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thus the intermediate time, say, for instance, between 

 planting cotton and in picking or collecting the pods, 

 could be occupied with other staples. This cannot be 

 the case now, nor never will, while America confines her- 

 self to cotton and corn, and pig feeding. There are no 

 people in the world so little employed as the slaves of the 

 south, because of this state of things ; and the man who 

 represents them as hard-labored, must be altogether 

 ignorant of the facts, or a designing fomentor of dis- 

 cord. 



In all the old countries, India, &c., slavery is but a 

 nominal thing, so much so, that it passed into a term of 

 courtesy and compliment Ap ka golambundee hv : 

 " Sir, I am your slave." And when the British East 

 Indian Company say they abolished slavery in the East, 

 they did nothing more than pass an act against a term 

 that had no meaning. Among all the higher classes in 

 India to-day, there are slaves who are so, willingly ; who 

 might be more appropriately called hangers-on, because 

 they cannot do better. Slavery is only necessary or 

 useful where labor is scarce. Cheap labor and slavery are 

 incompatible in the same country, except such slavery, 

 the worst of all slavery, the hard-worked, ill paid, ill 

 treated servants of England. Let the abolitionists go to 

 England, and travel through that country ; let them 

 inquire into the state of poor servant-maids, shop-boys, and 

 farm-servants there, return to this land, and take a tour 

 through the Southern States, compare the slave's con- 

 dition with the servant's, and then ask themselves, before 

 God and their country, which is most deserving of their 

 help. There are many Mrs. Birds, and Mrs. and Mr. 

 Sloanes in England, who beat and starve young girls 



