New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-23

Abolition, and Original Cause Of slavery
We stated in our asst article that the org anal
Cause Of Slavery Is Repugram Iadustry-is the
abhorrencc Of Man 10 undergo the burthen of a
brutalzing Labor To escape tsat burthen. the
Powerful enslaye the Weaker and Enemies and
force them TO toll for them or the more Cum
ming and Adroit cheat the Ignorant. aud obtain
from them the products OF their Labor, IN when
they take no part. This is the policy when one
portion Of the Human Family has pursued, ana
that portion has lived in idle ease while the Mass
have .pen, their lives in poverty and toll.
What i. the remedy for this unjust and irightidl
state of things, 1t Is Attractive INDUSTRY.
I Render Industry attractive, make It an avenue 70
Rank and Fortune as War, Politics aud Commerce
now are dignity it. and men will no longer want
Slaves and Hired Laborors to do that worN "hich
has become pleasure charm, the source OF
health, the mos; agreeable Of human pursuits :
they will no more want it than they now ant
Slaves to sit in Legislative Halls OF to take com
nand of Arnies Attractive Industry will sweep
reaceably and by common consent every variety oi
Slavery and Servitude from the earth
! To be convinced that RsPugsan, industry Is the
ORIGINAL tausc of all Slavery, we have only to eA-
anime when and how Slavery was established
II took is rise when in the early commencement
or Soc;etio, the Human Race had 50 increased III
numbers that hunting, fishing and the spontaneous
nroduc,ions of the earth were no longer sufficient
70 supnly their wants, and it became necessary to
resort so Labor - live. At that period no facili-
tie. for exercising Labor or Industry existed, and
man
without the aid scarcely Of any tools and implc-
ment.. much less convenient ones and WITHOUT
any of those convcnicnces and laborsaying ma
chinery which his inventive genius has since dis
covered. Labor then douhly repugnnnt and
oppressive and was avoided of course as curse
and scourge War in those times OF poverty and
;cnsrapce. was uniy.fsal,--for the Strong found It
easier to plunder the Weak than to produce them
.elves.-and the Prisoners taken in combat were
reduced to Slavery, aud forced by the first and
rude.t means which occurs to the human mind
the whip OF corporal punishmcnis-io ton and
produce for the Victors. The Slave became The
property of the Master, and to Man was thus
given absolute control over the life and destiny OF
his fellow man.
This dark Tyranny had iis origin in RcPugnant
Industry in the disgust sf Man for Labor and as
Repugnan, Industry still universallyeAi' tyranny
Slavery and Servitude--athough changed and modi-
fed in various ways-silll continue under innuIHe'
rable odious forms. Slavery, which took ''s fl'e d.
an early period in tho history OF the human race
has been continued under various shapes, without
a,v in,ermission since There are probably al
nrrsent abou, TWO hundred millions Of Slaves upon
the earth. and the number is gradually increasing
In Antiquity, Slavery was almost universal anu
Violence or the Lash wa, the stlmulant oi lis IN
du,try. Its Temples, Aqueducts and other great
Works are monuments of a reckless, h'deous ana
loatb.ome sacrifice of human Liberty, Rights and
Happiness In modern civilized countries slavery
has, with few exceptions, been abolished ana
sv.tem of Hired Labor has grown mp IN us place
The stimulant of Industry has. with tins modlh
catien. undergone a change; 1t Is now W ant ana
Starvation. or the dread Of them at future day.
The luxuries of the World are proauced by iamShed
Operatives; and the injustice OF Antquiiy although
cloakcd over is not the less real and entails not the
less upon the Msltitudc, Poverty, Ignorance ana
Misery.
The Sl,vcr, Of the Negro Race j. but very small
Fragment OF the universal Seryitude which eNi't'
and has existed, To abolish it isoaiedly would
advance but slightly the cause of human ilapIl-
ness and to attack it SCI arnieIy' lcar"s "s
cause of IL n,.foucked. will produce great com
r,otions perlap. revolutions, without eradicsting
II One-tenlh part of the efforts and money winch
arc now devoted to the cause of Abolition would,
# devoted To the cause of Association ana aitihf-
tive Industry. prove practically their Truth ana
hi. mighty TrBih ono" demonstrated, the deatfi-
kneu of universal slavery would be sounded
throughout the earth
In CONCLUDING our article, let u take general
,iew of the ssblect.
Man .ecialIy considered. considered "a beng
wbo-inasmuch as he coasamcs-should tax Pa''
in production. starts falsely in his career lie re-
guires the Products of Labor, but H. mdkes every
effort To avoid its drudgery With tie ialsene's
and dupliciiy of this commencement II j, easy 10
rorcser the results which must follow. In some
societies. On the Barbarian and the commence
nept of Civilized Socetics) a Few, by the
c,r,, of the sword raise themselves above tho
Mass. whom they cnslave and rob OF the pro-
Inc, of their toll In other Societies. lin our
nre.eut ones. very small Minority, favored with
Know ledge. Capital and other advantages "hich
the Mass do not possess. manage no ies, ehectal!
to approprate To themselves the product oi th"t
Labor. without taking any part IN II. mus our
false Sociefies alternate only in their mode oi In
;u.tice but Injustice never ceases 10 be teT luH-
damcntal character
Slareryis not an isolated blot upon our S0''a'
Order. 1t is one of the fruts-a part OF a'a'i so'
cial malady which is much deeper than IS generally
supposed and which must be cured to eradicate the
numberes, evils which it sRgender', and whicn are
a disgrace Ia human Wisdom and Legislation. lna'
malady is RepugHam Aadu'try. II Labor be re-
pugnan, degrading and poorly rewarded now are
- Mo.. o. h, forced io II otherwise than bv CON
STRAINTl