New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-09


Mrs. Stowe ii is said has another novel in hand,
the interest of which is to turn on the mischeis
which Slavery works to the poor whites in its
neiehbOrhOOd. 1t is subject capable of powerful
treatment and if managed with the skill and dis,
cretion which we have a right to expect, the new
novel canno! fail to be work at once interesting
ard ediy ing. The Rev. Dr. Adams and the Hon.
Mrs Murray may learn from it, perhaps (at least
they will have the chance that however benehcent
81 beautiful may be the aspect of Slavery toward
the blacks, it may yet hsve an unpleasant expires
sion on the face it turns toward the whites. The
Reverend Doctors Spring, Lord and Dewey, the
American Tract Society, and the other pillars OF
Slavery and its extension, may there discover, If
they will, that although the institution may be
dvnely ordained for the temporal and eternal hap
pness of the negro it still seriously nterferes with
the education, the chrisanizatOn and the civiliza-
tiOn Of the white man.
The state of the poorer classes at the South has
excited but little attention, until cOmpara-
lively recent period. Some Of the first statements
which brought the subject wildly to mems minds
were made in Mr. Cassius Cay's paper, written,
We believe, by Mr.. John C. Vaughan, a native of
South Carolina, and once STAKEHOLDER, lately
Editor of The Clereland Leader and now of The
Chicago Tribune. Since then the condition of the
poor whites has been used as ancillary topic in
An,i-Slavery discus sions, and the eyes of travellers
at the South have been more open to observe this
particular phase Of Slavery. The estate of these
unhappy lszzarOni, who as necessarily spring from
despoiism in Carolina as in Naples, as vermiu are
bred by filth and corruption is most interesting aud
instructive to contemplate. Let the honest poor
of the North, to whom and to their children a
future is possible who are furnished with means of
education to fit them for an improved condition,
aid with fair field to win it-let them regard the
state of white working people at the South, and
see what s the fate the dominant power of the
country would doom them TO- if it could have its
upre ssted way. Perhaps the most succinct and
impressive exposition of the subject is to be found
in Mr.. George NJ. WestOn's essay, originally pub.
lished in our columns and since reprinted among
the Republican tracts for distribution during the
pending electoral canvass.
Of course, the poor whites swarm the most
where Slavery is the rankest. Ia the farming aud
breeding States their condition is not so wretched
nor so hopeless as it is farther South though still
the reports Of the Home Missionary Society as to
the spiritual destituton Of Virginia and Kentucky,
and the vas. multitudes that are denied the CON-
forts even of Pro Slavery Gospel, might open the
eyes of Northern men to the real cause of this desc
larion The terrible disprOportiOn Of those able to
read and write to those utterly UNFINISHED with
these first helps to knowledge in the most favored
OF the Slave States, is another evidence OF some
thing rotten in them, which one would think
must compel the dullest 10 attend. II ignorance,
and the mental and moral vices and distemperdtures
Of which ignoraLce is the fruitful mother, be dl.
yirely ordained for the slaves, because without this
progeny Of evils and their dam Slavery could not
exit are they also part Of Gods dealings with
the poor white men at the South Can this state OF
things be traced TO any source excepting the 'ys'
tim which bliehss the minds and hearss as well as
tie lands ON which its balefal shadow falls
AZ we advance southwark into the Csrolinas and
the cotton and sugar-growiDg States, the condlsion
Of this unhappy class grows worse and worse. Per-
bsps there is TO part of that European peasantry
which we hear 60 often cited as proof, by COM
rsrson. OF the benefcent effects OF Slavery, plunged
IN ss...e ei .ueh .ordd and abect degradaii5n,
not only as to education aud intelligence, but with
respect to food clothing and habltation, as the
Sandbers and Crackers of the Carolinas, and the
corie.pordins classes in the other planting States
The older the Safe the more NUMEROUS is this de-
graded caste but the necessary tendency OF Slavery
is to ate il where il is not, aid to multiply it
where il has begun to exist. These poor creatures
il will be remembered, are the descendants, not
mAny tic es removed. from comfortable farmers or
opu,nt gs sntemen Of the better days-or rather the
enier do! s-ofthe panta Of the South. Slavery
has aten out their life's lie, put its brand upon
heir ioIeeeads, clothed them in rags, sent them
ava, empty, bhehted their minds, quenched their
iores aid made them the contempt aud deri.ion oi
iLt yty slave. Themselves. The existence Of these