The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-12-18


Comparable Cost and. advantages Of Free mud
Stare Ln5gnr.
Mn. SKIHYLn, Nopember 20 1899
observe that the gentleman whosr commune
cation TO Captain Basil Hall is published in
your 35th No. says, thai In North Carnlina The
value OF a male slave, IN his PRIME, is nboat
S3oO and that Of a woman, $3.50 that IN.
average annual wages OF suuh \ prime male
slave, If hIfed ont by his master, ate S32 80 /;
and that he can be well and plentlfully fed tor
S25, and clothed 70, Sl5. Thus the Who'll. Of
his annual expense would be S73 SO. And if
both man aud women were owned by the en-
ploysr, the interest OF the cost, OF the two. Mt
six per cent. would be little more than the uum
stated above, as the hire oftnc man alone.
In the part Of Pennsylvania where live, the
waeesoi white abourci on the farm. are
from Sl00 10 l20 pes annum, and his food is cs-
tlmaied 10 cost, on the farm, about n dollar a
week, Of fit, two dollars a vear One OF my
farm hands has just leh rne, because would
not RAISE hls wages from $3.50. TO SI4l per an
mum. Fifty twn dollars for food, ad ed In one
hundred aud twenty for wages, make Sl12
a great difference between The cost Of lubouI ot
a white mau and a black especially il the n
mount Of labour performed by the two be- equal,
and the gentleman TO whose correspondence
I slIude, gives the preference 10 that OF the
black.
Captain Halls correspondent says. TINT
black boys are, or were, usually b0aghf by
freight This to my northern ears, sounds very
oddly.
wish some ofthc manufacturers oil The cas-.
tern states would send you au estimate of the
cost of the lahour employed by them. Of both
adults and children. In those states, the labor.
~ insists on being as well fed and clothed as his
employer, andihe obtains wages accordingly, hui
the adult male slave Oi North Carolina eau be-
fed for g25. and clothed for Sl5. And the AM
nual interest, at six per cent, Of the estimated
value OF two, a man aud woman, in their prime
is hut $40.
IL would be interesting TO obtain from some
competent persons, ran estimate Of the expense
of labour in the different states. I think the
result would b0, to show the manufacturers OG
the eastern states, that IL would be greatly foi
their interest, IN remove their machinery to- tho
south, where they can get the human laf,or ne.
cessaTy 10 aud that machinery, AT a sma,i bart OF
the expense which they are now obliged To pay
for il.
Why can England sell the prod,ce of he,
factories lower than The snme kinu of article.
can be afforded for in the eastern states, bu,
because the English labourcr employed in tn,
factory, rs satisfied with n m ,ch less price than
- 49, a't' - III
1t IS folly TO pretend that the tariff on .oollen
goods enrlches The owners of the factories, IN the
eastern siates Nearly Nil the benefits which
a'e derived from 1t, passes through their hand:
as I appears to me, TO pay and support the per-
sons employed by them, IN such style rs they
have been accustomed TO live in. liza benefit
TO any one, II is particularly SO TO the laborIng
part Of the community, "ho iftheir wages in the
factories are reduced below what they choose Ia
receive, Can readily turn themselves TO some O.
ther employment.
But the southern states have opportunities oil
supply ing labor, on terms which Great Britain
herself Cabnot pretend TO. Can a labouler in
England, where food is dear, and where the
GOODNESS OF the climate oblig.s him to lie well
clad. he fed and clothed for the sum, winch az.
c%ording TO Yr. Jones, will feed and clo,lle Il
North Carollna slave.f
Almost every thing in the factory requiring
skill and talents. Is performed By lie machtnery
The human labor Is little more than picking az
a thing IN one place, aud putting II down in an
other AID II can be done ms well by a black, as
by IA white person.
Why should cotton be sent from North Caro-.
linn to England, to be manufactured INTO cloth
porlin 1t, the merchants pioitis, and The profit.
End wages Oft he English manufacturers, u,
| brought back, 10 he consu ned in North CaroIi
ia. u, a. think, the same article can be,lnad.
in the state, where the raw material is rsised. II
! a less suni than II can be dome for IN Ensldn,
even after the expense OF transportation is pa {
| and the raw material deposited in an Epsllsi
!wasc1tonse