The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-11-06


Ia miserable cabins ia tho interstices ors
corners OF these great plantations, and
| CLEAN bear subsistence from the lite
patches OF land allowed them, and from
hunting, fishing, &c.
| Now, just look at the relations and CO.
| tercourse of the two extremes occupying
this district. Here are ten great plan
ters, on one hand, each owning an estate
averaging 1000 acres. On the ether
hand, sklrting or indenting their estates,
are scattered the cabins OF perhaps poor 4
white men, living from hand to mouth,-
frequently is ignorant aud vicious as
they are depressed in the social scale.
We do not believe that in any country in
the civilized world such wide, deep
chasm divides between class aud class aa
| that which separates tie tso parties or
cupying this plantation district in the
Southern States. To call them conf
muaiy would be as great a misnomer as
possible. They are united by no common
bond of sympathy or interest. On the
contrary, sour, sullen suspicion on the
one side, and proud and naughty
bearing on the other, are likely to widen
the gulf between them.
Now, add population of thousand
slaves to this dist let, and you have the
plantation system in the perfection Of its
evils. In all that pertains to domestic,
social, and educational economy, each
planter eBdeavors to make his establish
meut an independent estate. As far as
possible, he prevents the underground
aud thrift OF independ,n Industries,
trades, &c. lie has nothing in common
with those who would plant these cle-
mepts of civilized society within that
district. lie feels that his establishment
i wanting, if he is obliged to give one
of these out lde tradcsmen a job. Thus,
he stocks his estate with assorted hands:
lie has his own blacksmith, carpenter,
brickmaker, &c. He patronIzes no small
draper, grocer, ron-monger. upaolsterer,
or shoe dealer, who may venture to set
up shop in the district lie buys his
iron by the ton, his groceries by hogs
heads and hundreds, his shoes aud hats
by the case, in sono large seaport, where
he sells his cotton. There he buys his
books, his furniture, and all the elegan-
cres of his mansion. There he buys at
wholesale all the coarse ouahttings for his
slaves He frequently forblds their re
sorting to the slnall dealers ior the pur-
pose of trading with them. " Nhat has
he to do with conimon schoIls ior the ed
ucatiun Of the children Of the poor lie
las none to educate. even IN the Inst
Il II. II. -. II
, ters. as he is apt to regard them. lie
, either empl,ys a tutor or a gov"rHess ~
r his fmiiv. or sends his children to some
:, distant boarding school, TO be elnca'cd,
t at an expense far beyond the reach oj
common mems Such Us he, are hi,
s. niue fellow a3tcrs. They may consti
tute a social circle of aristocrats, and
maintain a congenial intercourse among
- themselves; but, So far as all the rest o
, the white population Of that district are
e concerned, they are worse than obscatees.
they may patronize and enrich trades ant
occupations in large towns on the sea
, board, or at a distance, but they impov
= orish all independent industries within
IS the compass of their estates.
l. We do not believe that one in ten O
the tradesmen and mechanics Of tn
Southern States would dissent from thi
e view Of the plantation system. W.
J. know that many Of them feel deeply ol
& this subject, and would express thei
,s convictions in reference to its bearing
far more impressively than we have done
- if they had fitting opportunity for do
ing it. This plantation system, as "
= have said, is an institution produced b
= Slavery; and with Slavery, we earnestl
= hope. it will die out Of the South entire
, ly. For. abolish Slavery, FIVE hundre
a a farmers, each with his hundred acres
- '. might occupy aud till the 10000 ownr
by these ten large planters. What ne
49, condition of fsociety would result from thi
- change
~ - In the first place, the land itself woul
:, be brought under the action Of five hur
: : dred individual minds, all thinking an
- planning, with all the evcr-working in
=, rulses and interests of ownership, to d.
80 velope its capacity of production. Coz
=. ceiye fer a moment, what an aggrega'
- ~ of cotton, corn, &c, five hundred fre
T., laboring farmers would grow in the;
:, $4,000 acres, now held by ten planters
r How soon would the sunlight be let in
=. - those Shiny bottomcd forests, and tho!
- fever. breeding fens and marshes be drai
cd But this would be the smallest r
:. suit Of the change. A community
=. five hundred farmers, with their famille
.' would en- brace within itself all the el
=, mcnts Of prosperous and progressi
=. 80 society. They would not only stand I
:" =, the same social footing, one with the ot
VS. as er, but they would inevitably attract
~ ~ their midst and support class of trade
~ ha men, mechanics, &C., equal to themselv
.ae @ in position md consideration; thus co
:. stitu,ing New England or Northe
~ ~ community, in all the characteristics
a. intelligence and prosperity. Where t
- planters did not sustain one draper
-, grocer, these farmers would support
~ village of stores and shops Instead
~ ~ schoollcss district, a thousand childr
=" " mi hit be brought under free instruc'ic
~o Ministers, teachers editors, and phys
J., ians, would find scope for their servie
H. ~ in such community as this The I
,.d izen Of the World.
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