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point, after all. The character of the
man is a better guarantee than any
oath Of Office that was ever devised.

!
Augusta paper, said, in connection with
gentleman Of Georgia, that "Slaverv
will exist in the South after the con-
c'usion of peace, let the war terminate
as it may, and that he expects to own a
thousand slaves himself one of these
days. We have little doubt that Gene
raj Sherman made the remark, and as
little that ii will be realized in the event
Of our suhjugation. What the form of
slavery, or what name will be given to it
by Yankee ingenuity, we cannot forcsec.
but that the thing itself will contin4c,
and that the negroes will have to work
harder and fare worse than slaves have
ever worked or Jared before in the South
crn States, is as certain as the rising. of
| :olnOrrow'S sun.
/ The Yankee sentiment Of abolition is
simply envy Of the STAKEHOLDER, not love
Of the slave. Why should he love the
black laborcr of distant region more
than tLe white laborcr of his own
Every one is familiar with the harsh and
oppressive manner in which Yankee en-
ployces III every department Of business
arc treated by their employers. The
thing is notorious and undcniablc. 1t is
ridiculous, then, to suppose that men so
selfish, callous and tyrannical to their
white dependents should have general
and generous sympathy with African
slaves With the exception of some
fanatics, whose imaginations have run
away with their reason, there is not an
honest Abolitionist in the Northern States.
The only question which presents itself
20 the great mass Of that money seeking
and practical race is, "Will slavery
pay" The fate Of slavery and the Con
federacy, if conquered, depends solely
upon the answer to that question.
General Sherman has evidently made
up his own mind in the affirmative. lie
knows, and his countrymen know as
! well, that cotton, rice and sugar cannot
be cultivated without slavelabor. There
| is scme question about tobacco. It may
be that the Yankee viii conclude that
slave labor will not pay in Virginia and
other border States. In that event, they
viii give sop to the philanthropy OF
the age by sacrificing the 'non-paying
| labor Of those States to the demands Of
abolition, calling upon the world to ad-
mire and applaud their humanity, whilst
they simpl}>change the name and pro-
prietorship Of slavery in the cotton
| States. General Sherman expects to
own q thousand slaves, and other Fcdo-
raj generals will be equally fortunato.-
| The possession OF the slaves will be
simply transferred from the hands Of
their present owners to those Of soldiers
and citizens Of the United States. They
| will raise more cotton, more sugar, and
more rice, than were ever raised before.
The only change in the system will be
one which will enable the new slave
owners to be relieved from the support
| of the laborcrs in sickness and old age.
! The horror which the African troops
| experience in this war is nothing to
that which they will suffer in fighting the
battles of civilization? They will die
like sheep under their Yankee taskmas-
ters but their places can be readily sup
piled by importing Coolies, after the
fashion Of England and Franco, or re-
opening the slave trade. No reInon-
strances Of England and no Africa
coast squadrons would prevent the
adoption of the latter alternative if
found essential to the dc.nand Of slave
labor. 1t was the Yankees and England
who first brought slaves from Africa to
this continent, and either Of them would
10 it again, or any other thing which
their interests demand.
Next to the present proprictors, the
condition of the present slaves will, in
the event of Southern subjugation, be
most pitiable. The contrast to their
former condition xiIl intensity the agOnies
Of their cxhausting toll. They will be
in the hands of men who do not under
stand them, who have no real sympathy
with them, nor any concern of any kind,
except to squeeze the greatest amount OF