The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-10-05


: wealth. The free States are about
twice as rich as the slave States, in
proportion 10 their population
The wealth of the free labor section
increases faster than the population,
while the inhabitants of the slave re-
! glon increase much faster than its
wealth. Free labor makes one rich
err, slave labor makes the other poor
er every day. The entire value of
the annual productions of the South
ern States is less than $50 to each
inhabitant. Taking Senator Walk
er's estimate of the cost of maintain
ing slaves, at $17 a head, it leaves
$33 each for every free person.
Any body, by calculating the cost of
maintaining his family, will see that
it is not enough to support them
Much less can it support the reck-
less extravaganza of slaveholders.-
Hence, though the plantation slaves
be half starved, on their peck of
corn per week, the slaveholding
South cannot live on its own resour-
ces. 1t is not enough to rob the
slave Of his manhood, by taking
away all right motives to industry,
and then to rob him of what little
money can be whipped out of his
mlseries. The slave system must
PLUMBER FREE LABOR, also, of its
earnings, or it must die. For this
system of robbery and fraud never
did and never can earn an honest
living! Slavery needs at least $780,
100000 more than the whole pro-
duct of slave labor every year, TO
keep it alive. 1t must plumber the
free States 10 this amount. Ii does !
Do you ask, how? Attend TO the
facts shall now give. We buy
about $10O,000,00O worth of cloth
ing, food, drinks, iron, glass, crock
cry, tools, and other goods, each
year, in foreign countries. How
are they paid for? Not by silver
and gold. A single year would
drain the nation of its last penny
We do it by exchanging the products
of our Labor for these goods. Now,
the man that raises the wheat or cot
ton with which I pay for English
broadcloths, or French silks, has in
his hand The real money must use to
pay for them. must buy his wheat
or cotton on his terms. If he chooses
TO ask pay in advance, one or two
years, L must give it, or 60 without
my coat, and my wife must 60 with
out her silk gown. He controls the
foreign exchanges of the country, be-
cause he has the only thing by
which they can be made. And then,
| must pay him for his cotton or
wheat in pork, or shoes, or anything
he wants and l must trust him, till
his cotton is sold in Europe, and the
money for it comes back in the
shape of iron. or glass, or whatever |
wish to buy. So then, he has the
control of the domestic, as well as
the foreign exchanges. Hence, this
man can command as much credit
as he wants, better than any one
else, because he raises the real money
the wheat or cotton) that must be
used to buy foreign goods with, and
which lies at the bottom of all bust
ness. This shows the reason, why
shareholders have always been anx-
ious TO have nothing but the pro-
ducts Of slaue labor exported from the
country. They could then control
the business Of the country, establish
an unlimited credit for themselves
at the North, run in debt 2 to 400
millions beyond their means and Ell
Their plumber us of 25 to 40 millions |
a year, in the shape Of bad debts, or
rob us of the whole, once in every
three to five years, by a general
bankruptcy, as they have done, ever
since 1912.
Now look at the following facts
By IL years struggle the seat of
Government was placed between
two slave States, where freedom Of
speech and Of the press might be
crushed, and the Government cor
rupted and controlled by the slave
power to suit its interests. BY the
purchase Of Florida and Louisiana,
and the violent and cruel removal Of
the Indians, the richest lands on the
continent were thrown open to slave
labor. By the war of 1912 and It's
connected measures, the North was
deprived IF the carrying trade of