Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-04-10
F,p;tS Of Addition.

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Fruits Of Abolition.
There is in human affairs principle of retribu-
tive justice which very surely avenges the wrongs
of the injured by inficting adequate punishment
upon the oppressor. Man may not foresee by
what chain of consequences the ultimate catastro
phe may be connected with the outrage, but not
more uniform is the relation between disease and
a violation of the laws of health, than between
punishment and violation of right and justice.
Triumphant crime may for time sweep all before
it and reyel in the enjoyment of the fruits of its
iniquity, but the dagger of offended justice will
inevitably short the career of the guilty
the divinity of royalty. Nature will sooner or
later vindcate its own lows, whether physical or
moral.
This truth will eventually be Illustrated in the
career of Northern abolition. AS yet the en-
croachments and outrages of abolition upon the
rights of the South have brought no disaster up
on the guilty oppressors. Apparently their tri-
umph is complete. But he who looks forward to
the necessary consequences Of causes now in ope-
ration sees an accumulation of calamities for the
abolitionists. Their own deeds will damn them
their own wrongs will oyerwhelm them.
It has been the chief end of Northern abolition
to prevent the extension of Southern slavery. By
restricting it to the narrowest possible limits, it
was thought that its extinction could be surely
and speedily accomplished. Hence, in order to
conne it to its present territorial area right, JUS
tce and the Constitution of the country have
been ruthlessly trampled upon. By one device
and another, by Wilmot Proviso or by '.Compro-
mise the abolitionists have gained their point
and slavery is bound TO It's present limits by barri
ers which it cannot overleap. 1t may be that the
policy of abolition will be successful, and that un
der its operation Southern slavery may ultimately
be extinguished. But the same force which sub
verts the institution of slavery, will destroy the
prosperity of the North.
From 1910 to 1850, the increase of slaves in
the Southern States was 690 223, and during the
next decade it will probably be 100000; so that
by 1860, the slave population of the South will
number 100000. Increasing in the same ratio
by the end of this century it will be thirteen mil
lions. By the efforts of abolition this vast amount
of labor is confined to area, for which third
of it would suffice Four millions of slaves as
noW employed would be sufficient for the wants of
the Southern States. What then shall be done
with the surplus The agricultural demand for
slave labor is amply satisfied. This demand can
not increase while the supply is rapidly accumula-
ting. The Southern States cannot open new fields
for the labor of their slaves, for upon which side
soever they turn, they feel pressing against them
the insuperable barriers which abolition has op-
posed to the spread of slavery. To maintain the
value of slave property something must be done.
The limited area of slave territory will not suffice
for the employment Of the increasing supply OF
slave-labor in agricultural pursuits But there
are the mechanic and manufacturing arts, at pres
ent monopolized by Northern abolition, and con-
sttuting the pillar of its wealth. To these slave
labor is well adapted and to these will it be turn
| ed when agriculture ceases to yield its remunera-
ting profits. In this effect, the consequences of
restricting slavery to limited area are already
percephble.
Northern abolition subsists upon its comparative
monopoly of the manufacturing pursuits. Ac-
cording to its account, it can hardly live even
with duty of so per cent. against foreign COM
petition. How will it be when the redundant
slaye-labor of the South is engaged in the me-
chanc and manufacturing arts ? What will be
the end of Northern abolition. when the price Of
cotton is increased by Southern demand, and
when It's manufacturers no longer enjoy monopo-
Ily of the Southern market? BY the aceumula-
ton of the slave population IN restricted area,
/. its labor will be cheapened the na0terial vii
be purchased without the expense of shipping-se
i that the factories of the South worked by slave
labor, will not only drive the products of the in
1 dustrv of Northern abolition from tie Southern
market, but will undersell it in the makets of the
world But Northern abolition will not suffer
alone. English abolition, generally called BRIT
ish philanthropy" will be the more helpless VIC
81 tim of the two In England the manufacturing
Interest barely subssts upon its present prohts.-
! Both labor and capital get the least possible re
muneration. But the factories OF the Souih, pos
sessing every conceivable advantage, would com
pete successfully with the factories of Great Britain
in the markets where the5 now enjoy a monopf
!, By this competition Of slave labor en- poyed il
Southern factories, the interest Of British capita
+ and the wages of British labor would be reduced
: even below heir present point of almost extrt M
depression. This could not occur without entail