The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-09

and thus the necessary consequence OF increase In
the quantity and value of the products of the EARTH
and increase in the value Of land--the inpmouable
property-is . diminution in the exchangeabe
value of the slave-the movable property; and
therefore It Is that, with the increasing productive
ness Of labor and value of land, the involuntary la
borer passes gradually into the voluntary one-the
slave becoming free as the master becomes rich.
With every step in the contrary direction the re-
verse ia the case. The man who has exhausted his
land abandons ii to seek for other land TO be again
exhausted He attaches value to the immovabIe
property but he values greatly that which is moo
GNs-his save-and the more distant he Is from
market the lower will be the exchangeable value Of
his products and the less will be the cost Of raising
slaves. Depopuation, diminished productiveness
of labor, poverty, and pro-slavery, go therefore
hand in hand with each other while with every step
In the increase of population and wealth. there must
be growing tendency towards freedom. In the
one case slavery will be regarded ga blessing
while in the other il will lie deemed TO be blight,
If not a curse.
The careful students of the Wealth Of Nations, Of
whom, however, the number is very small, do not
need to be told that these views are in perfect
cordance with those Of its ilustrious author who
looked with great affection the small proprietor
cultvating his own land, and on the sturdy yeoman
in the enjoyment of the independence and respect
ability that he saw were naturally consequent up
on increased productiveness of agriculture, result
ing from the combined exertions of artisans and
agricuturists, any interference with which he de-
nounced Ga manifest violation ofthe most sacred
rights of mankind" TWAS his perfect knowledge
of the fact that diversity of employment indis-
pensable to the growth of agriculture, that led
him to reprobate, "fit only for nation of shop
keepers" the system which had for it's object that Of
compelling all the nations ofthe world to make their
exchanges in British markets. He saw clearly that
with increase in the proportion OF mechanics to ag-
riculturists there was n great increase in the do
mestic market, with diminished necessity for resort
ing to distant ones, while the po,rer go there was
constantly increasing, because the workman who
ate the food converted the wool into cloth and fitted
it to be cheaply transported therefore it was
that he regarded every measure tending to prevent
increase in the ratio of mechanics to agricultursts
as ga great encouragement of agriculture and
every one tending to compel the foreign agrcul-
turist to dispense with the proximity of the artisan
as a violation OF mans most "sacred rights
His system and that of the South are the anti
podes Of each other The looks to brin ging the
consumer to the side of the producer increasing
population, augmenting the value of land, and in
creasing the freedom Of man, with constant in
crease in the po,cer to trade 1t is anti slavery in
all its tendencies. The other looks to separating
the consumer from the producer, dispensing popu-
lation, Diminishing the value of land and the free
dom Of man, with constant increase in the necessity
for trade, and diminution of the power to trade. il
is pro- slavery in all its tendencies because of It's
most cxhausting character. Instead of encourag-
ing the mechanic to come and settle near them,
bringing the market to their doors, and enabling
them to improve their land the people of the South
have kept him at distance, and have compelled
themselves to seek distant markets. and their lands
have been exhausted, the consequence OF which has
been necessity for seeking other lands and there
fore it is that the horabie property-the slave-has
tended to rise in their estimation compared with
immorabie property-the land; the strongest evil
dencc that could be given Of the suicidal character
OF southern policy.
How it has operated upon the older Southern
State up to the date of the last census, may be
seen from the following table, in which is given in
thousands, the movement of their population;