Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-05-17

In the South Capital and Labor not anti apnistic
Capital is Labor-Slaves stands to Capital not IN the
relation that legal Labor does to Capital There
is wide difference and to rejecting reader it will be
unnecessary for us to go into detail We assert then
that Capital in the general acceptation of the in
the Slave States is Labor Labor subordinate to and
is controlled by Capitalit rises against capital
and is Capital in the field, workshop the stand
1t is Capital that increases without labor-or in other
words, if it takes of itself the increase in value
nearly doubles itself in ten years. We will state a
fact here but rarely noted among political econo-
miss. The South has paid toward the necessary and
extraordinary expenditures of the government nearly
two-thrds it furnishes the capital for about three
fourths of the of the Union and the North
capitalists annually so 60 millions of South
ern capital for which the South loses beside the in
terest the full percentage ofwhat the North makes by
being carriers, importers obbers and general commits
sion agents for the South This expenditure requires
an enormous income. We buy all we consume, and
raise nothing but cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar 1t
is evident to any who will take the trouble to cal
cuate the amount of our expenditures for domestic
luxures the general iberality the immense drains up
on US for National purposes and the continued and
brittany exactons of the North that income from
the natural sources of wealth would have been long
since SO completely exhausted, that should have
been at the feet of the North supphants for mer
cy. Such continual drains upon peoples resources
must exhaust them if they rely for their of
wealth alone on the produce of the SOIL Rich the
south is in SOIL prolific her valleys under genial
climate, she would have been beggared under any 9TH
er institutions than those she possesses. Her insti-
tutions continual of wealth to her in their
natural expanson-the natural increase of slave prop
erty its increased value its increased capacity for Ia
Dor, and the increased labor all contribute to the gen.
era prosperity 1t this that has kept her beyond the
grasp of the oppressor The wealth of the North
sists in her canals, railroads. and manufactures All
these paid for mostly by Slave labor. Our wealth
consists in slaves and land the latter has not ncreas
ed in value the former has 1t is the increase of that
property we contend, that has enriched the South
We have said Capital was Labor at the South, and
it is this fact that solves the problem Of chow may do
mestic tranquility be the easiest attainedr' The He
brew commonwealth, in the progress of its Divine mis-
sion, spread into the proportions of magnificent
archy, and again shrunk into the insignifcance of
scattered people, and the foundations of its slave
tutions were mistaken. The kingdoms of Greece
sprung struggling from their cradles but in the perpet
ual strife which strengthened their manhood, the ins
tuition of slavery never perplexed their economy,
escaped their control The Roman governed the
world, and his million of slaves changed En-
Peror, nor lost him province. The American colo
MES raised the flag of rebellion against their fatherand
then the most powerful on the GLOBE but slavery,
the history of that fierce struggle shows threw stop
III their path to victory, but the conraryt aided
in securing liberties and republican government.
In the ancient world the relation of Labor and Cap
ita took the shape of slavery, and what disturbance
did work In modern times, it has taken the shape
of service for wages and what civil commotion, what
parliamentary perp!exity has it not wrought What
question so fearful to English statesman that of
Capital and Labor =! What so terrible to the French
statesman these Social Organizations of Labor a
gainst Capital! Without dwelling these points,
pable they of variety Of illustration must
proceed to show the antagonism of the North to the
South At the North the relation of Labor Capital
is voluntary service at the South, it is involuntary
service. At the North, Labor and Capital equal
at the South Labor is inferior to Capital Atthe North
Labor and Capital strive the to get all it $;
the other to give little as it may-they enemies
At the South Labor is dependent Capital and hav-
ing ceased to be rivals they have ceased to be foes.
The political majority of the North represents Labor
The political majority of the South represents Capt.
tai. The power oflegslaton is in the hands of the
North and it is for time develope nothing but what
all history demonstrates to wit that power but awaits
the moment when it can be exercised quietly and eff
GENTLY Free Hireling Labor hates Slave Labor ant
Capital within the legislative control of Hireling
Labor the institutions of the South viii be forced
seek protection either under system of taxation
pressive it will be unjust, else fly to defence
gainst wrong by appealing to
1t requires but ordinary sagacity to the Future
If representation be adjusted according to the White
Ratio and the South be deprived she surely will be
of the threeffths Slave Ratio, the foundations of he
social and domestic organization is destroyed, her
fety at the mercy of hostile interests her capital th
sport and victim of Hireling Labor, her Labor des
and privileges can, in the nature of things exist on
where the participants of political power form sepa
rate Glass; and the labor of the country is subjected
its capital Socialism is at with society, becaus
of the shifting and changeabe character of capital
1t impossible to concentrate labor and adjust it equ
ally among the people of State. There the bus
bees and the drones and unless the latter provide
for the expense of the laborous there is antagonsm
and if such expense there is still unaduste
difficulty. The antagonism between the North an
the South is natural one, and can-be destroyed
r ly by destroying slavery itself.
d Consumer and producer the great regula'
ing terms ofpolitca results, and although there ne'
Is er has been an age in which commercial interest
have not entered elements couSi(