7 10 136 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Labor Goods. Description An account of the resource A committee was recently appointed by the Union Free Produce Society, of Chester and Lancaster counties, Pa. to inquire into the genuineness of goods professing to be free from the stain of slave labor. The committee addressed the following queries to Charles Collins, of New-York: RESPECTED FRIEND: By answering the following queries thou wilt much oblige thy friends, and confer a particular favor upon the advocates of abstinence from slave labor. 1st. From what source is thy free cotton obtained? and is the necessary care taken by the manufacturer to preserve it from a mixture with that which is not free? 2d. Is the coloring used by thee, free from the stain of slavery? 3d. Whence are thy groceries obtained? 4th. Is thy store supplied entirely with free goods, or are both kinds kept therein? Committee THOMAS HAMBLETON, ELIZABETH KENT. ELIZABETH HAMBLETON, To these questions Charles Collins returned the following reply: “I received yours, requesting answers to four queries. In reply to the first, I may say that I have had some free labor cotton from Friends in North Carolina, and some from Alabama. I expect some from Georgia, and may perhaps have some from Florida. From good information, I have reason to think that free labor cotton is to be had in all the south and southwestern States, where cotton is raised. It is produced by the labor of poor, white men and their children, in small quantities. Some raise two or three bales, and some more. Much of it is cleaner and better than slave grown cotton. A person from Florida, with whom I have been acquainted for several years, told me this week, that he could get 20 or more bales in his neighborhood. Another, now deceased, with whom I was very intimate, had resided in Charleston (S. C.) and went to Friend's meeting there. He said he thought that, by taking pains, there might annually be produced in South Carolina near one thousand bales of free labor cotton. He said it was brought to Charleston in one horse wagons, in the fall; but that from slave plantations was conveyed in large teams. In the English West Indies and Haiti, free labor cotton is raised; also in some parts of South America. I think I might safely engage to procure free labor cotton in much greater quantities than there is at present a demand for in the United States. Second: Indigo is a leading article in coloring. This mostly comes from Bengal, in India, and Caraccas, in South America, where it is raised free from slave labor. Not much is now raised in the South. Madder and woad, both principal articles, come from vegetables raised in Holland and England; of course free. As to other colors, I cannot say much about them. Third: Much of my sugar is raised on free labor plantations in Porto Rico, and Laguira. The loaf and lump sugar I purchase is made of Manilla, Siam, and other free sugars ; also Carthagena. I have white sugar from Canton; likewise Maple sugar . Fourth: I have kept a strictly free labor store, for 25 years and upwards; chiefly groceries, some cotton goods. I may, perhaps, have more cotton goods. There are now in the hands of a calico printer, about 8,000 yards for me; to be plain goods, and fast colors. From late information, I am led to think that sugar , &c. raised by free labor , is to be had in Louisiana. I have written for some. I prefer goods, the growth of our own country, because no duty is paid on them. Some of the money that goes into the national treasury is used to make war upon Indians, &c.; and in this I wish to take no part. Yesterday I engaged ten bales of upland cotton to be procured in Florida, by a person with whom I have been acquainted several years; he told me he thought he could get me a much larger quantity, in a neighborhood where were a considerable number of poor people who raised it without slavery. By consulting the Encyclopedia of Geography, in 3 vols. by Hugh Murray, published in Philadelphia, in 1838, thou wilt see a list of the British islands, all free; and that in the island of Porto Rico there were, in 1830, 323,838 persons. Of this number 34,240 were slaves; 127,287 free colored persons; and 162,311 whites. This shows that about one tenth are slaves. These slaves, I expect, are chiefly employed in boiling sugar . My mind is so much led to think of the South, that I have thought I would like to spend my winter there, buying free labor goods, and visiting slave plantations. If the several free produce societies would unite, they might perhaps make it worth while for some one to go there on that business. CHARLES COLLINS, No. 3 Cherry Street, New-York. FROM THE UNION FREE PRODUCE SOCIETY. Resolved, That the reply of Charles Collins, of New-York, to the iuterrogataries of our committee, received by this society, is satisfactory in detail. It tends to confirm the confidence hitherto reposed in him, as an agent for procuring goods uncontaminated by the gains of oppression, as exhibited in the system of American slavery. A TRIBUTE TO THE DEPARTED. At a stated meeting of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, held 3d month 10th, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Whereas, This society has recently been bereaved, by death, of one of its earliest and most self-denying members, Grace Douglass, and the abolitionists of this city and of our country, also, of another venerable coadjutor, James Forten, therefore, Resolved, That while we offer to their afflicted relatives and friends our warmest sympathies, we regard their removal from us as a call to renewed diligence in the work to which they devoted their energies, and in which we are permitted awhile longer to labor; and that, profiting by their exemplary lives and triumphant deaths, we will endeavor to follow them as they followed Christ. ANNA M. HOPPER, Secretary. