Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-09-27

al1C IIulI IEOUu cry 10 Guy OH uIcSodycS
{ business or Of Affection! Sir, these !:
ro results which you can no more have
Without common education, without i'm
'uring the public mind with the elements
of knowledge. than you can have corn
without planting, or harvests without sun
shine.
Look in the Patent Office reports, and /
sec in what sections Of country mechani- +
cal improvements and the application Of
science to the useful arts have originated.
Out Of fire hundred and sccentytro
patents issue in 1877, only siriy-sir
were to the slave States. The patents an
nually issued, it is true. are mingled
heap Of chaT and wheat, but some Of it is
wheat worthy Of Olympus. | think the
Patent Office reports show. that at least
six or eight times as many patents have
been taken out for the North as for the
South. What Improvements will slave
ever make in agricultural implements; III
the manufacture Of metals; in preparing
wool, eotton, silk, fur, or paper, III chem
ical processes; in the application OF steam;
ia philosophical, nautical, or optical in
struments; in civil engineering, archtec-
turc, the construction Of roads, canals,
wharvcs, bridges, docks. piers, &c; in
hydraulics or pneumatics; III the apPica-
ton Of the mechanical powers in house
hold furniture, or wearing apparel; in prin-
ting, binding, engraving, &c, &C.! Tins
question, when put it reference TO slaves,
appears ridiculous; and yet it is no more
absurd, when asked in reference to an ~
norant slave, than when asked ia refer
encc to an uneduda,ed white man. The
fact that the latter is a voter makes no
4. Al .st. IN
opinions, in certain Attitudes, that ii docs.
All such improvements come from minds
which have had an early awakening,
in their childhood and youth-a thing ut
tcrly impossible for the people at large,
without common schools.
These arc causes; now look at ELECTS.
In three New England States, the iron
manufacture is twenty times as much. ac-
corIing to the population, as it is III Viz,
ginia, and yet Virginia has far more Of the
ore than they. In cotton, we can hardly
md fraction low enough to express the
difference. The shipbuilding in Maine
and Massachusetts is thirty-livc times as
much as in Virginia. The North comes
to the South, cuts their timber, carries il
home, manufactures it, and thcn brings it
back wrought into a hundred different
forms, to be sold to those who would see
il rot before their eyes.
Can aolt man give areason why Norfolk
should not have grown like New York.
otheS than the difference in the institutions
Af the people! jamestown was settled
before Plymouth, and had natural advan-
tages superior 10 it. Plymouth now has
population OF between seven and eight
thousand, is worth two millions of dollars,
and taxed itself last year, for schools and
school-houses, more than seven thousand
dollars. ought rather to say, that II
invested more than seven thousand dol
lars in kind Of stock that yields hun
drcd per cent income. How many bats
there may be in the ruins Of jamestown.
the last census does not inform us. The
hooks printed at the South. suppose not
to be one GEictA part the number printed
at the North. In maps. charts, cneras-
ings, and SO forth, the elements of com
parison exist only on one side.
Out Of universal education come genius,
Kill, and enterprise. aud the desire Of
lettering ones condition. Industry and
frugalty are their concomitants. Diver
sified labor secures n home market. Dill
gcncc earns much, but the absence of the
vices Of Incidence saves more. Hence
comforts abound. while capital accunu-
lates. Alter the home consumption IS
supplied, there is surplus for export.
The balance Of trade is favorable. All
tho higher institutions Of learning and
religion can be literally supported. These
institutions mpart an elevated and moral
tone 10 society. Hence Efforts for all
kinds Of social ameliorations. Temper
ancc societies spring up Societies Tor
preventing crime; Tor saving from Pauper
ism; for the reform of prisons and the re-
formation of prisoners; for peace: for scn!
ing missionaries to the hcathen: for diiii-
sing the pel,-all these, where Il sound
education is given. grow up. in the order
VI Providence, rs an oak grows out of an
acorn.
In one thing the South has excellcd-in
training statesmen. The primary and the
ultimate effects Of slavery upon this fact
are SO well set forth in late sermon by
Or. Bushnell, Of Hartford, Connecticut,
that ! will read a passage from it:
.'And here, since this institution of slavery,
entering into the fortunes Of our history, com
Plica,cs, In SO many ways. the disorders we
suffer, must pause a few moments 10 sketch its
characteristics. Slavery. ii is not to be denied.
is an essentially barbaTo"s institution. II gives
us, too that sign which is the pc rpc tual dstiuc-
ton Ot barbIriSI1 tnat u has no law OF
The highest level il reaches, is the level at
which il begins. Indeed. we need not scruplc 10
ailOw that il has yielded one considerable
advantage, in virtue Of the fact, that il produces
its tcst condition first. For while The nor the rn
people generally delving in labor. for many
generations, 10 create a condition. Of comfort
slavery set the masters NJ once on \ footing cf
case. gave them leisure for elegant intercourse.
for enpSoiessicnal studies, and seasoned their
character thus with that Kind Of cultivation
which distinguishes men Of society. \ class of
statesmen were thus raised up. who were pre-
paved 10 figure icndc in scenes cf public life
where much depends on manners and social
address. But now the scale is changing. Fee
labor is rising. ut length. into stats OF wealth
and comfort, tc take the lead Of American So
cicty. Meanwhile, the foster sons Of slavery
the high families, the statesmen-gradualiy re-
ceLing in character. as they must under this
vicious institution, arc rcceding also in power
M in6uHuce andh Laax,