The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-25

and lead to the most mischieyous errors 1t Is in
quenee Of an error Of that kind that the abohuons as
that slaves deemed persons in Law with but
exclusively dealt with chates They disregard the
penal by which the life and person OF the slave
protected those by which his master punished and
compelled sell him in of cruel treatments those by
which he enabled to for his freedoms those BY
| which he is punished for crime accountable be
ing, and tTiumphantly point TO statute OF South
Carolina which provides that slaves shall be deemed
sold taken reputed, and adjudged IN law 10 be chat
tells personal in the hands Of their owners and posses
sorsi and their executors administrators, ana assigns
TO all iatsRls constructions aud purposes Whdtsoeperh
These terms fully as general as those used In the
Declaration Of Independence and yet their meaning ex
tremey limited is well known 20 those who quote them
against US. They know, whatever they may pretend 10
the contrary that chattes personal in this law not
used in opposition TO persons but simply in opposition TO
chatels real; and that its only meaning is that IN
South Carolina slaves shall be deemed personal proper
~ for testamentary and administrative well as for
ordinary purposes whilst in some other States they are
bequeathed and administered upon as real estate
have pointed out 10 you some OF the advantages which
the country large the master and the slave derive from
our social organization viii aude to the eVisatend
ing slavery shall not attempt to conceal them; but will
show you that evils great and more numerous attend
in the end the free-labor system only ask you TO
member the characteristic difference which exists between
yours and the black the intelligence morality,
gy and seeance which brooks unnecessary restraint
side and the total absence of those qualities which
restraint in shape alone supply, on the other
We told Your system unjust because you coerce la
Dor for which you pay wages. Those who make the
charge say in the breath and prove TO their sasc
ton least that slave labor is Improbable and In
the end runous TO the master They should be consistent
with themselves in their assertions have already stated
that the gross value Of the annual products Of the labor of
slaves aud of their natural increase about
Labor that produces such result hardly be considered
barren and If II be true that masters pay wages
that labor cannot be otherwise than highly profitable; IT
and the expenses of production equal or exceed
the value of the products the must be- that in
shape other the wages of labor higher than the mas
ter afford pay. These wages although not paid in
money to the abore dsbursed by the master IN the
form of plantation supplies.
Here pay your aborers wages in money as long
they wanted and dismiss them when they cease TO be
useful TO YOU You have concern for their aged parents
their wives and children with themselves when they
unable to work. Such is the theory of free compe-
ton of labor under which the advantages and power are
all the side Of the capitalist and the shortcomings and
casualties the side of the laborer under which, what is
To the first matter of unfeeng selnterest caprice is
often to the other and his family matter of life and
death. We all know how that system works in old coun-
tren England for instanceand how is destined TO
work here when the population dense it is there
The wages which the English aborer receives are in ord
nary times sufficient TO enable him, bis wife and many
as two children, keep body and soul together he has
more than children he must get parish relief beg or
sarve His aged relatives must be supported in the same
way and he himself becomes object Of charity when Ia
Dor fails he is disabled by sickness II is said that near
LIZ oneh of the population OF England receives relief
from the public charities of the country in the course OF the
year. and the expenditure thus incurred added to private
charities amounts to enormous sum- Now, all this ex
pendture is included under system In the wages paid
only those who labor bat their aged parents and their
children II be shown that barrels OF salt meat
weighing two hundred pounds are annually consumed
plantations of Louisiana and Mississippi than there
are grown negroes In those two States and the clothing
and hats which they buy rom you amount 10 NIL
lions As an evidence of the abundance Which surrounds
the slave through .4 m estimate based upon Juaieia
proof has been made that every slave born on panta
ton who reaches the age Of twenyone costs his master
that time in disbursements and interest nine hundred
dollars over and above the value Of labor be has per-
I hat apf the rharup
pay for the labor OF the saye2 Whether labor want
ed not the necessares OF life are secured to all There
Is on every estate comfortable nos psi where tae seh
attended by slfn physicians and kind and Intelligent
nurses there s also house for the children where they
placed under the charge OF rusy old servant du
ring the hours Of work 1t is undenabe that these are
very heavy of expenseso great indeed that unless
the land cultivated Is fertile and the plantation wei
managed, they will bring the planter in debt, and Ill
timately ruin him. But you now perceive that he
will not be ruined because slave labor is generally
unproftabe but because the laws Of the slave States
more humane in that respect than your own compel
him pay higher wages than are paid for free labor any
where higher wages than most OF the farmers in New Eng
land could afford pay, with the Disadvantages OF soil
and climate under which they labor. 1t was IN great
measure because your rehers they could not pay
those wages that slavery abolished among them II
then considered crime the only sect who viewed
IL in that light the Quakers and they not
fighting community nobody minded what they said The
wages 10 which have aided all the slaves
ceye On most estates they work BY the task ana are pd
for work They have land given them, upon which
lhey RAISE corn which they sell tney hso Edhe anu se
eggs poultry and hogs, and can easily make thirty or
forty dollars year. and Mechanics by working for
the neghborhood make three four times much
and spending, they do, everything they without
thinking Of the future they surrounded with
many comforts the generality Of mechanics anywhere
well-ordained plantation presents all the advantages Of
the organization proposed by the socialists the only diff
ference in the systems being that the
generally the largest share OF the income and the pasona
attraction Of ihe phalansery is replaced by intelligent
and humane overseeE.
Notwithstanding the enormous expense which the in
stituton Of slavery entails upon the master, IL Is
preposterous TO say that the slave labor OF the country
Is not in the aggregate, profitable IL 1t should ever
cease 10 be so, a Il did at the North we would
probably be willing 10 get rid Of II as the northern
people claim superior virtue for the South
IL further charged against MS that our laws forbid the
emancipation Of slaves allow only upon
dons and prevent from extending 70 them the advan
tages OF education. This Is true In part but whose Aut
IL IL that those restrictions imposed upon the mas
ter Thirty years ago slaves could be emancpaed IN
Louisiana without any conditions those Of age and
previous good conduct and although there in the
statutes declaration that they should not be taught To
read and write penalty attached 70 the niraeton
OF H. and Il dead letter but after the rapid increase
Of the ansayery agitation, which followed the admission
Of Missouri into the Union, and the frequent attempts TO
circulate nccndiary pamphlets among the slave popua-
tion IL found necessary attach penalty TO the In
fraction Of the last named law and other laws passed
for5idding the immigration TO Louisiana Of free people Of
color, and providing that every slave emanGpsted after
their PRONUNCIATION should leave the State permanently,
and give bond 10 return This last law has however
been modified and the power given to courts OF justice TO
omaneipaie without expatrston manumissions are now
generally made with that privilege What has happened
in Louisiana has happened In the other slayeholding
States that in truth the friends Of the blacks while
protesting 10 repudae all responsibility for the existence