The two pro-slavery authors both weren’t on board with the capitalist system of the North, as a result of the propertied classes in the North were under no legal or moral obligation to provide any assistance to the working class, although, the slaves in the South were guaranteed basic necessities by their owners. The author from the Charleston Courier continued to believe that the employer hired the wageworker depending on supply and demand regardless of the wage was considered sufficient to support the family, while the slave owner had a Christian duty to care for the body and soul of his slaves. The author of the review in the Southern Press Review suggested that separation of families among slaves was the exception more than the rule, because wage earners in the North had to leave their wives and children to find work opportunities or risk the lives of their families being traded. As a result, the economic system in the North from the opinion of the author’s separated families more so than the institution of slavery in the South. This author implied as well that the author from the Charleston Courier stated obviously that the wealthy farmers in the South have a moral duty to look after the slaves, although the capitalist in the North had no legal or moral reason to care for the working class.
The Virginia slave owners urged other slave owners to provide slaves with sufficient food and shelter and avoid cruel language and corporal punishment when disciplining their slaves. The Virginia slave owners suggested that if masters largely followed such practices, that living conditions of slaves exceeded those of the working class in the North. The immigrants mentioned working long hours for little pay. Both immigrants talked about the difficulty for immigrants to find work. The immigrants reported that after not finding work it would often cause them to turn to alcohol,