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Anti-Slavery Standard Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.24.1842 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Experiment of Free Labor Description An account of the resource <div> <xsl-text>IBERVLLE PARISH, La., Aug. 1, 1865.</xsl-text><xsl-text> </xsl-text>To the Freedmen's Aid Association of New Orleans: GENTLEMEN—I am a planter of twelve years' experience. This year I am working twelve hands, six men and six women; my laborers are to get one fourth of the net proceeds of the crops. They have a full understanding of their interest in the said crops Our contract was made on the 1st of February last, and the result so far is a complete success; we have to day 85 arpents of cotton; 25 arpents of sugar canes; 75 arpents of corn, all in perfect condition. I don't mention the vegetable crops. Under the old system ten arpents to the hand was considered a fair result, and more than three fourths of the plantartions failed to come to that standard. My labores are all good people, behaving well, having good common sense; they are honest and true to their family. Besides the crop in common, they have raised for their private account small crops of corn and vegetables. They have poultry, etc. of their own. Not a single difficulty has occurred among them since they have agreed to work on my farm. I remain, gentlemen, respectfully yours, X. </div> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8.25.1865 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource X. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource We rejoice to hear Description An account of the resource From the South Shields (Eng.) Gazette. We rejoice to hear that a movement is making in North Shields on behalf of the Slave. The <xsl-text></xsl-text>opprobrium <xsl-text></xsl-text>of this civilized age, and of our Anglo-Saxon race, is, that slavery still exists in any land owning that race as masters. The foulest disgrace that ever hung over the sacred names of Christianity and Freedom has been indicted by the fact, that in lands where men pretend most to value their names, the degradation and pollution of a legalized bondage continues to be cherished and defended. British freemen have already done something to deliver themselves from the sin and shame of this system. They have subscribed large sums, and have entered into solemn treaties with slave countries having in view the mitigation and ultimate abolition of slavery; but, in spite of all, the horrors of the slave-trade never were more dreadful than at the present moment, and the cruelties perpetrated among slave-owners never more disgraceful. Free trade, which, as a general good, we have always advocated, has proved a source of grievous oppression to the slave. The demand which has sprung up in consequence, for the productions of many countries tilled by slaves, has caused their proportional oppression. The lash of the taskmaster has been plied more severely, and additional ships have been chartered for the slave-trade to a surprising extent, to supply the waste of human life thus occasioned. We are unwilling to do anything to infringe on the principles of free-trade; but can we do nothing to show our abhorrence of this system of wrong - of wholesale robbery and murder. It may be thought of a whole country into one channel by the force of a movement originating in mere benevolence; and yet we think nothing were more noble as a spectacle than the sight which Britain might present, were her households generally to refuse to partake of any commodities that had been the fruit of slave-labour. Self-denial is a Christian virtue; and if it should cause some slight curtailment of the luxuries of the table, or even a trifle of additional expense, true lovers of liberty would be more than compensated by the satisfaction that they had thus contributed to prepare for the final emancipation of the negro race. We are glad to learn, however, that the virtue of the British public need not encounter even such a test as this. Measures are talking to secure an ample supply of free-labour produce, which may be obtained by our tradesmen from London and Liverpool. Let our townsmen invariably apply for free-labor cottons of their drapers, and for free-labor sugars of their grocers - let them urge the necessity of procuring them as a matter of principle, and make known their determination to have them, and there is no doubt that means will be found to satisfy their reasonable demands. The plan we have now hinted at "is enough," says Elihu Burritt, "to abolish all the human slavery in existence. The way is easy and effective. It is the straight high-road of consistency, from which the sincere and honest abolitionist may not turn to the right, left, or backward. If every man, woman and child; who denounces slavery, should walk in that way, the fetters of the slave would burst from his limbs like singed strings of tow. The fires of the forge, whereat his manacles were fashioned, would go out. The many-thonged scourge would be hung up to the abhorrence of the world, with the old relics of man's inhumanity to man. Dragons and beasts of the wilderness would lair by day in the baracoons of the slave-trappers on the African coast; and all the prowling kidnappers in the world would confess their occupation gone." "Several merchants and manufacturers, and a large number of shopkeepers, are now co-operating in the plan for dealing a blow at slavery, by substituting Free for Slave-grown articles." It is not long since we were called to record the transmission of largely signed petitions to parliament on the subject of the Slave-trade from the Northern Borough, and now, we understand, the ladies of North and South Shields are getting up a spirited memorial to the Queen, which, we doubt not, will meet with universal support. