It is often asserted that none but the colored race can endure the heat of the South. To this it is replied:
There is not one single rood of the Southern States beneath a tropical sun. Every acre of our slave States lies within the temperate zone. The isothermal line, which passes through Savannah, Georgia, passes through Madrid and Rome, where no white man dreams of any incapacity to labor. ”In the extreme South,” says Cassius M. Clay, at New Orleans, the laboring men, the stevedores, and hackmen, on the levee, where the heat is intensified by the proximity of the red brick buildings, are all white
men, and they are in the full enjoyment of health.”
“The steady heat of our summers,” says Governor Hammond, of South Carolina, ‘”is not so prostrating as the short, but frequent and sudden bursts of Northern summers.”
“Here, in New Orleans,” says Dr. Cartwright, “the larger part of the drudgery work requiring exposure to the sun, such as railroad-making, street-paving, dray-driving, ditching and building, is performed by white people.”
Every well Informed man knows that in Texas, where the Germans will not employ slave labor, these hardy emigrants from the, North of Europe produce, with their own bands, more cotton to the acre than the slaves.
Cincinnati Daily Press, Cincinnati, OH
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