Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-05-05
From the San Francisco Herald
The Slavery Question.


Editor Of Me Herald Permit mi
through your columns to make few remark
concerning the leader in the Picayune, Of th'
18th inst, entitled Strange Memorial"
The Picayune deems that memorial an in
suit 10 the fundamental law and the people q
California If he means BY fundamental Law
the State Constitution, I allow it is in opposi
ton to III but, that It Is an insult to the peo
pie deny. At this time there i very
small portion Of the people here who were
when the State Constitution was formed; con.
sequently we hear Of many applications for Q
convention to change the present constitution
as it is not at present to the interest Of the
people who live under it.
The editor has strong objection to NEGRO
slavery" and says its introduction would be
inimical to every interest Of the State, and
that " slave labor can never be profitable
in California. cit is said; in Vermont, the
first audible noise a new born baby makes i
10 cry out "Free Sile." Old women at the
North 20 for Free Sile, " but ghen an editor
Of a daily periodical, in big sea port town,
asserts that slavery is inimical to every inter
est Of this State, we expect him TO give his
reasons why it Is 50, as a barren declaration
means nothing without the reasons.
most sincerely believe negro slavery
in this State would be vastly beneficial 70 ev-
cry white man here, be lie rich or be he poor
Ny reasons in part, are as follows:
We have vast extent Of territory, suscepr
tible Of the highest state Of cultivation; at
present il lies idle and must 50 remain at the
present rates Of labor, as no farmer can pro.
duce the staple grains and compete with Chill
and our farmers at home. The result is, every
thing We consume comes from abroad and il
absorbs all our money to pay for i, conse.
quently prevents large aceumulating Of capi
tal in our State and Chill has been the re.
cipient Of millions Of our money for bread
stuffs that We should have produced and would
have done, provided our laws would have per
mitted our Southern planters to have emigra
ted here with their slave property, and been
protected in IT,
The great bulk and primitive repository q
gold in this State lies in the quartz rock, and
at the present price Of labor, it is quite i'm.
possible to deveIope it, as it requires ten rial.
Of labor to produce eight rials Of gold. One
thing is evident. this quartz gold has got %
come out either BY white or negro slavery.
10 me It is revolving to make q white man q
slave.
To enslaye a negro, we do nothing that
comes in collision with the best feelings Of
philanthropy, but bestow great blessing on
the black race, BY directing their physical
energies, and rendering them happy and use
ful to ourselves.
/ am in favor Of introducing slavery into
this State, under proper restrictions, prohibi-
ting slaves from working the mines, and con-
fning them to the tiIlage Of the soil and me-
NAL servitude BY this system Of slavery We
should at once change the entire Sacramento
Valley, (that reaches to the foot hills Of the
Sierra Neyida,) from barren waste to lxuri-
ant fields Of pasture, grain and all agricultural
productions. BY this system Of agriculture,
all a miner requires is produced in bis imme-
diate neigbborhood, and he viii be enabled to
get his living as cheap here as at home. Here
then, be will, By ia labor in Quartz Mining,
make as much pr saving on three dollars
per day as he d now on five dollars. The
Quartz can bciForked to advantage on three
dollars day labor and pay well, but five dol
lars prohibits their development.
Yours SPARTA.