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

sand slaves brought the South but do not believe
that oneourth Of them there under the operation
South with their masters Men reared with all the tastes
and habiuated TO all the comforts of old communities
surrounded by friends and relatives and respected by their
citizens who might have continued to live there in
comfort and auence by selling that portion Of their
wants which burden 10 them gave up all the endear
ments Of home and encountered the dangers and pva-
tons OF settlement in foreign land rather than
make that sacrifice OF feeling Their wives and daughters
you may be sure cheered them in the good work and
sumed with womanly devotion and courage the discharge
Of the duties which their change Of circumstances
imposed upon them. Let cite to you remarkable in
stance of this patriarcha immigration to Louisiana. BY
the taken there in 1917 there but six persons
entitled TO in all the northwest portion of the State
above the old French settlements of Natchoches and
Bayou Pierre There many thousands and all
that region has been settled by planters from other States
who have come there with their people Few things
more beautiful TO contemplate than this ranspanting Of
high civilization in the wilderness There is something
heroic in tbeundertaking which challenges admiration
and makes you feel that in such community the women
must be all yrtuous and the all brave When the
Duchess OF Sutherland condescended TO enlghen the
OF America their sins and their duties there dwe
in the wds of northern Louisiana hundreds of those
inferior 10 her grace in refinement and far her
superors in domestic virtues and Christian charity If
she is not great 10 learn anything she might learn
from them extend 10 her dependents that kind
and personal which hghborn danes consider it
beneath their dignity 10 bestow
About oneourth only of the slaves brought To the South
there under the operation OF the internal slave trade
and most Of those purchased at sheriff. and executors
sales sold for bad conducts SO that voluntary transfers.
without cause rare and there is in truth such a
thing in Virginia Maryland as persons breeding slaves
for the southern market do deny that in the sales
that take place there instances of separation Of wives
from their husbands and children from their mothers al
though the last is forbidden in States until the child
attans years OF But hardships of that kind
the lot OF aborng populations all the world ard the
Edinburgh Review, friend Of slavery frankly admits that
they frequent among the people of Scotland than
among the blacks of America This is equally of the
people of Ireland of England and of Germany The loss
nfh auaa
of all emigration but there material difference in the
position of the white and black emgrant The latter has
the certainty that his physical wants win all be abundanty
supplied in his home that he will be well cared for in
sickness in health and that greater comforts await him
by the greater value of the products to which
his labor to be applied while the European immigrant
arrives here poor and endes has struggle tor years
for subsistence and when his health fails him. too
often perishes from misery and want The choice Of the
country to which be emgrates is to be sure exercise of
liberty which the slave is debarred but having
rect data upon which he often chooses wrong while
the slave risk of suffering by such mistakes and
as he considers from his infancy, coercve emigration
of the features of his condition. 1t be conceded that
it is attended with fewer and lesser hardshps than the vol
untary emigration of the whites
But it in New Epgand that the evils attending the
separation of families ought be thus deprecated and
magnied2 Look around yourselves Are not your sons
your daughters your brothers continually going from
your Are not the mighty destines OF this people being
accomplished at the cost of nnumerable sacrifices Of fam
lily affection and earthly happiness More of your young
buried in the depths of the and its desert
shores and in the bowling wilderness than in the
Grated ground where their ancestors and If You
bear these great Affections with becoming Christian reg
nation methinks You might look without horror upon the
removal of young healthy negroes from the exhausted
lands where their labor hardly supports them, TO the mex
hausble alluyions of Mississippi and Louisiana, where
they maker for themselves in their time than
they made for their former masters But peculiar evil
attending the emigration from New England TO which you
permit 70 alude Is the disproporton in numbers
between the sexes resulting from it When, years
ago, inquired what was the population Of salem was
Of Escb
are women and girls. Now ask what is TO become Of six
thousand OF those poororlorn creatures deserted by
those who had been intended for their partners in life left
as the flower in the wilderness TO waste the perfume Of
their youth or the desert air and finally to die uncared
for ard wept without having felt those endearmens and
ties which alone give value TO womans exlstenoe1 u not
surprising that they should occasionally lose their balance
and give into the popular Of the day with all the
earnestness of a otherwise unocoupied. Who viii
the first stone at Them and condemn them for being
bloomerites spirituass aboionistsf In troth not
For abusing and other saye-masters without cause
from my heart forgive Them believe could forgive
them If they had abused my father-aye would forgive
them, under the circumstances, they had abused my
great.grandfather.
sincerely wish had an equally good forgive
their leaders and coadutor In the an,isayery agitation
mean those ministers Of the God OF Peace who consider
that federation has ceased bs Christian virtue and in
stead Of teaching charity and love Ety the Gospel To-
ment civil discord openly advocate revolution and give
AID nd comfort 10 traitors.
am happy TO say however that the northern clergy
far from being unanimous In s nnhny crusade against
the South and the Union and that among those who have
Joined Il TO be found many young and inexperienced
who have momentariy suceumbed 10 tho arts oil their
crafty elders and viii long have doubt repent OF
their error To all such would say, try the practical
operation Of your principles take each Of you one Of those
Shapes rifles which distributed in come OF your
churches and learn how to them When you are
that you can hit borderruian at safe distance, bid
farewell your congregation and leave for the West As
you travel you win regions men, other habits
and forms Of thought Your contracted New Eng
land notions win expand win your horizon in the
boundess prairies and inland you win have TO
traverse Before you reach your destination you win have
met with many MissourAns and their wives and inter
course with them viii have made you feel that they
good and true American citizens You When you
mind viii have been dspeed; you will be for peace and
not for war your influence will materially assist In re-
storing harmony, and You will return your pastoral
charge wiser and better men
II Il neat urged against slavery that all female slaves
are deprsyed and that power Of the over them
leads 10 babituA immortality in the family circle This Is
far from being annvitng theme and upon which
would know bow 20 address YOU II did take Ii
for granted that you have all read Uncle Toms Cabin.
That borrd episode Of the fine quartroon girls aud the
details about the domestic arrangements Of my neighbsr
Legree my apology for what have to say and shall
say nothing half a. bad these stories arr Dr. Chan
ming Mrs Stowe and Others have made this charge not
upon what they Knew but upon the grauitous assump
tons that there moral restraints the power Of
the master and that IL s without limit This Is great
error Female slaves recognise right in their
master their persons and the master who should
attempt thus abuse the power he has against their
will would be branded by his ncghbors q scoun-
drel and II killed In the attempt n southern Jury
would hold the homicide excusable The influence
OF master over his female slave is Of the same
prentice and in both cases the immortality 10 which that
tacrr eads IA eYcepoun and OF rare occurrenee You