The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-11-13
THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON D. c. NOVEMBER 49, 1851.

population shall have increased to forty thou
sand, he will sell two hundred hats AT the
same time his real estate advances In value as
the increase of population. He is thriving
nechanc-he can not only educate his chill
dren, but set them up in the same trade with
himself. The father sells 10 the fathers OF the
country and his sons to their sons-and what
applies to the halter. applies to every resident
of the city; 20 that there is no limit to the pop
ulation Of the city or country, until such time
as the earth shall cease to sustain the inhablt-
ants. And by manufactures, Massachusetts,
England. and some other countries sustain a
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 TO prevail-the
whole population. white and black, begin to de-
crease, and the productive power OF the black
is only half that of the white. The result is
that the halter. who at first sold one hundred
hats, in the course Of these events, now sells
but fifty; he is decaying tradesman. Just al
the time that he needs more money for the ed
ucation and settlement of his children, he has
less than in early life-thc profits of his trade
continually decline. whilst his real estate de
pull up stakes to use common phrase, anC
move to the free States, where his consumer
from the country have gone before HIM! AND
this reasoning is sustained by experience Nor
folk, in Virginia was once the emporium o
Eastern commerce ; bat slaves have driven on
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
whten every sea The Virginia Republican
says: "A little more thas eighty years ago til,
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 a 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 statlonary-then begin
to decline. Chmneys topple oft, and 90 unre-
paired underpinnings dccay--houses 60 I'M
painted-shutters fall to pleces-Gghts are
Ca IA, -N~t's>~ 81 w. naper
'-,,hyt;tq'-, ~, s,.!r5-z 6-.A)fa,te lbat a..
c;iy Is ess 4 ..:;.,;i..!!s 3sg@r "-it' ~
and hastens to its end
There was time when there were intrench-
ments, where the mechanic was secure against
the machinery of the free States and the compe-
tIion Of slave labor, i'm the handcratts 10 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 slaye-the simplest food
clothing and shelter, without education or any
of the elegances of life Penitentary labor is
demonstrated against in all parts of the Union,
by the whites, when applied to such manufac-
lures ~ are carried on in the neghborhOod, as
utterly destroying their livelihood. Yet slave
labor to the seven hundred thousand free white
lab0rers 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 cases
are the same--the result the samc-run to the
free laborer The newspaper press dcnounce
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
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, freemcn of Ken
the black or white race inhabit
this lovely land!
Those who would not as the Louisville
Chronicle, defy us, attempt to delude us by our
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 prejddlces against these for
eigners. Leaving a land of tyranny they seek
home among US because we are republicans
| give them the right hand of fellowship
welcome them rs freemen and equals. in 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 as appl-
cable to the development of the elements of
nature. The Dutch, the Irish, and French
have made Cincinnati what she is-cqual to the
old cities of the Fast 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 80 terrible that the starving
and diseased Dutch, and Irish, and French
crushed by dcspotsm 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
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