Vol. 9. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y.— FEBRUARY, 1848. 



KFo. 2. 



THE GENESEE PAKIHER: 



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[Editorial Correspondence of the Genesee Farmer.] 



Southern Agriculture and Customs. 



Our readers will hardly credit the story that 

 potatoes are now brought to market whicli have 

 grown in Georgia within the last three months, 

 in open air. Yet such is said to be the fact, and 

 a matter of no uncommon occurrence. Farmers 

 plow, plant, sow, and harvest, more or Igss every 

 month in the year. Barley, oats, peas, and 

 young clover are now growing in the middle of 

 January. How they contrive to escape death by 

 hard freezing, I do not understand. Every day 

 brings out some strange novelty. At first it 

 seemed very odd to see men driving oxen with 

 bridle bits, head-stalls and lines, precisely as 

 horses are driven at the north. In some cases 

 ropes are tied to the horns of either ox to pull 

 him to the right or left. At Columbia, the capi- 

 tal of South Carolina, I was amused to witness 

 several very small oxen harnessed each singl 

 in a cart, and driven with bits in mouth 20 miles 

 to market, with two or three hundred pounds of 

 corn stalks and a few eggs. One need not go 

 out of the Union to find a people quite as primi- 

 tive in the management of cattle as old Jacob, 

 who contrived to breed so many that were "ring- 

 streaked and speckled." These animals fare so 

 hard at the south that they are mere dwarfs, and 

 generally very poor at that. Sheep have long 

 legs and tails, long necks and precious little 

 wool. To prevent its total loss in the thorny 

 bush wood, sheep are sheared or shorn twice a 

 vear and never washed. Their fleeces are mat- 



ted with burrs, and worth next to nothing. In- 

 deed they are kept for mutton, not for their wool. 



There are, I believe, more goats than sheep 

 in Georgia, and more dogs than goats and shee[» 

 put together. Every negro is ambitious of being 

 the master of a dog, as he can not be of himself. 

 I have visited a good many plantations, seen wo- 

 men plow, chop, grub trees, and how field labor- 

 ers eat, drink, and sleep in their huts. This is 

 a branch of domestic economy, however, which 

 can no more be discussed than my "Laconics," 

 or the rights of labor in the free States. The 

 regular labor and wholesome food of slaves, and 

 the absence of all care about providing for them- 

 selves and oflspring, cause this class to multiply 

 with greater rapidity than any other in the world. 

 They will soon number ten millions in the Uni- 

 ted States. Nor can you prevent their rapid 

 increase, except by the most inhuman mutilation. 

 It is the whites, the physically inferior race, not 

 the blacks, who are the sufferers by the importa- 

 tion of so many wild people from Africa, by the 

 commercial traders of Old and New England. 

 previous to the year 1808, when the slave trade 

 was abolished. 



Compare the condition of the natives now in 

 Africa with the negroes of the South, and every 

 one must see that Ihe latter have gained immeas- 

 urably by being transplanted from a land where 

 civilization has not advanced one inch in four 

 thousand years, to the heart of a Christian nation. 

 The great truth is not to be denied that no other 

 people have advanced so much in an equally 

 short period as have the children of the men and 

 women who were stolen from Africa, many of 

 whom are still living to teach their masters and 

 the children of the latter, an African dialect. 

 In a rural population where there are seven 

 negroes to one white person, and the blacks 

 nurse the whites as well as their own offspring, 

 what language, think you, the child will learn 

 from its nurse and playmates ? 



It is the European, not the African race that 

 have, and must long continue to suffer by the 

 presence of 3,000,000 of negroes, who, being at 

 the bottom in the scale of humanity, must una- 

 voidably pull down to their level the smaller 

 number with whom they associate, unless- the 

 latter draw them up to a common platform. 



The great and crowning evil in all so called 

 Christian nations is "the love of money." In 

 that regard there is not a particle of difference 

 between slaveholders and non-slaveholders which 

 I can discover. All are alike willing to chew 

 and smoke slave-grown tobacco, eat slave grown 



