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CLAYroN's MILLS S. C. Dec 90 1857

CLAYToN's MILLS, S. G., Dec 20, 1857.
Editor Courier: The subject of slavery, is
one that has agitated the minds of men in all
ages, particularly when any system of slave
ry has proved itself to the experience and
practice of a people to be wrong Then let
us look among ourselves and see if there be
n species of slavery among us that does not
work we'll. We look around and we discover
that all is peace and happiness. The mas
ter and his slave in the South are ENJOYING
themselvec in peace and plenty. We see no
evil growing out of our system of slavery,
and never have we seen native of the South
begging for living Then seeing the smiles
of peace and plenty in tho South, let us turn
to the North and see what the hired system
of slavery is doing there IIark! the voice
OF the hired servants cry for bread While
their masters say; Howl, o gate cry, o
city; thou whole Palestine, art dissolved; for
there shall come from the North a smoke,
and none shall be alone in his appointed
times" "What, shall we answer tho mes
sengers of the nation? That the Lord hath
founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall
trust in it," lisa. Ia, 81, AZ, the last NAV be
the answer of the South; but before | pro
ceed any further will give definition of
three words so that l may be clearly under
stood, first, Iion sunny place or sunny
mount Zion is the southernmost and highest
hill on which Jcrusalem stands" CovePs
Bible Dictionary "Mancipate to bind.'--
Webster's small Dictionary. "Save, one
mancipated to a master"
slave then, is person bound to a mas
ter, whether white or black, hired or sold.-
The hired system of slavery exists in the
North where, at this time, the greatest hu-
man distress prevails, for the hired system
of slavery is wrong-wrong, because in this
system the master may discharge his slave at
will to starve if he have no friends, or be
unaided by charity. Thousands at :h;s time
at the North are thus discharged. Their mas
ters, owing to the money panic, cannot make
their labor profitable, and, in as much as they
have no interest in the person of the slave,
have turned them off to do the best they can,
if it be to starve. So many being thus dis
charge, emancipated, and without work or
bread that they are frequently meeting in
large bodies, uttering in6amatory speeches,
and deploring their fate, while for years,
there have been native born citizens of the
North, begging for livingl
Then let them turn their eyes to the South,
the Zion of the Union, fora pattern, while
their fanatical aboltionsts excaim "Ihou,
whole Palestina, art dissolved for there shall
come frorN the North q smoke, and none shall
be alone in his appointed time"
Then what shall the South answer? "what
shall one then answer the messengers of the
nation?" "Ah happy southerners let us
answer thom thus: THAT the Lord hath
founded Zion, and the poor of his people trust
in it," "That God has mancipated the ne
gro to him of the South for the negroes pro-
gression, and the negro happily trusts in the
Emancipation"
In tho South the negro has a true master /;
but the master of the North turns out his
hireling TO starve, when hard times come !;
therefore, we can say with st. Paul OF old
Servants be obedient TO them that are your
masters according to the flesh" Epb. @, S.
And the servants of the North may thus
| truly complain "masters, give unto your
seryants that which is just and equal know
ing that ye also have master in heaven.
Col. 4, T.
If the masters of the North do not know
| that they have master in heaven, the aboli-
| tionists there know very we'll, if they would
| own It, that our negroes are better Off than
many Of them. 1t seems that in all ages it
! has been the policy of the Great Philanthrop.
| ist ofall, to bind the lower races of man TO
| the higher as slaves for their progression, as
in their lowest stages they cannot we'll take
care ofthemsoiyes, Hence we see slavery
sanctioned although the Bible. But when
ST. Paul wrote the above to the, Colassion mas
ters, ! suppose that then, he never dreamed
] that any Of tho Anglo-sa8on race wocld or