he slaves. They are frequently transported for
crimes which would hang a white man; or otherwise confine him in the
penitentiary for a series of years, or for life time. Negroes are
frequently whipped and then transported to the extreme Southern States
for murder; and that too, under circumstances, where the crime is one
of a very aggravated character; for premeditated murder--murder
committed with malice prepense. But in the eyes of abolitionists, it
is dreadful to whip a slave for so small an offense; and yet they
would stand by, and with exquisite pleasure see a white man hanged for
the same crime. Kind souls! what a pity that white men could not come
in for a share of their sympathies; but they have none for them; it is
all for the woolly heads. But really, I should like to know what
becomes of their sympathies, when some poor free negro is taken sick
in their midst, and starves, and dies, and rots in his filth! Ah!
don't touch my purse. No, by no means! We all know that it won't do to
touch your purses. Your sympathies never leak out in that way. You are
too shrewd for that. Fie! Fie! it is all wind, and it costs you but
little to blow it out.

Slaveholders are called murderers, because in a few rare instances, a
slave may have been worked to death; and they denounced as cruel and
oppressive task-masters, because probably one in five hundred, under
peculiar circumstances, may have been guilty of cruelty to his slaves.
The same thing occurs everywhere, the world over. And it occurs as
frequently in Yankeedom, the hot-bed of abolitionism, infidelity, and
wooden nutmegs, as anywhere else, There are more white men and white
women worked to death in the North, than there are slaves worked to
death in the South. Oh! but, says an objector, those white people are
free. Nobody forces them to work beyond their capabilities of
endurance. The objection is without foundation, for indigence and
liberty, never resided together in the same hovel or hut. Hunger and
cold are hard masters, far worse than Southern slaveholders; and the
penurious Yankee who inadequately pays the laborer, and thus suffers
him to starve or freeze to death, is morally as bad as the man who
whips his slave to death. If the latter is a murderer, so is the
former. The generality of slaves are better paid for their labor, than
the poorer classes of people North or South. They at least receive
more in return for their labor. They are better fed, better clothed