The Placer herald., 1864-07-23

astonshed the English traveller, Col. Frees
mantle, when he lately visited the South
Speaking or this very class (poor whites) in
the South, he says: Every white man is AS
good as another (by theory,) and every white
female is, by courtesy, a lady-there is only
one class" This we know to be strictly true.
A white man may be as poor as Lazarus
there, and still, if he possesses the attributes
of character and Intelligence, his poverty
never bars him from the parlors Of the rich,
as it does in the North. There the social
ban is on the black race, and not, as here,
upon the poverty or misfortune of our own
white race. Poverty is never treated as a
crime in the South Let the poor, but honest
white man answer how the thing is here in
the North. And let his answer stand for
the refutalion of the Abolition falsehood in
relation to this matter.
Another charge is that the South is with
out schools, and has done nothing for the
cause of education. What says the census?
Take again the six New Eogland States, and
compare them with the five original slave
States. These New Eugand States have Of
Colleges and Academies, 1902. The five
slave States have Of the same ,265. The
New England States have endowed their
Colleges and Academies to the extent of
S343, ,9O5, The five slave States have en-
dowed theirs to the much greater sum of
Sl,Os0,435. Thus, the five slave States
have 1853 more Colleges and Academies than
the six New England States, and these five
slave States have beat the six States of New
England in endowments of these institutions
of learning $236,63O. Under these figures
how look the editors, lecturers, and minis
ters of the North, who have crammed the
public mind with so many impudent false
hoods on this subject9 1t is but q few weeks
since a New England chaplain, writing from
New Orleans to New York paper, declared
that "the South is without schools" when
the truth is, that the State of Louisiana, from
which this clerical vagabond wrote, has the
finest system of common schools of any State
in the Union; or had, before Butler broke
them up in New Orleans, and Banks in the
country as far as he has advanced. The
State of Louisiana has twelue Universities,
with an average of $50 scholars, while Mas
sachuse!ts has only four, with an average of
769 scholars. And yet a Massachusetts
minister writes home that "they have no
schools in louisiana"
8. For years the Abolitionists have urged,
as a charge against Slavery, that it was the |
cause of a great deal Of illicit intercourse
between the whites and the blacks. In 1850 |
according to the census, there were n the
United States 405,754 mulattoes; of these
there was one mulatto out of t,Oelve among
the Slaves and fraction more than one
out of taOo among free negroes. That is,
the illicit intercourse between whites and
blacks is ten times greater in the North than
in the South, with the slaves Thus we see
that northern editors, clergymen and politi-
clans, have been in the habit Of charging
upon slavery as a sin, the very thing that
the North is ten times more guilty of than
the South. Or, it used to be counted
crime; but now, in these ripe days of "Re-
publicanism" and miscegenation, this kind
Of intercourse between the whites and blacks
has suddenly become virtue which, if not
rare, is the crowning and orious triumph
Of the Republican party.
If the limits of this article permitted, we
could name other matters, in a comparison
Of the two sections, still to the disadvantage
of the North. In some future number of
The Old Guard we shall resume this subject,
with view of pointing out the causes which
have led to the differences of the two sec
tions, as developed by the census. We shall
be able to show that many of these Southern
advantages are actually due to the institution
of negro 'slavery'-that not only the census,
but moral and political philosophy demon
srate that the institution of negro slavery
deveopes superior mental and physical
condition of the white race. This estimate
may cause Mr.. Sumner to open his eyes with
horror; bat Mr. Sumner dare not enter into
fair debate with the editor Of The Old
Guard on this subject lie knows that the
charges which have been brought against
the South will not stand the test Of argu.
ment and fact. The very history of the
foundation of our government is a perpetual
refutaton of the cardinal ISLANDERS of the
Abotionists The architects of American
freedom were slave holders. Washington,
"the Father of his country was 'slave'-
holder. The author of the Declaration of
Independence was a Shareholder. The
father of the Constitution was slave holder.
Religious liberty on this Continent was
established by shareholders. While the
New England Puritans were drowning the
Baptists, whipping the Quakers, boring holes
through their tongues with red-bod irons,
and driving women naked through the streets
of Boston, because they would not adopt
the Puritan sectaranism, the catholic 'slave'-
holders of Maryland were laying the deep
foundations of religious toleraton and liberty.
If we are in any mood for looking facts in
the face, contrast the condition of our coun'
try now with what it was when all were
slave -hoders. Contrast our present Con-
gress for character, dignity, and ability, with
the Congress when almost every member was
stakeholder, or the representative Of a
'slave'-holding constituency. Well may we
adopt the lines OF Burns:
"You see yoursel with them compared
And shudder at the differ"
Or, if we dare tell the whole truth, COM
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