The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-02-05

IProPrletors rapidly increases, and the amour
OF cultivated land, Of wealth, of population
Of comfort. In the South, the proprieto
must also buy his worklnen; The poor ma
who seeks market for his work, not hi
person. must apply elsewhere.
This cause has long impeded tae agricul
ture Of the South. It will also hinder III,
advance Of manufactures At Lowell, III,
manufacturer builds his mill, buys bis cot
ton, and reserves sufficient sum for his
Floating capital" he hires five hundred
men and women TO work his machinery
paying them from week TO week for the la
Dor he has bought. In South Carolina, h,
must buy his operatives also five hundred
slaves, at $500 each, amount 10 $500, 900.
This additional sum is needed before wheel
can turn. To start, il requires large CAPT.
tai; but capital is what is not SO easily OBJ
tained in slave State, where there is no
natural stimulus urging the laboring mass
to production. Men OF small capital are
kept out of the field; business is mainly in
the hands OF the rich; property tends to &C
cumulste in few hands,
Compare slave and n free State. In the
free population of the former there is less en-
terprise, less activity Of body and mind, less
intelligence, less production, less comfort, and
less welfare. In the free States, srf entorpr-
sing man, whose own hands are not enough
for him to work out his thoughts with, can
trade in human labor, buying meas work,
and seeing the result of that work. That is
the business of the Observation-Disclosures
in all departments. In the present state of
society, both parties are gamers by the OPP
Grafton. In the South, such man must
buy the laborers before be can uss their
work, but Intelligent labor he cannot thus
buy
Men are born with different tastes and
tendencies; some for agriculture, others for
commerce, navigation, manufactures, for sci
ence, letters, the arts useful or elegant. The
master is able TO command the muscles, not
to develop the mind. He directs labor
mainly 10 the coarser operations OF husband
ny, and makes work monotonous. Cnilor-
NIFTY of labor involves great loss. Polit-
ical economists know well the missry which
happens to Ireland from this source--not TO
mention others and worse.
la Connecticut, every farmer and day-la-
borer, in his family or person, is consumer,
not only Of tho productions Of his own farm
or handiwork, but also Of tea, coffee, sugar,
rice, molasses, salt and spices; Of cotton,
wooden, and silk goods. ribbons and bon.
nets, of shoes and hats. of beds and other
furniture, Of hardware, in-ware, and cutlery,
OF crockery and glassware, OF clocks and
iewelry, of books, paper and the like. His
wants stimulate the mechanic and the mer-
chant, they stimulate him in return, all
grow up together; each has a market al
home, a market continually enlarsing and
giving vent TO superior wares. The young
man can turn his hand to the art he likes
best. Industry, activity, intelligence, and
comfort, are the result.
In slave population, the reverse of all
this takes place. The Southern Planter
thinks $50 adequate for the yearly support OF
a slave. Add twenty-five per cent. to his es-
innate, making the sum s25; then thet
5 100000 slaves are consumers 10 the
amount of SIS, 100000 year. In 1916,
the annual earnings Of the State OF Massa-
chusett. were s114,492, 636. This does
not include the Improvements made On the
soil. nor bridges, railroads, highways,
houses, shops, stores, and factories, that were
these things form e permanent in
uIit- far future years. 1t cannot reason
estment a.. n that. in addition, so large
bly, be suPPos., cent OF the annual
sum, as fourteen pc. nv. But OH that
arnings is saved and laio =. -rr,s of Mas
opposition, the 737, 500 inhabil. ,unt OF
schusetts are consumers TO the ann, NHI
100, 900 year; that is s25, 10000,
lore than four times that number OF slaves
'ould consume. The amount OF addition |
energy, comfort, and happiness, is but I
oorly indicated, even by these figures
'dtional Era.