The family visitor. [volume] (Pruntytown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1858-1860, 1860-03-31

'AA- M - -
ing manner the remarkable CO..
incidence between Stealey and
Hunter. Mr.. Peirpoint's ORR
ginal letter to the htelRgencer,
as he informs US, was prepared
in great haste, and he had not
time to put into it all that he de-
sired to 90 the people at once.
From the Wheeling Intelligencer.]
Frank Peirpoint, Esq. on Il. NJ T.
Hunter and ThOS ]. Steady.
Tothe Editors Of Me htelligencer:
Great men, like great nations, when they
dissolve the political ties that bind them,
deem it due to the respect of mankind, to set
forth the reasons which impel them thereto.
Mr.. Steady had right to follow illustrious
example, and in doing so, he has developed
Il mental phenomenon that deserves to be re-
corded aud deposited in the archieve of the
Archaeological Society, and transmitted to
future generations as memorable fact of the
coincidence Of the great minds Off. NJ. T..
Hunter, ofthe U. 5. Senate, and Thomas J.
Steady. Esq, of Tyler Co., Va. Distance NAV
separate, but great men will think alike
Mr.. Stealey, in his letter bidding farewell to
the Opposition, says "Do not the CONNER
cial statistics of the country demonstrate the
fact that tie Institution of slave labor in the
United States is Il normal and subsidiary one,
and that the system of free labor in the non
slayeholding States is but an experiment not
as yet subjected 10 its severeSt trial. This
sentence is stGtterOus, in this it contains what
in geology is called u fdult-the reiR is lost
Look at the sentence. What has commercial
statistics 10 do with showing that slave labor
is normal AMI subsidiary one; what has
commercial statistics" to do with showing
that free labor is but an experiment not sub
jected to its seEerest trial.aY.t rho anthor ho1
some idea in his head which was X4n!eriger-
oas-that is, bearing the Hunter idea, or like
Hunter.
ANALoGE.-Stealey says: "The system of
free labor in the non-Saveholding States is Jw
an experiment not as get subjected to lis .ererest
trials"
Hunter says (In speaking of the free labor
States, II wish it success; but must say that
Il IS dw an experiment as get, for ii has not been
exposed TO us sererest trials" &c.-the Italics
my own.
Stealey-"Does not all history show that
the rise, progress and stability of all govern
ment depends on slavery or forced labor in
some form"
Huuter-"There is no respectable civiliza-
ton known in history, whose founda-
items were not laid in the institution of domes-
tic slavery"
Those desiring to pursue the coincidents of
these great men, eau pursue the subject by rea-
ding Hunters speech and Stealey's letter.
hare other observations to make on both.
Mr.. Hunter in his speech, says, sin the free
labor system of organization, the family is a
unit-the family composed Of parent and chill
dren. In the slaveholding system of organi-
cation, the household is the unit-tLe house
hold being composed of the family and of the
slaves, who are united to the head of the tami-
ly by the obligation of ownership" Further
along in his speech he says, "In this country
alone have we found the attempt to unite a
system Of free labor with self-government and
suffrage, such as prevails in the
North, an experiment, which | acknowledge,
has so far, succeeded. | wish it
success; but must say that it is an experiment
us yet," SC. Mr. Hunter in speaking of the
contests between labor and capital, says
''Thase consequences have been so much drea-
ded that with statesmen, &c. So
much afraid have they been of them that in few
governments of the world has labor been per-
mitted to have share in political power.n-
After speaking of the dangers ofpernitting the
working class to vote, he says, 'But Mr.. Pres
tdent, In our system ofsociety, there is no such
danger. The contest between capital and la
Dor is compromised and settled in the house
hold. II does not enter into the government.
The master who wields the power of govern
nent is interested both in labor and capital,
and it is to his interest to do justice to both.
Accordingly whatever influence he may pos
Sess IN the government, as have said before,
IS exerciSed'impartially in settling these con-
test between labor and capital"
In quoting from Mr.. Hunters speech, have
not taken it in the order in which it is writ
ten. have taken such parts in his own Ian
guage as presents his argument fairly. Iwish
your columns would permit me to quote by
the paragraph. Task every candid mind what
idea Mr.. Hunter here expresses? Does he not
say in so many words, that the slave owner in
the South, in Virginia, owns the "labor and
the capital" ''they are settled in the house
hold" "The master Yields the power of
HE OWLS both capital and