New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-13

describes them, can almost, like tbs eagle, %
he tells ". lock tAs sun 10 the eye Eypn hasA
labor and privations do not break them down. end
they thrive in spite Of the barsb treatment al
over-woik to which, BY Mr.. Yancey's con fssyiss.
" the natural selfshness which is conmou Co III
men occasionally exposes them.
IL VIII be teen tom tais account that the ANN.
pathies Of the world ought not TO be bessowaS a,
the negroes, who fLd in the Southern climate 40
perfect paradise, and who, beside being fed
by their masters out Of the produce of
their own labor, are generously clothed By them
at the expense az Nr. Yaucey assures a. of not
less than five dollars per head per aurum. Wa
ought, on the other hand, to AaEe all cur comp,;ss.
ration for the unhappy slsye-owoers and oyer.Axr,
who make such q sacrifice Of themse res e., IN.
phiIanthropic purpose Of supplying the world with
cotton, and but for whose exalted self denial -.
should fail to have shirts to our Backs the slave
holders who, to keep up the cotton supply, endure
al the annoyance of an annual flight from their
ZONES, and aweaisome residence 10 Northern bs
te.s and wateriog- places, Of which, as mr. Ysncey
assures us, Lot pleasure is the object, but mere
escape from the miasmas, bilious feyers, and con.
gestiye cbils of their own Plantations; tie over
seers who, under like philanthroplc inspiration,
consent to have nothing between them aud death
all Summer long but an umbrella or the shade Of
son o friendly tree.
But in thus sketcbiDg life ard manners in tho
cotton-growiDg States, Mr.. Ysncey, as We have
already noticed, has made remarkable omission.
There IS one large class Of the inhabitants Of whom
he makes no mention whateyer-a class Of white
inhabitants, too, and largely exceeding in numbers
the saye-owners and the oyerseers united We
refer to the poor whites, who own no slaves, and
who are dependent for the support OF them
selves ard their families on the labor OF their own
hands. 1t was, perhaps natural enough for
slave holder and cotton-planter to pass by this
lsrge class of his feOw-c tizens who own no slaves
ard who raise no cotton, az utterly unworthy Of
moments notice or consideration. But Mr.. Yam
cey must excuse us if We are led by republican,
sympathes to feel little interest in the subject
Considering the account which he gives OF tho
Southern climate, and Of the utter impossibly OF
labor by white men in the open air, we feel little
Gu riosity to know how the larger part of the white
inhabitants of those States manage to live. We
know that there are no manufactures there, and
that even the very limited auount of mechanical
labor is largely performed by negroes the plants-
tiops being supplied with their own slave black
smiths, carpenters, and other mechanics. Msas-
while, however we cannot bat draw from the ac-
count given by Mr.. Yancey of the peculiares the
Southern climate, strong argument in favor Of
that exclusion of Slavery from the Territories, and
its restriction within its present limits, which he
comes all the way from Alabama to complain Of
Surely, some place of refuge ought to be opened
for the great numbers of white men whom the in
compatibility of free with slave labor drove to
emigrate from the more Northern Slave States
into the cotton-growipg region, but who there ind
themselves, not only followed up by the slave
holders, who epgross all the best land, but totally
disabled by the climate Cf We ars to believe Mr..
Yapcey) from any species of out-Ofdoor industry.
Certainly, the wide extent of our cotton-growing
States is quite sufficient for our four millions Of
negroes to expand in. While yielding up to them
and to their disiuterested and selfsacrifcing
co0perators, the slave-owners aud overseers, this
large area of territory, suited, according to Mr..
Yancey, TO negro labor and to negro labor alone,
some space ought to be reserved into which ths
unnecessary and misplaced white population Of tho
cOtton-growipg States may fly for refuge from
fatal climate and forced idleness.