Year: 1877

We had the pleasure, few days ago of making the acquaintance of Rev. G. A. Moffat, of Pennsylvania. This gentleman has come south and is now here to make his home among us, and we find that he is one of the many northern men who are begin ming to divest themselves of all prej udice against the South and who will be valuable aid to us in get ting the masses of the overworked, poorly paid laboring classes of the North and East to look South for new fields where they may emerge from the condition of sertdom to which they have been reduced by the grasping monopolies and capit- alists of the North, into freemen and happy owners of homes of their own. We gladly welcome such men among us and we will welcome the day when with their aid we may be able to open the eyes of the toilIng thous ands in the North who ought to come South where they will have a chance to make their labor and their muscle benefit themselves instead of their present owners in Wall street and in other money centers.

 The picture which the Rev. MT. Moffat draws of the condition of the average Northern laborer is truly pitiful, and the work Of alleviating his condition calls aloud to all who have any spark of humanity in their breasts. To point these people South and to assist them in getting here is, we truly believe, the remedy. This is Mir. Mofat's opinion, as may be seen from an article from that gentleman's pen which we find in the Alma Herald. The article is so true, and the subject of 50 much that we take pleasure in reproducing it, the caption of which stands at the head of this article:

 MR. EDITOR HERALD: Will you permit northern man to say word on the above subject? Not with a view of opening an old wound, but to look at the truth as it is. If we ask the question, What is Slavery? The only intelligent answer that can be given in brief, is-Slayery is the coercion of the laborer, by. the SUI perior strength and power of it's possessor, dictating his own terms to the laDorer.

 That this state of things existed in the South in time past, is true, and, we are sure no one will deny it. But that that day is gone by in the South, no one will dare deny. Yet still, slavery is not extinct by any means. All that is done, has just been done to change the scene and the slaveholder. The black slave is free, but the white man bears the the galling yoke of bondage. Hence, slavery is only transposed-from black to white, and the theatre of slavery changed from South to North; and in addition to this, the slave holder of the South gives place to the slave holdcrof the North. So that while the South is entirely free from slavery, the North is groaning beneath it's severe burden.

 But thls transposition was not done in day, for it has by gradual, yet sure progression, changed posi- tions little by little-step by step, till now it is wide spread-and, to say the least, more formidable and deep seated than before. And al though it is anything but a pleasant subject to dwell upon, yet it may be somewhat profitable to notice It's movements in transpositiop.

 lst. At the close of the war, the Radical government, with it's men ials set the black man free, and CO creed the most intelligent part of the white men of the South into bondage; and for a time, tbs new slave driver drove with an unmerci- full and unrelcnting hand. But lind