Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-06-15
NEGRO SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH AND
WHITE SLAVERY AT THE NORTH.

"FOh viz IN oShd hlu NduSoS DllIS III tHC
House Of Representatives, on the l9h ull.,
we find the following comparison ins,i, uted
between Southern and N Northern Slavery
The difference between the two systems is
happily illustrated throughout. this ex-
tract:
In reply, Mr.. Chairman, TO whist dropped
from The gentleman from Massachusetts
MI. Wentworth last night, and to others
who have been overlooking with sympathy
for the southern slaves, have to say, that
the only difference between the negro slave
Of The South, and the white wages slaves OF
the North, is, that one has a master with
out asking for him, and the other has to
beg for the privilege of becoming slave
Great laughter. The one is the slave OF
an individual the other is the slave Of an
inexorsble class. After the latter has add
ed, by his labor and his toll, wealth to the
community in which he has lived, he is
TUNED adrif without any among all the DIFF
ferent EMPLOYERS that he has had, 10 give
him mouthful of vituals or nights lodg-
ing. would ask the particular advocates
Of Abolition upon this floor, to point me to
one single solitary degradation heaPed on
the negro of The South tina, white man al
the North is no, liable To have imposed on
him for the time being through poverty p
Last night the gentleman from Massachusetts
said, as noted it down q, the time:
"No man or woman, black or white,
could be deprived of their freedom for one
hour, wilhou, it was for the commission Of
a crime, and then on the judgment Of
court"
Has i, come to this, Is the fact of hav-
ing blackskiu crime in the South, and is
the fact of having collapsed stomach and
[Laughter What is the difference F? ]
have never gone through The one state ]
have never had black skin, but have
gone through the other state. Laughter
Now, was going TO read an affidavit to
the committee, bu, my time is too short; so
will only state the substance Of II. II is
one of nearly a thousand cases tina, | know
Of myself. II is an affdavi. wherein i, is
slated that woman, after having lived for
eight or nine years in the town Of South
bridge, in Massachusetts. where she had had
CHituItu UOIU, dnu WUeIe sue ueCh HCi-
self employed By the seIec.men Of the town
TO scrub out the public building, and where
she had caught cold and had become una
Bile TO support herself and children, was I'M
der the provisions of law of Massachu
sets, which have here, taken-not upon
the order of q court, but upon an order
written by magis,raie-and transported TO
New York, for fear she should become an
incumbrance on Massachusetts. 1t is all
eunaHf e sUGa gs9s@sq e aa f gR hSEs and d
the southern slaves bu. sir, in the city Of
New York alone, during the las, year,
there have been over thirteen hundred peo-
pie deprived of their liberty without any
show or color of an offence, but because
they were poor, and too honest to commit
crime. Now what is the appeal that
these meu make when they 60 to the Soulh'
They do not make the appeals to them that
they make here and at the North. They
do no, appeal to the magnanimi,y, sense Of
justice, or Christianity Of the southern
STAKEHOLDER, but they appeal to his avarice
They tell him, abolish your negro slavery
in the South, and adopt the slavery of We
ges that we have substituted for it in the
North, and it will put money into your
pockets, and add 10 the oppression OF those
who do your work. Why, sir, poor man
at the North will, for fifty cents day, drag
more in handcart than three negroes, with
four mules, will bring into Washington,
,hough they have white man TO watch
them. Laughter A man a. the South
gives $1,000 for negro; he has to sup
por, him he has to feed and clolhe him;
he has 10 provide for him in old age to
take care Of him in his sickness, and 10 bu
~ him when he is dead. In the North we
have no such bold, manly, open, and above
board oppression. Oh, no, sir. There are
no lashes in the North. Here is a speci-
men Of the kind Of lash we have there
These are the boys, [exhiblting pawnb bro
ker's duplicate amidst grea, laughter. !
will read 1t:
"No. 1872. joseph Simpson & Company,
25 Chatham street, July, 1853 Gold watch,
IS. Milk Walsh. Not answerable in
case Of fire for damage by fire or robbery
twenty-five per cent. per annum."
Great laughter
And it is more, as general thing. AT
twenty-five per cent he has $500 year,
and his S 1900 eats nothing, wears nothing,
consumes nothing, and can be used as the
same instrument of oppression after he is
dead. His children after him can be used as
same instrument Of oppression among the
children and grandchildren of the survivor.
One thousand two hundred dollars invested
in northern awnbroking-and i. is almost
ho lap al r.,
year. For tina, $500 man can own one of
The best living, breathing, white, thinking
men Of the North; and after be has worn
him out, at The age of forty years, he can
pass him away and take younger fellow.