, 1861-08-11

o1fen do not know what to do with them. I |
oWR lou1 - good women ~ you. can find In /
:wifss li:s out. When an s away, Ti they taEs IL
The adyantage, and are impertinenfan Willfnl' |
When last went home, mY wife had a long
storyof complaints. called up Phillis, aud
ssld to her: tNow, Phillie, am going to te1l |
yout 1ou ere Eaueg:to your mistress. You !
wasn't q stem dhTeE to mike you Know your I
place am going to sell yon to one Of those
French planters down in Louisiana. 1 won't
be plagued with you any more
This frightened PhillIs terribly, aud she
thtn She viii forget it al, and will be as bad
IS eyer. ltell you these niggers are heap Of
trouble. You don't want to take woman
fno Whip hec:: And that only M sk.s L T u ID
!: and Mpzse Yon can't disintss fer. And you
=: a1e heap of trouble" ::'''s:.
:. This, Certainly, ls IatHTal. She mnst have
q wonderfully 1Weet disposition, who. VIII
MoEk: Al her days as 3 kitchen scrlllon, tfom
the cradle to the grave, Kept IN the state Of
tnIe, and with no remuneration but such fale !
and dress aa a scullion can find In @nIgger
kttchen,n and yet eFer manifest :au: Affection
ate, faithful 4nd docile spirit. VIRTUES and
g1aces cannot be bought at that price, +,
!. AIothe1 gentlemen remarked to ne, that
trg yety much il the habit. Of employing
white. servants, Irish and German: in their.
. It requires great dea1 of: knowledge Of
The negro character said be, " to know how
the morning and finds that her cook Is still IN
bed, affirming that she has q. dreadful head
ache, or e. severe attack of rheum atisn. There
are ten chances to one it is all sham, and yet .
Perhaps the h1lmzne lady: will spend Two or;
three days nursipg the artful decetver: They
nffPn nY1nYinc P4rhAnA FIJI 3n{1V
poets that it is all q sham, land yet is not Ger:
tain that It II, and sh1inks from the possiblu-
II Of, treating the servant cruelty: There are
great many such embaTrassments. The best.
place for these poor creatures Is on the plan !:
1atiou, where men who understand them can
The payment Of wages rectiaes all this. II
you Will not work, neither ehaH you eat. a
humane man, not thoroughly acquainted with
negro tricks and cunning, Whn has one Of
these: slaves, shammiDg sickness, does not
know what to do with her He does not wish
to whip her; he does otWish TO St II her. Tbs.
only remedy Is general system Of the subsh-
tuition Of wages, instead Of eompnls1on. The
| hardly able to work, lest both place and wages
should be lost
| 4 kind Providence haa thrown light upon
our path in reference to this great question, so
| that we Feed not 60 stumbling over a:dark
65s bas ii
| III
and solved our difficulties. 1tWas feared that
| the slaves, With no stimulus to work but the
! wages they might receive, would lie down and
| die in nakedness and starvation.
I The Rev. M: Cadman, "a Clergyman, residing
| in the West Indies, wrote come time after the
emancipation: The ehaDge for the better
in the dress, demeanor, and welfare Of the peo.
pie is prodigious"
"a female proprietor" Mr. Gu1ney writes,
"who had become embarrassed, WIS advised
Lar 1rF Inm 49, 1A&1
The experiment answered her warmest ex.
pectations. The emancipated. slaves in the
neighborhood bought up all the little free
holds with extreme eagerness, made their pay
ments faithfully, and lost no t1mein settling
On the spots which they had purchased. ::
4 "They eoon framed their houses and brought
! their gardens into useful cultivation, witt
yams, bananas, plantains, pine-apples, ani
4 other fruits and vegetables, including plots o
sugar cane. II this way Augusta and Liberts
sprung up as if by magic"
e1eyati1g fallen race from the degradation o
: ages, the emancipated negro has proved thu
| he takes much better care Of himself than hi
master took Of him. No well informed mal
, will again say that the slave, i freed, vi
starVe; that the stimulus Of wages Is not snm
! Gent to incite him to work.
. It is often said that the master, if depriyea
| of the unpaid service of the slave, will b
. reduced to beggary. But the master oWns hi
land, his houses, his stock, and will own hi
: crop, and can surely pay the 1aborer suitsbl
culture. The Northern farmer can do thi
: with his wheat and his hay. Why can not tn
Southern farmer do this with his sugar and hi
:, cotton? Here are the servants at his door Al
!. ready and eager to work Tor the most model
!, ate wages. Surely there is no man more favo1
. ably situated than he for the accumulation {
: wealth.
;, that emancipation enriches, rather thsn in
, poverishes. the master. The Plantations, il
I ed with new Tigor. Phe planter has foun
u that he can cultivate his estate cheaper, an
= make greater profits when hia 1aborer5 CT
= animated by wages, than when they are drive
:. . by the lash.
The Go7emsr Of Antigua, after six years
: ssys: Is The PecuniaEy saving on many Of II
!, esiates in Antigua, OF free for slayelaaor,
q at least Thirty per cent"
,e aThe quantity Of work. Mr.. Gurney test
y fe., obtained from freeman, Ia tar oeyon
Il theold task Of the E1sve. In the la5orious O
: cupation Of holing, the emaneipated negro
" ~ perform double the work Of the slaVe lu da
- - In road making, the days task under s1aver
" ~ Was to break four barrels Of stone. Now,
J. job;wo1k, weak hand VII FL & sight bazre!
- 81 had rather" testifes planter in Jams
= ca, "make sixty tierces OF coffee under frs
., dom, than even s. hundred and twenty und
= slavery. Such ID the saving Of expense, tha
~ make better profit by e. Nevertheless,
Ia mean to make one hundred aud twenty
1a htretofore."
- much risen In price," says the Governor
% Antigua, "that at the lowest computation, t
~ ' land, without slhEle slave upon it, Is fully
~ ~ valuable now, Assss Wss, including al t
- - slnyes, before e.nancipation.n
~ ~ Robert Claxtop, the Solicitor General Of
W Chrietopher'e Island testifes: "This pTopel
a., of mine, was worth only ten thousand doll
~ !. y with the slaves upon il Now, without 9
"a 4 gle slave, 1t is worth three times as mu
~ ~. money. / would not sell it for thirty th'
~ ~ sand dollars. This remarkable rise in the =
ost ue ofEproperty, is By no means confined
10 | particular estates"
- It is needless to. multiply this testimo
~ which could be done to almost any amou
~. lam aware that there are ranaoss floating, e
~ Trajectory to these statements. But 1t will
observed that my appeal is not to run
r whose reputation for veractty does not sts
,ot very high. but to the well authenticated ST.
~ ments Of reliable men.
not We would earnestly recommend Mr..
m bolts book to those who are becoming in
:eh ;sa ested in this subject. It can be obtainet
:ty. paper covers for fifty: cents, or in muslin
to seventy-lve cents, at the store of s, G. Gri
Is s. Co., in this city.
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