Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-07-17

that We could call them by name-who
lGLor an Me tielis every summer; two of
them in particular, near neighbors to our
mother, are in the habit Of hiring them
selves out during harvcst-timc, the very
hottest season of the year, to bind wheat
and oats-eoch Of than kcepiny up wM
/ tie renper: and This for the palry con.
sideration of trenty fire cents per day.
That any respectable man-any man
with heart or a soul in his composition
can look upon these poor toiling white
women withou, feeling Indignant at tlla. ac.
cursed system Of Slavery which has en-
tailed on them the miseries of poverty,
ignorance, and degradation, VIC shall not
DO Cursclf the violence to believe. If
they and their sons and daughters, and
brothers and sisters, are not righted in
some Of the more important particulars in
which they have been wronged, the fault
shall lie at other doors than our own. In
their behalf, chiefly, have we written and
compiled this work !; and until our object
shall have been extingushed, there shall
be no abatement in our efforts to aid them
in rcgaining the natural and inalicnable
prerogatives out of which they have been
so infamous'y swindled. We want to see
no more blowing, or hoeing, or raking, or
grain binding, by white women in the
Southern States; employment in cotton.
mills and other factories would be far
more profitable and congenial to them,
and this they shall have within short
period after Slavery shall have been abol-
ished
RATES OF WAGES AT THE SOUTH.
Last Spring we made it our special bu-
siness to ascertain tho ruling rates of wa
ges paid for labor, free and slave, in North
Carolina. We found sober, energetic white
men, between twenty and forty years of
age, engaged in agricultural pursuits at a
salary ofSSl per Misunderstanding board
only negro men, slaves, who performed
little more than half the amount'of labor,
and who were exceedingly sluggish, awk-
ward and careless in all their movements,
were hired out on adjoining farms at an
average Of about Sis per annum, inclu-
ding board, clothing and medical attend
ance.
POOR WHITES.
Poverty, ignorance and superstition are
the three leading characteristics of the
non-slaveholding whites Of the South.
Many of them grow up to the age of ma
turity and pass through life without ever
owning as much as Eve dollars at any one
time. Thousands of them die at an ad-
vanced age as ignorant of the common al
All are n mofe M or les less impressed with Be-
lief in witches, ghosts and supernatural
signs. Few are exempt from habits of
sensuality and intemperance. None have
anything like adequate ideas of the duties
which they owe either to their God, to
themselves or to their fellow-men. Pitia-
bic, indeed, in the fullest sense of the
term, is their condition.
1t is the almost utter lack Of an cduca
ton that has reduced them to their pres
ent unenviablc situation. In the whole
South there is scarcely publication of any
kind devoted to their interests. They are
now completely under the domination of
the oligarchy, and it is madness to sup
pose that they will ever be able to rise to
position of true manhood until after the
slave power shall have been utterly over
thrown.
PUBLISHERS NORTH AND SOUTH.
OF the "morc than three hundred hou-
scs engaged in the publication of books"
to which the writer in the "American
Publishers Circular" refers, upwards of
nine-tenths Of the number arc in the non
slaveholding States, and these represent
not less than ninety-ninc hundreths Of the
whole capital invested in the business.
Baltimore has twice as many publishers as
any other Southern city, and nearly as
many as the whole South beside. The
census returns of 1850 give but twenty
four publishers for the entire South, and
ten of these were in Maryland.
WHAT SOUTHERN MEN EXPECT.
"Southcrn men expect to get talent
without paying for it." This is quota
ton from speech made at the Savannah
Southern Convention. a very natural
expectation, considering that they have
been accustomed to have all their material
wants supplied by the uncompcnsatcd toll
of their slaves. In this instance it may
seem an absurd one, but it results legiti-
matcly from the system Of Slavery.
WANT OF POLITICAL FREEDOM.
Pending the last Presidential election,
there were thousands, nay, tens Of thou
sands Of voters in the Slave States, who
desired to give their sutfragcs for the Re
publican nominee, John c. Fremont, him
self Southror, but non-slaveholder.
The Constitution of the United States
guaranteed to these men an expression Of
their preference at the ballot.box. But
were they permitted such On expression ?
Not at all. They were denounced, threat
cncd, overawed, by the Slave Power-and
it is not too much to say that there was
really no Constitutional etection-that is,
no such free expression of political prefer.
ences as the Constitution aims to secure
in majority of the Slave States.
We have made liberal quotations, to
show the clear and determined perceptions
Of the author. and now refer our readers