The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-30

the neglect Of employers The horrors OF the
middle passage are nothing to the horrors OF q
deck passage up the Mississippi when cbolers
prevails, or the want, penury, aud exposure that
emgrants are subjected to in our large cities
ngland 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 insnuate itself into
all civilized society The domestic slave trade
Is complained Of and justly too, because it sewers
family ties. II is one of the evils of slavery
and no institution is without itsevils. But how
1 il it with New England? Are none of tile FREE
the acknowledgements and enlightened. for, ed 10
! quit the domestic hearth and all its ei,dearments
to seek a living among strangers? Delicacy
forbids our dwelling on this painful topic. The
instances are before our eyes. What would in
duce Virginian, rich or poor to launch such
! members of lis 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 slayes do. They serve
their.employers for hire; they have quite as 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-boded, is not half what we
allow our slaves, for II 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
say 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 ia never without master to
maintain him. The free laborer, though willing
to work, cannot always find an employer. He
is then without home and without wages In
a 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 experimenting in our North
ern States. This state Of things brought about
the late revolution in France. The socialist
rulers undertook to find employment--pnt the
laborers of Paris to work transplantng trees
and digging the earth. The experiment worked
admirably in all but one respect The govern
ment could 6ud employment, but could not find
wages. The RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT! French
men deluged Paris with fraternal gore to vindi-
cate this right-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 wers conferred, the free laborers
condition would still be below the slaves, for
the wages Of the slave are paid whether he is fit
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
pretensions, thou askest little. But that little,
memorable fate denies thee. Literally and truly,
darkness, death, and black despair surround the
gu France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. the
ceuins of famine hovers DER the land. Emil
grants, ike flock Of hungry pigecns, or Egyp
tian locusts, are alighting on the North. Every
green thing will soon be consumed The hol.
low, bloated 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 necessarics Of life on the slave
holding States. If those States cut off com
mercial intercourse with her, las they certainly
will do if she does not speedily cease Interior
encp with slavery,) she will be without food or
clothing for her overgrown population. She Is
already threatened with social revolutio -
The right to separate property in land, is not
only que ,tioned by many, but has been success
fully denied in the case Of the Anti-renters
judges and governors are electei upon pledges
that they will stain those who deny this right
and defy the law. The editor of the most in
huental paper in the North, lately member Of
Congress, is carrying on open war, not only
against the right Of property, but against every
in ;itution held sacred by society. A people
who can countenance aud pltronize such doc
trines, are almost ripe 10 carry I ose doctrines
into practice. An insurrection of the poor
against the rich may happen speedily among
them. Should il occur, they have no means OF
snppressng il. No standing army, no efficient
militia, no strength in their State govern rents:
Society is hurrying on TO the gulf Of agrrrian-
ism, and no port of safety is in sight; no remedy
Cor the evils with which il j. beset has been sug-
ges,ed, save the remedies of the social, its
remedies tried in France, and proved to 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 ne essary, though famine stare them
in the face. We are infori ed 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 bs free. They
have yet TO discover the means of sustaining
their lives in a state OF freedom.
AT the slaveholding South, all Is peace, quiet,
plent 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 ia
our jails, and fewer in our poor-houses. We
produce enough Of the comforts and necessaries
Of life for population three or four times ar
numerous as ours. We are wholly exempt from
the torrent Of pauperism, crime, agrarinnism, and
infdelity, which Europe is pouring from her
jails and aims ouses on the already crowded
Nor b. Population increases slowly, wealth
rapidly. In the tide-water region Of eastern
Virginia, as far rs our experience extends, the
crops have doubled in fifteen years, whilst the
population has been almost stationary In the
same period the lands, owing TO improvements
Of the coil, and the many fine houses erected in
the country, have nearly doubled in value. This