Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-02-20

the barren sands ana savage tribes o. Africa; and
wholly rrcconcieabe with all notions OF humanity
10 tear asunder the tender ties which they had formed
among uSto crafty the feelings OF false phanthrophy.
What commentary on the WISDOM justice, and be-
nevoence OF the Southern STAKEHOLDER presented by
the example of certain benevolent associations aud char
liable individual else here! Shedding weak tears
suterings which had existence only in their sckly
iinaginations these friends of humanity set them
selves systematically 10 work to scduce the slaves of
the South from their masters. BY means of mssiona-
ries political tracts the scheme was, in great mea
sure, successful. Thousands of these dcluded victims
OF hnaticism were scduccd into the enjoyment OF free
dom in our Northern cities and what has been the
sequences? Go to these cities and ask the question.
Visit the dark and lanes and obscure
which have been assigned, by common assent, as the
abodcs of those oucasts OF the world, the free people
Of color. Sir, there does not exist the face OF the
| whole EARTH population poor wrctched, vile,
loathsome, utterly destitute Of all the comforts
onvcni ences and decences of life. the unfortunate
blacks OF Philadelphia, Nsw York and Boston. liber-
" has been to them the greatest Of calainites-thc
heaviest of Sir, have had some opportunities of
making comparisons between the condition OF the free
negroes OF the North and the slaves of the South, and
the comparison has left not only indeliblc i'm
precision of the superior advantages of the latter,
but has gone lar TO reconcile TO slavery itself.
Never have elt so iorcibly sat touching descrip
tion "ths foxes have holes. and the birds Of he air
have nests, but the Son Of Man hath not where TO lay
his head" as when have this unhappy race.
naked and housees, almo. Starving in the streets, and
abandoned by all the world Sir, have in the
neshborbood OF one OF the most moral, religious, and
refined cities OF the North, family Of free blacks dri
ven to the of the rock. and there ob;ang pre-.
carious subsistence ON charity and plumber.
When the gentleman from Massachusetts adopts and
r@teraes the old charge of ue1kess esuliug from
Slavery. must be permitted to call for the rroof Of
those bgh,ing effects which he ascribes 10 its influence.
suspect that, when the subject is closely anime
II will be found that there is rot much force in
the plausible objection OF the want of physical pocer
in slave. holding States. The power of country is
compounded Of its population and its veal h; and
modern times, where, from the very form and sruc.
ture OF society, by far the greater portion of the PEG
Pile must even during the continuance OF the most de-
solatng wars, he employed in the cultivation of the
ell whether slavshoiing States, by reason OF the
Peror alue OF their Productions not able TO
tain number OF troops in the had fully cqu to what
could be supported by States with larger white pop.
ulaon, hut no, possessed of equal resOurces II is
popular error to suppose that, in any ble state o.
thngs, the people OF country could ever be called
out en- mdsse, or that a half third, fifth
part of the physical force OF any country could be
brought into the field The difficulty is TO procure
men, but 10 provide The OF maintaining them;
and. in this view of the subject, il may he asked whe
Their The Southern States of strength
and O,cer and not Of pedkness TO the c>untry Whether
they have not contributed, and contribut-
ing LARGELY TO the wealth and prosperity of every Sae
in this Union? From statement which hold In nv
hand, II appears that in 10 years from 1918 TO 1927
Inclusive, the whole amount Of the domestic exports
OF the United States 52l SIl Oi5 OF which, three
articles, (e product Of stare labor viz: cotton rice
and tobacco, amounted to $3.50 203 $685. equal TO about
ftco-t thirds IF the tChoie. Ii is true has been
supposed that the advantages OF this hbsr confined
almost exclusively to the Southern States. Sir am
thoroughly convinced that at this time, the States
Worth @ the Potomac actually drive greater profts
from the labor Of or Sidues than do ourselves. II
appears from public documents, that, in seven
years fom 1921 to 1927. inclusive, the six Southern
States exported $3.50 33T ISL and iDporte only S55
GIG Col. Now the difference between ih"se two sums,
(near $40 100000 passed through the hands of the
Northern merchants, and enabled them to carry OH
their commercial operations with all the world. Such
part OF these goods found its way back hands
came charged with he duties well the profit. of
the merchant, the ship owntr, and host of Others
who found employment in carrying on these immense
exchanges; and for such part consumed at the
North, we received in exchange Northern man,Hnc-
lures, charged with increased price, 10 cover oil he
taxes which the NorIhsrn consumer had been compel
led to pay on the impaired article. u, will he seen.
therefore, at glance, how sch slave labor has
ributed TO the wealth and prosperity OF the States,
and how largely our Northern brethren have partiri.
paied in the profits OF that labor. Sir, this subject
| Will quoe an authority which WILL doubt not, b.
considered by the Senator from Massachusetts, emit
tied 10 high respect 1t is from the great Father of h
American System" honest .Ildthetc Carey no grea,
tiend, ii true, at this time, to Southern rights and
Southern interests, but not the authority that
accom- on the point in question.
Speaking Of the relative Importance To the Union
Of the Southern and the Eastern States, NJ ,ih.w Ca
ry, in tie sixth edition of his Olive Branch, page 27s
after exhibiting number Of statistical tables TO shew
The decided superiority OF the former, thus precees
But sm tired of this nves,igation--I sicken f,r
the honor OF the human species What flea must
the world form OF the arrogance of the pretcn
aud weakness of the rest of the UnoH have long
suffered them to pass without exposure and deec ion
The naked fact il, that the denagogues in the Eastern
States, not sa,i-'d with drping all The benefits from
the Southern section of the Uaion that then tcpud
from so many ,ceGIhy colonies making prince
ly fortunes by the carriage and expiration OF IFS bulky
and valuable productions, and supplying Nth their
0,on nnndeiures and the prod Ictio1s OF Europe and
the East and West Indies, to an enormous amount
and at an immense profit, have uniformly treated il
with outrage insult, and injury. And, regardless Of
IS AtPs Ia telv
counting their destruction by allowing few rest
less, turbulent 10 lead them hnifolh IN Sepdrd.
ton tohtch pregnant ,DHh their cert1in ruin.
Whenever that event takes place. they sink into in
signihrance. If separation desirable 10 any part
81 the Union il would he 10 the Middle and Southern
states, particularly The latter, who have been long
hArassed with the complaints the restlessness, the
turbulence, and the ineratitue Of the Eastern States
that their patience has been taxed almost beyond
durance. Jeshurdn uaredfdt, and kicked,' and he
will be- severely punished for hi' kicking in the
oC dissolution of the Unicn' Sir, wish il TO he
dstiL ly understood that 20 not adopt these senii-
ments "a my own quote them 10 show that very
different sentiments have prevailed in former times
20 the weakness Of the slave holding States from to,e
which now seem to have become fashionable in certain
quarters. know il has been supposed by certain
iliiniormed persons that the South exists only Ivy the
countenance and protection Of the North. Sir, hi.
entered into the mind Of man In every State Of this
Union, except one, the free white population actually
preponderates. while in the Birth West India Islands
where the average white population is less than Ten
per cent NJ III: WliOie the slaves kept in entire
suhecton il is preposterous 10 suppose that the Sou
thern States could never fad the smallest difficulty in
this respect On this subj ct as on all others, ak