Sunny South. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1856-18??, 1860-11-08
CHARLESTON, Oct. s, 1860.

CHARLESTON, Oct. s, 1860.
We send you copy of petition which viii be
presented by the people of the cotton States to
Congress Should Mr.. Lincoln be elected. The
original is in this city, and will be signed we be-
eve, by every right thinking man, when the time
comes Its insertion in your excellent paper will
no doubt secure for i. many warm friends al the
North:
PETITION.
The undersigned, citizens of the cotton States,
respectfully show to your honorable body, that, at
the present time, there exists in the States Of Mas.
sachns'tts, Pennsylvania and New York, but more
especially in the city of New York, a great aud
growing evil, for which, as citizens of this vast
consolidated government, they fear that they, too,
must be held responsible to God as wei MS to man,
and for the eradication OF which, at every hazard,
they are bound as good Christians, to strive
Your petitioners mean the institution of t"Whitc
slavery ii its most shocking and rcpulsive form.
Your petitioners have been credby Informed that
in the above named places there are now hundreds
OF thousands Of the outpou,iugs Of the workshops,
lazarettos and prisons of Europe besides their Cwn
native paupers, many Of whom work from morn
ing until night for from 9 TO 30 cents while otis
ers unwilling to work for so little or to work at
ALL support themselves by begging and stealing.
anl miSerably perish, some for want Of bread or
sufficient clothing. in the public streets, even in
the presence of the luxurious and wealthy others
in the prisons or on the scafold that most of
these unhappy people are pro oundly ignorant of
their civil and political rights, and are even en-,
couragcd from infancy to the grave, to repudiate
the Bible and deny the existence Of Almighty
God. Of this condition Of things your petitions
ers cannot very well conceive for though they
are shareholders themselves and have always lived
among slaves, yet their slaves arc by nature Of a
different and inferior race Of men, for whose lives,
health, careful and religious instruction it is and
ever has been your petitioners interest, as it is
your petitioners duty, TO caic to the utmost, lie
sldes which they never can bocOm, CjtzcGs Of this
great democratic nation, as well ON account OF
their Coloras their infriyrty aud they never per-
ish for wont0 iocd, clothing, sbeltcror protection;
but the white slaves Of the North are not only
not of an inferior caste but many Of them were
born citizens, and all Of them may become citizens
Of this great nation, and in every respect The equal
Of their masters. Your petitioners. firmly per
suaded that no people who will permit 50 much
wrong and injustice to continue can expect ;he fa-
/
ment yoGr petitioners, as well as TIC people among
whom it exists, must answer for this crying sin,
have resolved NEST respectfully TO suggest to yor
honorable 10 y hc prop. ;ely Of eras II this dar,
s. ~ '"7a' : fwry o. nu. lr,ir.
Your peti,lollrs further show tla; one Wm II
/ Seward, atnly ! Senator trcm the said State o
New York, has been holding forth to the Aforesaid
/ white slaves AMI sometimes to their masters, that
there is and must always be, an lrreprcssiblt
conflict between African slave labor and white
labor until 'he former shall br. as it ought to be
eXtingulshed in blood y but he has falsely assum
ed that all white labor is free labor though h(
well knows that in no form is African slavery as
abject and degraded as is the paupcr labor Of his
own State and he has artfully concealed from III,
aforesaid masters. while be has made it plain tC
4 their white slaves, that his lrrppressbc conhic
is, in truth, the conflict between poverty on tht
one side, aud wealth on the other and that to thi.
conflict the red republicans Of France and th
black republicans Of America owe their eXistcuca
/ but yonr petitioners are willing that he who rlant
cd the seed Of this a rariln doctrine in ar sol
and the people who have watched the tree in il
growth, solId he the first to taste Of It's fruit -
They, therefore, pray your honorable body 10 caus
a fair and equal division Of all the property, rca
and personal. gold aud silver, goods al chat els 0
all kinds held and owned by the people of tn
above uaned States to be made among them all
s. that hereafter there may be no poor man, wo
man or child he found among them. and the re
proach Of "white slavery" he removed fJreve
from the skirts Of your petitioners. About you
right 10 illustrate, by this equal distribution @
property, the excellence and beauty of Mr.. Sew.
AIDS doctrine, there can be no doubt, now that W
live under consolidated government, wherein th