Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-09-10

differently interested citizens elsewhere. Fo
there can be no doubt that the instantaneou
gain to other interests would justify paying 70
all the slaves in that state by nonslaveholders
! through an emancipation tax upon their proper
ty, surprising joined. as they ought to be- in al
equity, instead OF aiming 10 close the doors Il
freedom as they are now doing
| Speaking OF Delaware, reminds me of strik
ing contrast between the workings of unpait
and paid labor. On the line between that Stat,
and Pennsylvania, in neighborhood where Their,
| Is not slave to be found, slavery not being
countenanced there, as is the case in parts of GU
own Cecil County, there lives on farm of les:
than hundred acres, if remember Alright
whlchls worked by the owner, assisted by one
full hand, free colored man, throughout the
year, or sometimes, (to quote the words of the
proPrletor) for two-thirds of the year, with boy
ior Inc whole, as an equivalent. His duly strict
~ farming implements" are an ox-cart and @
yoke OF oxen, couple of plows and a harrow
10 which should be added one horse and
dearborn, or carriage, which serves for con-
veyance 10 mill or to market, on weekdays, and
to haul his wife and babies to meeting, on Sun.
day, Naughter.) The profits of this farm were
at the time referred to- fire hundred dollars year
pocketed in quietude and peace of conscience
Now tor the contrast: In Virginia, and in one Of
the most fruitful as we'll as beautiful parts of it,
naturally, there was for sale, at That time, farm
OF i've hundred acres, on which there were the
owner and two sons, and fifty slaves, the usual
proportion of "feld hands, with 'any quantity
OF wagons and horses, and plows, and harrows
awaiting their use. This farm, according TO the
frank confession of the owner was bringing him
IN debt at the average loss of fire hundred per
annum. Such are the profits-such the "bene-
ff' of slavery
now come again to our own state; and vii!
close with one fact more. Not that my store
house of stubborn facts" is exhausted. Mon
omanlacal" as | may seem to one of our oppo-
nents, whom thank for demonstrating, by that
epithet, that the cry OF abollonst" so often hurld
at me, for the want of better arguments, has lost
its,stiDg. have been sane enough to keep al eye
to the facts constantly and continually flashing up
about mypathway. While riding one day through
portion of Kent county, Maryland, with med
lcal friend who also has al eye to this question.
and far seeing one too, he challenged Inc to
discriminate if | could, as had declared my
ability to do, between the farms worked by slaves
and those worked by freemen. We soon pas
sed n field whose appearance contrasted striking
Iy with the one Immediately adjoining it. 1t
was almost covered with thistles, while its neigh
Dor was free from them. Its fences were dilap-
idated and almost hidden by bushes and bram-
bleS, while those Of the other field were firm and
unshrouded. "Here we have it," | exclaimed.
"Here are the unmisiakable footprints ofslavery
there those of freedom It is only necessary
to "look at this picture and that" to feel assured
that am right, II added, glancng towards the
dwelling houses and barns Of the farms to which
these strangely contrasting fields belonged, and
which need hardly inform you, Mr.. President,
were quite in excepting" 1t should be added
that the occupant of the free labor farm was a
free colored man, who was, though only tenant,
rebuking the spirit of the system which kept his
brethren in thraldom on the adjoining farm, only
to impoverish it, while themselves deprived of
their just wages-ycs, one Of that class of
"worthless free negroes" whom the jealousy of
the slave interest would fain expel them from
the land of theirabirth, for no crime of the man.
ufacturing free North, without the cotton-culti-
waiting slavehodng South ~ Now, it is very
easy to put such questions as this They are
much more easily asked than answered, gen.
orally. But have a ready answer for this one
such an answer as is well adapted to my wants,
since see that the hour of adjournment has ar
rived, and it is in the form of another question,
which is this where would have been the in
come of the south, and where the ''bcneft' of
slavery to profitable coton-culture, but for the
free labor factories of New England, to say moth
ing of Old England, which is also free? The
bungling attempts to conduct cotton mills, with
slave muscles, even at the present day of i'm
proved machinery, will readily afford an aswcr.
But see the hammer is about to fall, Mr.. Chair
man, and will only, add therefore, that the facts
which have hurriedly given in the half hour
which has been allotted me, this evening, ought,
in my humble opinion, be sufficient to convince
every reasonable and fair-dealng mind that
viewed as grovelling question of dollars and
cents merely. Slave labor has been imeasur-
ably of less "beneft than injury" to our nation
At large, as well as to our own state-thati it has.
n other words, been OF incalcuablc disadvantage
TO our career, because adding, where adding at
all, only single dollars 70 our aggregate wealth,
where free labor would have realised hundreds,
f not thousands And, yet, behold how tenac-
ously we cling too.and hug in our fond embrace,
he dclusive phantom ofimagnary "benetit''--an
embrace as unhallowed as fond. Truth requires
hat should declare in the very car ofwhatever
prejudice the remark may arouse. As Maryland
ers let us awaken before it is to late, to the re-
llity of things around us, remembering the truth
If the adage that none are SO blind as those
who will not see.