Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-01-21
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
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MOyDaY MORNING, JANUARY go, 1881.
,eoIJTIoN IN DISGUISE.

ABOLITION IN DISGUISE.
We cannot refrain from inserting extracts from the letter
Of &c Northern man, written from Jefferson Georgia,
Dec l7h 1885, the N. York Evening Post Free Soil
nane Aftor speaklng OF visit Rice plantation near
savannah which says twill produce this year income
of $4,000 dolars being 1000 acres all in cul,iva,ion he
s,vs that at worked by hundred and thirty negroes OF
aaces and sexes including The sick the maed the halt and
the blind" Before visited these plantations "had pictured
them kind of fairy land, where nothing grew hui tho
Orange and Con" RICE that the mansions were ap-
preached through extended lined with lofty trees
but In this was disappointed" He proceeds:
"TnE MANs,oS.-The mansion upon the plantation OF my
friend above alluded about sixteen ieet oy
feet story high and stood upon ss anout ou OF nse
and grounds was cold nnd deary, without hill or dale
or living tree relieve ts dull nonoony Such residence
as the poorest mechanic the North would not have Ved
in was gracod highly accomplished Indy and gentleman
husband and wife,) as have ever met with
"THE NReRoEs-Thc negroes upon the rice plantations
coast appear moro savage in aspect wilder IN man
nor with intensity Of blackncss that before never had
could hardly understand word OF their lingo and
unless much mistake they have been imported from Africa
very day. and against the statute in such case
made and provided
II found upon inquiry of my friend that the average du
ration the negros lie upon these panations does not
exceed egh, nine that the mortality chief
y In childhood Among other disagreeabc things to
counter rico plantation, is mud, mu and no end of IT,
They ae also filed with snakes toads and rats in such num-
bes as would make Egyptian of the Nile scamper But
clear thousand
that would of cockney tribe TO forego
his his ues and his patent leather boos and 10 bid
adieu The Jenny and the still greater Barnun the
of his life. am snugly ensconced in log cabin,
in the good county of Jefferson, the best cotton planting
dstrictin Geo ,a Tho said cabin is furnished most ux.
any and the ,nbe creams with sys plate The '"n's
"The Negroes jubilee is at hand Christmas with them
lasts week. Itis then they receive their ouhtfo the year
They have begun TO resting THEIR baos, and are Hcady
tuning up for Lucy Long and occasionally practising
kind of double shuttle, 80 as not TO be behind their va
when the holidays set in 1t Is then he Is freeman 10! week
and with impuuy crack Jokes with his MASTER anu gel
drunk he peascs. Should he steal some o hs tu
keys he would get nohng but boxed year. when on nny
other occa.ion he would get dozen with The paddle the
latter instrument being like fire shovel handle and ALI with
the fiat end bored full Of holes which IS applied upon ouee
anpodos and blister is the result whcreve thsfe Is
hole"
This who appears to have enjoyed the hospita
lily of kind and Intelligent people, avns himself OF this '
voabe opportunity of preudcng tho people Of tho Norh
by bera cant against the log cabin of tho slavehodc'
such as the poorest mechanic the North wou! not have
lived in" and with the mortality and dscipna OF tie ne
groes brought up in disgusting manner as posst!e-
But he does not stop here He besows paragraph upon
1.-THE poor Whites and attempts to stir them U? TO the sainc
abolition feeling which exists IN tho North He puts worcs
in the mouth Of poor white man, moro Ias!y att!ioua'
BILE the tariffs passed by Congress 10 protect Northern
manufactures than slavery He adm its that the rhae
man lire hsre ia hof the labor hs can a. tbs North yet
s eonoet Nth the negro reduce his moral standing far be-
o,o the Lo,rest Of the arhss al tho NORTH Now why Is it
respectable white the North give their dnugh-
ers in marriage TO negroes negro men can NIL the learned
proessons they stand cheek by tow al the bar with
"learned COUNSEL" they fill tho pulp practise sd-
cine occupy tine chairs Of professc.shiPs In colleges;
form large portions OF the assemblies uf the people; la
Dor in oil the branches Of ndusy and Notwithstanding this
conac' Of the negroes and whites, tho labong white
man of the South below the lowest of tho whites
he Nn,,hg Inv hia i1Yl moi
In the South know that II is ialeel
But there |. fixed system Of Misrepresentation In the
North agains, tho SouhAe object Of which a 10 prevent
the migration Of citizen. hitherto keep the poor phtc
Of the South out employment as much as poss!be TO
his preudices against tho andholdsr aod tho slave
holder and induce him believe his friends in the
North And all tho while the Northern people crying
for tariffs prevent foreign mportaons into the Souh and
10 increase their manufacturing establishments, the
successfully break down attempt TO manufac
In the Southern States Thus resisting far prac-
tcobe the only by which the poor whites of the
South procure employment which will not be in
contcst lch the negroes, Every white in tho South,
(rich and poor) may read lesson 10 the extract which fol-
lows and which ought make the blood boil in his veins
Let every white consider well this indious and arul
attempt 10 stir up treason, upon the most hypocrtca pre-
imaginable II should teach every true man in the
South that there is safety but In the protection Of
whole interests against the North. Tho poor abing rhe
Is much the just we'll necessary object OF our
protection against tho wes and tho wckcdness OF the
North the shareholder himself The just Of
protection mutual bo and be no other than d.
mnuon of Southern dependence Northern enterprise
The present Of tho tariff such TO give to the
Northern States the Importation for the whole union and to
protect their manufactures sgans all competition They
have taken advantage of the times snco the establishment
of the tariff system in 1924 under Mr.. Cays celebrated
Of that year. build up both their manufacturing
shipping interests; while the attention OF tho Southern
States has been almost exclusively turned to the opening Of
lands for the production of cotton rico and sugar. and
the Introduction of machinery used in The preparation Of
these arlcea for snc And now, when the vast products OF
he South have become the basis OF the great operations c
Inc northern commercial and manufacturing systems and
some 'ear begins be entertained that the Southern Stue.
may IRON motives of retaliation, for wrongs committee
upon lneh make 'hce the basis OF commercial
ana maou'ae'ung enterprises at home scheme OF In
eendiasm set on foot the object and end of which,
vile war; to be headed BY sluyeholdng whites in thu
South
No one con maunderstand the bearing tho object and n.
tent of tto whole letter. After reading This Liter f tho
people of Virginia not prepared once 10 commence
proper system Of discriminating taxation on Northern i'm
ports and manufactures they should complain If non
Shareholders should DO seduced into the arguments of North
Yankee enterprises and will moi ao shipping interest.
and importing merchants by giving preference TO foreign
goods which have been directly imported into Virginia. anc
TO domestic goods manufactured In VrgiRs-(aud these
enterprises are always carried BY no, deeply
interested In lands negroes, because their main capita
mus. be vested In their trades why then what hav.
they expect that the persona engaged In these interests
(as well oil other saveolders strongly appealsl
to) will not Join In few years with tho Yankees to
throw slavery altogether This Is tho prime object OF al
abolition And yet the first MEASURE has no
been taken By our Legislature TO unite the interests nds
sorbly tho stakeholder and the OF
contrary the subject 0. taxing northern
productions published through the metropolitan press thar
the Valley Whig and other Wing presses, took ace
with the abolition presses hat such measure was uneoss
u,iona and with the decision of the Supreme Court az
Ermng lis consutionay, staring them in the face The
hig presses which have not taken sides against the tax
have generally been mum! While many OF them have been
\ of tariff by Con.