Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-24

| Will tilc HloTe pleaSuTc as we nave AWAY!
believed, that free expression and inter
change of opinions on all subjects between
parties who disagree, tends invariably to thu
promotion of truth and the discontinue o
error. That will be a far better time for til,
world-whcn men will be as willing to lister
to those who disagree, as to those who agree
with them. Listening to error, never once
hurt the man who was honestly searching
for the right, and the man who is not doing
this cannot be hurt by listening to all the bad
doctrines that ever were preached.
But for the letter:
MOBILE, June /, 1859.
Mr. MAnIN You say wrong exists be,
tween master and slave. | admit wrong may
in some manner grow out of every relation in
life, but we must enquire whether the good
or the evil preponderates. have seen very
little of the condition of the black population
in the Free States, but from all that can
learn, they are not so well fed or clothed, and
their morals not so good in the free, as in the
slave States. | believe in free State, where
there are only a few negroes, they may do
tolerably well, they may learn from the
whites and improve by their example, but in
a neighborhood where the black population
is large, tney become indolent and wretched.
AS for the Post Offices of the Southern States
hey pay to the Government nearly as much
as the Post Offices of the Northern States :;
the Custom Houses more than support them
selves, and the Southern people pay large
amount of the customs received at New York,
hat tI,n nf
the country, and will continue for long time
ing, not only for the West, but for the South
One reason of this is, that the vicinity of New
York is noted for its manufacturing inter
ests, and when the Western and Southern
merchants lay in their supplies they make
pretty much one job of purchasing the home
and the foreign product, in regard to this part
of the argument. The Northern men make
largely from their dealings with the South,
and at the same time, the South sells to the
North rice, cotton and sugar, and all parties
are benefited AS for the territory -purchas-
ing disposition of the South, [ acknowledge
we are famous for that But this is a mutu-
al benefit, it only makes more room for the
manufactures of the North, and not only the
merchandise, but the people themselves are
scattered from the Northern States, into all
of the territories. In the New England and
many of the Northern and Western States,
when young man looks around and don't
see the way clear to make start in business
near his home, he sets out for the South or
West, with a calculation to take chances as
they present themselves, and in short time
he may be found near the borders of civili-
zation, with a few mechanical tools building
houses for the settlers, or perchance with
few school books, teaching the young popu-
lation the manner of steering their course
through the world, and measuring the dis
lance from the earth to the moon.
Considering all of the relations between
the North and the South, | think little
quarrel between a man and his wife would
result fully as profitable as quarrel between
the States
When | say the African don't advance in
civilization, mean in Africa. I agree that
in the United States, they have the example
and instruction of the whites, which does in
some measure improve them, but when they
are freed and sent to Liberia, they don't alto
gether retain their moral and industrious
habits, and many of them wish to be here in
slavery, and we have here a few free negroes,
and don't know of one that is so well con-
tented as the slaves are. W.
Ed. notes, 1.-"You say a wrong exists
between master and slave" "W." does not
quote our words accurately. We do not say
that, we said that the relation of master and
slave is itself a wrong-a wrong in the sense
of an injustice to the slave-and a wrong in
the sense of an injury to the master.
"W" says, 81 admit that wrong may in
some manner groao out Of every relation"
We do not take the wrong that groaos out Of
Slavery for our argument against it, but the
wrong that it is. We are not attacking the
evils and hardships that are caused by sla-
very-if we we were it might be some reas-
oning to balance them by the pleasures and
comforts that exist along with it; but we are
attacking the thing itself wrong, whether
pleasant or unple; SAINT, profitable or unprofit-
able, popular or unpopular, just as we con-
denim murder-not for the terror and sorrow
and works of either, but for the wrong it
does to the murdered man.
2. The food and clothing argument we no.
ticed in our last reply.
8. Will "W." give as tile figures to sup
port his assertion that "the Southern Post
Offices pay to the Government nearly as much
as the Post Offices at the North, and the
Custom Houses more than support them
We think that he will find it
rather hard to do.
4. As to the Southern people paying
portion of the customs at New York, and
its commerce, we have only to
say that the duties Southern people pay at
New York are no more to be counted as
Southern contributions to the revenues than
Northern money paid for cotton at Memphis
or Charleston should be estimated as North
ern contributions to Southern capital. Com
mercc flows to New York for the same reason
that the Mississippi flows to New Orleans,
because it can't go anywhere else. 1t is no
thanks to Southern merchants more than it
is to Western merchants, that they so to
trade at New York or Philadelphia. They
60 there because it is for their own interest,
and the revenues accruing there out of South
ern and Western pockets are just as much
part of the products of exclusively Northern
interests and enterprise, as the money taken
in at mandatory or at Saratoga Springs, is
to be credited as the product of the places
where these establishments are located, and
not of the places where their customers re-
side.
5. Does "W." mean to say that Southern
politicians favor the purchase Of new terrific
ry, in order to provide room for young men,
in New England and the North to go with
"mechanical tools" and ''school books?"
EMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA. - The San
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