The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-16

/. sliy of giving them the advantage in the g,
change OF products. Have they indeed
, Then why have they, all over the worl,
ever since ciyiiisation began, exeI cised sue
unheard-o OF forbearance as not TO make us
oil their power Why do not the farmer
Keep up the price OF -four and pork, an
The colton-planters the price OF cot.on?-
But We are out Of patience with such non
senslcal arguments. To answer them full
Is mere waste of time, and a vexation O
common sense.
Having, on page II, ended these sag
remarks on the superior productivensss o
agricultural industry, he then goes a ste,
further IN the investigation of the cause,
oil Southern triumph" by attacking the
cities Of mankind. He deserves. like De
metrius, the Grecian General, to have tbs
surname oil Poliorcites, besieger, or baiterel
OF cities. He bstters them all at once
with the artillery of his argument. He
"reloiees7that by reason Of slavery, man.
ufactnres, commerce and cities CANNOT rise
IN the South, and that at last a remedy has
been found out ia the slave-holding States
Tor these fiery pests of mankind! Blessed
according to Mr.. Fisher)-blessed be- the
man who invented negro slavery
We have reached his proposition number
8 'Cities are a nuisance"
Suppose that they are; does the slavery
oil the Southern States prevent the exist
ence or the growth of cities No: it only
represses them in the slave regions, to make
them rise and grow so much faster else.
where. BE they as pestiferous as the hot.
test advocate. of slavery could wish, yet the
4" Southern institution gains no credit in
the eyes of intelligent philanthropy for
dImln shing this nuisance in the world.
Whittier goes the cotton produced by the
labor Of the slaves ? To Liverpool and
Manchester, Havre and Rouen, Boston and
Lowell, &c, where it sustains commercial
and manufacturing cities. Whence come
The goods imported into the Southern States,
and purchased with the fruits OF slave labori
From cities that live and thrive in part by
this trade. These suggestions are sufficient
10 direct our readers minds to a right view
oil this matter. The effect Of southern sla.
very is TO rear in other countries the towns
and cities which free labor would have rear
ed in the south if slavery had not existed
there.
1t is folly to inveigb against cities. They
are indispensable to the production OF
wealth; 10 Improvement in arts and scien.
ces; to the existence and the progress Of
civilization. Manufactures and commerce
could never have advanced beyond their
hrs. rude beginnings without that gathering
together OF artisans and traders by which
cities ale constituted. Cities save an in.
calculabe amount Of labor in the manufac-
ture and exchange Of commodities. What.
ever saves labor in carrying on the need
fol operations Of society, improves the con.
dtion and multiplies the numbers of man.
kind. That cities do produce these bene-
fetal effects, we might infer from the fact,
that wealthy and hourishing nations have
always had a large proportion Of their PEG.
pie in cities and towns. We speak not
OF Fictitious cities, gotten up by despots
and plunderers; but Of those which are the
Legitimate growth Of agriculture. manufac
ture and commerce.
Another incOntestible evidence OF the
labor-saving effect Of cities, is that in their
central parts, ground is often so exceeding
ly valuable, that one acre there is worth as
much as 100 acres at the distance of only
Two or three miles. The sole cause OF this
difference is the vast advantage-the saving
OF time and labor-which results from col
lecling the business done in cities into the
smalles; possible space. Any person may
understand, that if the people now living
in cities were dispersed, like the farmers,
over the whole face of the country, they
could do very little OF the business now done
in cities: commerce between nations and
States would be at an end : manufactured
goods would be ten times dearer, agricul-
tural produce would cost double 10 make
it, and would, as marketable commodity,
be worth little when made. With the dis
OF towns and cities, society would
fall back into universal barbarsm; the hu.
man race would be reduced to a few wan.
dering hordes fighting for wild pastures,
and few tribes of ferocious savages, chas-
ing the beasts Of the forest, and roasting
their human enemies alive. But no
Scythian horde ever wandered into such
dreary wastes for pasture-no naked savage
ever resorted to such murky caverns for
shelter, as the advocates Of perpetual slave.
ry desperately fly TO for arguments. Their
miserable shifts to sustain cause which
Justice and good feeling alike condemn, be-
tray a consciousness in their own breasts,
that facts and reason and the moral sense
Of mankind are against them.
On page'18 Mr.. Fisher asserts that CT
ties do not produce wealth, but poverty
Now the average wealth Of the people OF
Boston, whose property has been lately as
sessed, is S1420 heads Other great CT
ties of the North would show an average
not very different. The agricultural popu-
Iation of no State in the Union could show
an average equal to the one third of this.
MIR. Fisher says (page 49, "It is true,
that the average wealth Of the inhabitants
Of cities, is generally greater than that OF
he rest Of the State, and almost Equals
THAT OF THE PROSPEROUS AGRICULTURAL
STATES. [Whelvl But this wealth is
not the product of city employments. 1t
,esults from the influx into the city of per-
sons who have become rich in the country.
and who resort to the cities, because they
,snnot carry on agricultural operations ex-
snsively in the country in the free States.
An industrious laborer or farm soon &C.
lures enough money to buy small tract