The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-08-28
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Where can you fn'lo the globe happier race
of human beings than our Southern slaves? q
more cheerful, contented race of people, except
some few who have lladth misfortune to have lis
tened to the syren songs of the infamous yankee,
who have whispered in their ears good time COM
ing.
1t has been truly said that the negro has no bet
ter friend than tha Southern master. AS some
yankee remarked in letter to his Northern friends,
there was three thin ys most of Southerners would
fight for: Call him liar, insult lady, or abuse
his negro. There may be some isolated cases in
which the negro is not as well cared for as he
ought to be- but they are few. Southerners not
only treat their ncgl well from attachment, but
they are interested in doing so: they are proper
ty, and the better you feed and cothe them, the
more fatigue they will undergo. Interest, duty
and attachment all combine to have them we'll
cared for in sickness. How different the case
with Northern laborers. Servants of whom there
are thousands working for what the negro gets
what they can eat and wear. When disease over
takes them they have no friend to administer to
their wants. even their rations STOP no one to re-
muncrate the physician, his employer feels no in
test at stake, and if he dies, he is unwep uncared
for; and when old age ovcrtakes him, he must HE
to the poor-house, or be subjected to the charities
of the world, which is cold concern. We know
instances in our ow country of persons that know
not when they finish one scanty meal from whence
the next will come Cannot bear the idea of
poor-housc, too proud to beg too honest to steal,
and too lazy to work. The negro, after he be-
comes ncapacitatcd for labor, is well provided and
cared for; and if h. has been anything of faith
full servant, the most of masters have beneyocncc
enough to treat then with the most humane con-
siderations so long as life last. Then we must
conclude That saye'y is not wrong, but right and
proper; and also that system of slavery is the
best ono in existence. We say in existence for it
exists in all countries in some shape or form.
Southern slaves ENJOY many and more privileges
and luxures than ,bolitionists are aware of. They
arc all privileged to attend the worship of God,
and frequently make Jealous Christians, and it is
not uncommon to sec them rugged out in costly ar
ray, and even apo ting fine jcwclry. They have
their holidays through the year, and allowed the
liberty of cultivatng crop for their own benefit.
Some of them make pocket change by little trades
peculiar to themselves such as the manufacturing
of baskets. collars brooms, &c., and it is not un-
common for them to have accounts with our mer-
chants to the amount of $50 or S100, which is set
tied punctually at The emu of the year. And yet,
in the midst of al this peace and contentment,
Nor they are happy and jovial) the aboitlonist,
the destroyer, comes to change their paradise into
Il hell With seductive language, he steals him
Off, anI conveys him into a cline where, as past
history plainly shows, the poor creature regrets
the change, and often wishes for the comforts oil
his masters cabin We have never known an in
stance of any Northcrner who has visited the
South and become acquainted with her peculiar in
stitutions, but what las admitted slavery was
mutual blessing who WAS not biased by prejudice
But the misfortune is, the masses are ignorant of
PRAIRIE BIRD.