The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-12-01
REMARKABLE MOVEMENT IN MISSIS.
SIPPI-GETTING ASHAMED OF SLA
VERY,

One would suppose that if Slatery had friends
anywhere in the world, il must -e on the banks
of the lower Mississippi. But, strange to say,
the term has become odious even in that region
of cotton and negroes. The Leading minds in
Mississippi nov maintain that Slsvery no longer
exists among them-thst the sid system has
been practically done away witt, and that the
new system, styled Wa,renteet,m, has taken
its place, NJ. Henry Hughes las drawn up a
report, accompanied by bill. p WHICH the
new definition is given to the -abor system of
the South; and the Rcpeilie, G. Port Gibson,
ssya that Jefferson Davis and other leading
men in the State fayor the views IF Mr.. Hughes.
According to the report, the essran,ea labor
system is now that of the Unite States South.
The system has progressed frotl Slavery, and
is called Wa-ranteeism, because En- it the laborer
has warranted to him WhateEf in justice is
necessary and proper for hi& The report
says:
"But what is this third labor 1ystem q? What
is this composite system which warrants so
many excellence, which has me freedom of
free labor without its license, cd the order of
Slavery without its tyranny? ITnot free iGbo-,
and not slave labor, what is il ?s 1t is order ap-
piled to the States working power. 1t is liberty
labor. 1t is warranted associatisn, adaptation,
and regulation. 1t is the iaSotssystem of the
United States South, it is WarrSnteeism.
.Tbe labor system of the United States South
began in Slavery. and progressed. This prog
ress was from SYSTEM which tie Constitution
contemplated and disapproved. Fyop} the sys
ten contemplated by the Constitution, our negro
labor has progressed to a system in which now
the negro virtually hss al the rights justly due
him. We may safely challenge agy iurist to
point out single fundamental tight nov Gue,
and not enjoyed by our miscalet, slaves. They
havs cot, IL is true, some peculiar franchises.
This privation, however, is duesto two facts
one temporary, and the other .eteE9sl, The
abolition agitation is the Temporary fact, 1t
Justly disqualifes the negroes Il, enjoy certain
rights of education, assemblage, and loeomo-
ton. The eternal fact is the Diversity of Races.
This fact pecessitates caste for the purity end
progress Of races. Rpt if the purity and prog
ress of races is the States su6isIses. duty, ne
groes must never be citizens, because political
aHalQamation realizes sexual ,.malgamation.
But the blood amalgamation of superior and
inferior race is degeneration, Sk:ch is detesta-
BILE, pernicious, and damnable. 2Caste agai9st
clinical incest and for the purits and progress
of races, ought therefore to be TIE eternal fact,
and negroes are never to be citizsns, for the Re-
publ 10 is Caucasian.
al. The nature Of the association is not phi
vate, like that of free end elaye labor, but pub
lie. The servants relstion to ths Luaster, there-
fore, is not that of hirelings to the hirer, nor
that of slaves to the owner, but that of magis-
trates. This has been judicially decided. By
;udiciai dacision the master is not private
but public person. The State TO whom eco
nomic allegiance for the subsiste zee of all sas
well due as political allegiance = the security
of all. associates, adapts, and,'regulates the
masters pesass, rights, duties al d responsible
ties. And as q magis;yate isfnothing more
than one having for public pssposss public
powers rights, duties, and resPo satellites, the
master in ths United States Soitth IS special
subordinate nagistsats, Gqali6edi for the con-
servation and administration Of lPecial public