The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-23

THE NON-SL AVEHOLDERS OF THE SOUTH.
In his address entitled q The Doom of Slavery in
the Union," Hon. John Townsend, of South Caro-
lima, uses this language:-
Accompanied as that measure is to be- by redu-
eng the two races to an equalify-or in other
WORDS, IN elevating the negro slave to an equality
with the white man-it will be to the non-slavs
holder, equally with the largest slayeholder tho
obliteration of caste and the deprivation of i'm
portant privileges. The color of the white man is
now, IN the South, title of nobility in his rela-
lions as to the negro; and although Cufy or Ssmho
may be immensely his superior in wealth NAV
have his thousands deposited in bank as some Of
them have, and may be the owner of many slaves
as some OF them are, yet the poorest non-sayehod-
er, being white man. is his superior in the eve or
the law; may serve and command in the militia.
may sit upon Juries, to decide upon the rights Of
the wealthiest in the land may give his ties.
tlmony In court, and mny cast his vote equal
ly with the largest STAKEHOLDER in the choice
of his rulers. In country in the world does the
poor white man, whether STAKEHOLDER or non-slave-
holder, occupHso enviabe a position as in the
slaveholding States the South. His color here
admits him to social and civil privileges which the
white man enjoys nowhere else. In countries where
negro slavery does not!eZist (asin the Northern
States OF this Union and in Europe), the most me-
MAJ ana degrading empoyments in society are fill
ed by the white poor who are hourly seen drndg-
ing IN them. Poverty, then, in those countries ha
comes the oaoge OF lnferiority, and wealth of dis
tinctlon. Hence the arrogant airs which wealth
there puts on, IN It's intercourse with the poor
man. But in the Southern slaveholding States
where these mental and degrading offices are turn,
ed over to be performed exclusively by the NEGRO
slave, the status and color Of the black race become
the badge of inferiority, and the poorest non
STAKEHOLDER may rejoice with the richest
of his brethren of the white race, in the dis
tinction of his color. The poorest non-slayehold-
er too, except as have before said be he debased
by his vices his crimes, thinks, and feels and
acts as ii he was and always intended to be- supe-
rlor to the negro. He may be poor it is true; but
there is no point upon which he is so Justly proud
and sensitive as his privilege of caste; and there
nothing he would resent with more fierce indgna- |
ton than the attempt of the abolitonists to eman-
cipate the slaves and elevate the negroes to an |
equality with himself and his family. The aboli- |
.onsts nave sent their emissaries among that class
IL y. our cluZens, trying to debauch their minds |
~ peisuaulng them that they have no interest in |
p ellng the abolition of slavery But thew
uaIi ueceiVg any, except the most ignorant and
W. va lnTss' Inc Intelligent among tham are
shoI;tion @ 81 the degrading consequences of
as have described them) to be entrn lsuch
arts. Ihey Know that at the North ana IN E .ner
Where no slavery exists, where poverty 10 thn. ope
OF lhlerlorlty, where the negroes have haan ...
an equallty with the whites, and "monev malas ~, IN
man., although the man may be neoroNibn',
know, say, that there the white man is seen ,na}
tng upon the negro there he is seen obeuino tba
negro as his ostler, his coachman his servant and
bis bootblack. knowing, then, these things. and |
that the abolition OF slavery, and the reign of |
negro equality here, may degrade the white man
there is no non STAKEHOLDER in the South with the
sp . OF the white race in his bosom, who would
aos spurn with contempt the scheme of Yankee
cunning and malice