The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-10-20

Of some Chinese immigrants, come to this coun
try, suppose, in the belief that Uncle Sam
is rich enough to give every man farm.
They offer to work for wages low enough
about what it costs me for interest on capital
invested in servant and his keep. There are
some inducements to employ them the chief
one is, that it would relieve me from the neces.
sity Of purchasing new ret of hands when
those that have are past labor. But their
great round eyes and the idea of having &c
many 'barbarians 90 my plantation, are not
at all agreeable to me-"
! | seat myself in an omnibus, draw from my
pocket a late number Of the National Era and
read the article under Free Cotton VS.. Chattel
Slavery" Ii suits my views exactly. | have
no idea of underwriting the slave policy"
it is too much like compulson. would rather
see the STAKEHOLDER get rich enough to do with
out the slave, and the slave rich enough to do
without his master but | confess that event
seems a long way off Let me see sixty dol
lars the interest on one thousand dollars in
vested in the slave, and forty dollars for his
keep, make one hundred dollars year, or thr-
ty cents per day, the cost of slave labor But
this makes no provision for waste by wear and
tear of the slave, which must be considerable,
the Key to Uncle TOMS Cabin, (page al "used
upin seven or eight year" on some plantations.
Here is something that requires clearing up.
All! Slavery is bad thing | am glad | have
nothing to do with it.
While these reflections are passing in the
mind of our merchant with Anti Slavery prn-
ciples, he unfolds scrap Of newspaper that
has in it the concluding remarks of Mrs H. b.
Stowe in Uncle TOMS CABIN and reads" Do
! you say that the People of the free States have
nothing to do with it, and can do nothing
Would to God this were true! But it is not
true. The People of the free States have de-
Tended, encouraged, and participated and are
more guilty before God than the South, in that
they have not the apology of education or Gus
tom" Northern men, Northern
mothers, Northern Christians have something
more to do than denounce their brethren at the
South /; they have to look to the evil among
themselves
Sure enough, we have; and have Just paid
shareholder two hundred dolars-forty of
which only goes to the slave in food and cloth
ing; sixty is retained for interest on money in
vested In the purchase of the slave and one
hundred to replace the waste occasioned by
the wear and tear of the slave and profit to
the planter. Can |, with a quiet conscience
say that desire for the agent that stands
between me and the poor bleeding slave the
greatest worldly prosperity possible to such
an Internal system
Ii the Chinaman is willing to work for II
cents l6d. sterling) per diem, that may indicate
his necessity; the price the consumer pays for
days labor of a slave is nearer sixty cents,
lIf we make provision of waste which we are
bound to- which indicates our ability Now,
where is the necessity, moral, POLITICAL or COM
merclal, Tor throwing the difference between
these two sums, accommodating in the year to $40
and $500, respectively, into the hands of some
spectators on the necessities of the Chinese
emigrants? Professor Stowe (but he needs
none OF my help probably mentioned the low
price at which Chinese laborers could be hired,
to show what could be done. 1t remains for the
earnest friends of all parties concerned to
say what will be done to remedy the evil com.
planned Of without touching upon the rightfm
interests of our fellow-men.
| suppose three Important points are con-
|. That there is large extent of land suit
able for the production Of cotton stilh unculti
waited
2 That there is large number of free la
borers (Chinese) to be hired, at rates of wages
not exceeding the cost of slave labor, (who
would be every way competent to do the work.
8. That there Is an extensive market for
cotton of every grade Of quality, especially for
hat which is the produce Of free labor and at
a remunerating price.
Now, allow me to inquire, what stands in
he way of allowing the legitimate supply fol-
owing through this channel the legitimate de-
nand for free cotton, in part the healthy fruit
If the seed sown by Uncle TOMS Cabina
To charge the friends of this movement with
Ill the hard things which F.. has brought
against them, feel persuaded is very unjust,
and to me is not a satisfactory answer to the
question. | would respectfully invite him to
bring his superior abilities over to the side of
free labor, or stand from under.D M.