New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-24
Free and slave Labor.


We ,honeht Mr.. Calhoun's logic on the subject
Of the alleged incompatibiity Of Free and Slave
.ho, onits sufficiently preposterous, but The
-,ue SIM rather out Herods II in the following
.uo even n there was prospect that those Terri
-. ..,~t, become the abode Of Slaves which, as we
-. hefore sboyn il almost out Of the question the
exist-pce Of the institution there no more prevents
Northern men from making II their nome thsn II nas
rrevcn,ed them from settling In tue Southern states OF
he Union No argument IL necessary 70 prove me
utter humhuggery Of this assertion Every northern
man has more less friends relatives OF acquanIanee
who have emgrated % the SOUTH whence II -
rare 20 find them returning 20 reside For every man
com nr originally returning from the south 70 'ne
North 10 reside there at least one hundred VINO
South and remain there Yet we are gravey tou Ins'
the possibility OF the existence OF SoTery IN tne-e
ritories naus preclude Northern Freemen from select
Ing a home in these and fertile regions
That Northern ireemen migrate South we
presume no one has disputed but that Northern
IaLorers 20 there is quite another proposiuoh'
We know that Northern men freely 90 South 10
xyo,L there az merchants, clerks, teachers PRINT
srs &c. Sc--some to flourish as plantation over
see,. and slave auctioneers and sometimes
cargo Of laborers will be shipped oil 70 cut timber
or build railroad at some point where save
Labor is not abundant or too profitable AL thS
is freely conceded but it does not touch the point
We maintain that Slave Labor always did' al
w.vs ,o,s, deerade and discourage Free Labor,
where the two are brought fairly IN contact ana
we appeal to common sense and notorious lacl' |"
Sustain our position. Ohio contrasted win Men
tucky. New.York with Virginia, Maryland win
Massachusetts. Illinois with Missouri, Wiscon'
ain and Iowa with Arkansas and Florida, tell
the story Why is it that giant stream oi
saaill
Free States and Territories Of the North west
while more fertile soil, under more geniai SKIES
far nearer % markets and more accessible 70
rurooeaus, is vainly offered at one-hali and even
ope.s,urth the price Of Western Lands ! Land
in Virginia to-day costs hardly oneiourth so muco'
ali other things bat Slavery considered, as lands
In Wisconsin yet a thousand immigrants 60 to
Wisconsin where one settles in Virginia
Tbs reason is very plain. The man whose only
nroperty is his labor cannot afford to despise La
Dor, and does not like to carry his where Labor is
q degraded thing. Suppose half dozen skiiiiui
British artisans are thinking OF coming overi and
they very naturally study our American journals
with an eve TO their prospective location. They
end that in one part Of the Union the relations OF
Labor to I and and orher Capital are such as they
are accustomed 10 think tolerably near right
while ia another section they ind the journals
full Of advertisements Of a good blacksmith
for sale-price 5000 ; a likely carpenter
price s7oO "a firstrate stone mason, the proper
~ of an iusolvent estate--sale peremptory by
auction next Monday and SO on. Do you
imagine that intelligent and seltrespectug me-
chanics, who desire to thrive by their vocation
and see their children grow up esteemed and IN
dustrious will choose for home this region where
mechanic is a merchantabe commodity, and con-
SANITY going under the hammer Just as horses
and oxen are The reason and the facts OF the
case are perfectly consistent. few strsgglers
will be allured into the Slave region by special IN
ducements or special necessities and the Free
and Slave regions may sometimes appear TO slide IN
% each other about the boundary which separates
them but the antagonism can never be etfaced.
The facts that nearly all the labor-saving inven-
tons now employed in the South are the products
of Northern ingenuity, and that the vessels winch
carry OF the bulky products of Southern labor are
nearly all constructed in the Free States, Though
in part of Southern timber.) are obvious and de
cisive.]
Mr.. Calhoun indeed tells us that in the rural
districts OF the South the distinctions of white aud
black efface all others--that to be white man is
to belong to the upper class, no matter in what
circumstances. Has Mr. c. forgotten the exist
ence Of a numerous class of whites in his own re-
gion known by planters rs the sandhillers,' and
BY blacks as mean white folks. A negro slave
is not given to sefoonceit but he will rarely
brook command or any assumption OF suherionty
from one he knows as mean THAT is, poorl
white'-one of the class who would like 70 be
slsveholders but are not able. And this class has
remained unchanged through generations-ide
untausht, vagrant hopeless-squatters, half civil
lied, living in huts and often in want Of the ne
cessaries of life, yet unconquerably averse to any
regular systematic labor because this they rea-
sonl would debase them to the level of negroes
OF this class may be our children ii We now con-
sent to the Extension Of Slavery.