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What Has Become Of That Leather?

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

- An industrious and careful Citizen of the Northjii tanner by trade, was arguing with an abolitionist, ihat te had no concern with slavery. Auol. IIow much did you lay up last year? Tan . You know I could not lay up n great deal, I lost so much. Auol. IIow camo you to lose so mucb? Tan. I 8old fifteon hundred dollars worlh of ieather to Mr. - , the carriage maker on credit, and he failed, and I lost the debt. A bol. IIow ca me Mr. tofail? He has been considcred a very industriou8 man and a good manager, neither in temperate nor extravagant. You know he tells his carriages chiefly at tha South, whcre they always have lo give long credits, and for four or five years it has been so difócult to collect debts in Mississippi and Alabamn, and the exchanges have been so bad, that it has used up all his capital, profits, credit, and every thing, and he can pay me a cent for my leathor. Abol. But what makes it so difilcult to collect debts at the South? Why don't they work harder and live closer, when it comes hard times, as we do, and so pay up ? Tan. I seo what you are driving al. It is all owing lo slavery. I understand now, that the fifteen hundred dollars id my tax for this year to support slavery, Abo&. Just 50,