The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-25

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si6sd labor where slavery exists, and misery Of
The worst kind will sooner or later overtake the
slave State that relies upon any such hope.
We are told by strong man:
| ssMost Of the productive work Of the South
| is done by slaves. But the slave has no stimu-
lus; the natural instinct of production is ma
terially checked. The master has the mouth |
which consumes, the slave only the hand which |
earns! lie labors not for himself, but for ano,h- |
err, who continually wrongs him. His aim,
therefore, is to do the least he can get along |
with. He will practice no economy; no thrift;
he breaks his tools. He will rot think for his
| master; it 10 all hand work, for he only gives
| what the master can force from him, and he
cannot conceal; there Is no invention in The
slave; little among the masters, for their bust
ness is to act on men, not directly on things
This circumstance may fit the Shareholder Tor
politics. Of certain character; it units him Tor
the great operations of productive industry
They and all labor-saving contrivances come
from the north. In 1876, there were seventy
six patents granted by the national Office for in
ventions made in fourteen slave States, with
population of 1884 ,43l, or one for each 96,5O5
persons; at the same time there were Sol grant
cd to the free States with apopulaton OF 9I2o,-
992, or one for each IL ,249 persons. Maryland,
by her position, partakes more OF the character
| Of the free States than most Of her sisters, and
accordingly made twenty one inventions-more
! than fourth part of all made in the South
But Massachu had made sixty-two; and
New York, with population Of only 2,42S,-
92l, had received two hundred and forty-seven
patent rights; more than three times as many
o az the whole South. Works which require in
Q telligence and skill require also the hand Of the
., freeman. The South can grow timber; il is the
y North which builds the ships. The South can
rear cotton; the free intelligence of the north
n must weave IL into cloth"
y; Is not this trueY Most Southern writers ad-
!. init it to be so. We quoted. not long ago, part
L, of speech made at the laying Of the corner
stone of a manufacturing establishment al
Charleston, South Carolina, admitting the fact
n We quoted from an address at Tuscaloosa, on thu
T. resources Of Alabama, also, admitting the fact
h. We quoted last of all from several agricultu
L. raj Southern papers, not emily affirming tina
n, diversified labor was essential, but that unles
the South had it, she would be borne down, an
of left alone in her poverty and weakness.
of Heretofore public men and merchants of tn
n Southern States, pointing 10 paper results q
n crops OF cotton, rice, and sugar, have said "w
er grow staples which give wealth to the natior
as which make the basis Of exchange between on
all country and Europe, which put the create,
amount of treasure into the general money!
IT. Yet with all this, the South mas been CROWN
n poorer and poorer. Their paper calculation
- avail nothing, and her practical thinkers, dii
re- cardng that show and parade, declare that al
ng tive employment, not only to manufacturers, b,
ny TO all classes Of artizans, can alone secure h
=, growth and prosperity. And there is, cons
IN quently, vigorous effort making to bring abo'
nd this result Georgia is disposed to offer boul
ties to the manufacturer, and to hold out grea
er Inducements, il he will employ free labor
:, Alabama talks in the same strnin--and Sou
but Carolina, even South Carolina-adlnits that III
at step is necessary and her leading papers are gi
mo ing statistics, and urging arguments address
-. to the pockets and pride Of her people TO pro
Ter, it.
hat "See," says the Caroiinian show we Sou
re- Carolina compare with Rhode Island"
nv. .. .. Rhode Island. S. Carolin
en- Population, lOs,s30 CAB
eei Income, $4,000 ,223 S27 ,l73,5
All Divide the population
hes into the annual in
ten come, and you have
inu for each inhabitant Sll0 3
bod "But this is not ALL" adds the Carolina p
ar per. stake out the black population in DO
lha States, and make the division Of income
u.s. the number of whites, and you have this resu
ON Rhode leland. s. CaroiiH
lgh Income for each person. $ii9 81
the These are declared startling facts. So tn
oil are But the CIroIiRiaR goes on TO show III
,si, they flow from this one cause, that the labor
me, Rhode Island is more diversified than that
me South Carolina Admitted. The questiO
,he then, is, can South Carolina, can any slave Sta
y, possess this diversified laborl Does not SLAYER
- in the very nature of things, render the EMO
rus ment Of this great blessing an impossibilit
10 The experience Of the past siiirms this TO be
les The experience of the present proves it. Sa
I'VE a comprehensive writer:
ect ain the North. the freeman acts directly up
re- things by his own will; in the South, on
through the medium Of men reduced TO the ra
os of things, aud they act material obje,
The against their will. Half the moral and intelle
IAN tual effect Of labor is thereby lost half the pr
let ductive power Of the labor itself All the gre
'es' movements Of industry decline where the ar
In tocracy own the bodies Of the laboring ella
NO lertillty oil SOIL or lovellneSs OF climate G.
md ever make up for the want of industry, inve
and ton, and thrift in the laboring population itse
10 Agriculture will not thrive under the fir
me- mans hand. Slave labor only be pro6tab
lily employed in the coarse operations of field wor
ard II was so in Italy 1900 years ago; the rich ga
in dens of Latium, Alba, Tuscany, were the wo
m Of freemen. When their owners were reduc
IS a to slavery by the Roman conqueror, those "a
es- dens became only pastures for buffaloes al
swine. Only coarse staples-sugar, cotto
rice. corn, tobacco-can be successfully rails
Ii. by the slaves Of America. His rude tillage IL
poverishes the soil; the process of filth, SEQ
, sists in killing the land" They who will Ike,
slavery as a "patriarchal Institution" mu
adopt the barbarism of the patriarchs, becou
nomadic, and wander from the land they ha
exhausted to some virgin soil The free man
iertilizng hand enriches the land the longer
labors."
O.. This is all true. "Aye," replies the Carol
nian, "but wait till we get manufactures. ~
Well, you have them. A cotton manufactol
has been successfully established at Camdea :
has made money for its proprietors-it has worl
I'd. ed good deal of the raw material made at HON
its But has the town increased in the last ten year
an 1t has lost in population. Are there more sms
il farmers in the neighborhoodl There are few
rs, er Are there more citzens' Not so many
re The very thing. then, which would make vi
ur lage thrive in Rhode Island, which would gi,
a new impulse there to labor, infuse new spir
n Of enterprise into all the people Of the neigh