Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-12-29

SOUTHERN SLAVERY VERSUS NORTHERN HIRE
LINGs-FOr thirty years Northern Fanaticism
backed up by kindred spirit in New England, ha:
| been wagng a ceaseless and inscriptions warfare
against Southern slavery. The Pulpit, the Press
and the Hastings have We'd with each other in de
crying the institution and exagerating its evils, and
| unprincipled DemagOgues have nursed and famed
the excitement a means of riding int position!
they had not the merit and ability otherwise to OBJ
tain. The stranger to our institution has been con
ytrained by the clamor of Northern Fanatieism Il
believe that the institution of slavery it exists
the South is the greatest that the face o.
ciyiliz alton.
| The present sudden and unexpected financial
crisis forces before the eyes Of the world in str
king contrast the condition of Southern slaves and
the hireling classes North. We have just returned
from tour through several of the Southern States
to wit: Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, distance Of over
four thousand miles, including in the route, the pop
ulOus cities Of New Orleans, Mobile, Galveston
Houston, Memphis and many other smaller towns
and cities, and did not, during the whole journey,
see half dozen beggars; and the sight of slave
in the Southern States begging bread is q
novelty Unheard of. Indeed the slave who has
grown old, infrm, decaipid, or otherwise has be-
come unable to render his owner profitable labor
is usually the best taken care of.
How is it with the Northern hireling? The mo-
ment he becomes unable by sickness accident, to
renuer MS employer emclenL services, his wages
cease; the moment he becomes permanently disa-
bled from old age or otherwise, he is discharged;
the moment his labor ceases to be profitable by a
crisis in monetary affairs depression in business
he sturned loose-thTown out upon the cold chart.
ties of The world to beg starye and at this time
while Northern cities have to be protected by
armed police and soldiery against the violence Of
the hungry, starving multitude, who has thus been
thrown out upon the public, our Southern slave is
not aware that anything has occurred to dis
turb the financial affairs of the country, but reoces
in a knowledge of the fact, that while in his mas
ter's store house remains a pound Of meat, or in
his masters barn remains a peck of corn, it will
be equally divided with him. Yea, he knows that
while in his masters pocket remains dollar with
which TO purchase these things that he will not be
permitted to suffer with want While the cries of
the hungry, starving freedom shriekers North, make
night hideous with their wailing and lamentations,
slave population was never more eOntented and
happy, and wastes enough of their daily supplies to
feed the starvi g multitude of New York
What glorious liberty is now en- ioyed by cur
Northern philanthropists. The liberty Ct begging
their bread from door to door. The liberty Of
starving with hunger and freezing with cold.
Ye freedom shreking Beechers and Greeleys,
Gerritt Smiths and Theodore Parker's listen to the
voice Of true TO the cries of
suffering humanity. Draw from the Golfers of your
Kansas aid societies, your mispent contributions
and stop the mouths of the starving multitude that
howl at your gates.-Geo. Times and Sentinel.