The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-10-10


E. / do not mean to say that rich men are m
e. patriots +: far from it. But do mean to sa
to That in all cases where violent Shocks. an
he political revolutions arc likely to occur the
Is are not 50 much to be relied on as poor me-
le Allow, that both the rich and the poor az
lie equally p3triotic. and equally alive to an
& danger that'threatens the domestic household
p The rich man*stil has his titles to look after
= and then, be .feeis, if the worst comes to tn
o worst, he can take himself and his family t
T some place Of security. This it is that make
him dess TelYbiet The poor mans judgnen
u Is nSfHwafpassil looking after titles, and b.
: sees Just Us clear that he can s.os take hi
e family TO place Of security rs the rich MAJ
/ sees that he can.
/ have said the rich will flee the country
| and 50 they will They will see the DANCE
4 afar off, and prepare TO meet it. With head,
: erect, they have nothing else to do bat Il
watch the gathering storm and prepare tC
D meet its coming. But the poor who arr
doomed to toil--whnse honest faces are bent
to the earth in the pursuit Of bread-they
have no TING to watch the storm or to mari;
its coming. When it barsts upon Us all, the
rich will have put their houses in order. The
poor will have TO bear its fury. When It's
first shocb Is over it will be found that the
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to await whatever fate betides them. What
will that fate be? It will be found that
millions of negroes, now held in subsection by
masters, who restrain their RIGHTEOUSNESS,
have been set at liberty to maraud, and plum
der and steal. That their former masters
have gone, and the poor n0n-slavch0lder alone
is LEFT to bear their inSolente and submit 10
their exacti0Rs, or else TO take up arms IN the
unequal contest which they and their northern
friends will wage. Then the non-siayehode"
| will begin to see what his real fate Is. The
negro will intrude into his presence-insist.
on being treated as an egual-that he shall 90.
to the white mans tabl-, nd Tie white man
/ to hiS-that lac Shall Share tuc White L. ans
bed, and the white man his--that his son
| shall marry the white mans daughter, and
the white mans daughter his son. In short
that they shall live on terms Of perfect social
equality. The non STAKEHOLDER wiil OF course,
reject the terms. Then will commence
war of races such as has marked the history
| of san Domingo. An unequal war, because
it will be q war in which the negro and his
nothern friends viii stand on one side, and
! the n-sayeholder, deserted by the slave
| holders will stand on the other.
But says the non-slayeholder, " ! too will
quit the country" My friend, think we'll
before you speak. How are you to get away,
and whittier will you go? Who will buy
your land, when eyerybodies land is deserted?
Who will buy your stock when people are
fleeing the country as they would fly from
house of p3stlence? If you 60, where will
you go to? If you go to the free States you
will find lands greatly increased in value on
account of the hundreds of thousands who
have gone before you. II you go to the slave
States, you will find the same b az despair
reigning there that you left behind YOU
Have you then, Shareholders, no interest i
in the question of slavery? | have tried to
show you that you have monyed interest
that the existence OF slavery in the South
keeps up and stimulates the price Of all you
own; and shat il opens up and sustaius
markets into which you enter and sell the
products Of yQar labor On equal terms with |
the stakeholder. nat sla"eCy X IN every way |
advantageous, in 4 moneyed sense, to the |
non-Slaveholder and in no way injurious to |
him, have tried 10 prove.
| have shown you some of the first fruits of /
abolition carried cut, in a social point of view; /
but have not exhausted that branch Of the |
subject.
There are those who cling to the dreamy |
idea that the negro is to be returned to his
native land. This IS the direst phantasy that /
ever crept into the human brain. History |
gives no account of four millions Of people |
being removed from any country against their /
will We know the pegro is unwilling to CO.
and that his abolition friends oppose MS going |
They oppose even the colonization of free I
negroes on the coast of Africa. No sane man
doubts if the negro is set FREQ that he is, by |
his own consent and the active agency of!
northern abolition, to remain here and curse +
the soil of the South 10y his idleness, his
vagabondism and his general disposition to /
steal.
