The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-09-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE SUNNY SOUTH:
Or, The Southerner at Home,

Embracing i've years Experiences OF a Northern
Governess in the land IF the Sugar and the
Cotton work Edited by Prof. ]. II. lngra-
ham of Miss. Published by G. G.. Evans, of
Philadelphia.
THE object of This work is to do
Justice to the Southern Planter, and,
at the same time, afford information OF
an agreeable form to the Northerner.
We copy at page SO, where the wri-a
ter says:
1 am already getting reconciled to
slavery, since | find that it does not in
reality, exhibit the revolving horrors
was taught in the North to discover IN
it. There are many things to admire
and to interest one in the social and Go
nestle condition of the slaves, and arr:
almost ready to acknowledge that the
African is happier in bondage than freea.
At least one thing is certain nearly
all the free negroes | have ever seen IN
the North We're miserable creatures,
poor, ragged, and often criminal. Here
they are well clad, moral, nearly all reli-
gious, and the temptations that demor-
alize the free blacks in our Northern
cities are unknown to, and cannot ap-
proach them.
have seen a good deal of the African
race since / have been here, and l am
persuaded that they are far more rell-
giously disposed than the lower and
middle class of whites. There are but
four negroes on the cOlOneFs planta-
ton, that are not ''memberS =" OF the
church, and who do not try to square
their lives with the precepts of the
Gospel, so far as they understand them.
This is the case, [ learn, on all the
neighboring plantations, and l am in
formed by the intelligent persons that
it is more or less SO throughout the
whole South. 1t would thus seem, that
God, in his providence, has permitted
slavery to be the instrument of chris
tianizing Africa, by bringing Africa to-
Christian shores; and colonization by
reaction on the shores of Africa, is
completing the mysterious dispensation.
In our ride of five miles we met but
three persons. One of these was an
old African with head as white as wool,
and face, venerable and lined with
age, and snowy beard. His appear
ance was striking, and reminded me of
a black patriarch, especially as he wore
a gray blanket over his shoulder like
Mantle. And let me remark, that g
blanket completes negroes winter
costume here; sometimes it is made
into coat, but more frequently, for
the advantage of having it as covering
at night, wore entire, like shawl, or
Spanish poncho. The African was
leading tall Congo STRIPPING, half-naked
to the waist, who had a hanging coun-
tenance, as if he were an offender of
some sort. 81.
THAT is old Juba with his grandson
Tom, tied" said the colonel, as they
drew near. tom has been playing.
the runaway in the woods these three
weeks. SO, uncle Juba," added the
colonel in the kind, familiar tone in.
which masters here, who are gentlemen
address their old slaves; $50 you've
caught Tom -
Yes, massa, me Cotch de berry bad
boy! He nebber raise hesef 70 noting
good uf he get habit oh runnin' way dis
way! Old Juba feel berry shame OBJ
him. Me glib him frashun, me git him
home. He disgrace to de family!-
Come long, you niger, amt yoat shame
youself, run off in de wood like dog
tief 2"
With this appeal, the Old man gave
the thong a jerk, and, touching his old
hat in respectful homage to his master
and to ourselves as young mississes,"
dragged his ragamuffin grandson of
eighteen years on the way back to the
plantation.
THAT old negro" said the colonel,
as we rode on, "has been in my family
seventy eight years. He was bought
by my grandfather before the Revolu-
ton from an African trader that came
into jamestown with Il load of slaves
from the coast of Africa. He was Il
lad of fourteen, and is of course now
nincty-two yet he is never idle, is ac-
tive and faithful, and is a sort Of patri-
arch over the rest of the slaves, half Of
whom are his descendants. He has
not yet forgotten his African language,
which he still speaks when he still speaks
when he is vexcd, nor has he dropped
bisbaathenish SuprrStitiOnS. He wears