Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-09-13
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4 STAKEHOLDER EPIsTLE TO
HIS SLAVE.


HIS SLAVE.
Two or three months ago VIC cut from the
Rome (Ga.) Courier, the following epistle
from q STAKEHOLDER to bis slave whom he was
about to leave, to 80 to the war. The editor
of the Courier says, many people have
been at a loss how to instruct their servants |
at this crisis Let them read this letter to |
them and let it be circulated among them.
The time has arrived for the negroes to have |
some proper explanation Of this war, as they |
have no doubt been tempered with by design
ing persons, and may be harbOring vain, il |
not dangerous notions as to their interests IN
the conflict
Mr.. Thomass9n writes to his man Jack
whom he has left in southern Georgia. The
argument from Ham must have proved
great comfort to Jack, and the political ar
cumcnt must have edited him extremely
RIcHuoxD, Va, May 20, 1851.
NJ OiR .S0Uanf Jack Il in Virginia,
a long way OF from nay homo and family, and
expect in a day or two to take part in the great
fight which is going on here between the North
and South. Since L left homo to 90 to the war,
my mind has been greatly troubled Tor fear that
some Of my servants might be led astray by abo-
litionists, or other mean white men, to run away
or do some other bad thing. | heard the o.her
day of a black man in Kingston, Ga, VINO
persuaded 10 join in plot to kill the white peo-
pie ami it turned out, as 1t always does, that he
was found out and hung. NOW feel 1t my duty,
Jack, to warn you against all people, whether
white or black, who will persuade you to Kill or
steal, or 20 into any wicked plot OF any kind
10 matter what promises they hold out TO you,
do not behave them 1r trust them. And let mo
tell you, whether you believe It or not, that the
best friends of the black people are their own
masters, and those who live in the Slave stat S.
The people Of the North pretend that they want
to make YOU free, and some OF them may be in
earnest, but greater portion Of them really care
nothing about The bleck people. For they too
| once had negroes, and instead OF freeing them
! sent them down down and South and sold tnem,
! and now they try to ruin u and our property by
! pcrsuadiug the servants TO run away from US, and
| 10 all sorts OF mischief; and they have stolen
! away a great many servants from tho Southern
| people, and when these servants set to the North
they are free only IL nIme and are, really, great
many Of them, poor miserable. starving creatures.
80 You see il is not the blacks that they care for,
but it is because they hate their masters and want
to annoy them, and iulure them every way they
! can, lust IN the SINE way that bad man some
times falls out with his neghbor anu tries to re-
vcngc himself by logging his hogs and Gripping
| bis cattle. a man once bought fine horse from
.
wicked neighbor came along and turned him out
the lot and away and he never got him again.
| You can easily understand that this Dad man dill
not do this to free the horse but done it to spite
his ncghbor. It Is the same way with tue North
| ern people about the blacks IN this country.
Now &C have been IN quarrel with these
| Northern people for about forty years about the
new lands way out West. These Lands belong 70 US
/ az much them, but they have all the while been
! trying to keep Us from going there with cur ser
| wants; and when Lincoln was elected he SAID that
/ the Southern people should never take their ser
! wants 10 this new country. NJ" great many Of
or folks had already bought land cut there, and
wanted TO 50 there with t4Ci. -ryaDtS to live, so
that when Ue sav that His man Lincoln and the
! Northern people we're determined not TO civ, US
/ cur share ot tac land, We at once made up our
mines leave them or sCeode tiomthen, and live
t oUrs lgcs. and this is WHIT tho fsh this COM
mouced ABOUT. They want Go force Us 90 live
with them because they wait our money 20 help
p1y tho expenses pf t.e government, and they
always managed U-..e ac stayed with them, 60
I make ua fIy tha biggest part 81 their expense.
We are determined - uhlit To- II no longer,
: auj therefore VIC have seeded or separated from
them and elected President II ur own. and will
Lave Io--ius mo 90 o Win these luarrolsome
people except % fight tlCm as long "a, they come
@ our .isc 81 the l.uc 10 Hclalc with or trouble
"a. Now, Jack. yeg can see into tho truth of
this matter, ami can understand what all this
drumming and Citing is about, and must al once
see that tue South has been greatly imposed upon,
And now that Won, ar.i5r.t.rI how this tfi,,
/ is, l hope you viii take my adv &C, aad 90 along
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