New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-06-24

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y deiermi slavery existed. II ealIlii.
est times the weaker woman was made
The slave Of the stronger man. The pr
lmitiyes occu pation Of man was to obtain
food " hunting and To defend himself
from his enemies. aturally il such
lstrugggles as here implied men were cap
tured 1'hese captives the victor< COM
PEELED to do their work.
Slavery has existed among all nations.
Christianity forbade it in its doctrines.
England was onesose the first mo der,l ma
lions TO abolish it in her realms. She
gave her ships the right to seize slave
vessels, 10 iberate the slaves, and to in.
1ict the 'seyerest punishment upon the
owners.
When the English settled upon this
continent slavery was already firmly es-
tablished among the Spaniards iii Amer
lea. The first slaves iii the English col-
Eoniessssere imported to Virginia early in
the seventeenth century by a Dutch man
of-War, which landed fourteen negroes at
Jamestown. The first mention of slaves
in law also occurs in the statutes Of Vir-
ginia that a child born Of a slave fol-
lowed the condition Of It's mother.
The leading men who drew up Cur
constitution were hostile to slavery. The
northern states firmly believed that it
was doomed to die in the natural course
of seycnts. The abolitionists saw that
the system was bad and sought to cxter-
inmate il, aid they were successful; but.
atWhat a sacrifice Our population d.
minished by more than a million Of our
best men, and war debt contracted
that has not been cancelled even at tile
present day. .1. &:
The detrimental influence of slavery
could be clearly seen in our own coun-
try. In the North we're contentmeat
and u prosperous population; in the
South misery and a desolate res ion; in
the North manufactures and commercial
prosperity, in the South Incidence and
listlessness. The invention Of the COT
ton-gin had doomed the latter country
to the sole occupation Of raising cotton.
Here the people We're soon divided in
to three classes, the rich whites who did
not work, the poor whites who were too
proud to work, and the slaves who were
compelled to work. One compelled to-
work never does his best-there is no
incentive to work, to invent, to surpass
ones neighbor.: A Southerner ouly
sought to Obtain the best results compat-
IDLE with the least work. HI drained
the soil of its fertility, then sought new
fields beyond the Mississippi.
A superior race ruling over an inferi-
Or one by right of property acquires an
entirely different character-changed
ideas, sentiments, manner of living, even
an inferior moral code. Slavery de-
grades labor with both white and black
lit stunts the moral energy of the people;
|it,'warfs their military spirit as body,
though it stimulates the military ambi.
ton of the ruling class; it keeps the
poor whites ignorant, so that to them
the state is a universe, its will sovereign,
its power irleslstible 80 j: - 4
Slavery discourages art and man,tfac-
lures. The land is turned into large
plantations, leaving no room for small
farmers-that thrifty class who enrich
the community they go where free
labor is respected and small farms are to
be had. s# . st5% E !
The enormous strides Of the South
since the war show what she can do un-
der freedom. 9 The south was the real
gamer by our civil strife, for, the lncu-
bus that imprisoned her resources and
Frustrated her energies has been driven
from her. Where formerly were huts
and novels are now cottages and man