Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11

under other stmulants than their interests, and
showing steadihess and unchangeabeness un-
known to labor generally, cannot fail to produce
such results as could not be appreciated by any
rules of Smith. No free labor can compete
with them, for free labor must have wages t1at
will bear all the irregularities incident to all Ia
Dor, such as occasional relaxation, illness, whims
changes and designations. The free aborers
are in families, and useless mouths are TO be
lighthouses rents, furniture, taxes, doctors bills,
all amounting to some style and considerable
amount, have to be sustained. The slaves live
without beds or houses worth so calling or fam
lily cares, or uXuries, or parade or show have
no relations, or whms, or frolcs, or designations;
instead Of sun to sun in their hours, are worked
from daylight till nine o'clock at night Where
the free laborer would require one hundred dol
lars year for their clothing alone, the slave can
be supported for twenty dollars year, and fire.
quendy is. This makes the wages of one forty
cents day, Of the other Si1 cents only. prove
this by the facts of the case The average wa
ges or price of labor in the United States is forty
cents day; in England, two shillngs, and on
the continent of Europe is about twenty FIVE
cents. A slave consumes in meat one hundred
pounds of bacon or pork, costing in Kentucky,
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, and Western
Virginia IS; thirteen bushels of Indian Corn,
50; this makes up his food Now for salt and
medicine add 81, and it runs .bus A years food
is $ll. Their clothing is Of cottons-hfteen
yards Lowell, 81 80; ten yards linsey, 81; one
blanket, 50; one pair of shoes ST. making
$3.50. Now this sum OF $3.50, say $50
divided among the working days is six cents
This is not fancy, but every days practice So
the wages OF slave is one siqth Part Of the va-
gcs Of the free ia5orcr. If the slave labor,
therefore, was organized to the best advantage,
no free labor could stand agaiust it,"
There, Iaboring men of the North is a choice
morseI for you, Only let slavery have her way,
and you must come down to one-sxth Of what
you now have, or 60 without labor Besides
the purchase money, this calculates slave labor
at a cost of sir cents day and you are told,
if it was "organized to the best advantage-no
free labor could stand against it p To organ
ze it to the best advantage, is meant, undoubted-
ly, purcaslng Florida at an expense of about
Sc 600 ,000-buying Louisiana for about $751;
100000 and Texas at the rate Of 100000
day so long as the war lasts-the bringing in
Of California to slavery, and then the political
power will be so shaped that the "peculiar
institution can organize to its own liking! How
long will the laboring man give in his adherence
to either Whiggery or Democracy, and such a
doctrine as this Northern Wings and Demo-
Gratis, you know, are but the plant tools Of the
slave power Said John Randolph, eve do not
rule by our black slaves at the South, but by
our white ones at the North" "The slaves are
worked from daylight until nine o'clock at night"
That gives a tolerable amount of hours for la
Dor. We have heard of certain person not
far from this CITY, saying, at would never be
good times in America till poor man worked
for sleeps head and pluck a day"-but we
never supposed that even he would exact part
Of the night but it appears that his friends South
have improved upon the system Laboring men
of the North, if slavery reduces the labor of
10000 Of persons to sir cents a day. does
it not already affect your labor? You see what
love your Southern Wings and Democrats have
for you. Why can you elevate them or their
abeuors longer to the highest offices in the gift
of the people? The time oW come when these
things will not be so,