Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-03-04
The Richmond Enquirer on white La.
boring Men.


The Richmond Enquirer On White La
boring Men.
In sletter Of a correspondent publish
edin the Richmond Enquirer Of Feb
I'D, We end the following:
We can see ehy The slave population
in the aggregate is better of than the
free. Bat the slave ana understand
this, and If he did. it would make no
difference with him. he cares not for
the future, he sees the free negro free
from compulsory labor; he dissipates and
lounges with him on Sunday, and leaves
him to spend Monday in the same way
il he chooses, while he himself, must
fall into the ranks. He sees him toll by
his side for one day, receive his dollar
OF more, and disappear 10 spend it. He
steals, and finds a purchaser in bis free
neighbor, who has time and leisure to
dispose of the plumber, long before the
theft IS discovered. The free negro Is a
traveller, and gives the restless servant
much valuable information" and such
Is heir number, that the difficulty OF
determining between slave and free, is
one of the greatest obstacles to the ar
rest of fugitives. There is no possible
light in which itmay be considered, that
we do rot discover, in this class Of peo-
pie, a serious obstacle 10 the content.
ment and morality Of Jul slaves, without
any corresponding good 10 them, 1.-THE
free negroes, 10 the slaves. or 10 our
selves. And that is not all. There is
good ground for the opinion that they
are equally injurious to the lower class
of our white population. They associ-
ate with them, and 60 habit with them,
thereby becoming as degraded and un
principled; aad while the free negro is
restrained by fear from going beyond a
re;tain limit in the indulgence of his bad
passions, the white man is unrestrained
and becomes a tenfold greater nuisance.
because there is none TO modest or make
him afraid. Checked by the public
opinion of his own class, his depraved
instincts are easily attracted by and free
y INDUCED in n where he loses no
caste.
: The wise writer can himself easily see
why the slave is better of than the free
man, but the slave not being so highly
gifted. cannot understand it. The phil
osophical gentleman goes farther. and
says that if the slave did understand it,
it would make no difference with him.
Prabably not. 1t is rather difficult to
make one man understand that another
has a right to his labor. wife and chill
tdren, his muscles and his bones, a fee
simple in all that he is, has, or ever will
jhavc. We can easily comprehend that
the uncultivated slave should be so OBJ
fuse in intellect, that be could not clearly
comprehend this matter. A man must
be well educated in Virginia sbs,rac
tions, and belong to one of the FIRST fam
lilies, 10 have il seem clear to his mind as
the noon day sun.
The gentleman thinks it is bad enough
to permit The slave 10 associate with the
tECC uGStOCSB Oul hOioS "a diig " diiOh
him TO mingle with the poor whites
He says, thy (ths sluues) associate With
ticx. (the lower class of whites) cobalt
s0th them. thereby becoming as degraded
and unprinciple (as the whites them
%selves.) The white man, not having the
fear of the lordly STAKEHOLDER before his
eyes, becomes a ten fold greater Nuisance,
than the free negro himself. /
: Free laboring men will take notice
that in the slave States. they are looked
upon as greater ~nuisances than free ne.
groes, and their society as most degra-
ing in its influences. And yet free north
crn laboring men, are called sectional,
because they refuse to sustain by their
votes a party which has repealed the
Missouri Compromise, has thrown open
free territory TO thai institution, which
70 all intents and purposes, place them on
level with the slave himself, and in q
position where they may receive such
iialtering testimonials of regard as that
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