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

population shall have increased 10 iorty .nUu,
sand, he will sell two hundred mats AZ 'ne
| same time his real estate advances III 'aiuo 90
the increase of population lie " ~, t;'i, III
mechanic--he can not only euuca'e M III
dren, but set them up in the same 'rauo vi" ~
himself The father sells to the "'heis " ~
country and his Sons TO their so'is-aiiu VIZ.
| applies to the halter applies 10 every ios w.,
of the city; so that there Is no liii'v " ',,0
ulation Of the city or country uh'il su.n ',, :.
rs the earth shall cease to sustain 'ne lih"V.
ants And by manufactures, M'sS'on pas;
| England, and some other countries s. .'i.'
higher population than their soil by asrlouieuao
could possibly support Now reNerIc ,nI '' vs.
let slavery be introduced, ana imhieui"Voi =.
have shown, two laws begin 10 PrcNa"-I y"
whole population. white and black' ceg'n ~ w
crease and the productive power Dl 'le Ia; ::
is only half that of the white Inc iceuiv
that the halter, who at first sofa one hunui ru
hats, in the course of these events now selis
but fifty; he is decaylng traueSIi"n yu'' ~
the time that he needs more money lor ,i'' GU
ucation and settlement OF his children he nae
less than in early lfe--thc proilts OF MS tra1e
continually decline, whilst ms real estate ue-
clines also, till mt last he Is comIelieu ~
pull up stakes" to use a common piiiaoe' anu
move to the free States, where ms consumers
from the country have gone before nm! anu
this reasoning is sustained by experience: NOT
folk in Virginia. was once inc emporium vi
Eastern commerce but slaves nave driven gu,
her whites ignorance and soth nave eAliaus'eu
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 eyery sea. The Virginia Republican
says "a little more tbaa eighty years ago the
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-two
Millions Thus the difference in the race, in
less than a 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
tho first tide of white population, grow to
certain extent of magnifcence; when the slaves
come in they become stationary-then begin
to decline. Chmneys topple of, and 60 unre-
paired-underpinning dccay-houses go I'M
panted-shutters fall to pieces-lights are
broken out and old clothes and pasted paper
sisaet.--olI things Indicate that the
>,i,v Is eoHsntutionailv ,lr.~l.s'i With sb4c'rf
ct. .-1at1sz - ro'1
There was n 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 handlcrafts 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,
and shelter, without education or any
of the elegances of life Penitentiary labor is
against in all parts of the Union,
by the whites, when applied to such manutac-
lures rs are carried on in the neighborhood, as
utterly destroying their livelihood Yet slave
labor to the seven hundred thousand free white
laborers of Kentucky is penitcntary 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 eases
are the same-the result the samc-ruin 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, tho Virginia papers and the Georgia
press announce that associations of mechanics
in both States have issued public protest
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
co-exist that either the blacks or the whites
must give way The Shareholders have made
up their minds to our ruin and expulsion from
the State What say YOU freemen of Ken
the black or white race inhabit
this lovely land?
Those who would not as the Louisville
Chronicle, defy us, attempt to deludc us by our
and assert that if the slaves were
gone, the Dutch, the French, and the Irish.
ruin us; and that they greatly prefer the Afri-
can to those races
entertain no prejudices against these for
eigners. Leaving a land of tyranny, they seek
home among W, because we are republicans.
give them the right hand of fellowship.
welcome them rs frecmen and equals. in land
of freedom and equality. Yes, these are the
men who have built up, in II great measure,
these States they bring laborers, some money,
and, above all the arts and sciences as 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 a 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
admxture 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 despotan in other lands. cannot
stand it! 1t is slavery And what these mis-
eroble men cannot and will not bear, we. the
laboring native citizens of this State, have to
bear, and do bear!
TO BIZ CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.