Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-28

IN which slave labor is needed or coGid better thrive
hfad 'le following extract from seech oi Mi Sample in
'e California Convention against the admission oi
srors
Let ns look Ut the inducements and whether these
is are without foundation; let wst is the probable
Nar per annuIn OF an abeboied negro man in the South
erh >laies They hire there, sxty Ia hundred dol
lars year have known them to hire for much as two
nuhnfen tt never more. was raised in slave STATE and
p,Ht'e ey more frequently hire for less sum thar sNiv
dollars, Than over that amount Let gentlemen reflect or
moment ana see oH many of tiuse producing
Their absolute valuc-paying interest cost I, life
estate Is rom tour 10 six hundred 1rs Physicians fees
and occasionally other expenses be deducted Of
Their hlre, 80 m the Income from this Of property the
present period very small Srupose yo BAY seven Lur
dred dollars 10 yet slave here and him free condition
ia c shall serve ron oi year lie produces according
10 me ordinary rates IN the ines from two six thousand
c"lhrs. mere are many Of Southern friends who
wo be saa 10 set icE negroes free and bring them here
ii they produced only hall of that amount"
lo"k, too, 10 The message Of tn Governor Of California
~ quoted by my friend from Kentucky tMr Santon and
You see that the people depending upon uncertain am
plies Of damaged and nnwhocsomc food from abroad No
free he induced till the soil under In, STRONGER
temptations oi the soiu mines What held Tor slave labor
(p0
The following extracts from the Democratic Review for
the month "i January 1880 will show the which
The different sections Of Union are tributary to each
other; but especially will they show The wtch
Southern slave labor and capital tributary 10 Northern
prosperity Ii space could be allowed me- would gladly
quote more freely from that admirable and we'll timed article:
The imports and exports of the Union were for Isis az
follows
~
Free States l37 367 $40 1885 050
Slave States, 1861 log - O5l 3S6
Total sl5499Sg2s s5io36 436
This embraces tho largo exports of farm produce from the
North for The famine year. and H. therefore an aver
that section Under the estimate that one half of the
imports consumed the South 500 l3l 635 must
pass through northern hands leaving least fifteen per
poilt-say s9OO00OO including insurance &c In return
tor this, of bills drawn against southern exports
mnst BE- sold in New York. equal the difference between
southern imports and the OF their expors-say
s6OO0OUU0 The negotiation of these gives least 81 100000
tu the North On data furnished by the Of S0
ascertaned that the value the manufactures of the
New England and middle States SlS2 i537 including
aoOUUU bales OF cotton worked up at the North OF this,
halsay $50 000nds sale in the southern States
and those OF the West, which, delivering their produce
the great watecorses necessarily form part OF that region
II profit 10 manufacturers obbers forwarders expresses
insurance &c. oi % per cent, S2225O10O There
rived al New Orleans last year. by the Mississippi river Of
produce from all the States value Of S36 1908
and probably 900 more found sale in the slave States
through smaller avenues and shorter distances making
say $50 0O00-or NIL of which received in return,
coffee tobacco materials of manufacture and domes
lie bills drawn the North against produce and bills of
change These sales of produce probably realized 20 per
pot and il is from the proceeds of their sales of produce
the South that the West io lis purchases Of goods
the East There is also, probably 600 Of north
erncaplta drawing large profits in southern employmcns
stocks shares Of companies and interests in firms which
with the expended BY southerncrs coming north in
the season, yield S60000G0 These rough
Inmates ot the profits OF the North by southern conncc
ton, may be- summed up thus:
Freighs OF northern shipping southern pro-
ducc, siols5728
Profits derived on imports AT the North for south
account, gOU000O
:" ol exchange operations 100000
onnorthern u!actCrcs sold al the South 22250000
!" Western produce descending the Misss-
spp, 100000
" northern capital employed Al the South 100000
Total earnings Of the Nor,! per annnm SIS 1856 72s
"lhesc estimates all exceedingly small, and do not
embrace variety of transactions which om the basis o
most corporate profits Il might also embrace the profits
sales western States which enabled pay by their
sales 10 The South Now when you reflect that HE whole
"f the transactions Of which spring profits
ated, and also the emi ymcnt Of very large proportion
6" the northern people, well one half Of the whole
tera trade ot Great Britain, with all those remotely dcpcn
dan upon The persons actively engaged in the trade we
begin form idea Of the magnitude OF the crime
pemeditaed by the Van Buren Free-So Abolition party.
III We throw together the capital and numbers Of persons
occupied in the manufacture OF cotton, with the number Of
bales required annually to keep them in employ arrive