Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-24

Mr. the hour, whereupon one Of the darkies by my
side, took out gold watch and informed me-
"DO your abOrers generally wear gold watches sir ?
inquired.
"a great many of them have. Why, sir, my negroes
all have their and gardens and most OF them
little orchards"
We found from their own testimony that they are fed
WELL chiefly upon corn pork potatoes and rice, CAREFUL
y attended to when sick and on Sundays dress better
than their masters.
MANY of them had six or seven hundred dollars OF
their own which they either lend to the banks or hide
in the ground In the hot weather they begin to work
at six in the morning. and 20 till ten; they then 90
home ill about three ard when the sun declines return
10 their work till six or seven In the cool weather they
begin after daylight and rest for two or three hours
In the middle OF the day.
a nine wood where Mr-s family" reside. These
we found clean and comfortable Two of the men were
sick and had been visited that morning by DOCTOR in
the meantime they looked after by the nurses oil
the establishment; of whom there we're three 10 nke
care of the children and invsl d.
On the whole il can fearlessy be said IL this Is a
true type of the mode in which slaves treated in the
South that their phyica condition is as good not bet
ter than that Of any aborng population IN the world
The masters rdicule the idea Of dsoyaty. They live
amongst them IN the most perfect confidence and
bestoW serious thought upon Whit they consider such
mpossbility as negro insurrection Having visi-
ted other plantations 10 Aabama, South Carolina Geor-
ga we cannot resist the belief that the great mass Of the
for and contented and although there are Necessarily
thousand things connected with "the institution" Of
which Elgshmen can approve is und rub 'edly true
that notwithstanding the strenuous efforts OF abolition
ss the negroes bear the yoke cheeruly and heartily
join their fortunes to those of Their masters in the great
struggle in which they are now engaged
Many plantations may now be seen. without white
man upon them except the overseers aud nsancfs &C.
cur dly of the deity with which servants who have
accompanied their to the serve them in the
camp and sls. Further the generals employ the ne
goes 10 the commsslra and upon earthwoTks aud 9TH
or places where desertion and consequently freedom
would be perfectly easy, thereby placing 10 the slave
confidence which ia jus lied by the fact tai the
Northern army now holding Arlington Heights find al
most impossible to obtain correct Information OF what IL
going on in the Confederate camp two miles distant
from the Union outposts.
The perfect unanimity throughout the whole South in
the belief that their cause is strikes the stranger as
oae Of the most formidable symptoms which the Unon
has 10 fear Without pretending TO form al opinion as
to whether this uuiyersa. CONVICTION is rightly wrong
" arrived at simply assert the fact The same story
in the trains in the hotels on the plantations IL the
drawing rooms 10 the aud In thenewspapers, by
yo1ng and old, rich and poor men and women with a
uniformity that would be noRotonous were 1t not for the
| FIRE generally thrown into ito narration.
Tbey say that the North began the Act years ago,
in the Irritating and unproVoked agitation OF the slavery
question: and have continued il from the time Of the
Missouri controversy the 4h Of last March, when the
President announced that the platform Of his party
"a law unto him." and that party had declared an TIRE
pressible conflict between the two sections OF the
Union. The President is bound TO defeLd it. Il is
an Institution yhih feeds and clothes the world which
protects the nesso agains. TIE vioissudes Of old
| age sickness aud infancy, and keeps niEi IN the
OIL position where he be useful 70 society and harm
less TO hiuse Tia: the sun fixed the boundaries b.
ween white and BLACK Ghcr in spite OF arms and LAVE
and 40 sure as one 6ourished in hsryehuss the other
would prespof il Georgia That when the North abolish
ed slavery ana sOi tcr sGyes to the South they then
turned round broke faith eHeesTored TO disquiet
title emanatiBg FROM themselves.
That the tariff avs ruinous 70 the South. That
in raising their revenue by heavy duties on foreign
gsoss which came back in for Southern producs,
tho Rosh we're making the South pay the grea bulk Of
the expense Of sc,,,c%ent
Thai by prohibiting t.ade 10 fosecu sbips the South
we're obliged TO take Northern to the tNciusen o, fO
eign goSl2.
obtained great prof nbroer.te 30 IN freghts upon
Southern produce 10 Europa, vel IS upon European
goods brought bsr in return for that produce from oil
Of which the South rssped little bcneht
IL we remarked that the political power Of the United
States has been for many years In the hands Of the
Southern party who ought therefore to have remedied
these evils, We we're told true many Northern men
the whoe Democratic party, in fact, disagreeing with
IN. Republicans would vote with the South on
general s1bscs, and in the ehoce Ct statesmen but
Sbsn Il became question between the rSo sie.- seq
I
mite ana ,siYcte the South That Southern statesmen
acouiesced in finances. ioicy Of which they dsappro-
we'd because they feared that, II re arrangements OF
affairs were given into the hands Of the Republican pay
IT, the evils complained Of would be Immediately aggta-
yaed and the coudI.n o. their country rendered Al
together desperate The division sSisng the Democrats
bad led 10 the return of Mr. LINCOLN, and The triumph Of
party purely sectional but pledged TO the destruction
Of thr peculer nsttuons aSi material interests OF the
South.
Tho women Of al cllsscs seemed not ess Gnania Gus
and devoted than the men. Along the line OF railway
croWds waved flowers and handkerchiefs the train
bore towards the OF those who nearest to
their Affections Eohers, sisters, wives, fccked to the
railway stations to bid areel to those for whom they
would willingly give their liye1 Yet few shed tears AT
Lhess plrtirgs All the weaker feelings Of their nature
seemed sealed gp or banshed and conviction that each
was masking sacrAce IN hely cause was stamped on
every countenanec.
la passing along the line Of railway between Mont
romery ard Charleston, had many opportunities Of
conyersng with the soldiers in the raias these were
representatives OF every class in the couutry-panters,
lawyers. shop keepers and even clergymen. Our con-
yerc ion was generally quickly courted and questions
eagerly ssRse as e cur opinion upon The war.
"But Conspicuous by +sr iosanee," were the farmer
boys-G body from which the best OF the northern amy
il recruited In the South Of course this cHs does not
a c. the whole Of the field labor being carried by
slaves Yh,s 1drstria popularity, which consider
ell BY foreigners the gts ess Of the Coniederlies
has hitherto proved 10 them tower VI sELDstp. We
ou1d in all the States which visited agricultural op
erDtonc progressing with much vigor and regularity
AZ 10 times OF profound peace Indeed tracks Of land
hitherto allowed run waste VII, this yCar. be in
corn to countenc a. much possible, the inconyeni.
enoe Of the blockade.
But the sayes ere not employed exclusively IN out.
door labor Necessity has taught the South tina: she
must rely upon herself for many things Bbch she cannot
do without, and which, in former times Il vas cheaper
90 import than to manufacture Larg, numbers OF hand
looms AID fpinring wheels in the country dis.
rcls which the population rapidly learning to make
good use Of; and VIC met planter who showed us
enough cloth for the Uniforms Of fifty men, tina. had
been entirely made on bis own premises
Agsia Lafpre the war, leather so little manufac
tured in the South, th hides we're seldom tanned and
tan yards we're almost unknown. shoemaking, saddery
and many other Industrial emplcymen!s, ere now being