But for the sake Of meeting those who take T
a different view, who indulge sort Of delu-
sive hope that the negroes will yet be sent
back to Africa and the South thus become
the abode OF white men alone, let US look to
the subject for moment in that light
We will then suppose that every son and /
daughter Of Africa has left our soil and is
safely landed in fathcrland VIII the pecunia-
ry or social condition OF the present non slave
holders be thereby improved /
Ii these lines sinai. ever fall under the eye Of /
any citizen Of non-slaveholding State, beg
him to consider now that | address him as |
much as / do citizens OF slaveholding State.
have already shown how the non slave
holder is benefited pecuniarily by being in /
sIayeholding communities, and shall not |
therefore return to that branch of the subject
am quite content to say, SO far as the money |
involved 10 the question is concerned, most OF I
it belongs5to shareholders; and if they refuse
to defend it, lett go,-''tet the dead bury the /
deads If the shareholders win not defend |
their rights as such, am quite ready to ad- |
init that it is not the duty OF non shareholders
to do it for them. prefer dealing with the +
subject in its social aspects.
Suppose then there were no slaves and that |
all the free negroes were sent back to Africa /
What then +? Would the social condition of |
the white man be thereby elevated or de- /
pressed
make this broad propositions, and chal-
Ienge the world That nowhere on the face
of the globe, in or out Of christendon, are
white people 50 near on 4 footing Of equality |
as in the slave holding States Of this Union |
And for proof of this | appeal TO stubborn
facts in the South, well known to the people I
OF the South and to facts in the North equal
ly well known to the people of the North,
In the South affirm, that white people
men and women-ass0ciate with each other
on terms OF perfect social equality. Lawyers
Doctors Merchants, Mechanics, Farmers, all
stand on a common platform and their wives
and daughters interchange social civilities |
of the husband or father. IGSk If dis IS not
so? affirm. that the occupation of the white
man in the South does not in any way affect /
his social standing--that his honesty, integri-
ty and good conduct as citizen, gives him his
standing in society is not this trae2 Why
is this It is simply because in the South |
we have no WHIrE MEEIALs. In this coun-
try nenial service is performed by black PEG
pie Color and net birth, fortune, family or
occupation draws the line. The rich viii
have servants in all countries. Ii you do not
allow them TO have slave servants, they will
have free ones-if they cannot get black slaves
they will have white ones.
What would the poorest man IN this State
think, il his rich neighbor should propose to
hire his son as a carriage driver for himself; I
or his daughter, as waiting maid to his wife.
| fancy his Southern blood would boil like
seething cauldron. And yet, this IS no IN
common thing in the North as every honest
Northern man will testify.
Our sons and daughters work for wages, as
do the sons and daughters Of Northern pa
rents. In this there is no dsc-edit on either
side. But there are certain servants termed
sIENIALs, who in this coutry are slaves, and
whose service in all on-slaveholding COM
munities must be performed by whites. l /
may name among these, chamber-naid in
publc and in private houses, boot blacks, car
riage drivers and the like.
How would poor man Ike to see his /
daughter performing the same service for a /
lady offortune, that he sees her slave girl per-
forming here. Yet aver, and no honest man
will deny it, that poor, but honest and virtu-
Gus white girls Of American birth, perform
this very service for the rich ladies' OF the |
North.
how would he ike to see his daughter
standing at the door of a qraades waiting to |
see if the mistress Of the house would conde-
scend to speak to her, have seen this very
thing at the North, and it is of every day oc-
CURE nee.
How would he like to see his sons and
daughters become waters and chanbcrnaids
in public hotels, to be ordered as we order our
slaves! Yet appeal to men Of all parties who
have travelled in the North, if they have not
seen these things there and IL tha,, on. ,,ot ~