Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-24
Slave and Free States.


The Banner of Lib rty, published
a. Middletown, New York, thus dis
courses touching these designations,
which are so generally applied to the
States Of the North and the South:
A MIsNoMER.-T The too common
distinction of the Northern and
Southern States as Stree" and "slave"
States. Any person well informed
upon the subject knows that there is
much more freedom in the Southern
States than in the Northern. In the
latter The Puritanlc tendency to ty-
Tanny has SO far encroached upon and
subverted the primitive Republican
institutions Of our ancestors, as 10
deprive citizens Of many of the dear.
est immunities of freemen, while in
the Southern States it is we'll known
conservative spirit has prevailed,
and there has been much less innova
ton. If, therefore, the distinction of
"free and "slave'' States is TO be
kept up, the application should be
revers ed. The Southern States
should he called the Stree" States
and the Northern the 'slape" States.
These are the sentiments of pa
per published in the very heart of
the So called free" States. With
all their boosted freedom, the people
of those States are told by one of
their independent thinkers that they
are toiling servants to those who tax
them-that they labor to support in
stitutions in which they have no
sympathy or interest-that they
have gradually surrendered their
rights into the hands Of a few, and
tibet the Southern States are truly
the States where freedom for the
white man is to be found. The Ban
ner concludes the remarks from
which Tie above is extracted with
the following suggestions:
AS this is white mans govern
ment instead of the negro's, that
portion in which white people are
most free, prosperous and happy
should be designated as Stree" and
the appellation of 'slaye" should be
applied 10 those States in which
white people enjoy the least liberty
ARE compelled to toll most, and
enjoy less returns for their labor.
Let tue order then be reversed, or
let the non-slaveholdiug States be
designated as "free niger States :
instead of Stree States" We insist
upon this tribute to truth and justice.
What say our brethren of the press7
The Banner might have justly
added that the mass of our slaves
are compelled to work less and are
better fed aud clothed than thou
sands of the laboring population oil
the North; moreover, that subSlst-
ence aud attention are guaranteed to
them in sickness and in health, in
their prime and in old age, and that
they arenever compelled to beg bread
from door to door or to suffer for
want OF employment. Without care
or solieitude upon their minds, and
with the assurance of protection
through life, their condition is a
thousand times preferable to that of
the lazy, idle, vicious free negroes of
the Stree Niger States, not to say
anything about the INDECENT classes
Of the large cities and many of the
oparatives in manufacturing estab-
ishments.
We are not only ready to compare
the condition ofthe whites with the
came classes in the Northern States,
but we will, at any time, make a
showing as to the comparative condl-
ton and happiness of the two negro
populations, slave and free. with the
entire assurance that the balance VIII
prove largely in our favor.
LOUISVILLE, June l4.-The ieyee
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