong il is question
with the people OF the South they will not debate as it
is question Of life or death But where does this illus
traon of the important truth Of the deadly effect OF prac
teal abolitionism, in putting the white man in place OF
the negro al hard drudgery work in hot southern sun,
come from II comes as still, small voice, to whisper
10 northern preudces that black slavery South is better
than white from the field of American gory-from the
very spot where the physical power OF the greatest
Uas M sRsd before the
rifle. Without taking part for or against slavery in
the South Qor which you nor any other northern is
lespohsDie OF na'9 any ikhl 10 medole) Out only for
the truth. and the Union the truth supports, you have
only TO make that voice heard and understood by your
countrymen to gain greater victory the snaky-
haired discord that an artful foreign diplomacy has en-
gendered between the North and the South than you
gained over Huseman, the Austrian, than did An.
drew Jackson counry's invaders on the same
holy ground that is speaking 10 you.
have the honor TO be- with great respect, your ODE
dent servant
SAML A. CARTWRIGHT
To Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER,
Secretary of State Washington.
.se. Rano,t of N.,y n,,aa,. poarI ae uaunL ,o,o