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The North Star reprinted from South Shields Gazette Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 7.20.1849 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Products of Slave Labor Description An account of the resource FRIEND GARRISON: I perceive among other interesting matters in the Liberator of the 10th, a communication freom Lea. H. Gause, of Pennsylvania, solisting your views and opinions isn regard to the products of slave-labor by yourself and other advocates of the anti-slavery cause. Seeing no reply in the last number, as intimated, and anpposing it to be crowded out by other matters, and having given the subject considerable reflection myself, without being able to arrive at any given point to which conscience would say, 'Thus far shaft thou coine,' (with safety,) 'and no further—and being desirous of more light, as well as others, on the subject, I should be glad if you or some others would freely express your views. Friend Gause says—'To me, there has been no anti-slavery duty more clear, than that of abstaining' (from the produce of slave labor)—and signifies that he has practically adopted the motto of 'No Union with Slaveholders'—meaning to be understood, no doubt, as giving no voluntary aid to the system of slavery whatever. Whether the writer keeps clear from any participation, and in any way from contributing to the support of slavery, because in more favorable circumstances, than many others who do not entirely obtain—or form fixed principles to abide the consequences, cost what it may—is a very different thing, in my opinion. But as that 'duty is clear' to the writer of the communication, I hope its rays will shine into the minds of all the haters of slavery. I think there are few persons, if any, in this section of the country, who have suffered more for the slave then myself; and I am yet suffering, in some degree, pressing onward to the extent of my ability in behalf of the down-trodden; and if there is any thing more that I can do, than what I am doing, to benefits the cause, I am anxious to be made acquainted with it. I have, for a long time, made use of free labor produce, when it came in competition with slave labor produce; and I often pay higher prices for the former. But, as slave produce and taxation for slavery comes in so many forms, I think it is very difficult for me to avoid participating in it altogether. For instance—I have, for the last year and a half, spent more than three-fourths of my time lecturing on the subject of slavery, in different sections of this country. Much of the food placed before me, I have reason to believe, is mixed with the products of slave labor. If I ask whether it is free or slave labor, I get no satisfactory answer. At night, the only had can sleep in is mostly compesed of the produce of slave labor. Most of the means by which I sustain myself and family, are the little profits I derive ferom the sale of anti-slavery publications, pristed on slave-grown cotton. I have a family to clothe and feed, with my limited means, which compels me to procure the cheaped articles, to meet their necessaties as well as I can and it is mixed with the products of unpaid labor. I subscribe for an anti-slavery, or say other reformatory periodical. It comes to me through a post office, managed by a slaveholder, printed on slave-grown cotton paper. I write a letter to my wife, or to you, friend Garrison I and what do I write on, but paper manufactured from cotton raised by slave labor! And it reaches its destination by the directions of a slaverholder—&c. &c. Again, if we try to evade the use of these slave grown articles, and substitute imported articless in their place, we are paying a tax to support a slaveholding government, all steeped in innocent blood, and now carrying on a disbelical war against a freeble government, for the sake of establishing parmanently the traffis in helpless men, women and children on its soil, where it had been abolished by a half civilised people. Yours, for the annihilation of slavery and war by all right means, JONATHAN WALKER. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.5.1847 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jonathan Walker Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sugar Growing Upon the Prairies. Description An account of the resource We give elsewhere an article which exhibits very encouraging result from experiments with the new Chinese Sugar Cane in Wabash county in this State last season.—One or two statements of the writer are so remarkable that we quote them here, by way of inviting special attention to the subject: "I am well convinced that in 1860 the Southern planter will have no sale for his sugar in the State of Illinois. From present indications, there will be 100 acres of Chinese Sugar Cane raised in Wabash county, worth $10,000." Let us figure a little upon this estimate. There are a hundred countries in the State, each of which probably will, on an average, annually consume sugar to the amount of $10,000, and if all were to raise their own, as Wabash seems likely to do, there would be an annual saving to the State of $1,000,000. Very soon, too, our population will have so increased as to consume double this amount of sugar, and then the saving will be $2,000,000, with a constant increase thereafter. This would be rather an important item to add to the agricultural productions of our State. And if the sugar culture proves successful, we shall in all probability grow a large surplus for exporation in the course of eight or ten years. It would be one of the most remarkable developments of free labor, in this century, if the Mississippi Valley should be able, at the end of the next fifteen years, to supply the sugar market of the world.