Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-11-06
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1t is beginning to 10 suspected, and sus-
picion is not altogether unsupported by
facts, the reason why Abolition aristo-
Gratis are so bitter against Southern slave
holders and demand their determination,
IS that they envy the latter the possession
OF their negroes, and want to appropri-
ate them to theic own use. Ii is surmised
that for this reason, the leading and veal.
thy Abolitionists, who have recently be-
come such flaming converts to the doctrine
they formerly despised and hooted at, of
immediate emancipation, have seized up
on the occasion Of civil war, when
the free States are drained of their
white laborers, to demand emancipation
as necessity of the war; in order to sup
ply themselves with men. servants and
maid-servants of the black persuasion
from the South
1t would undeniably be great conve-
Nance as well as great comfort to many
a money maker Abolitionist to be able to
hire negro "help" for half or third of
what he would have to pay for white
"help," and when the hired blacks get
sick, or old, or in6rm, not be obliged to
doctor and maintain them as the slave
holders are, but be able at once to turn
them over as paupers to be cared for
and supported at the public expense.
Besides, should the black emigration
from the South, into Ohio and other
Western States, which has opened pretty
briskly this season, continue and increase
as it likely will, after New Years, when
it is understood the President will
proclaim all the negroes in ten or
dozen slave States "forever free," it is
probable that negro slavery, under some
other name of course, will be set up in
Ohio and other free States, if the Aboli-
tionists have the ordering of public af-
fairs So many negroes will have flock
ed into the more southern borders of the
Northern States, and they will be found
SO incompetent to manage for themselves,
SO ignorant, shiftless and lazy that those
who have encouraged this thing, will de-
mand as a "war measure''-as an abso-
lutte necessity of the case-that some
kind of overseership or mastershp be in
stituted over the blacks, to be regulated
by public authority, in order to make
them work. and earn their living, and keep
them out ofmi,chief. The Abolitionists,
in carrying out this scheme, will proba-
bly, call this new form of negro servi-
tude, apprenticeship, or some such con-
science soothing name; but it will I'M
doubtedly retain many of the harsher fea-
lures of the old fashioned negro slave.
We have been told that the inevitable
tendency of slavery is to degrade labor.
This is the text from which the Abolition
lists have preached with untiring zeal for
the last quarter of century. But now
they are striving to do the very thing in the
North, which they allege slavery has done
in the South-degrade white labor by in
Producing into States, now called free, ne
gro slaves or apprentices. They are not
only seeking to degrade white labor, but
to supercede it, by encouraging and stimu-
lating blacks to leave their homes in the
South, and come North, to take the places
as mechanics and loborers Of our young
and able bodied men who have volunteer
ed and gone into the army to fight, not
for the freedom and elevation of negroes,
but to maintain the Constitution and pre-
serve the Uuion. Not only this, but the
black Rosas and Dinahs of the South
are being brought North to take the places
of white girls who are forced by poverty
to go out to service, aud of white wild
ows and orphans made such by this un-
happy war. Perhaps our crazy Abo-
ltionists imagine it will be great sclaco
to our soldiers, when they come home from
the war, crippled and mangled, or wit h
wasted forms and impaired health an d
strength, to find themselves shut out Of
employment by sleek, fat, saucy negroes,
and their wives, sisters and mothers, re-
duced by similar cause to o state worse
than chattel slavery
Events seem to be dem onstrating what
must have oftened suggested itself to
every rejecting mind, that it is not so
much an adherence ot slavery OF slave
holders that makes the modern Abolition
leader and aristocrat so fierce in his de-
nunciation ofnegro scrvitude in the South,
as a jealousy of Southern Shareholders.
lie cannot bear the idea that the latter
should have the monopoly OF negroes -
Therefore. it is that he labores so earn.
estly to bring about emancipation and to
have the negroes come North, SO as to be
able to reduce them to servitude, and
have his black servants, male and female,
as well as the Southern gentleman. If
Abolitionism carries out its plans, we
shall soon have in Ohio negro masters
and negro overseers, the same as in South
Carolina and Georgia. We may call
our system of black servitude by an
other name, to be sure; but it will be es-
sentially the same thing.
Such is the feast to which Aboltionism
in Nitns tho IuLitn and ,iapaa, Of