Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-09-27
The intelligent freeman can affar,lto

, live well, dress decently. and occupy .
comfortable tenement. 4 scantv subsis
, tencn, squalid garb. a mean and dilapi
: dated hovcl. proclaim III. degradation O.
t the slave. The slave States gain millions
Of dollars every year from the pr;va.ions
t the mean food, clothing. and shelter. &c
which the slaves are subjected; and YET
they grow rich less rapidly than States
where millions Of dollars are annually ex-
pended for the comfort and conveniences
Of the laborcr. More is lost in produc-
E ton than is gained by privation.
4 universal concomItant of slavery is.
that it makes white labor disrepu,ablc
Being disreputable. i, is summed. The
: pecuniary loss resulting from this is in
calculable. Dry up the myriad head
springs of the Mississippi, and VIII e
would be the mighty volume Of wa.
which now bear navics on heir bosom.
and lift the ocean itself above its level. by
their outpouring food! Abolish those
sources of wealth, which consist in the
personal industry of every man. and OF
each member of every mans family. and
that wi'lc-s spread thrift, and competence.
and elegance. which are both the reward
aud the stimulus of labor, will be abolish
ed with them. Forcgo the means. and
YOU forfeit the end. You must use the
instrument if you would have the product.
I Nothing but the feeling Of independence.
the conscious security of working for one $
self and ones family, viii. in the present
state Of the world. make labor profitable
know it has been recently said IN this
Capitol, and by high authority. that, with
the exception of mental services. il is not
disreputable at the South for white man
! to labor. There are two ways, each ia
dependent of the other, to disprove this
assertion. One of them consists in the
testimony of a host of intelligent witnesses
acquainted with the condition of things
at the South. might quote page after
page from various sources; but. as the as
sertion comes from gentleman belong
ing to South Corolina. ! will meet it with
the statements of another gentleman be-
longing to the same State | refer TO Mr..
William Gregg. of Ciarleston-a gentle
man who is extensively acquainted with
the social condition of men both North
and South.
In that State. according to the last cen
sus. there were about $50 600 free whites
orcT fnreire ycars Of age. "Ofthis class"
says Mr.. Gregg. Fifty thousand are non
trOtuccrS suppose SCUM l}arOliHa
to be as thrifty slave State as there is
perhaps excepting Georgia; yet there is
one-thrd part ofthe population old enough
to work and able 10 work, who are idle.
and OF course viciouS-non-pr producers, but
the worst kind of consumers
Another answer to the above assertion
is, that if white labor were reputable at
the South, and white men were industri-
Gus. the whole country would be a garden
"a terrestrial paradise-so far as ne atness
abundance. and beauty. are concerned
Where are the RESULTS of his respected
ard AoH0red 3chUe kubor! in a country
where few expenses are necessary 10 ward
oil the +! gOrs of winter: where the richest
staples OF the world are produced: where
cattle and focks need but little shelter. if
any: if man supcraddc,! his industry 10
the bountes OF nature. want would be
wholly unknown; competence would give
place to oPulence, and the highest decora-
tons Of art would minsle with the glowing
beauties of nature.
But hear Mr. Gregg:
"My recent visit to the northern States has
fully satisfied that the true secret of our
difficulties lies in the want OF energy on the,
part Of our capitalists, and ignorance aud lazi-
ness on the part of those who ought to Labor
We need never look for thrift while we permit
our immense timber forests, granite Guarries
and uiires 10 lie idle, and supply ourselves with
hewn granite. pine boards laths, shingles, &c.
furnished by the lazy dogs of the North: ah.
worse Than TINS; We see our back country farmers,
many of whom are too lazy to men! "A broken
gate, or repair the fences to protect their crous
from the neigtboring stock, actually supplied
with their axe. hoe, and broom handles pitch
FORKS rakes, Nc:. by the 1ndolent moun,aineers
Of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The time
was. when every old wonanl had her gourJ, from
which the country gardens were supplied with
seed We now hnd it more convenient to per-
NIT this duty TO devolve our careful friends
the Yankees. Even boat and hand
spikes for rolling logs, are furnished, ready made
to our hand sc. Need I add TO further
txeinPiiIy our excessive Incidence, that the Char
lesion market is supplied with fish and wild
game ny northern men, who come out here as
regularly as the winter comes, for this purpose,
and from own waters and forests often
realize, in the course of one winter a suffjcency
to purchase small farm in New EngIand.''--Es-
says. page g.
Again:
III Is only necessary 10 travel over the sterile
mountains of Connecticut, Massachusetts,, Yer
uont, and New Hampshire, TO learn the true
secret of our dificulties''--"to learn the differ
ence between Incidence and industry. extrava-
gance and economy. We there the scenery,
which would take the place Of our implanted
mansions, cilapdated cabins. with mud chmneys,
aud no windows, broken-down raj! fences. fields .
overgrown with weeds, and thrown away half
e exhausted, TO be taken up by pine th,ckets; beef
cattle unprotected from the lnclemency OF win
ter, and SO poor as barely to preserve life LIS
says, page 4.
And again:
..Shall we pass unn ed the thousands Of poor,
ignorant, degraded white people among us, VINO,
IN this land of lenty, live III comparative naked
hess and starvation, Many one is reared in
proud South Carolina, from birth 10 manhood,
who has never passed month IN which he has !
not some part OF the time, been stsnted for meat
Many mother is there who viii tel you that 4
her children but scantily supple w'n bread.
and much more scantily with meat, and ii they
be clad with comfortable rairne ut, =. - 1T the .
expense of these scanty allowances OF food
These may be startling statements. but they are
nevertheless. true: and, If not believed in Char
Ieston. the members of Legislature. who .
have traversed the State in eieciioneering cam
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