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The Negro Labor Question By New York Merchant
New York; d. Appleton & Co. 1858.
true or feigned title One thing is certain, he
cares more for gain than for God or rather
Manmon is his god. He pirates of religion !;
but what kind of religion is that which claims
the right to live on the unrewarded toll of his
fellow men, and to increase his own comforts
at the expense of the woes and suferings of
others Cotton is King" says Senator Ham.
mond. "Cotton is Kingi" would echo the
New York merchant. " Laborers are the mud
sill of society,"" says the Seuator. eyes, yesi"
responds the Merchant Prince; " tread them
down, keep them under" We should like to
know Upon what meat does this our Caesar
feed, that he has grown so great?" Why does
he not step forth in his own person and under
his own name, aud PROFOUND his scheme? Sure
ly he cannot be willing for any one else to have
the honor of 80 magnificent project as q Con-
gress of delegates from the Nations of Europe
and the United States, on the 4th day of July,
to devise the best ways and means and decide
on the plan by which negroes may be forced to
labor. Perhaps the idea was too vast and over
towering for q aoeak man to assume the respon.
sibility of it. We wonder if, perchance, there
may not have been conclave of spirits from
the Vastly Deep" or some ether place, and thus
our author caught the stolen fire of his Prone
thean plan. Hear him, how benignantly he
sets it forth. Who can reject 80 true philan-
thropist, so benevolent scheme I" 1t must be
provided that only to really and truly Christian
men quasi our author) shall the negroes be
intrusted. We by no means contemplate their
being held as slaves in any such sense, at least,
as they are at present, both held in Slavery and
considered and treated as the goods and chat
tells of their masters, or rather their owners"
Now, is not that beautiful? What could you
ask more? Let us read little further: "Ser-
vitude, as we have said before, is one thing, and
Slavery is quite another thing" Hold Take
care, lest Senator Hammond be after you.
"Their labor must be obtained and obtained,
if need be, by coercion, in some way or other,
[by the whip, or bloodhound and manacles. 1t
must be compulsory labor, because with them
nothing but compulsion in some shape will ex-
act that labor from them"
How happy these slaves must be What a
bensfcent project at is divine precept."
Z" He that will not work, neither shall be eat"
We're this rule carried out how much would
some New York merchants, their wives and
children, in their daily routine of extravaganza
and as busybodies," have to feed on2 I'D
Thess., iii, ILL., "And it is the application of
this divine precept in their case that we would
make the rule of action-though We would make
it so in no sense, cruelty, unjustly, or unneces-
sarily." Oh, mol how complacent, how kind.
I" The negroes must have masters, and these
masters must efectually control them, must
have entire command of them as laborers and
as servants. Neither must the negroes be at
liberty to rid themselves of such mastership, in
any case, of their own accord-in no case, in
deed, save by an authority superior to that of
the masters themselves-an authority derived
from law, and exercised under lawful provisions"
Mode, to wit by the masters themselves, fugi.
tive slave laws, bred Scott decisions. Was
there ever a prettier scheme Ring out the
bells, sound the trumpet of jubilee
Now, of choice, we like a bold devil rather
than sneaking one. The cloven.foot will out,
though he strives to hide it. We never have
seen clearer illustration of mans stealing
the livery of Heaven to serve the devil, )" than
this miserable pretence of beneftting men by
reducing them to Slavery. We give it its true
name, for this sort Of servitude, as he calls it,
is Slavery. 1t is contemplate and when a man
can put forth, in this day of light and knowl-
edge, such views, under the title of q New York
merchant, when New York merchants can up
hold the oppression Of Kansas, we do not won
der If New York merchants, too, do send out
ships to carry on that slave trade which is pi-
racy. And, if possible, still more contempt.
BILE is the manner in which, by the grossest per-
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