Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-03-12

and they nsrer murder for money. The very rare muir
ders that occur, are TO crafty revenge, anger, Sc.
9th. "Slave labor Is unproductiye, and the distressed
condition Of Virginia and the whole South, is owing to this
cause" Professor Dew admits that, under favorable cir
cumstances, free labor is the best in the world. He al.
nits that the English lsborer IL perhaps better than any
other; but still he says, the general proposition, that free
labor is more productive than slave, must be taken
with many limitations. There are two antagonist princi.
ples-love OF ease and idieness. and love OF gain: sometimes
the one, and sometimes the other, Of these principles gains
the neutrality-suspicious. the love of Iidleness predominates,
slave labor is better than free, (e. g. our Free Negroes,
Indians, Russian Serfs, Hsyliaps, Sc. will not work with
~: compulsion. Again. il is found in warm ATTITUDES, that
49, .-iule Of idleness predominates, and slave labor is
~ nv eo',e Gently, TO be best.
,!oessor y. sNs- there isno instance Of the successful
do o"h,"u 10 :, sugar o~r without slave labor; and he
successfully colonized without Tie III IF negroes
He admits, that Virginia and the w.~ie South are at
present in a depressed conditions; but denies %st it's ow.
ing TO slavery. He asks, why this portion Shouts have
hourished with slave labor up to the period of the Revoiu
ton, and not afterwards He says tits an acknowledge
fact, that at the adoption of the Constitution the North OBJ
lected ts the Union, because Of the wealth of the South.
Why this sudden change in the productiveness OF slave
labor! The answers evident. The South is essentially
agricultural; Europe, but especially England, afforded the
best market for its products. The revolution partially de-
sroyed This market-uhe Tariff has most ruinousiy con.
tracted it. Cheap Western lands, constant emigration and
sickly climate have all tended TO enhance these difficult
ties. aud have produced Southern depression. and the cf.
feet cannot be attributed TO slave labor. Mr.. ID. asks, why
Louisiana is the most nourishing OF all the slave States,
when her proportion OF negroes il greatest9> He asks
how Cuba, with her slaves. should advance more rapidly
than Pennsylvania with her free labor? IL the rule is gene
raj, that slave labor is unpioductive, Cuba fourishes, says
he, more than the British Islands, because she has compa.
rativeiy a free and Louisiana because " she has
been touched by Midas wand;' she has been placed in
a condition to reap the fruits oil Federal professionally
have rapidly sketched the contents OF Professor DIS PAM
phlet on slavery. IL has been answered by Mr.. Harrison,
in the December No. OF the American Quarterly; and
we do not see that he has overturned a single one Of his
arguments. We know that the abolition and colonization
schemers are really too shrewd not to see that Mr.. H.. has
iaIen far short Of his mark, and we therefore look for
ward TO a production from some ADLER pen, and in the
mean time MIR. H.s article will be made use Of until a
better IS forthcoming. The writer Of this can truly say
he would rejoice TO see the main arguments of Professor
ID. shewn to be erroneous; but until this is done, he must
be permitted TO say, he considers a dcliverancc from slave
ry by State action as totally impracticable. A. B.