The Kanzas news., 1857-08-22
Is the South too Hot for White Men?
Prom the seImpending Crisis of the South p by h
R. Helper, of North Cardinal

foiu tDe Impending CrlSlS or the South, hy b
R. Helper, of North Carolina
Too hot In the South, and too unhealthy
there-white men cant stand it''-negroes
only can endure the heat of Southern climesl
How often are our ears insulted with such
szickedly false assertions as these? In what
degree of latitude-pray tell us-in what de-
gree of latitude do the rays of the sun be-
come too caloric for white men? Certainly
in no part of the United States, for in the
extreme South we find a very large number
OF non nslayeholding whites, over the age o.
fifteen. who derive their entire support from
manual labor in the open fields. The sun,
that bug bear of slayeholding demagogues,
skone on more than one million of free white
rr.ostsy agfss euisGrists, IA tie Slave
SITES IN 1850, exclusive of those engaged
n Commerce, trade, manufactures. the me-
chstnic arts and mining. ct, notwithstan-
ding all these instances of exposure to his
wrath, we have had no intelligence whatev-
er, of a single case of coup d. sozeI. Ala
bama is not too hot; sixty-seven thousand
white sons of toll till her soil. Mississippi
is not too hot; fifty-fve thousand free white
laborers are hopeful devotees of her outdoor
pursuits. Texas is not too hot; forty-sev-
EN- thousand free white persons, males, over
the age of fifteen, daily perform their rural
vocations amid her unsheltered air.
Il is stated on good authority that, in Jan
uary, 1856, native ice, three inches thick,
was found in Galveston Bay; we have seen
1t ten inches thick in North Carolina, with
the mercury in the thermometer at Two de-
grees below zero. In January, 1857, while
the snow was from three to five feet deep in
many parts of North Carolina, the thermom-
eter indicated degree of GOODNESS seldom
exceeded in any State of the Union-thir-
teen degrees below zero. The truth IS, in
stead of its being too hot in the South for
white men, it is too cold for negroes; and
we long to see the day arrive when the lat
ter shall have entirely receded from their
uncongenial homes in America, and given
full and undivided place to the former.
Too hot in the South for white menl 1t
is not too hot for white women. Time and
again, In different counties in North Carroll
ma, have we seen the poor white wife of the
poor white husband, following him in the
harvest field from morning till night, bind
ing up the grain as it fell from the cradle
In the neighborhood from which we hail,
there are not less than thirty young women,
non-sla4eholding whites, between the ages of
fifteen and twenty 6ve-some of them who
are so well known to US that we could call
them By name-who labor in the fields eve
ry summer, two of them in particular, near
neiohbors of our mother, are in the habit of
hiring themselves out during harvest time,
the very hottest season Of the year, to bind
hay and oats-each of them keeping up with
the reaper; and this for the paltry conside-
ration of twenty-five cents per day.
That any respectable man-any man with
a heart or soul in his composition-can
look upon these poor toiling white women
without feeling indignant at that accursed
system of slavery which has entailed on them
the niseries of poverty, ignorance and deg
radiation, we shall not do ourself the JUS
tiee to believe. Ii they and their husbands,
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 9TH
er doors than our own. In their behalf,
chiefly, have we written and compiled this
work; and until our object shall have been
extinguished, there shall be no abatement in
our efforts to aid them in regaining the nat
ural and inalienable prerogatives outof which
they have been so UNANIMOUSLY swindled.-
We want to see no more plowing or hoeing,
or raking OF grain binding, by white women
in the Southern States; employment In cot
ton 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 abolished.