— <xsl-text></xsl-text>Ex <xsl-text></xsl-text>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Weekly Vincennes Gazette Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.7.1857 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Labor Produce--High Compliment to the Black Planters Description An account of the resource FREE LABOR PRODUCE—HIGH COMPLIMENT TO THE BLACK PLANTERS OF ST. CROIX. At this time, when the great question of the capability of free blacks to maintain themselves and successfully conduct business is more widely mooted than ever, it may not be uninteresting to mention that the cargo of sugar and molasses received at this port in the L.P. Snow, and sold by auction on Thursday last, the 29th ult., was pronounced by the company present to be <xsl-text></xsl-text>in finer order and better packed than any similar cargo ever offered for sale in Boston. <xsl-text></xsl-text>The product was wholly the labor of free blacks in the Island of St Croix, and brought prices which indicated its excellence—the sugar at $8 50 a $8 80 per hundred lbs., and the molasses at 881/4 a 40 1/2c per gallon. Chenery & Co. were the consignees of this cargo, and were generally felicitated upon the handsome manner in which their correspondents sent their produce to market.— <xsl-text></xsl-text>Boston Transcript, June <xsl-text></xsl-text>3 <xsl-text></xsl-text>d. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator, reprinted from Boston Transcript Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.13.1862 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Labor Products Description An account of the resource FREE LABOR PRODUCTS The disposition to discourage slave labor is evidently gaining ground amongst those who deem slavery a SIN, and consequently, feel that Christians ought in no way or manner to participate in the abomination. A circumstance of the kind came under the notice of the writer during the last week. A respectable shoe manufacturer called at my manufactory, and enquired if I had any <xsl-text></xsl-text>Philadelphia <xsl-text></xsl-text>Sole Leather for sale. I replied, I had none of the particular kind he named on hand, but had a plenty of Baltimore Leather. Oh, says he, that wont answer; I have enough of that myself, but my workmen wont use it. They are such thorough-going <xsl-text></xsl-text>abolitionists <xsl-text></xsl-text>that they will not work on leather which they know comes from a slave State, and which, of course, they suppose has been made by the labor of slaves!! This was a novel idea to me. I had heard of free labor Sugar and Cotton and Rice, but had never heard the term applied to the article in question. I cannot but admire <xsl-text></xsl-text>the spirit <xsl-text></xsl-text>of those men who thus decline in their humble way to encourage compulsory and unpaid labor; they undoubtedly act consistently with their principles, and if not ranked in fame with Wilberforce and Clarkson and Thompson, are yet sincere and genuine philanthropists. A DEALER. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource A DEALER Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5.2.1835 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Produce of Free Labor Description An account of the resource PRODUCE OF FREE LABOR. We have received from the Corresponding Committee of the Free Produce Society of Philadelphia, answers to the questions proposed some time since, in our paper, in regard to the productions of Free Labor, which is given below. We are much obliged to the Committee for the attention which they have bestowed on the subject, and recommend the communication to all persons who have conscientious scruples about using articles tainted with slavery. Philadelphia, 5 th Month 12 th, 1831. ESTEEMED FRIEND:—A letter from thee, addressed to -----, of this city, was laid before the Committee of Correspondence of the Free Produce Society of Pennsylvania, at their last meeting, with a request that the committee would adopt measures in regard to it, whereby thou wouldst receive a full, and as far as practicable, a satisfactory answer to thy several queries respecting free goods.—Having been appointed at a former meeting, a subcommittee, for the purpose of corresponding with individuals who feel an interest in the cause of our oppressed colored brethren, the letter was referred to us, and although it is not now in our power to give as definite answers as we could wish, we will proceed to notice them as far as our present limited knowledge will permit. We would, however, remark that we have written to several individuals in the southern and western states, requesting of them such information upon this subject as may be serviceable or interesting; and when their replies are received, we shall, no doubt, be able to answer thy queries much more satisfactorily. Thy first question is—'Where and in what quantities are sugar, cotton and rice raised by free labor in the United States?' The maple sugar is the only kind that we can ascertain, with any degree of certainty, to be raised in the United States. This is cultivated in considerable quantities in the states of New-York and Ohio, and some in Pennsylvania; but in consequence of the great