The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-11

Hssshesa sensisnsas.
Many Of the ablcst Southern men are begin
ning to enquire, why 1t is, that Southern cities
fall away so steadily In population. and SO soon
have marked upon them evidences of decay.
Name, if you can, reader, one Southern city,
except New Orleans, which Is going ahead
Mobile, Sayannsh, Charleston, Apalachicola,
&c. &C., all are declining. From one and
from all, we hear the same complant:--"our
mechanics airs going away, our young men, and
men Of capital are leaving us--and the day of
our prosperity is past"
The A,aiachieoia Advertiser says:
..In this small community we have a sad in
stance Of the influence which the employment
of slaves will have to diminish population, and
reduce the wealth Of the community. In
1885, when we first came to this city, there
were but few slaves, and they were mostly
owned by our own citizens; at that time our
pop ulation amounted TO about $500; the high
rate Of lgcs here and the reduction in the value
Of slave labor in Georgia and Alabama, sent
gangs Of negroes from those states to be hired
out here ia opposition TO the white aborers-
the result has been. that our population has been
reduced 10 400. while the quantity Of cotton
shipped since 1898 has been quadrupled. The
whit. laborers could not subsist on the wages
paid TO the slaye-they were driven away
But the evil was not confined TO them alone;
the merchants who supplied them with food ana
raim.nt, ana the landlords who rented them
dwellings, have felt the effects Of diminished de-
mand for what they each supplied The wages
of the white iaborer were ditfused by him
through the whole community--he was "a con-
sumner as well as a producer--he boarded up bn1
| little, but the wages Of the slave aborer were
sent to enrich his already wealthy master in
| Georgia and Alabama; not dollar Of il ever
| returns here"
| The SaroRn0h Republican does not hesitate
in pointing TO slaves, "that fearfully large class
Of unproductive consumers the cause Q
the decay Of Southern cities, and the downward
tendency of things in the Southern States
One Of the ables, men Of Georgia, indeed, goes
80 far as TO say, that, Georgia cannot be the
State she ought 10 be, until labor is esteemed
teristic Of every freeman. The following arti-
Gle from the Savannah Republican shows the
tendency of things in the far South, and the ne.
cessity there exists for looking into, and discus.
sing fully, all the influences Of slavery:
.INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY UPON THE
i PROSPERITY OF A STATE.
"DoMEsrIcs FoR HOME CONSUMPTION O.
our merchants adve-tises in our paper that h.
has Just received large consignment of Bostor
iaths, and 1t strikes us, and must strike others
ss not little remarkable, that population liy
ing in the very heart of of the best lumber
regions of the nted States, with thousands O
fallen pine trees covering the forests in their i'm
mediate neighborhood, should be in iebted I,
Northern enterprise for the very l,ths with
which their houses are constructed.
"Another instance arrested our attention
short lime ago. la visiting rice plantation o
a friend the Savannah river, we observed
stamped OH the side of the row. boat which car
ried us, the name Of the maker IN New Y ork
while one Of our Carolina friends, a great lee
turer ON agriculture, and president OF agricul
tural societies, gets even his "pig-yokes" from
the North instead OF making them on his owl
plantation.
"While such supine incidence and such ,
short sighted policy prevail among us, the Sauti
must and will remain tributary TO the superio
industry ard energy of the North which profit,
oy her neglect of her own true interests
, "The resources Of the South need only h
developed to give her children wealth ana com
forts. Nature has done far more for Us thai
banded their resources, while we have sauan
dsred and neglected ours.
Take for example the State of Georgia Vas
quantities of her timber IL now rotting in he
forests while Northern lumber comes into on
port. The finest water power in the wor
which might be converted 10 a thousand usef,,
purposes, Is allowed 10 waste itself over rocks il
its channel. The shad fishery on the Savanna
river is yearly made source Of large prof
10 a company from Maine. Our canal furnshe
our city only with ees enG water lilies, instea
Of being completed to bring us down the lum
Der ana the products of the Ogechee: and il
one word, we continue poor because We will no
make the effort TO become rich by developing
the actual resources in our power.
agriculture ana commerce absorb most O
the energies Of the portion of our people VIII,
will work, ,rhile The class Of "unproduef,r, con
sVn,ers'' al The South is fe1rfYlv large. Tn
professions have much 10 answer for in this res
Ject. Many sturdy young fellows who woul
ENJOY both health and competence, if followin,
the plough, ere wasting their energies and ,hei
lives in fruitess chase after cases" eithe
legal, medical, or clerical, 10 the great loss o
the community and their own.
"Geergia, we are happy 10 see, is waking nm
the former stupid idea tina, a gentleman was on
who wore white kids. and never worked is fas
giving place TO the sounder doctrine that In
working men (either with hand or bran.) ar
tn, true nobility OF country, and stamp i,
character al home and abroad. Upon the pre-
sent generation rests the duty Of devolvinp In
internal resources of the Sta,e--of employin
her water power in turning the busy wheels O
factories; in Increasing her exports of lumber
ami developing all her countless resources"
This is right. Look into the matter. friends
and you will be prepared by-and-bye TO solve th
difficulty. When duty and interest combine. Ia
combine they do il will not be long before yo,
will act. Let Kentucky show the way, IAN
what glorious lead it would be! SO worthy @
the noblest character. inspiring to oil tn
hopes of many let the old Dominion follow, an
Georgia will overlap South Carolina, ultra a
she now is, and sweep her on, as she speaks
with Tennessee and y ORTIZ Carolina for univer
sal freedom.
This is the taiisman which devcopes the re.
sources Of States. and builds up cities. Thi. i
the means by which individual prosperity. an,
the greatness of commonwealth. are made en-
during. which will convert forests into fields
water power into wealth, and make the South
what the South should be, growing and Clio.
rious a land as man ever trod