New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-22
LETTER FROM poor WHITE" OF
THE SOUTH.

The following genuine letter from an overseer on South
plantation and worthy Of attention as an evidence
growing feeling among the whites Of South that
interest. and rights sacrificed the interests
powerful class who hold slaves We, Of course withhold the
name Of the writer for his own sake. I'd Tribunal
To ne Editor Of The ~ Y. Tribune.
SIR: am plain, practical farmer, who has been
raised here in the South and who has never seen
Free State; but notwithstanding feel, and great
class of our people here feel TO ward you Of the North
az brothers. ] am certain that If people here would
take second thought and study and reflect upon the
dreadful consequences of Dsunion they would recoi
with adherence from political agators and their doc
trines.
These sgitators would make the Northern people be-
Eeye that the South is united to man. There could
not be greater mistake. The people here are divided
il two classes-the rich and the poor-who are as
distinct and separate as the North Pole is from the
South Pole 1t is only when election days are on
hand that the arstoeraey ever eountenance the poor
man. and then they do it to get bis vote. Bot poor
men have changed Of late years toward the arstoeracy
They have found out that voting for the Slave Interest
does not give them clothing meat and bread and lands
TO cultivate no such thing. They begin to see that
for every negro brought nto the country, one white
man has to make room; not only in farming, but IN
every branch of business
Can won not see. NV couutrymen that where man
owns hs one, two, three, four Thousand acres OF
land and negroes to cultivate it, that the poor white
man of the middle class has chance, because he has
no land and can get either for love or money
while the rich make with his negroes, three
10 four hundred dollars to the band
The negro mechanics, here in Montgomery, have
monopozed the trade; and the shareholders want to
dissolve the Union, and open the Savetrade at the
South to drive all the poor white people out.
Within four miles Of Montgomery, the capital OF
Alabama, and two miles from William L. Yancey
plantation James Porter and others in Montgomery
have struggled African negroes twenty-five IN num-
ber upon their plantations within the last month"; aud
have them at work in sight Of the capital and this is
known TO all the Government officers about Mongom-
ery These negroes cannot speak English. Where
thew came from have never asked for it Is enough for
me to know that they have been brought here in viola
ton of the laws Of the land, and nothing is said
against it.
William L. Yancey will preach TO the people, and
tell them that The laws for the recovery OF fugitive
slaves ought to be enforced but when it comes to en-
forcing the Slave-trade laws, he does not open his
mouth. Here he is speaking night and day for Brock
inridge and perhaps will be of his Cabinet II elect
ed Can you in the face of these facts have any con-
fdence in the man or his party?
have been for fourteen years an overseer In TINS
State on of its largest plantations, and think
nv opinion is entitled to some respect from my long
experience and daily intercourse with the people.
demand for them that TRUTH Equality, Justice, and the
Constitution shall prevail
Yours, for free country, "
MONTGOMERY COUNTY Ala Aug. A, 1860.