The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-07

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right on them IN summer; that the negro laborer
will strip or the clothing, the upper part Of his
body, TO toll in the field in mid summer and win
throw on his hat or cap and lie down to sleep in the
out any covering TO his head save its natural WOOL
that the negro children voluntarily strip themselves
nsked and lie down to bask, as luxury in the sum-
mer sun-all which went to prove that they were
fitted and designed, by an all wise and all meroifu
God to cultivate the soil Of the sunny South for the
use Of the white man, and to convert the swamp and
the morass into the cotton corn rice field and trans
form what was once land without slave labor would
again be) bowling wilderness, into smiling para
disc. added that the summer was the season Of
health for the negro, and the winter his period of
sickness and death, from pneumonia and pulmonary
disease. Mr. Parker admitted the peculiar adapta-
endure tropical heats; but the other facts, above
detailed seemed to make bnt little or no impression
on him and Mr.. Garrison. They insisted, In reply,
that the blacks ought to be made to cultivate the
soil as free lab0rers; but answered that they were
naturally lazy and ipdlsposed to labor, and only
pulsi0n could set keep them at it and cited ia
maica and Hayt asinstances in point asserting that
both those regions had retrogaded in agriculture
and that the latter had reapsed, fast relaps
ing into barbarian, under the unfortunate expert
ment Of African emancipation and self rule. On
this head my premises were questioned, and OF
course my conclusion was not admitted by my dis
putants. But appeal to what Is daily passing in
those islands, and to Bigelows book on Jamaica
(althoueh written with the opposite view) to sus-
tain me in my assertion and opinion.
] here mentioned that, many years ago Q slave
named Jack, belonging TO my deceased father,)
who had imbibed from the Old Testament the mis-
taken notion that he was entitled to his freedom a
ter seven years service, "a privilege which attached
only to the Hebrew and not to the Heather slave,l
absconded, and escaped in some sailing vessel to
PoFtau Prince, whence he some time afterwards
wrote letter to my father, hoping that he would
not think hard Of his leaving him, az liberty was
dear to every man." and offering three hundred dol
Iovu he oA1 ho1Rsv
but rendering no pay for himself, and signing the
letter John Brown, or John Yeadon." dis wife,
however, who had been the dry nurse of most OF my
fathers children, including myself, declared that she
preferred remaining with her foster children; and
the faithful and attached Mauma did SO remsin, and
died in my fathers possession and service. Several
years after Jacks escape, free mulatto man, (the
illegitimate son of an Englishman, known as Sir
Harry Grant, formerly a resident of Charleston,
but then of POrtau Prince. where he said he was
secretary to the United States Consular or unofi-
caI agent visited Charleston incog., and mad an in
terview with me as a lawyer, on professional bust
ness. In the Of conversation inquired after
Jack, and young Grant said he knew him very we'll
and that he kept sailor boarding house at P0rt-au-
Prince, and was doing well there. He added that
the government of Hayti did not encourage fugitive
slaves from the United States to seek q refuge
there; but, while the Haytien authorities never in
terered to return fugitive slaves 10 their owners and
perhaps would not have dared to do SO publicly,
they yet winked at their recapture; and that, ii
be would replace Jack in my fathers possession, In
very short time. declined the offer, saying that
as Jack had got his freedom he was welcome to it,
and that would not have him back again for any
earthly consideration. Young Grant further in
formed me, that although slavery nominally had no
existence in Hayti, yet it was there practically
all idle and vagabond persons-of whom there were
not q few not having any visible means of livei
hood were taken up by the government, and sent to
the plantations, and there compelled to labor, under
military rule and rigor. He also stated that, although
the law prohibited the application Of the lash, yet
severe punishment was inflicted on the idle or re-
FACTORY on the plantations, by kind Of bastinado
applied not as In Turkey, to the soe but to the in
step of the foot
Iadyerted to an interesting incident which had
recently happened TO me, at Boston, to show the
masters and Southern slaves. One night, at the
Revere House, i received q mysterious looking
package, with eight postage stamps, directed to
Of several freesoers, found that It contained an
admirable daguerreotype miniature and likeness OF
my head servant, Joe, letter by the same mail
companying IL, in which my servant used the kindest
expressions towards his mistress and myself, and
signed himself !" Your affectionate and obedient
servant. Joe Wates." Mr.. Parker said he was
of the kindly relations often existing between
master and slave, but both be and Mr. Garrison
ed TO regard them exceptional and as having no
thing to do with the question under discussion. l
answ cred that had merely narrated the incident
one that was deeply interesting To myself ana
might prove so to Others; and was willing to let
1t pass, without further comment, for what IT was
worth.
The letter OF Joe was dictated only, (for he can
neither read nor write,) not written BY himself My
sister, In Charleston, wrote thus concerning 1t
You will receive letter from your servant joe
he dictated it, and Peter J. Couturier tyour cor
respondents ward j undertook TO write IT,. wrote
long and affectionate reply to the letter OF my
faithful servant and here is the account Of the recep
ten OF my reply by him, Of its being read to him.
in n recent letter from sister -
Il have just finished reading to Joe your letter TO
him. wish you could have the look Of perfect
pleasure and delight his ebon face expressed. He
sends his love TO master and mistress, and Niss
Eliza, and thanks you for your kind letter to him,
and says il will oe the pleasure of his life TO be
fathfu in doing his duty 10 you and TO his mistress
He longs to see you all once more at home. He 10
type. IL Is indeed, an excellent one.rt
i urged the fact that the gifted Everett (whom
Mr.. Parker bad referred 10 ~ authority on some
other point authority for the position theory
developed at length and with great force, in his
address, few years since, before the Historical
Society Of New York. that God was, in his wisdom
and providence, working out Q great problem BY
the enslavement OF the African race in this country;
that the negro race in Africa was still In the same
condition OF ignorance, barbarsm and hcathenim,
in which II had been found at the earliest period
Of recorded history; that ali efforts 70 civixe and
Christanize the negro, bis native soil had sgnay
failed and that the only successful attempt 1t his
lightenment, civilization and Characterization, had
been through the pupilage Of slavery in America;
and that nowhere else the face OF the globe could
Our Saviour thus spears. 10 Luke xii '. a.. 4s-
sand that servant which knew hts lords WILL and pre-
pared not himself shall be beaten with many Stripe.
AND he that and Old commI, THU Is worthy Of
stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes"
"a servant will not be corrected by words, for
though he understand he VIII not snswer.''-rrovcrbs,
xxx v, ~
"Pehod as the eyes the servants l,ok unto the hand
OF ihsir MASTERS, AID the eyes Of maiden unto
hand OF her MISTRESS eyes wait upon the lore
God, until that he have mercy upon u."-rsam cxxi.,
v.
Here express authority, from both the Old and the
New Tesamenis, for the correction punishment OF
slaves.
The following extract from recent number OF the
Boston DoalE INNS, will give idea Of Joe's letter 10
me, and OF the MODE Of ia reception
fxrEsFu~G fyeanxyr--A Southern gentleman. q resi-
dent OF Charleston. c. Who has been travelling al the
North for time pssf, and who has been sto ppng n
the Revere House IN this Guy, week more Satur-
Cay last received through The mail mysterious looking
package bearing upcn eight postage stamps. Not hav
ing The fear OF torpedo before bis eyes no opened A.
and, 10 his surprise aud pleasure, he found enclosed
IRE dsfuerreotype picture OF his head servant accom-
panied BY letter 10 his "dsM MASTER The reception
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