expense and difficulty of transportation from Ohio, all that has as yet come to this market has been the produce of the other two states. The greatest quantity that we have known being sold in one lot, was 600 barrels, equal to 125,000 pounds. We are unable to say whether this was all made in one season, or was the production of two or more years. We are inclined to the latter opinion. The free cotton of United States growth that has come to this market, has hitherto been sent to us by Nathan Hunt, Jr. of North Carolina. The first lot, sent two years since, consisted of nine bales. Last spring he was enabled to increase the quantity to thirty bales, and this spring we have received intelligence that he has procured and intends shipping about the same quantity again. In his letter, written upon the subject, he informs us that in consequence of the drought of the last season, there was not exceeding half a common crop; so that had it not been for this circumstance, the quantity raised would no doubt have been at least fifty or sixty bales. There are large quantities raised in Indiana, Illinois, and Tennessee, and we hope that ere long, arrangements will be made to receive it from those states. Indeed, we have no doubts that as the demand increases, arrangements will be made to this effect. With respect to the article of rice, our information is very limited. We have satisfactorily ascertained that in the aggregate, considerable quantities are raised in the state of North Carolina, by individuals who are either too poor, or unwilling to employ slaves; but the quantity each one raises is comparatively small, and is considered unworthy the attention of the merchants who buy up the article for the market, and it is consequently disposed of to private families, or to those who mix it with that raised by slave labor. Twenty dollars premium over the market price has been offered for from five to ten casks, one half of it by C. Pierce, who is engaged in the sale of free groceries in this city, and the other half by the Colored Free Produce Society, as an inducement for some person to turn his attention towards collecting it from those who raise it by free labor, and keep it separate from the slave rice. We entertain the hope of obtaining it by another season. Thy second query is—'How may the free goods be produced, and what security would a person have that they certainly were raised by free labor?' This is already partly answered in the foregoing observations. We may, however, remark, that as we cannot be eye witnesses to the cultivation of these articles, we must exercise the utmost caution with respect to the channel through which we receive them. We are very liable to imposition, but this can be avoided with care. Having the most implicit confidence in Nathan Hunt, Jr., from whom we have hitherto received our cotton, inasmuch as many persons in this city are personally acquainted with him, and know him, as far as their acquaintance extends, to be a man of honor and probity, we are willing to receive such articles as come through his hands, as of genuine production. With respect to sugar, there is not much danger of our being deceived in the maple, if we are at all acquainted with the article, as it has a peculiar taste, smell and appearance, by which it is easily known. But other sugars have been imposed upon those unacquainted with the article, for maple, which were not of that description, so that even in this article it is necessary the conscientious should trace the channel through which it comes, from the retailer to the cultivator.— We have just been informed that maple sugar is cultivated by slave labor in the state of Maryland, so that in this article more care is required than we at first supposed. As no rice of the United States growth has, as yet, been obtained, it is unnecessary to say any thing further upon that article at present. Third query—'Is the supply of such of these articles, as are raised by free labor, greater or less than the demand?' In consequence of the disadvantages under which every new cause labors, while in its infancy, the free goods have not yet been brought into fair competition with the slave. The highest market price has been required for them, and, in some instances, a considerable advance. But as these goods have become more plenty, and the facilities of obtaining them have increased, the prices have necessarily been reduced, so that at present, there is not that great difference which at first existed. But until the prices are the same, we can scarcely expect that the free goods will be generally used; for although there are many who are friendly to the cause, and wish it success, still their zeal is not sufficient to induce them to give an advanced price. But as soon as the prices compete with each other, we may expect that every friend to the cause of humanity, will give the free goods the decided preference. In consequence of these disadvantages, we may say, that the demand for the cotton goods has not exceeded the supply. With respect to sugar, the quantity of maple that has come to market, has been trifling, compared to the demand for the article, and we have, therefore, had to look elsewhere for a supply. The East Indies, of course, claimed our attention, and we found that considerable quantities were annually imported from thence. But latterly our attention has been turned towards some of the West India Islands, in which we find that considerable quantities of sugar and molassas, of an excellent quality and free from any unpleasant taste, are made, and can be obtained with considerable facility. C. Peirce, to whom we have before referred, has made arrangements to receive a