Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1856-02-13

s. disptoss rathsf. DIT DC balance q
good & 81 dc sid Of thoss Who make :
prudeat and ecriptsrS use Of the insti.
tutor. against tl,ose Who abuse It.
Butws have intimstsd that AboIitien.
lists magnify those cases Which are ex.
cepsions u the rule; and We may add.
that "thsy are few and Ear botwssns' -
Passing over that tyranical disposition.of
soma men, which prompts them TOT acts
II severity 10 al relations they sustain,
reason and interest go very far in syin-
cling the fact thu. Southern shareholders
are grossly misreprosented byr Northern
writer's on The subject. Il would Be diff
fcult indeed Cor any man % prove that
the heart Of Southern planter does
not beat Is strong in human sympathy .
any Northern philosopher who writes .
il bis only pride is his mesyPhisical dis.
quisitions. "By their fruits ye shall
know thsm.'' is the instructions Of one
whose testimony must stand forever.---
And % CAR as observation inparts lessons
on the subject, IS general rule, the hard
co. masters in the South are men Of Nor.
thorn birth and education. This isprob-
sly . t 4
ably moro the result Of not being % we'll
versed in the natural disposition and con-
stitution 81 the negroes AZ the Southern
men are, than disposition TO oPpress
them; for ii will not be looked upon BY
any as an oyer-reach Of reason y con-
cluds that those who have grown up
amongst negroes know moro about them,
or how 10 treat them, than others who
have not the same means Of learning. -
And il is also true that il Southern slaves
have true and unaffected friends any
where. they have them IN the South. -
So much for the principles Of common
humanity; now for the interests.
I II Northern Abolition writer's were re-
ceived as fair opponents Of Southern char
acter, their disciples would be led to the
conclusion that Southern men are the
most reckless and proaigate Of earth;
they would be led to believe that South
ern mon have no regard to the advance
ment of their own interests. and this is
the more remarkable with snch writer's.
following, as they profess 70 be. the lamp
light of reason, especially as it is said
Of some Of them, for tho truth Of which
we cannot vouch, however, that they
"elsneh a dime so tight as 70 cause h'
eagle to sqaeal!'< We cannot understand
why such penurious men will give such
glaring representations, unless it j. Ia
bored effort to convert Southern bensvo-
lonce into supposed system Of prodigal-
ity, in order the better to 6x the impress
sion that Southern slave holders massa-
ere their shares merely to crafty he ca
price Of an ill-begotten and, highly cult.
waited temper. Butsuch highly wrought
yarns, however we'll interpolated with
rhetoric, for the purpose Of Introducing
the books into market, care all stuff. -
Southern men know how to appreciate
and take caro- Of it. too, as ma
ny young enterprising Yankees have
learned to their hearts content, who hav.
ing been misled by their preccptors, come
out South for the purpose Of accumula-
ting a fortune in few days by some sys-
tenn of trickery: returned TO the land Of
sharp rocks" With the expressed opinion
hat the South "is not the place for spec
that they were led to believe 1t
was. - @
Hence we reach the conclusion upon
the principle Of Interest alone, iadepen.
dent OF historic facts that are available in
abundance. that Southern masters, % .
general rule do not treat their slaves IS
represented. u They recognize them as
and therefore feed and clothe
them well for theintarests that ere hives
tod in them.