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LE'll'EIlS FROM Trili UNITED STATES OF NOKTII AMERICA. 



No. I. 

 Ilnbils of the People — Inconsistency — Scraps of their Speech — Master 

 and Servant — Helps — Emigrants — Tricks in Trade. 



Dear P. — The relationship of master and servant is absolutely un- 

 known here ; that relationship, I should say> which is understood in 

 Europe, and every where else, it may be, except in this part of North 

 America, where the word master is made use of, or the word servant. 



I mean to speak freely of these haughty republicans, who, while 

 they keep about 1,500,000 of their fellow creatures in a state of pure 

 slavery, will not acknowledge the relationship of master and servant 

 among the free whites, and will not even make use of the word master, 

 except in the way mentioned hereafter, nor of the word servant, except 

 while speaking of a class — never while speaking of or to a member of 

 that class. They are, indeed, a very consistent people these Americans. 

 They abolish titles, and yet are fond of titles to a proverb. They 

 keep slaves, and yet are notorious for talking more and bragging more 

 about liberty and equality, than all the rest of the nations of all the 

 rest of the earth, — not excepting your's.* They publish a manifesto, 

 in which they appeal to the Governor of the Universe for the truth of 

 what they say, when they declare that " all men are created equal" 

 (they do not say born equal), and yet, while they are publishing that 

 manifesto, while they are putting it forth in the name of God himself, 

 their governor and judge, while they are making as much uproar about 

 liberty and equality, as if neither had ever been heard of or understood 

 at all before the United States of North America uprose from the 

 solitude of ages, among the rubbish and wreck of another world ; now 

 talking about their beloved country, as if it were, indeed, what a sorry 

 writer of theirs took the liberty of calling it some years ago, in the 

 simplicity of his heart — " the Home of the Free !" as if it were, indeed, 

 what most of their Fourth of July orators are in the habit of calling it, 

 now about once every year, a last refuge and hope, if not for the 

 universe — if not for the world — if not for all the nations thereof — at 

 least for Europe, afflicted Europe, and for a multitude of " empires 

 yet unborn" — if you please ; now rejecting from their very language, 

 or avoiding with especial carfe most of the words which imply either 

 subordination or inferiority, as if they could not bear so much as a 

 word in their way, if it smacked, I do not say of common servileness, 

 such as we have in Europe — I do not say of bondage without measure, 

 and without hope — hereditary bondage, but of inferiority : now claiming 

 to be thought a wise people, a great people, free from the chief pre- 

 judices of the age ; and yet, as I have said before, while they are doing 

 this, my dear P., and all this — a plague on their system of equality 

 I say, a plague on such liberty — they hold 1,500,000 of their fellow 

 creatures — all native-born Americans too — in a state of pure slavery; and 

 look upon those who have a drop of negro blood in their veins, or a 



* In the New England circle, a part of the United States where slavery is not 

 permitted, and where black children are educated at the public charge, to be a coloured 

 man, or a mulatto, is to be of another caste, with which it is infamy for the white to 

 intei'marry, and a great reproach for a poor white man to associate. Even at free- 

 sdwols, the coloured and white poor children are kept asunder. 