regular supply from Porto Rico, through such channels as we trust can be depended upon; so that the supply of sugar from the places we have mentioned, is, at present, fully equal to the demand. Of rice, considerable quantities might be sold, could it be obtained. Some has been received from foreign places, but the duty is equal to a prohibition to its importation. Fourth query—'What means and prospects are there of an increased supply?' Whenever a demand exists for any particular article, it is but seldom that any great length of time elapses, before that demand is satisfied. And as the circumstance of there being a market, and a ready sale for any particular kind of goods, is a great inducement to individuals to raise or manufacture that description of goods, and send them to the place where are wanted; so with regard to the free goods we have found that as the demand increased, the supply has hitherto increased in the same proportion. The first lot of cotton, consisting of nine bales, having met with a ready sale, at a fair price, Nathan Hunt, Jr. from whom it was received, exerted himself the succeeding year in collecting a larger quantity, and has expressed a willingness to increase his exertions as the demand increases. But it is not to him alone, we shall look for a supply. After the facilities of transportation shall become completed, so that goods can be sent from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Tennessee, almost any quantity can be procured from those states. St. Domingo and Mexican cotton can be imported by paying a duty of three cents per pound, which will be an increase on the price of the manufactured goods of only half a cent cent per yard, which is not worthy of consideration, so that with regard to the cotton goods, the prospect is truly encouraging. If the present struggle in Europe should result, as we most heartily hope it will, in the emancipation of the West India Islands, there will be no difficulty in procuring any quantity of sugar that the demand may require. But should this not be the case, there is no doubt but the quantity of maple sugar raised in the free states will be increased, as also that raised by free labor in the West India Islands. And it seems to us, that the latter is more particularly deserving of encouragement; for as it comes from the very heart of slavery, it may have the effect of causing some of the slaveholders to liberate their slaves, and work their plantations by free labor. Mexico and St. Domingo may also present their claims to our patronage. Fifth query—'Where any of these free articles are raised, are the laborers black or white?' With respect to those raised in the United States, we may answer, they are of both colors. The persons who cultivate the sugar in Porto Rico, are principally the natives of the Island, or the descendants of the Spaniards. Some others are also concerned in it. Of the Haytians, Mexicans, and East Indians, thy knowledge is, perhaps, superior to our own. Sixth query—'What varieties of cotton fabrics are manufactured from cotton produced by free labor?' Shirtings of different qualities, Sheetings, Checks of different patterns and qualities, Cotton Shawls, Calicoes of various patterns, Jean, Table Diaper, Dimity, Bed Ticking, Sewing and Knitting Cotton, Battings for quilts, Wadding, Vigonia Cassimere, Candle Wick. By the request of one of the members of the Female Association for the Encouragement of Free Cotton, we enclose to thee a specimen of knitting cotton. It is part of a hank sent to the Association last summer, by a friend in Richmond, Indiana, manufactured of cotton raised in Illinois, purchased in Cincinnati, and prepared at the spinning factory of Charles W. Starr, of Richmond, Indiana. For further information respecting the free cotton raised in that quarter, thou canst apply to James Lamb, of Kaskaskia, Illinois, or Eli B. Clemson, Lebanon, Illinois. Seventh query—'Is there any manufactory which is confined to cotton raised by free labor?' We cannot answer with certainty, but our impression is, that the factory conducted by C.W. Starr, of Richmond, Indiana, is devoted exclusively to the free cotton. The persons who manufacture the goods for this market, have also expressed their willingness, that in case sufficient free cotton can be obtained to keep them employed during the whole year, they would not manufacture any other kind; and there is no doubt many others, in different parts of the Union, might be found of like disposition. We notice, with much gratification, thy observations respecting the prospect of a Society being formed in your city, for the encouragement of free produce, as well as the establishment of a store for the sale of goods of this description. Union of efforts is the surest means of accomplishing any great undertaking, and although this must be an individual work, in which each one must lay his hand to the plough, without regarding the course pursued by his neighbor, still there is much encouragement afforded and many difficulties are overcome, by mutual cooperation, which individual enterprise would be unable to accomplish. But we cannot too strongly caution those who engage in the work, to beware of imposition; for it has been with surprise and indignation that we have witnessed the extent to which it has been practised in this city. It seems to be the opinion of too many, that deception in this cause is no crime, and that, so long as our consciences are satisfied, it is all that is necessary, and they will, therefore, either tacitly (which is frequently the case) or otherwise, vend their slave goods for free, when they know they are not of the description required. We have, with much pleasure, noticed thy exertions on behalf of our oppressed colored brethren, and do, most sincerely, hope they may be crowned with success. Friends to their cause are daily increasing, and although in some parts of our Union laws have been enacted, which are an outrage upon humanity, and a disgrace to the nation, still there seems to be no other alternative than patiently to submit, and bear our testimony against it, until the cup of their iniquity be filled, when shame and disgust may be the means of producing a change for which humanity, reason, and the inherent laws of our nature, have been for so long a time appealed to in vain. We remain, very respectfully, the friends. JAMES L. PEIRCE, PETER WRIGHT, JOSEPH PARKER. