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Show 140 NOTES ON I say to the land of his fathers; for thn.t in tktt Uirection lies his Hn:d exodus, I have no doubt. I do not believe, .with ~I r. SccrQtary ' Valkcr, that it is to be through 'l,exas into :Mexico. On the contrary, I believe that his mis8ion is to civilize and Christianize his nati,·c Africa., and that there~ fore Providence frowns upon every attempt of his to form a free a.nd independent community in this "\Vestcrn Ilcmisphcrc. Cuba. may, perhaps, become cvcntu::tlly the home of the Qundroon; for with his Anglo-Saxon energy, nnU with just enough of Afric:tn bloOd in his veins to make him proof against tropical diseases, he would be admirably adapted, in conjunction wi th the Anglo-Saxon, to develope the inexhaustible resources of that magnificent island. But, for the full-blooded negro there can be no !tome this side the water: he must be again "fcrrictl o'er the wave:" Africa must be r~decmcd , and he only can work out its rc. dcmption. NoTE 14.-SouTHERN EMANCIPATORS. Mrs. Stowe speaks of a class of slaveholders who may be appropriatoly designated by this title, and thitt there is such a class, is undoubtedly true; but she seems to think them numerous, and in this she is mistaken; they arc but few, and of those few, the greater part arc in the border slave States, principally in Northern Kentucky. 'J.'hcsc last look across the river, and contrast the rapid growth of Ohio \vith the comparatively .slow growth of their own Commonwealth, and then jump to the conclusion that slavery is at the bottom of it. Now, undoubtedly, slavery is a cause of it, but if it is the only cause, how happens it that Georgia is one of the most flouri shing States of the Union, and that her resources are developing with such giant stride as to ha ve gained for her the cognomen of the "Empire State of the South?" How happens it, too, if slave labor is the only l'SCI.B l'OM's CABIN. 141 kind of labor which cxhansts the soi l, that tw<>-thirds of the Hnprovcd land of the State of New York has become exlutusted to such a degree that "fully to renovate it would cost at least an average of twelve dollars and a half per acre or an aggregate of one ltundred millions of dollars.~" (So~ Appendix, R) 'rho truth is, slave labor in a. border State is ncccssaril unprofitable, from the fact that it is constantly comi · y crcasingly into competition with free labor and th:~ ~~~ uch a state of t~i_ngs, botlt operate to disadv,antagc. s'u~~ Js n~w the conditiO~ of things in Kentucky: she is purchasmg her redcmptwn, and she is paying the price of it as she goes along. I say her 1·edernption, for a community whose laborers arc free, is better off, ceteris paribus, than o_ne whose laborers arc slaves. Meanwhil e, she has no right,-no moral right, I mcan,-to turn her slaves loose on the commnnity: she is bound to take care of them or to send tlwm where they will be taken care oj, till they become fit for freedom. . This is a consideration which seems to be entirely lost s~ght of by Southern Emancipators. I commend it to CasSius M. Clay, and his coadjutors: they arc too impatient by h:.•lf; they had a great deal better take things easy, and \\.tit for the slow but sure operation of natural ca. uses to place them on the vantngo ground of the Ohio freeman. Any attempt to hurry matters will only make bad worse. NoTE 15.-YANKEE OvERREEHs. Mrs. Stowe lJas no good opinion of this class of persons for she tells us (vol. ii. p. 316,) tlmt they are "proverbially' the ~Jardest masters of sla.ves." This is, no doubt, true; but .~t docs .. not follow that they nrc, therefore, "renegade sons (vol. u. P· 15,) of New Engbnd. On the contrary, it |