Holly Springs gazette., 1845-01-17

Market you add five or six new slav,
States TO the Southern power you tgive thu
South the complete control of the United
States Senate Such appeals as these gave
Mr.. Polk his large majority in Virginia
took Georgia from US overwhelmed us In
Mississippi and Louisiana, and shook US
throughly In Tennessee. The practical
good sense of the old North State alone
withstood these appeals. The Wings ol
the mountains of NORTH Carolina stood
firm phalanx invincible.
Now, however. that passion has had its
day in the election of Folk, and cupidty has
had time to reason. there is reaction begin
ing IN the South, and the North Carolina
movement is but the: first of it. Cupidty
sees that negroes are not 'rising 10 price," !"
but falling. Slave property has fallen.
sincePolk's election. from twenty TO TWEEN,
ty>five per cent Negro men in the border
slave holding States, that were sold for $500
ninety days ago. will not sell for over S400
now. Negro hires have fallen in like pro.
portion The workers on plantations,
whose labor was worth so in January
last year, cannot command over $50 this
January. Here is putting off indeed for
the Texas dramers Cotton. TOO. the 7aSe or
fall an aohicA so sensibly affects the raIue o
slare property. fell IN liverpool immediats>
ly upon the receipt of PoiRs election. The
reason for all this are obvious 10 thinking
men, The South is beginning to feel them,
and aciU feel them, more and more. before
the nation is done with Polk and Texas.
The election of Polk has been set down
in Europe as equivalent to the annexation
of Texas and the overthrow of American
manufactures The annexation of Texas is
the annexation of an immense fresh cotton
growing region to the cotton regions OF the
United States Emigration from the South
ern States is to bring this fresh region into
production The South is thus to commit
| suicide upon itself in two ways, first, IN the
! phlebotomv movement OF the emigrantsthus
| reducing the value of farms, and second, In
creating a great rival power in Its own pro
! ductions on better soil, thus adding 10 the
quantity of C, Oh grown. and therefor re-
ducino the price London, Liverpool, Ha'
vre, the world see all this. Cotton, every
man reasons, must be low, for so much OF
il is to be grown from the Dismal Swamp
TO the Rio Bravo The United States"
they say, "already produces more than the
world can consume. Texas added. and you
subtract from the value of cotton in the u
nited States"
Again the election of Polk is decision
for growing and raising cotton. and againt
manu- featuring it. The world so see 1t.
Cotton planters forced the nomination oi
Polk and drove the country into a vote a.
gainst the manufacturers and mechanics
Thus, in addition TO enlarging the cotton
growing region, cotton planters have struck
at their oest friends, the manufacturers, the
workers up of cotton, and the consumers o.
, agricultural products. The decision ofthe
country has been dream, if we NAV so ex'
press ourselves, to the eaters of farmers
; produce, and thus most affect their markets
!. The extension of the manufacturing interes
is stopped. and thus the number of conSum
ers is limited Men that were to be ma nu
facturers will now continue. or will becom
cotton and produce growers, or In othe
: words. there will be more men to grow
produce and fewer to buy it when growr
. This. il is, which in the South must partlf
|, uIarly affect The value of slave property
: : for the whole energies of that portion {
country are 10 continue to be directed 9
:, they have been, to growing cotton instead
: manufacturing, as. in fact, they should b
o The annexation OF the Mississippi Vale
n to the Union, however DeucllCidi W u
v whole country struck a heavy blow at ii
n slave property of Maryland. Virginia. Il
ID Carolnas and Georgia.-for it opened
<. fresher soil in climate nearer the tropl
o. and then bled the States we have named
no am;oration. The annexation OF Texas WI
he another blood letting from these State
and from kentucky and Tennessee. ais
and then our salvation under 1t, Is ein
u the immediate application OF slave power
u. mining and manufacturing. OF the lmmet
rc ate abolition of slavery, and the DIVISION
40 the GREAT eastern into hundred acre farn
These States Texas annexed. cannot sta
ng lono as thew now are. The negroes airea
re are eating their masters out OF house a
Iu- home. and at the present price OF cotton tn
es- will not be worth ra sing to sell. AS 10
g, Randolph once said of Virginians. Sou
he ern masters but hold their real property
lu trust for their servants; and it IS notorlt
ng fact that a man nominally worth Sioot
for N land and negroes. can now hardly co
Dut mand money enough to make pleas
rth ;ournev.-whereas the same amount OF P
"a nery in the new slaveholding States. wo
the Give him an income that would comma
rds mos. of the luxuries of life.
A revolution in property. and the so'
no relations therefore, we say. is impeno
ted over the Southern slave holding States
en-, The annexation of Texas.
From the Vicksburg Viii