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.11.1831 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James L. Peirce, Peter Wright, Joseph Parker Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MESSRS EDITORS Description An account of the resource From the Genius of Temperance. MESSRS EDITORS, There are thousands upon thousands who are inquiring at the present time, what can be done to overthrow slavery. They are anxious to do something, but what to do they find not. I will therefore propose a measure which, if adopted by all who wish to see slavery done away, will produce the desired effect—a measure which could be very easily adopted—which would cost neither blood nor treasure—and which surely will be adopted, if people care one half for the subject which they seem to do. The measure is this:—to practice 'total abstinence' from slave productions. Let free labor stores be established, and let the opposers of slavery patronize them, rather than others. In order to this, let Anti-Slavery Societies be organized, after the manner of Temperance Societies, and thus let the friends of the cause act in concert. Let there be Anti-Slavery Agents employed to scour the free states, and rouse up the people to the great measure of 'total abstinence' from the productions above mentioned. And it is self-evident, that if the market for slave productions should cease, slavery itself must cease. Now, Messrs. Editors, there must be a beginning somewhere in this movement; and where in all this country, could it begin better than here, in this commercial metropolis? I do therefore propose, that an Anti-Slavery meeting be called forthwith, for the purpose of adopting such measures as in their opinion will tend to overthrow slavery. And who can tell but such a meeting would be the commencement of a movement that would result in the accomplishment of this great object? Let us at least 'TRY.' HUMANITAS. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource HUMANITAS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11.26.1831 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Products Description An account of the resource MR. EDITOR:—It is under a most solemn sense of duty and the love of God, that one, who has passed through great personal and family trials, for pleading the cause of the slave, and who may have still greater ones in store , now addresses you, earnestly desiring to strike one blow more, (may God make it effectual!) to subserve the all-important cause of crushed and bleeding humanity. For your serious and prayerful consideration, I shall make the following inquiries or suggestions. 1. If sugar, molasses, rice, cotton, and tobacco were produced by free or compensated labor alone in these United States, (or, if you choose, to estimate throughout the world,) what would be now, or have been, for the last 10, 20, or 50 years in these New-England States, the prices in market for these commodities? 2. As it has been, and is now, in point of fact, for a specified time, what is and has been the cost of the productions to New Englanders, on an average? 3. Will not the result show conclusively, how much, if any, we are actually in debt to the slave who have used these articles made cheaper by tears and blood, than they would otherwise have been? 4. If we have bought these articles, because we thought it more convenient than to obtain them by compensated labor, or to dispense with them entirely—however unintentional or unconscious of it, we may have been—are we not justly chargeable with the most direct and gross injustice to the slave, (in so far,)—and does it not become us most solemnly to confess, especially to God and the slaveholder, this our error and our sin, and henceforth to lay out or lay by, or let upon usury for the slave all the profits of slavery that we are conscious of now or hereafter possessing; praying the slaveholder to go and do likewise—not only rendering the slave himself, but his stolen goods, the property of his own acquiring. The foregoing was written some weeks since with the expectation of sending it then to the editor of the Liberator; but, since that time, I have read several accounts of attempts being made to establish a free labor system among the anti-slavery ranks from the National Anti-Slavery Standard. I am one of those who desire to purchase or use only the products of free labor, so far as I can know or obtain them hereafter; and, at the present, I am not quite sure that slave produce can be obtained at a less price than free labor produce, under the same or similar circumstances. Perhaps these items may be worth reviewing, though the reader may discover nothing new or striking to his own mind; and he is at liberty to use them as he sees fit. Yours for universal liberty, J.C.C. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J.C.C. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Liberator 11:19, p. 2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5.7.1841