The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-27
no SOUTHERN MEN.

convention in England, writes thus to Lloyd
Garrison:
Sour friends here in England are most deeply
engaged in the investigation of the India ques-
ton. Thompson is swallowed up in it. You
will see by the pamphlets "a large stock OF when
are sent with his and Miss Pease's CONT Judon
10 the Ladies' Fair,) that it has the mos direct
bearing on American slavery. 1t seems trem the
testimony Of India stockholders, India Cover
nors, English cotton and sugar merchants, that
labor in India is less than t1co pence per dag;
and sugar may be placed in the English market
at eighteen hounds sterling per to'i-while the
American and West India is selling at AZ ponndS.
Such is the testimony of the rich Fleming oil
Glasgow. Cotton, also, can be afforded at three
peng,ieS pound, while ours sells at 1i1lepence.
ga host of philanthropists are marshalled TO
claim for India the liberty to 1oork-for, 1t seems
an oppressive land-tax grinds them to the dust.
Yet notwithstanding this, the pri les as stated
above. It is whispered also that several capt.
talists are embarldng largely in the cotton trade
in the East Indies The FIST ship that enters
British harbor, freighted with the result of such
investments bears with her the death warrant
Of slavery in the United States"
.SThey tell us of Eastern magic, which chang
ed gold into slate stones in your very hand
Perphaps we can unseal from their lmprison-
ment some of those genii of the East, like the
fisherman in the fairy tale, and before their
march Mr. CLAY will find his $1,000, 100000 of
property in man changed to dust in his very
grasp.
at is not only the abolitionists who arc anx-
ious in regard to India at present English states
men here and in the East, are aware that oppres
sion has driven her iron so deep into starved and
Numbered Hindostan, that there may be reaction
any moment. One of the Governors observed,
he should not be surprised ssto wake anymorning,
and find the bubble burst,D and heard Sir Rob
ert Peel assert, in the House of Commons, that
the state of India was such as to authorize an in
crease of the military force. Thus every thing
seems to conspire to aid the movement Of our
friends-by directing public attention to the sub
iect, by encouraging India produce, and freeing
it from excessive taxation. And the national
heart is stirred by the prospect of beng freed
from dependence on foreigners, for the great sta
pie of their manufactures. God grant the plan
NAV succeeds and then that large class of men,
upon whom moral influence is thrown away, will
find Anti-Slavery staring from their legers. We
can hold our conventions in deserted counting
houses, and our society need publish only the
price current"
We say nothing Of the want of patriotism
the infatuation and delusion apparent on the
face of this extract. We refer to it to show that
there is powerful interest which has been for a
long time at work, and which is for the first
time raising the mask, under which it has cloak
ed its insidious purposes.
Those who recollect our warning voice, will
remember that, as far back as 1882, when Mr..
Richie pronounced slavery to be the greatest
curse that afiicts this country, and spoke in
terms of commendation of the efforts of these
British philanthropists, we warned you that the
abolition of slavery in the British West India
Islands was the result of British avarice, and
not, as they asserted, Of British philanthropy.
Now mark the facts In the British West
Indies there was a population of SOC, 900 slaves
in the British East Indies there is a population
of ONE HUNDRED MILLION of subjects. These sub
jccts, as it will be seen by MIR. Philips letter,
work for less than tuo-penec per day-hence
while cotton raised by sldre labor costs in Liver
pool nine pence, cotton raised by these subjects
cost but nree-pence per pound, and while sugar,
raised by slare labor in the West Indies cost.
fortg-tso pounds sterling per ton, while sugar
raised by these East India subjects costs but
eighteen pounds sterling per toni!
But the most striking fact in this question re-
mains vet to be stated. Great Britain had debt
of $4,000 600 00O and the interest alone is equal
to an annual tax of $3.50, 100000. In addition
to this she has her corn laws, to support her no
bility-her tythcs, 10 support her clergy, and her
pensions, her standing army, her navy, and her
expensive government, to say nothing of her
poor laws. How is she to keep up such a sys-
tenn Looking into her condition, and reasoning
on her resources, we long since foresaw that her
only means Of preserving her existence as ma
ton, was to extend her colonial system, and
compel her CONQUERED subjects to CONSUME her
manufactures, at price that would enable her
people at home to pay these taxes Thus, say
that manufacturer pays, in the shape of taxes,
including excise, customs, tythes, poor rates and
wages, one hundred thousand dollars-all that
he has to do is to add that sum to the cost of his
manufactures, and put profit on the taxes as
part of the cost of production. 1t is apparent
that all that is wanting under such sytem is
consumers. The manufacturer can afford to pay
taxes, SO long he finds purchasers for his wares
and merchandise, at the high price; but when
ever he comes in competition with other manu-
facturers, who can use the same machinery
who pay no excise, no customs, no poor rates,
no tythes, and get their provisions free from the
burden Of corn laws-he will be compelled to
make up for what he loses IN taxes, by reduc.
ton of wages, and that reduction may be laid
upon the laboring poor at home who make the
manufactures, or upon the laboring poor abroad
who consume and pay for them.
Great Britain had ground down the face of thu
poor at home until they could bear no fnrthel
oppression. She found that after the paciGcatior
Of Europe, competition on the continent was no
only closing the door against her, but that thos'
who had been consumers of her merchandise
had become her rivals ID other markets. Individu
Il interest came to the aid Of her national ceun
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