The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-11-13

population shall have increased to forty thou
sand he will sell two hundred hats. AT the
same time his real estate advances IN value Us
the increase of population. He rs thriving
nechanic-he can not only educate ms CHI
dren, but set them up in the same trade with
himself The father sells to the fathers OF the
country, and his sons 10 their sons-anu VIVA.
applies to the halter applies to every resident
of the city: so that there is no limit to the pop
ulation OF the city or country. until such Tune
as the earth shall cease to sustain the lnhaDi1-
ants. And by manufactures, Massachusetts
England. and some other countries sustain Il
higher population than their soil by agriculture
could possibly support. Now reverse the case !:
let slavery be introduced and Immediately, as
have shown, two laws begin 70 Pre'al-the
whole population, white and black. begin 70 de-
crease, and the productive power OF the p,ack
is only half that of the white Inc result IL
that the halter, who at first sold one hundred
hats, in the course of these events, now sells
but fifty; he is a decaying tradesman: Just at
the time that he needs more money Tor the cd
ucation and settlement OF his children ne mas
less than in early life-thc profits OF his trade
continually decline. whilst his real estate de-
clines also, till at last he rs compelled TO
pull up stakes to use common phrase, ana
move to the free States, where hls consumers
from the country have gone before him! And
this reasoning is sustained by experience. Nor
folk. in Virginia. was once the emporium OF
Eastern commerce : but slaves have driven out
her whites ignorance and sloth have exhausted
her lands: manufactures fail, and commerce
fails with them. Now Norfolk is forgotten
and New York. and Philadelphia, and Boston
| are great cities: and the sails of their commerce
| whiten every sea The Virginia Republican
saws: ga little more thAr eighty years ago tho
imports of Virginia amounted to four millions
| those of New York to nine hundred thousand
in eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the imports
of Virginia were two hundred and forty thou.
sand. and those of New York were ninety-twc
Millions Thus the difference in the race, in
less than century-all the natural advantages
being in favor of slavery--between free and
slave State, is about sixteen hundred times in
favor of freedom Cities in slave States with
the first tide of white population, grow to "A
certain extent of magnifcence when the slaves
come in. they become statonary-then begin
to decline. Chimneys topple off and 60 unre-
paired decay--houses go I'M
painted-shutters fall to peces-lights are
brqkep, out and old clothes and pasted patse
9rG sppssitpresi-aI tninss ;H3@fa'e that the
city is c&sthutlonany uoc,asca ivan ',.'S =
and hastens 10 its end
There was a time when there were intrench-
ments, where the mechanic was secure against
the machinery of the free States and the compe-
tlion of slave labor, in the handicrafts to be
done on the soil. But now slaves have intruded
themselves into all these and the competition
tends continually to reduce the white mechanic
to the wages of the slave--the simplest food,
clothing, and shelter, without education or any
of the elcganccs of life Penitentiary labor is
demonstrated against in all parts of the Union,
by the whites, when applied to such manufac-
lures rs are carried on in the neighborhood, az
utterly destroying their livelihood Yet slave
labor to the seven hundred thousand free white
laborers of Kentucky is penitcntiary labor
the master standing in the same relation to the
slave that the agent of the State does towards
the convicts! The wages paid in both cases
are the same-the result the samo--rllin to the
free laborer The newspaper press denounce
me as insulting the mechanics, in demonstrating
these facts! The truth is not denied. On the
contrary, the Virginia papers and the Georgia
press announce that associations of mechanics
in both States have issued a public protest
against the education of slaves in the various
trades because it "degrades labor and reduces
their wages" Our opponents have not and
cannot meet the argument; on the contrary,
they insult us, with the Louisville Chronicle, by
by the avOwal that slave and free labor cannot
c0-exet; that either the blacks or the whites
must give way The Shareholders have made
up their minds to our ruin and expulsion from
Stat hot of
the black or white race inhabit
this lovely land9
Those who would not as the Louisville
Chronicle, defy us, attempt to delude us by our
prejudices and assert that if the slaves were
gone, the Dutch, the French, and the Irish
would overrun the land, and underworld and
ruin us; and that they greatly prefer the Afri-
can to those races!
entertain no prejudices against these for
eigners Leaving land of tyranny, they seek
give them the right hand of fellowship |
welcome them as frecmen and equals in IL land
of freedom and equality Yes, these are the
men who have built up, in great measure
these States they bring labOrers, some money
and, above all, the arts and sciences rs appli-
cable to the development of the elements of
nature. The Dutch the Irish and French
have made Cincinnati what she is-equal to the
old cities of the East in manufactures and com
merce. But who are they who declaim against
these races! They are, in few removes bone
of their bone, and flesh Of their flesh. And if
We have more versatility Of talent, symmetry Of
form, and play and loneliness of the face divine,
than other nations it is because of this same
admixture of blood
But what does this argument when analysed,
mean! There is no Chinese wall or bands Of
soldiers surrounding us to keep out these for
eigners. What is it so terrible that the starving
and diseased Dutch, and Irish, and French, "
crushed by despotism in other lands, cannot
stand it 1t is slavery And what these mis-
eroble men cannot and will not bear, VIC the
lahoring native citizens of this State, have to
bear, and do bear
TO BIZ CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.