The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-25

sage IfOui the huufcse Oh MI. DAhNEf 10 tiis
PRESIDENT, on his recent arrival at the White
Sulphur Springs, Virginia, as follows:
ain your tour through the entire length o.
this ancient Commonwealth, you have realized
that the home of the slave is not tho abode o.
the oppressed, and that the misplaced sympath,
of Northern fanatics is ms gratuitous as il is i'm
polite; for you cannot but have witnessed tina
their comforts are cared for, and their ever,
want supped--the master, still more frequent
ly the mistress, always the lady Bountiful } ar
themselves enslaUed by their devotion in sick
ness and IN health 10 watch over, protect, an,
make them happy; and my own experience JUS
titles the assertion that the fair daughters o
wealthy Eastern farmers perform daily as muci
domestic labor as our oreroorked slaves"
And the Tribune makes sundry commenta
ries, and among them the following
"But Mr.. Barney informs us that the Virgins
masters are 'enslaved' by the system they up
hold. There is far more truth in that remark
than its author intended. Slavery does involve
10 its letters the despot well as the serf race
and Injuries the one as we'll as the other The
master is enslaved by his fears his appetites, his
remorse. Not for the sake of the blacks alone,
but for that Of the whites also, do we plead for
the speedy triumph of emancipation. And we
go beyond Mr. Barney on another point, main
tanning that one well schooled, well trained,
free, selfrespecting, pure-miDded daughter of n
New England farmer, accompshes more work
than f,oo average female slaves Bondmen may
sometimes be overworked but, as a general
rule, they are incapable, indolent, careless, and
inefficient.
But Mr.. Barney grieyously mistakes the main
int bx. of fha hat th.;.
erery ,oanf ia supplied Admit all that he af-
firms specifically, and it only appears that their
animal appetites and weaknesses are duly min
istered t0--that they treated as well as their
masters cattle. But their every want includes
much more than this. They want opportunity
and aid 10 develop their moral and intellectual
faculties they want legal protection against
the sale Of husband and wife, parent from child,
at the auctiOn-block, or the travelling man.
monger. They want chance to enjoy what
they produce, to clothe and educate their child
rem, and to obtain such distinctions and con-
alteration in society as their talents and virtues
may fairly command. All these are Imperative
ly denied them by the system which Mr.. Barney
tells the President that he must have realized
ia 80 benfcent and admirable We venture to
assure the orator that there was never a corner
-ot in the prospective Owl Creek city of Itho-
graph, on which it would be so difficult to sreal-
ize' as on the picture of slave blessedness which
he 80 gratuituously presented to the President"
The recent discussions of the slavery oues-
ton have driven the anti-slavery party in the
North into the doctrine of socialism The SUI
peror health, comfort, wealth. morality, increase,
and order of the Southern whites and blacks,
81 mr. rod xuifb IL - l.
shown from documentary evidence, has com.
PEELED the Northern reformers to denounce their
own state of society, as we'll as the Southern
The Tribune, which is one of the leading
papers Of the Northern school, is therefore al
most as much devoted to socialism, as opposed
to slavery. But its consistency is not well OBJ
served, and hence it is often inadvertently be-
trayed into denunciations of the South, in terms
TO the North.
We suppose the Christian principle concern
Ing the institution of property to be, that it is
trust which the holder is bound to execute in a
manner the most conducive 10 the welfare of lbs
fellow creatures, as well as himself The doe
frine Of the antislavery and socialist parties is,
that property is thing of natural right-that
all are entitled, at birth at least to an equal
share, or at least TO sufficient share, TO render
life comfortable 1t results from this principle,
that not only is wealth wrong, whilst any class
or individual wants, but it is fraud.
And now let us see how the North will COM
pare with the South on Northern principles In
the North there is greater inequality of property
than in the South--more luxury and more want.
Hence, there is more fraud, and of course, we
presume, more remorse. We suppose that this
remorse ought to be particularly poignant with
the leading anti slavery men. Many of them
are wealthy The Tribune establishment is
very valuable and productive. Its editor goes
abroad, and rambles at great expense over Eu-
rope. Yet around his Office are mutitudes suf
fering in all the varieties of privation, to such
an extent as to perish at an untimely age
Thousands of children are born annually in New
York in restitution, whose natural right to prop
erty is equal to that of the Tribune editor, and
yet be is rich, and they perish. 1t will not do
for him to say that he earned all his money. On
his principles he has no right to earn more than
mere comfort requires, whilst others are born
with less. If he earns or acquires more than he
'oanfs, he monopolizes and renders IL more diff
hcut for others to earn, and he withholds from
the infant its natural rights.
The editor of the Tribune tells us very
eravely that slavery does involve in its letters
the despot as we'll as the serf race, and Injuries
the one as well the other" Well, who in
greater STAKEHOLDER than such as the editor of
The Tribune. lie does not buy slaves for life
No, he is too economical for that If he did, he
would be compelled to provide for the old age
md sickness of his slaves, and for their offspring
SO he buys human Hesh in its best condiiion--in
It's prime-by the day, or month, or year-wben
Il Is young and vigorous. Bot he tells us that
the labor he employs, or hires, or buys lie volun-
tary. What does he expect TO make anybody
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