Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-06-21

ling to pTodigality, and 1t eeryes greatly TO orna
ment the residences Of the living. and enter
into the Composition Of much Of their furniture
Thestreets of this city are straight and wide
well paved and planted with trees which hav,
attained large growth. The houses ar,
mostly Of brirk. very large, broad halls. higi
stories, and well ventilated. There Is an cir o
elegance and grandeur here which indicates
great wealth with full determination to enjoy
II in ministsring 10 the wants and faneiss Of the
earnal man. All the household arrangements
are with q view to this. Work is a vulgar
thing, which never enters into the programme.
To eat and drink, to ride and rest, 70 sing and
sleep, TO see and be seen, to hear and to be
heard appears to be the great business Of social
LIE here. The question is not how can be
mOst useful To my kind and country in my day
and generation, but how can best enjoy the
present hour. Il is not how are they to live
who are to come after, but how much OF the
ease, and comfort, and luxury around, can
crowd into the brief space of my own lile
In my humble opinion, the institution Of
slavery has effected radical change in the
whole face Of society where il exists as preju-
dicial 10 the white race as TO the oolored. Ply.
steal exertion is as necessary to bodily vigOr as
it is 10 the full development Of the intellectual
and moral powers, but here slavery steps in
and cuts of that necessity to personal effort,
suggested BY our wants, and thus eneyates the
race 1t is true that we do not as yet zee the
full and legitimate effects Of this law Of our ma
ture here, but it is owing to our republican
form Of government and the absence of sys.
tenn of primOgeniture, devolving the estate on
successive generations Of the same family.
Aside from that repugnance which every
human being must feel at a state of bondage
and social inferiority, and degradation. The
eliminating evils of slavery are first the way
and will of the rich master to sell any one or all
of his slaves without regard 10 the ties Of hus-
band and wife, parent and child and second,
the cruelty and avarico of the slave owner in
moderate circumstances. and the man who
hire slaves to over-work them, and supply them
with insufficient food and clothing. think
was enabled to Judge of thiu gigantic system,
impartially from a personal and close nspec-
ton of its workings at point far removed
from the external pressure of opposite and con-
Aicting views and have come to the conclu.
sion that there is much error and misapprehen
sion at the north on this subject. But enough
is true 10 stamp it great moral, social, and
political evil
AS general thing the slaves Of the wealthy,
| think, are well fed, clothed, and taught to
read and 60 to church. In Nashville, the col.
OIed people have four churches in which they
have meeting three times week. was to
meeting myself in three of their churches
The congregations were very large, we'll dress
ed and snug, reading from their own books
and without lining. One Of these churches
the Methodist, would seat thousand, and /
understood there were nearly that many mem,
bers. The master processes great attachment
to his slaves, and the slaves an equally altaChs
ment Tor their master, and in many cases lbe.
lieVe this real, but as said before, the great
evil here is the power TO sell and separate the
slaves. This arises from the natural course of
generation. A planter to commence must
have twenty slaves, lin few years that mum.
Der is doubled, and the surplus eats up all his
profits and the same is true where the number
commenced with is larger. l Twas told down
there of one benevolent man who had bought
and stocked three additional farms from the
surplus Of bis own slaves rather than sell them.
But this cannot always be done or done in a
majority OF cases, because the master general
ly livesup 10 his income, and hos not the
means or the will 10 buy additional farms; but
he either sells them or hires them out by the
year. Il gentleman told me be had q number
of men and women hired out The men bring
him from hundred and twenty to a hundred
and seventy five dollars each, and the women
tlom forty TO seventy. The employer paying
all expenses for food, clothing and doOIoring.
and running all risk Another gentleman told
me he had hired out an old woman many years
ago and he had really forgotten all about her
being in the lot until she called on him recent
y and called MIN master. In addition TO this
they are constantly liable to be executed and
sold for debt, or 10 be separated and sold
when the owner dies.
As we passed through the country from
Nashville to Louisville on the stage, in the
poorer districts we saw in several instances,
negro women plowing, In one field saw two
negro women plowing corn, and the old men
and boys hoeing it. A big, healthy looking
white man, the master suppose, was sitting
on the top of the fence with his back propped
against stake, overseeing, 1t was just night
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