Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-07-18
OLD SERIES, VOL. %, NO. 43.

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otherwise! Z! The shareholders will not give
them work-thev whose health, in free
state, would give support to the whole po-
| pulation, and by the union of capital with
| labor make the country rich and cntcrpris-
ing. These masters deprive the non-slave-
| holding whites of their very means of liveli-
| hood. They make their slaves artisans, and
| thus starvc their poor white ncighbors, or
force them to remove to the free states.
On the great estate oh which Mrs. Kcmblc
| lived not II single white man was cmployed,
except the ovcrscer.
! There arc here gang 6or that is the
| honorable term) of coopcrs, of blacksmiths.
OF brlck-laycrs, of carpenters, all we'll ac-
! quaintcd with their peculiar trades The
latter constructed the wash-hand stands.
| clothes-presscs, sofas. tables, etc, with which
! our house is furnished, and they are very
neat pieces of fworkmanship-ncithc veneer
ed or polished, indeed, nor very costly ma
! tcrials, but of the white pine wood planed
( as smooth as marble.
u passed the blacksmiths and coopcr's
shops. At the first all the common iron
| implements of husbandrv or household use
/ for the estate are made and at the latter all
! the rice barrels necessary for the CROP be-
sides tubs and buckets, large and small, for
/ the use of the people, and cedar tubs, of
noble dimensions and exceedingly neat
workmanship, for our own household pur.
! poses
/ 1t is for the aristocrnts who thus DEPRIVE
the industrious poor white man and his fam
lily of their means of living, and force them
to live in poverty. and wrctchcdncss on the
"bamcns, that these are fighting now. 1t
was well for the Shareholders that the poor
whites were kept in ignorance. No wonder
the planters opposed free schools.
1t is easy to see that Mrs. Kcmblc was n
troublesome visitor. She liked cleanliness.
and the oversCcrs gave no attention to that.
She was humane, and humanity was simply
brother, She listened to the complaints
of the poor slave woman, and intcrccded for
them, till she found that the ovcrsccr flogp-
cd them for complaining. She listened
longer, in spite of Mr.. IS angry cXcla-
nations of, "Why do you listen to such
stuff 2 or, why do you believe such trash
Don't YOU know the niggcrs are all id
liars 2 etc, It'll one day he desired me to
bring linn no more complaints or requests
OF nny sort, as the people had hitherto had
no such advocate, ana had done verv well
without, and | was only kept in an inccs-
SAINT state of excitement with all the false
hoods they found they could make me be-
lievc.n
From this we learn that the southern
gentlemen can use prOtarc language to their
wives.
TIE NEGRO CABINS.
Here is the way the "happicst pcasantry
in the world" are lodged by their humane
mastcrs-and it is said that this plantation
was thought to hc well managed:
"Thcsc cabins consist of one room. about
I twelve feet by fifteen, with couple of closets
lslll lgrp M. Il flA l,.,,, q,
ship, divided off from the main room and
each other by rough wooden partitions. in
which the inhabitants sleep. They have al
most all of them IL rude brd,tcad with the
gray moss of the forest for mattress. and
filthy, pestilcntal-looking blankets for COW
erng. Two families sometimes eight and
ten in numbcr) reside in one of these hutS,
which are mere wooden frames, pinned, as
1t were, to the earth by brick chimney ont
side, whose enormous aperture within pOurs
down n flood of AR, but little cOuntcractcd
10y the miserable spark of fire, which hardly
, sends an attcnuated thread of lingering
smoke up its huge throat 4 wide ditch
runs Immediately runs ut the back of these
dwellings, which is filled and cmpticd daily
. by the tide. Attached to each hovcl is a
small scrap of ground for Il garden, which,
however, is for the most part INTENDED and
uncultivatcd. Such of these dwellings ~ |
visited to-day were filthy and wrctchcd in
the extreme.
"In the hospital were several sick babies.
whose mothers were permitted to suspend
! their field labor in order to nurse thcm.-
| Upon addressing some circumstances TO one
OF these, who, besides having sick child,
was i'll herself, about the horrible dirty con
dition Of her baby, she assured me that it
/ was impossible for them 10 keep their chill
! drcn clean; that they went out to work at
! daybrcak, and did not get their tasks done
/ TIL evening, and that then they were too
tired and worn out to do anything but throw
/ themselves down and sleep"
| 1t Is not well to annoy the ovcrSccr-
/ Mrs. kemblc told the oycrsecr what the wo-
man said. lie appeared extremely annoy
/ ed" and the next morning he took pains to
/ prevent the recurrence of the ANNOYANCE by
ilogging the woman, who was found in tears
! by the lady of the manor when she puid the
next mornings visit.
This morning paid my second visit to
the intrmary, and found there had been
some faint attempt at sweeping and clean
ing in compliance with my cntrcatics The
| poor woman Harriet, however, whose state
mcnt with regard to the mpossijiity of
their attending properly to their children
/ hdN bttH ~ NNuClitHtlh ttNlcV DN llle over
seer vas CRYING bitterly asked her what
allied her, when, more by signs and dumb
show than words, she and old Rose inform
. Cd me that Mr.. O. had hogged her
That morning for having told me TINT the
women had not time 10 keep their children
clean. II is part Of the regular duty Of
every ovcrsccr to visit the infmary AT least
once day, which lac generally does in the
morning, and Mr.. O---'s visit had pre-
ccdcd mine but short time only, or might
have been edited by seeing man horse
whip woman
How the slaves on good plantation live
is told here.
"lictuming 10 the house, passed up the
. 'sttcet' II was between eleven o'clock and
noon, and the people wcre taking their irst
meal in the day. by thc-hy, -, how
do you think BERKSHIRE county farmers
woalld relish lahoring hard all day upon two
meals OF Indian corn or hominy such is
the regulations ON hi, plantation, however,
and beg you 10 bear la mind that the ne
grucs on Mr. s estate are generally
considered well of. They 60 To the fields
AT dayhreak, carrying with them their al
loNanoe Of food Tor the day, which, toward
noon, and not iill ,l'cn, they eat, cunki Ing il
over IRE which they kindlc us h,st lLcy
can, where they are working, Their second