Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-05-15
From Ia Pennsniraaian.
The Condition Of the Slaves of the South.

/ have been somewhat amused at the
TRADES Of abuse Of the South, when nave ior
some time pas. tiled the columns of one OF
your contemporaries, and it is fortunate that Tue
paper has no infuence South or Nest-in-
deed it is seldom read there, or IT might lnJnre
the business of our city-this paper claiming
to represent and advocate the commercial IN
terests of our city. | am also utterly disgust
ed that a man who ought aud who docs N"o"
better, should utter 80 much twaddle almost
entirely destitute OF truth-or rather per,er-
sion OF the truth. ! caunot take up your val
uahle columns With notices Of all his state
inents. He SAYS: The slave tolls for another,
not for himself" This is not uue-the slave
is we'll fed. well clothed, and when sick, well
nursed, instead Of being discharged as white
laborer and left go to a hospital. He can
not accumulate any psoperty for the decline
Of his days" He does not want 1t, for II Is
his masters business, aud the slave kHodos
from what he sees around him, that his mas
ter will secure him comfort in his old age
At an acre of 90 or 60, when the white free
luborer has to toll for his daily bread, the slave
pleads odd ggs, and his master gives hlm
quarter" sith few acres of ground, which
he cutivates and UiH sell the produce which
he does not want, to his own master. lie
does work occasionally for his master, but is
not compelled. "lle cannot toll To better the
condition of his children" Tins Is known TO
be untrue, for hundredS of slaves have bought
their own children from their mfsters 10y tiieIr
own industry, and any slave that chooses, can
be plaeed By has master, and is often 50 done
in a osition 10 buy himself in a few years.
On all cotton, rice and tobacco plantatians,
slaves are taskel to n certain amount OF work
per day, and ati Orey acork is paid for, for the
benefit of the slaves: and that the task IS easy,
is evident from the fact that any one can 90
fry per cent. beyond his task. Even Mrs..
Tom Store allows this.
Churches they have in all the cities, build
Jy themselves, anl well attended, and IN the
country, when the season permits, they wor-
ship in the woods IN masses.
There is no part of the South, except the
remoiest regions, where the slaves are without
moral and religion, instruction Bishop Meade,
Of Virginia, years ago, would moi accept par
ish unless he was permitted to preach oaee a
day to the slaves, aud the same was the fact
in reg ard to Dr. Alexander, afterwards one Of
the Professors at Princeton, and many others.
Men who write abolt the South ought TO know
HOibobIiIil5 "Ophh a..
Labor at the South is directed towards the
cultivation of few chief staples, instead Of
being couu,leSSly diversified a. it i amongst Us
Is this writer igHoraat that the God who made
this world, made different climates to suit dit.
ferent constitutions and different productions
The free white laborer Of the North, could not
work on rice or cotton plantation-aor coGld
the glorious grass feds which we have, exist
in the South. We, in our city, have TO bc in
debted To what We eontemptuousiy eGil the
sand 6uRk, over the river, for our 1CaferD,eious.
cantelopes, DC, which The ricl soil OF Laneas-
ter county will not produce. And th- vast
products of the Northern States are mostly de-
pendent If the slaves of the South Tor the rot
ton which makes the pracc!y fortunes ~ some
Of the manufactures. whose laborerS ar, pinch
ed down almost to poverty, These cunild Mt
exist without slavery at the South; and Iu.> !
writer know, il. These fleet n %. INST the /
South are mere folly, ana remind one Of the
boy who woud not ea, his bread t.ca.~e ID
Was not battered on both sides.