North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-30
From the Charleston Courier. I

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HIRe1,Ne LABOR AND SLAVE LABoR-JAMAIcA AND
CusA-EFFEcrs OF ABoLIsHINe SLAVE LABOR. In
every country of the world the mass of the people
must forever get their daily bread by daily labor.
There are two kinds of labor, hireling labor and
slave labor. The task of each is the same-contin-
ued hard work. The promised reward of each is the
same also-subsstence for the labor. This he should
be Of If be true, that shall earn his bread
by the sweat of his brow, il ought also, to be true,
that he shall have his bread for the sweat of his brow
But hireling labor does give it. In Europe, there
are millions of paupers. Able bodied men IN urea
Britain and Ireland. cannot sustain their famhles
work. Men, women and children. die OF munger Ia
the want of employment The hirellngs OF Ine o
world are consequently Disconnected. They clauoul
for change. They want communism. soclai f , III
organization of abor-something different noni .ne
present SYSTEM anything rather than .ie eFnosed
misery and starvation which they are'no"
Society in England and France is coHVuiseo, LOT Is
very cause and it is hard TO say where the feeoy 10
to come from. >1.,, nao,le ,rre
avood;nau sef pacent about their own hIrellng
labor and they denounce slave labor as moral social,
and notca evil this is the most approved form Oh
condemnation.
INV their hireling labor with its adyantages-its pau
perism, rowdyisn., mobism and anti-rentlsm-i's
strikes, emeutes and street fights. We do not want
it. We are satisfied with our slave labor. 1t Is Or
dcry and efficient. 1t is the oldest kind of labor-as
DID, certainly as the Patriarchs. We like old things
old wine old books, old friends old and fixed rela-
tons between employer and employed, at least when
they belong different races, the superior race,
the other inferor-the Causassan, the other ne
gro. These work together most happily and
prosperously, in the relation of master and slave.
Take Jamaica and Cuba as an illustration-comPare
them with the climate, the same soil, the same
productions, the same labor far, and abili-
iy concerned, the is runous colony, the 9TH
er the most prosperous urder the sun; and ms 100,
in spite of government not favorable to its industry
Why is this1 The reason is plain-the one is cul-
tivated by hireng labor-the pet workmen OF Exeter
HaII-the other by slave labor. In the one, the me-
gro is an idle disorderly, worthless vagabond-n the
other, he is an efficient, con,ened cuvator OF the
SOIL We challenge the world for any other expla-
nation than this for the different condition OF the two
Islands.
There is nothing surprising in these different re-
suits. A slight eXannation-l have no room tor
any other-o the nature of slave labor will make the
explanation easy. The hirelings of Europe are clam
curing for what they term the organization ct ahor
Slave labor is the only organized labor ever known
1t is the only condition of society in which labor and
capital are associated large scale-in which
their interest combined and not In conflict Ev-
cry plantation is organized community phai-
anstery Fourier would call it-where all ,0orh,
where each member gels subsistence and home, and
the industrious, larger pay profits according
their superior industry In Europe, the hirelIng
laborers shift for themselves, they competitors
for work against each other and the weak, the SICK
the old, the improvicent 60 to the wall and perish
Therefore il is that paupersm, starvation des
titution found in Cuba and in the slave States of
North America, and that all these evils with their
attendant vagrancy and disorder are abundant in the
English West India Islands, Hayti and in Europe.
Not only is the relation of master and slave the
most conductive to the joint prosperity Of white and
black il is in essential to the existence of the
black 1.-THE negroes were made free, whether peace
ensued, they would. in time. become extinct
This is not theory speculation, it is the lesson of
history or philosophy teaching by example. Where
are the native Red Men of North America! They
have disappeared from all the Atlantic States. They
gone from Pennsylvania as entirely as from NewEng
land; the friendship of the Quaker and the hostility
of the Puritan have been equally fatal. In they
were crushed in peace they were worn away by the
competitor Of intelligent, active and industri
Gus race. The same competition which in Europe
is destroying the feebler hireing before the stronger
neghbor, has been death to the Red Man, and would
be death to the black if released from slavery which
alone protects him from it. This fact is now
clearly exemplifed in the cities of the North to
ry who is in pursuit of TRUTH and not of factions
or philanhropic dogmas. 1t is conclusive to every
one who gives the subject adequate reflection.
CURTIUS.