Slavery: What It Was, What It Has Done, What It Intends to Do
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He had, no doubt, a vivid idea ofthe liberty that is enjoyed by non-slaveholders in the South, when heremembered that these cruelties and barbarities were inflicted on himfor expressing a rational and honest opinion relative to this "peculiarinstitution. " The statements, and doubtless convictions, of the honorable member fromMississippi, differ singularly from those of Senator CLAY, of Alabama, who tells us that, in his State, "we may behold numerous fine houses, once the abode of intelligent ...freemen, now occupied by slaves, or elsetenantless and dilapidated; that we may see fields, once fertile, covered with foxtail and broom-sedge--moss growing on the walls of oncethrifty villages, and may find that 'one only master grasps the wholedomain' which once furnished homes for a dozen white families. " Hear, also, Senator HAMMOND, of South Carolina, who says of thenon-slaveholders of his State: "They obtain a precarious subsistence by occasional jobs, by hunting, byfishing, by plundering fields or folds, or, too often, by what is farworse in its effects, trading with slaves, and leading them to plunderfor their benefit.
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