Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-11-02

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them kindly-not over work them-Ottend
to their physical wants. Contrast sir ifyou
please, northern servitude, with southern
slavery and mark the result. While the
Millionaire hires his daily servant, for the
smallest pittance that Shylock could desire
barely enough to procure food and raiment,
works him to the full stretch of human pow
err, exhausting his physical energies regard
less alike whethar he lives or dies-for if
he dies he loses nothing, if he is taken sick
nobody has any interest in him, and unless
a charity institution finds him, he dies on the
floor of cold damp cellar, or in dark gar
ret upon bed of straw, no kind hand to
minister to his wants, no physicianto allevi-
ate the pangs of dying hour.
Not so with the negro slave; his master
has property interest in him, and consul
ting that interest, he does not overtask his
physical energies, clothes, and feeds him
well, that he may not get sick, if taken down
with disease, the most skillfull physician is
employed, for upon his success depends the
masters loss or gain to the value of the
slave.
But we are told by those who have paul
pers at their doors dying with cold, destitu-
ton and starvation, that we are cruel and in
human TO our slaves.
Exaggerated sickly Nouvellettes, are put
forth 10 prejudice the world against u.s.
Isolated cases are givenby Mrs. Stowe, with
the evil design of making them represent
the general condition of the slave. While
we may admit that her pictures where not
over wrought, that they have their counter
parts in the South, while there are devils
in human shape all over the world, we sym
dictate The truth of history when we say that
for one monster Lagree, in the South, there
are twenty Hanau butchers in the North.
who would not only decoy Off the slave, but
murder those who attempt TO reclaim him,
as they did in the case of Burnes in Boston,
All the philanthropists in that wealthy city
would not raise $1,000, to purchase his free
dom. but some of them no doubt aided in re-
sisting his reclamation, in violation of the
laws, Of the country, against the solemn adj
Indications Of the courts, at an expense of
sixty thousand dollars 10 the General Gov
eminent, and at the expense ofhuman blood.
And who are these Simon Pures? who
stand aghast with self-righteous indignation!
Who are they who raise their hands in holy
horror of negro slavery. Many of them are
the degenerate defendants of Shylock ances =
tors who made their wealth by dealing in
the accursed slave trade. Who are they
now sir, that are violating the solemn treat
les Of christian nations against that evil traf-
fc? Who are they that bid defiance TO the
fleets Of Great Britain, France and the Uni
ted States in shipping cargoes of negroes &c
Cuba and Brazil2 Report says and no doubt
truly, the Millonaires of Wall Street and
Boston, and for ought we know the Sew
ards, Hale's, Giddings', Summers, Var
Buren's and others are engaged in it who
would violate the Constitution and Laws
dissolve the Union, "move heaven and earth
to free the southern slave, and then suffer
him TO die Of starvation. The southern slav,
owner is the on y real friend of the negro
His condition in every respect is better thar
the mental servant Of any country, than thu
free negro, or poor daily laborer of the north
History attests this fact. Richard Randolph
brother of the late John Randolph who dice
about the year 1886, freed all his slaves
lao in number, divided among them hi
princely estate, giving them land, stock an,
farming implements, with which with ordi
nary foresight and industry, they might hav
become respectable and fourishing com
munity-but we are told they now presen
miserable and pitiable spectace-poor
indolent and dirty-the men thieves an
L drunkards, the women common prostitute
the children all diseased with syphiliti
taint-and instead of large increase, the
q have degenerated in 60 years from l40
S5--a deplorable result of that gentleman
philanthropy and munifcence.
The case of John Randolph's negroes VIII
= were freed and colonized in Ohio present
now similar spectacle The fugitive slave
= now in Canada, are in a state of destitutio
2 and want, and have decended in the sea-
d of being greatly below the southern slav
In some of the West India Islands whel
they have been emancipated only few yeal
|, History says they have degenerated a
J. most to a state of native African barbarian
= ism--and that in many cases secret Gambia
= ism is now practised They are an indolel
J. and sluggish race and very much douI
II their capability of self government and in
e provement.