The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-29

the neglect Of employers. Tie horrors Of tie
middle passage are nothing 10 the horrors OF
deck passage up the Nlississippi when cholera
prevails, or the want, penury, ana exposure tnat
emigrants are subjected to in our large cttles.
England. too has tender conscience about
slavery. but she is importing captured African
slaves into her colonies to serve as apprentices,
and extending this new species of slave trade
even to Asia Expel nature with fork, she
will soon return. Slavery is natural and neces-
sary, and will in some form insinuate itself into
all civilized society. The domestic sIave-trade
il complained of, and justly too, because 1t sewers
family ties. 1t is one Of the evils .of slavery,
and no institution is without its evils. But how
is it with New England Are none OF the free
the delcately -reared and enlightened, forced TO
quit the domestic hearth and all its endearments,
to seek living among strangers Dellcacy
forbids our dwelling on this painful topic. The
instances IRE before our eyes. What would III
duce Virgnian, rich or poor, to launch such
members OF his family unattended on the cold
world?
More than half Of the white citizens of the
North are common laborers, either in the field or
as body or house servants. They perform the
same services that our slaves do. They serve
their employers for hire they have quite rs lit
tie option whether they shall SO serve or not, as
our slaves, for they cannot live without their
wages. Their hire or wages, except with the
healthy and able bodied, is not half what we
allow our slaves, for it is wholly insufficient for
their comfortable maintenance, whilst we always
keep our slaves in comfort in return for their
past, present, or expected labor. The socialists
cay wages is slavery. IT'S gross libel on
slavery Wages are given in the time OF vigOr-
GUS health and strength, and denied when most
needed-when sickness or old age has overtaken
us. The slave is never without q master to
maintain him. The free laborer, though willing
to work, cannot always find an employer He
is then without a home and without wages. In
densely -peoped country, where the supply Of
laborers exceeds the demand, wages is worse
than slavery. Oh liberty and equality, TO what
sad pass dost thou bring thy votaries! This
is the exact condition to which the mass of So
ciety is reduced in France and England, and to
which it is rapidly spproxirnating in our North
ern States This state Of things brought about
the late revolution in France. The socialist
rulers undertook to find employment-put the
laborers Of Paris to work transplanting trees
and digging the earth. The experiment worked
admirably in all but one respect The govern
ment could find employment, but could not find
wages. The RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT! French
men deluged Paris with fraternal gore to vindi-
cate this rght---the right to live when you are
strong enough to work, for il is then only you
want employment. Poor AS this boon would
be, it is one which liberty and equality cannot
confer. If it were conferred, the free laborer's
condition would still be below the slaves for
the wages Of the slave are paid whether he is I'll
for employment or not
Oh carry me back to old Virginia shore.
For am old and feeble grown,
And cannot work any more.
Liberty and equality, thou art humble in thy
professions, thou askest little. But that little,
memorable fate denies thee. Literally and truly,
darkness, death, and black despair surround thee.
In France, England, Scotland, and Ireland, the
genins of famine hovers DER the land. Emil
grants, like flock of hungry pigeons, or Egyp-
tian locusts, are alighting on the North Every
green thing will soon be consumed. The hol-
low, boated prosperity which she now enjoys,
is destined soon to pass away. Her wealth does
not increase with her numbers she is depend
ent for the very necessaries of life on the slave
holding States. If those States cut off com
merciai intercourse with her, fas they certainly
will do if she does not speedily cease interfer-
ence with slavery,) she will be without food or
clothing for her 0vergrown population. She is
all ady threatened with n social revolution
The right to separate property in kind, is not
only questioned by many, but has been success
fully denied in the case of the Anti-renters.
Judges and governors are elected upon pledges
that they will sustain those who deny this right
and defy the law The editor of the most in
iuental paper in the North, lately member of
Congress, is carrying on open war, not only
against the right of property but against every
institution held sacred by society. A people
who can countenance and patronizc such doe
trines, are almost ripe to carry those doctrines
into practice. An insurrection of the poor
against the rich may happen speedily among
them. Should it occur, they have no means of
suppressng it. No standing army, no efficient
militia, no strength in their State governments.
Society is hurrying on to the gulf of agrarian-
ism. and no port of safety is in sight no remedy
for the evils with which it il beset has been sug-
gested, save the remedies of the sociali,ts-
remedies tried in France, and provedto be worth
less. Population is too dense to introduce ne
gro slaves. White men will not submit to be
slaves, and are not fitted for sla cry if they
would. To the European race some degree of
liberty is necessary, though famine stare them
in the face We are iBfornied in Holy Writ,
that God ordained certain races of men for
slaves The wisest philosopher of ancient
times, with the experience Of slavery before his
eyes, proclaimed the same truth. Modern Abo-
litionists, wiser than Moses and Aristotle, have
discovered that all men should be free. They
have yet to discover the means Of sustaining
their lives in state OF freedom.
AT the saveholding South, all is peace, quiet,
plente, and contentment. We have no mobs, no
trades unions, no strikes for higher wages, no
armed resistance to the law, but little jealousy
of the rich by the poor. We have bnt few in
our iails, and fewer in our poor-houses. We
produce enough of the comforts and necessaries
of life for population three or four times MS
numerous MS ours. We are wholly exempt from
the torrent of pauperism, crime, agrarianism, and
infdelity, which Europe is pouring from her
ias and alms-houses on the already crowded
Nor.h. Population increases slowly, wealth