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It will be to the non-slaveholder, equally with the largest slaveholder, the obliteration of caste and the deprivation of important privileges, he cautioned. The color of the white man is now, in the South, a title of nobility in his relations as to the negro, he reminded his readers. In the Southern slaveholding States, where menial and degrading offices are turned over to be per formed exclusively by the Negro slave, the status and color of the black race becomes the badge of inferiority, and the poorest non-slaveholder may rejoice with the richest of his brethren of the white race, in the distinction of his color.He may be poor, it is true; but there is no point upon which he is so justly proud and sensitive as his privilege of caste; and there is nothing which he would resent with more fierce indignation than the attempt of the Abolitionist to emancipate the slaves and elevate the Negroes to an equality with himself and his family.

-John Townsend, plantation owner and popular pamphleteer, Edisto Island, SC, 1860.

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