The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-07-06

ihrpish ia. -i@s- ~ berry. ant given u"
M. nurth-m parts ~ lrrland h PROSPERITY
-, mtl~ shared hy ". -rn'h"ru Iar'- "
va q Fr-nch Husu-not " the strain "t
them that follo~rd Henry " >ayTr" To
tho ihron. anil Culixny to tho hlu"k
Neither. IN "a authors up,nion, d"d
Mr. Cs,rn"-. MI . l. Olmat-d and "'h'f
al-n and cuf-"ry oi Observers, however we'll
meaning and Intelligent. -iEveed IN drawing
a correct picture 81 IN. negru -laNr- ~ ~
this I~nfusnc" c,rr.I Nv the institution
e slavery on the slave and IN his master
u u mor- easy than accurate, h" -ay-' VI"
infer from n. ahs-em-nt of the slaN-ih" d"-
g-n.raCy ~ IA. master, and N" ~d-sfada'l'n
uf all who wrrr neither masters NOT save"
~ ~ matter ~ fact the -nslaved negro ~a-
mo m"r- black i~mT-r-nns'ion e ih"-''
qualitir s alnn. which ser,itudH impli"s
He was an individual with HE individual
t-culiA nti-s and ~ a race with marked
characteristics ~ i,- own Naturally with
uur the progressive impulses " his master
h. was At once hess sensitive than his master
would have ,--.n tn the horrors and 'h"
sham" ~ -srvitudr, and capable, a. MS
master would never have been. ~ i-a'N
aud affection TO the very hand That 'haii'NI
him lie could find -oins incentive -"
industry IN the din~rence trtwecu IN" l'l
h. might have " he wer. a house servant
and the lu' he would have a. n Held hand
slavery was, In ia. vell-kno~n phrars' ~
CLAW a curse 20 the master and n wrong
20 ia. slave Bu' Z Vas not an unnii'i-
gated wrong to he slave and 'wo centuries
4 II m Virginia and half a century oi n IN
he Black B,lt we're not enough 20 destroy
the moral fibre Of the master. To cheat him
~ his racial hirthright. OF - tan him from
IA. portals II modern civilization
IN an effort to sketch in outline the form
which slavery and the plantation ~yrtcm
took during their new les-s ~ IN" after
the occupation Of the Lower South. NJ
Brown selects for a typical "SsmPl" Va"
particular southern Commonwealth. Ma
hama. with whose history he IL most IA
miliar Like Virginia, Alabama was IA
1850 a distinctly agricultural community
Wha, industrial difference there Was did
not lie IN any greater diver-ifica'lon of m
dustrie-. hut Ia the somewhat changed
character 80 the main industry. a. u Wa
practi~sd in the Younger Commonwealth
The grow ing ~ cotton gave to -lav" labor
it, best opportunity. The cotton planter
profted mos, by IN" on" quality IN which,
according 10 Mr. Cairu--, slave labor ">-
C-lled IL. capacity Tor organization and
combination Thr~~-fourths Of all The
slave. in Alabama wer owned NV less than
ten thousand men The land holdings ~
these men WERE Ia proportion 20 their hold
ing- ~ slave. Their plantations frequently
included thousands 81 acres, and from
th. hug plantations came the bulk 81 IN"
cotton crop Its av.rag" annual valu"
Wa about twenty millions ~ dollar Prac-
,tcallv all ~ The product was ~"n' TO New
England. or exported 70 Europ- Not
onlv did Alabama. like all tile Cotton States
con,rihu,. far more than her -har" to IN"
cnunrrv'- favorable balance Of trade, but
her products contributed materially 20
th. urn.rrri'v ~ other -ecttons ~ IN.
l-nir.d States That the East pr"fted
hv the Southern market u undi-put"d
The new Npr'hs e-t"rn States w"r" even
nnr. indebted tn IN. southern States than
va- ~. Fa-, oar author would dat" their
PROSPERITY from the Development 81 a
region ~hlrh did not ralsa it, own bread
and meat, and could t- reached by rivers
that had thair sources near the Great Lakes
and their mouths IN NJ" Gulf
The industrial NJ. of ~" farmers and
ulau,.r.. who with their dependents and
.la,a. made up mnr- han half of 10" pupu-
ia,,un ~ hIahama. differed from IA" IN
du-rral NJ" - ~" same clas-@s IN Virginia
,h.fv m th. concentration ~ land- and
-lsy-s "a f-wsT hands. 90 10" greater i'm
m.dlal. pru~r'shl"n"-s ~ agriculture and
n IN. greater rapidiiv with INCH lands
YER. Exhausted Manufacturers. banking
m and all 81 her industries o. Which
tho term -hIsiuess- 10 ordinarily applied
ran -ssc"ly have supported NOR" than
s.,.r,y-fv. thousand. ~ nne hundrel
,hnr-and. ~hte persons employing. T"r-
hap-. A. many negro slaves Nsi virginia
,h.re vera no great cities. IN fact Mobile
,lnn. had any god claim ~ - called n city.
NJ BroWn ,o-,iha- that. Internally, tho
stat. was. in N. main. well governed. ac-
rnrding - the Jorsr-orisn idea ~ govern
m.n' rhsr" va NO. s,ich rr"dnninan"'
~ tho yrra, rianisr class as IN" might 81
u.rt Governors and legislators yer" cho-er
from various -yrial ranks many c~ou-picunu.
mon ~err Distinctly NJ III" s"h-mad" WE
Tho STAT" had Il. y-'Ho0 ~ follv over hanks
ard pat-,r money. hmt The opposition -
tho experiment " Ne ablv l"d, and. when IN
c,.,ly lesson had h~~n learned. the r~oph
and their representatives paid Tor 'h"i'
foIIv manfully. fro~ning down ~" least
suggestion Il rrpudia'ion and sven over
throwing ~" psrtv In power 10 get a SOUND
/ GuNrrhnr "l's''ed
IN. par, which tho mon ~ hlahsma am
other CJ,'uu states PLAYED In Fedora
p%ultiIs. aud iha fgh, which th"N mad" '"l
National a. -nd-ucv. - m" sI"~ihc -uhi"r'
- ~. i.,t-rs 'Ull.Ctiv"lv entitled lh'
Lnv"r Sputh Rotor" tuning, however
,n THO militant a-I-ct ~ 'h" ct'Ilila'i"I
Of thn Cotton Statr. mir author ha- a wore
,n ~, alnut ~ ,nnrr quality. "" w"ul'
haN. NJ l-rk a. ia. men 90 N" Lower ~"u'l
~ ihcir hu'ucs. planting 'h"ir h"'ds
ENJOYING thcir chief diversions 81 ndin'
and hunting. celebrating thor i"asis
splsmniziug their marriage. hntNiig ''"'
dead Thor HON" he vas, IA tact, m
mos, precious part ~ their h%"ri'ns", fr"tl
their Nirgiuan. and Ihrolinan, ard tngl-'
ANCESTOR. We mus, iear IN min that al
though ia" great majority 81 WHIT" mon u
Alabama. A. In other Cotton S'a'"-. o~n'7
either no slaves Al all or hut on" ~ I've
n~"vcrthcl"-,. ~" plantation Wa ~" tNiich
81 tho Lower South. and ~
laws and uSagc- werc quite a. d"mrnan
-r-iallv ~ IT. ~conomi" infuenc" M
dominant p~nlticsllv