The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-20

fostering spssie~ o. sfaiecsaSy 1fbc deem i
disgraeeful to labos," This y easily aaid. Bo
every body knows Who knows any thing Of nv
man nature. even 10 our rsligious and Demo
cratic country, that few people labor. ia tn.
usnai accephtion Of ths term, who can i've
without II. And every body ScqasinAed With
both North and South, knows that Of tbs riet
who labor. moro srs ~ BE- found Ia the South
thar In the North. This Is matter Of course
from the rural residence Of the rich IN the
South, and the city residence Of the ss,ss class
in the North. An for the class who attend Ia
banking. merchandising. or the owner. Of mana.
featuring establishments, none Of them work
more than any planter who directs the concerns
Vt plantation.
We didrot know that It was divine iyunc-
tioa that man shall obtsin his bread by the swsst
Of his brow. We thought it was curse in
nieted Tor tranagression. AsfOr the solemu de-
clarstiou that liberty" ID among the Inalien-
able rights" Of 9 all men," il it u now the case,
Why does New York ALLEVIATE thess inalienable
rights BY putting into her jailsand peniteatiariss
more men, TO say nothing Of women, than al
The Southern States put together.
The Eusning Journal tells US that slavery
.leads to physical and mental eneration In
master and man." Where b the evidence Of
this! Our census does not show--we wish II
did-the stature sizsssnd strength Of the people
ofths respective States But we have specimens
here In Congress. Msssn. BurLER and RHErr,
the senators from South Carolina, certainly have
the advantage in this respect over Messrs. Dick
Issos and SswARp, the senators from New York,
and the latter the favorite offree soil and Of the
Esening Journal is certainly rather an unfortu-
nate specimen OF physical vigor for freedom in
comparison with slavery. And as for the mem
bers Of the House, we defy the Evening Journal
to muster any Northern delegation superior in al
the elements Of physical vigor to the South
Carolina delegation. And ms this is question
of Importance, we will take this occasion to say
that the entire Southern delegation in Congress,
is decidedly superior 80 fur as we can judge by
the eye, in the qualities of size, stature, and
weight, to the Northern.
As for the higher qualities-the mental-who
shall decide? Until phrenology il reduced TO
. scieuce, we must take history, and take the
complaints of the North that notwithstanding
her uniform numerical majority. and her colossal
common school greatness, the South has gener-
ally won the principal honors of the Union
Nay, even when Northern policy is to be sus-
tanned, Southern ability is often invoked to take
the lead
And the Epening Journal will probably have
to choose either Mr.. CLAY or General ScorT, or
Mr.. BENTON or General Housron as candidate
for the Presidency, all of them tall enough and
possessing tolerable average of talent.
( AS for the curse of slavery to the slave, com
pare him of the South with his ancestors in AT
rica, and tell us how it happens that six thous-
and emancipated slaves from this country rule
one hundred and fifty thousand natives of Africa
ut Liberia. ~
The Journal tells us that 6 the lending pro
ducts of slave labor make heavy DRIFTS on the
SOIL" This is not the fact Corn is the great
staple Of Indiana, and is exhausting, as cotton,
tobacco, sugar, or hemp, and more 30. And we
are satisfied that the lands of Ohio and Indiana
which have been cultivated thirty years, have
been reduced MS much as any lands in Virginia
ever were in the same time. In New York, we
have it on the authority of it's ablest agricultural
work. that the production of wheat per acre, has
been reduced one-half AS for the assertion
concerning Virginia, that her original soil was
as prolific as that Of Indiana" it betrays total
ignorance of the subject. The soil Of Virginia
nee kno,o, never comparable to that of Indiana
originally. We don't believe that the soil Of
Virginia ever had one-third of the average fer
tility Of Indiana.
The contrast between Virginia and Kentucky.
on one side Of the Ohio river, and Ohio and In
diana on the other SIDE, is also another striking
case of ignorance. In Kentucky are to be found
the best cultivated lands, and Of the highest
price. But in Kentucky, and Western virgi
MIA, the average quality of the land is immensely
inferior to that Of Ohio and Indiana. Neverthe-
less the people Of Kentucky, are weather. on an
average, and are taller, stronger, and heavier
than the people Of Indiana or Ohio, and much
more so than those Of New York.
As for the determination Of the North, that
slavery shall extend no further-we shall see.
New York Politics.
The confusion in New York politics is getting
worse COMPOUNDED, and new Developments are
daily taking place in the Legislature, now in ses