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, and better housed.  Most of them are happy and well provided for.  Their appearance, their health, cheerfulness and fondness for music, give the lie to Northern representations.  Masters are responsible for the maintenance of their slaves under all circumstances; in infancy and old age, in sickness as well as in health.  But as soon, as Northern white slaves become incapacitated for labor, they are suffered to lie down in their filth and starve and die.  Where then, are their lords and masters, who have grown wealthy from the proceeds of their labor?

Mrs. Stowe may write about slavery to her heart’s content; but has she, or any one else, pointed out to us, any fair, open, practicable system of emancipation?  No, they have not, and until that is done, they should be a little more modest in their denunciations of slaveholders.  Suppose the South should manumit their slaves, will the North receive and educate them?  No, by no means; and however ignorant Mrs. Stowe may be in relation to Southern slavery, she must be well aware of the universal prejudice in the North against free negroes.  A very large majority of the blacks in the North, are in an impoverished and degraded condition; and there is no sympathy with them, or for them, among Northern men.  Northern prejudice is much stronger than Southern prejudice, against these unfortunate creatures.