Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-01-31
The Non-slavenolde,s of the South.

In his admirable address entitled The of Slavery
in the Union Hon. John Townsend of South Carolina,
uses this language
Accompanied that is to be- by reducing the
two to equay-or in other words in elevating
the negro slave to equality with the white man-it will
be to the nOnsavehoder equally with the largest
holder the oberaton of caste and the deprivation of
portant privileges The color of the white now in
the South title of nobility in his relations the negro
and although Cuy Sambo be immensely his superb
or in wealth. have his thousands deposited in bank
some OF them aVe and may be the owner of many slaves
Of them yet the poorest nonelavehoer being
serve and command in the militia may sit up jures, to
decide upon the rights Of the weathes in the land may
with the largest Shareholder in the choice Of his rulers In
country in the world does the white man, whether
ton as in the aveholdg States OF the South His color
here admits him TO social and civil privileges which the
white enjoys nowhere else In countries where
slavery does not exist as in the Northern States of this
Union and in Europe) the most menia and degrading
ployment in society filled by the white poor vino
hourly seen drudgng in them POUeTty then, in those
countries, becomes the badge of nfriory, and wealth of
distinction Hence the arrogant airs which wealth there
puts i'll its intercourse with the poor But in the
Southern savebOdng States where these menia and de-
grading Offices turned to be performed exclusively
by the negro slave the status and color Of black race
become the badge of nferioy and the poorest nonsave
holder may eoice with the richest of bis brethren of the
white race il the distinction of his color The poorest
stakeholder too except have before said he be
based by his vices his crimes, thinks feels and
as he wa and always intended to be- superior to the ne
gro may be poor true; but there no point upon
which he is justly proud and sensitive his privilege
and there nothing he would with
indignation than the attempt of the aboitionists
pate the slaves and elevate the negroes equality with
himself and his family The abotionists have sent their
eissaries among that class of citizens trying
bauch their minds by persuadng them that they have
teret in preventing the abolition of slavery But they
deceive any, except the ignorant and worthless
The intelligent among them too well of the de-
grading consequences of abolition upon themselves and
their families (such have described them to be
trapped by their They know that at the North and in
Europe where slavery exists where poverty the mark
of n roy where the negroes have been put an equal
ity with the whites aud money makes the man. although
the may be negro-they know say, that there the
fhoa
obeyng the negro his oter, his Imam his servant
and his bootblack Knowing then these hipgs and that
the abolition of slavery and the reign of negro equality
here may degrade the white in the same way has
done in those countries there non-saveholder in the
South with the spirit of the white in his BOSOM who
would not spurn with contempt this scheme of Yankee
ming and malice.