The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-16

experiment ended. Agotter experiment was tried
byA gentleman from New York, who took large
number Of GerrsNn labprers into Florida, and be-
gan the cultivation II New Smyrna, Ia tract Of
land upon which Greek colony once settled (,
but finding free labor could not cultivate Southern
soil, had abandoned) These German laborers,
with all the 6delity and industry which character
ize their country, worked zeaously. After pla-
cling the ground IN beautiful order, they planted the
crops. Unfortunately, hot days and mosquitoes
came, and the Germans went away, leaving the
New York gentleman TO his icits. There being no
negroes in the neighborhood, his wits could not
avail, and he lost his crop, and abandoned the
estate The truth is, Southern soil never was and
will be, extensively cultivated by free labor
whether black or white. What theni Shall the
most fruitful portion Of the earth--that one third
part, which under the operation of slave labor two
thirds--be Abandoned Shall the industry Of the
North, shall that OF Europe, be unsupplied with
the material which gives much employment
and imparts so much comfort to mankind' Let
the North persevere--she inevitably destroys her
own prosperity-and this even If the South sur
renders TO her control the entire regulation OF our
labor
But suppose that the South has sagacity to per-
ceive the danger, and spirit enough to counterfeit
it, what then will be the condition Of the Northi
In the loss of the Union, they lose the very
Of their prosperity. What was New England be-
fore the Union was established What is she
now' What must she become when left to her
own intelligence, sagacous AK 1t is; her own in-
dustry, untir;ng as it may be- The New England
States, when Colonies, were Industrious, virtuous,
comfortable societies, with nothing to export but
stones and fish. They could not manufacture, be-
cause their industry was at the will of the great
manufacturing nation, who denied to them mar
ket. They labored hard and looked with admi-
ration upon the productive South, whose labor
purchased foreign luxuries; the exchanges of
whose industry furnished the exchanges for North
ern imports, and rendered tributary Northern la
Dor. We were then rlch-the North poor.
When, however, we became disenthraIIed from
Britain, and formed union of interests, the scene
changed. Through the operation of artificial ex-
pedients, tn North rendered the South tributary,
and became rich. She has exchanged poverty for
wealth, dependence for authority; has secured the
monopoly of the coastng and the interior naviga-
ton, subjected the carrying trade to her control,
and compelled revenue Of thirty millions, (two-
thirds Of which are paid for by the exports of the
South, whilst two-thirds are expended in the free
Sates,) Thus, through the working of the Gov
eminent, she has completely changed social con-
diton with the South. Her capitalists have be-
come princes---her frame houses transmitted into
marble palaces-her people faring sumptuousy
every day--her children dressed in broadcloths
and fine cottons, The North has become like un'o
Rome, and from the same causes. She has sub
jected provinces more productive than the Egyp-
tan or African She rivals in inland trade the
far-famed cities of the Deserts, when they levied
contributions upon the interior trade of the east
ern and European nations She has become like
unto Venice, when Venice monopolized the COM
merce Of the Levant and the entire Mediterranean.
But the artificial causes which made Rome and
Palmyra and Venice mighty States, being once
removed, and the people of those States thrown
upon their native resources, their grandeur soon
depa tod eff m her mt
where her imperial sway The palmtrees yet
cluster around Palmyra, but only to mock its
desoaton. And Venice--Yence the throne of
whose Doge rested on hundred isles, is now
degraded, trodden-down province Of the Aus
TRANS Us f3 ~
Such, New England, must be thy fate if the
South, reused to a sense of injury, and feeling
the blood of her ancestry cOursing vigorously
through her veins, should resolve that the Union
should be no more-should determine that her
labor be no more shackled by your legislation
her footsteps restrained within prescribed limits
her energies compressed by your cupidity--the
spirits of her children crushed by your assump-
ton of superior merits and loftier authority !!
Suppose all this, and what then is the scene, The
tonnage of the world competing for the coasting
and foreign trade. The hardy Dane and adven-
turous Swede and enterprisng Britain bringing
their ships TO convey our Southern products, and
to return freighted with those rich wares purcha-
sed by our cotton, and now brought across the
waves by Northern shipping. Where, then, will
be the national expenditures--those large sums
annually drawn from the South to descend in
copious showers upon the North' Where will
be the sale Of those manufactures now flooding
the South under discriminating tariff? They will
have passed like vision of the night. Where,
then, will the North be Where she is in location,
but not where she now is in condition She must
depend upon the mercy of the South, or revert
back to the rocks from which she came.
What will then be the condition Of the South
1t will become such as Nature intended, and Gov
eminent hlparted
Our exports will amount to one hundred and
thirty millions. These will bring into our South
ern Confederacy an import of one hundred and
forty millions Of dollars. A duty of twenty per
cent. on this will give revenue of twenty.
eight millions of dolars--a sum sufficient to sup
port army and navy as large az that of the now
United States. The imports from the North will all
be subjected to this impost and yield at least FIVE
millions more. This is not all: the greater por-
ton of this revenue will be spent in our borders
and we may have system of roads and canals,
blending and uniting all the States of the Confed-
eracy into one interest. /
We shall be much stronger than at present--our
slaves being employed in the industrial pursuits of
The soil, dispenses with the necessity Of appca-
ion of white labor for subsistence. We can, i'll
become nation of understanding a |
we'll organized militia force Of 100000 men, thor
)ughIy dlsclpIneu, ana animated by the love OF
lo,ne and the preservation Of Southern institutions
always ready to concentrate upon an assailabe
,oint, needing no pay, furnished by slave labor
With continued supplies, supported at the smallest
ost, and if attacked by the North, ready to carry
IN an offensive war against our foes. Like the
States Of Greece, whilst our lands are TILED by the
slaves who are not required for the purposes of
war, we can prosecute trade, agriculture, and war
1t the same time. Whenever our slave population
shall have increased so as to incommode us, we
will find an Exodus upon Southern Mexico; or, if
he rich placers Of California should be unex-
lausted, we may reverse the Northern invasion of
Europe, and pour out from Southern hives vast
population to retake the lands from which we are
now uniusty to be excluded We will have moth
ng to dread from internal dissensons, for the in
erests of the Southern States will be homogeneous.
We will be too strong, with halfa million OF sol
Tiers, to be invaded by armies which come abroad
ourdened with the expenses Of transportation, pro-
visions, and ammunition. But war is threatened
from the North should the South secede. The
North fights for profits, and what would it profit
her to battle with the South They could not
conquer; but could impoverish themselves by
Withdrawing from labor the PERSONS of their ar
mics, and from the fruits of diminished labor SUBJ
sstence for those armies. Ii is said that in the
first instance of our secession we will not have n