New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-18

| life, and that the negroes enefgea M 70 80 "
cruited by the Slave trade, Chat IRON Virginia .ne
chefbreedpe state) then the argumest OIL es1pehei
,,..,.,. AZ the Slaves in this country has no moral
oree Now LEI us see the facts they are presented
in this light; and the following extract from MI
Yields book sIarery as Ii Is:
The Agricultural ) ciety Of Baio1 Rouge, Ia. n rs re-
not nnbished in ls49 furnishes abOred es'nate OF me
amopnt N expenditure necessarily incurred IN ing
wei regulated sugar estate In this esumate, he an
Dusl net loss Of Slaves over az aoOVs le @ IT, -,
gstiop s down at TWO AND HALr PEA tAsI, lne 7
Hon Jo,ab Johnston member OF Congress from Los,
isiana adore letter 20 the Secretary OF N Ohsi
States Treasury in $780, containing similar esut- ap
o,sr,v nade with great care and going into minute de-
tails Many items in tbs estmse differ from uis p's1
ing but the estimate Of the annual decTease o. los e5
on a la1taon wzsthe sare-Two ASD HALF Pr chNt-
In Sepeuber l-34 the writer Of this hsd an nieisisE
with JAMES G BrDey Esq who then resided 10 hentaKy
having removed with bis family from AaoAn ,ns year
before few hours before that interview and On me
morning Of the same day Mr.. had spent couple OF
hours with Hon Henry Clay ri HE residence near Losing
tong Mr. Bney remarked that Mr.. Clay hal just told
Inn he had lately been led to msru certain estimates
70 the increase Of the slave population IN me lar SOUTH
west-estimates which he had presented. think. in
speech before the Colonization SJcIey he now believed
mat the births among the slaves in that quarter aof
equal ne doos and that, Of course, the slave popls
1oD Independent Of immigration from the slave selling
Stat, : vas not sustainiHg tfseIf
Amor other facts stated by Mr. Clay the following
which copy rerbatDs from the original memorandum
made at the time by r Brney with which ne has kindly
sept is Is3iHOn H Clay hsorn hoass
o as ssp.sI congress FOO X. stat. ,s~s
s,s4 .s1s. &. ss. n closely mat s. TouS
forth child while ENGAGED the labor' Of the fed
Of oIsS IN Ssi.h one baadrse ihas Ss employed sses
a.. , S 5, s b is :s sfs ssd net been -
three although tsy al had husbaad,
The late Mr Samuel black Se hignly r. speeted citizen
Of Jerey City opposite the City Of NewIOrk, and
br Of tie Presby Church visited many OF the sugar
plantations in Louis few years since; and hAYng Tor
many YEAR, been the Of extensive sugar refinery
in England subsf quenty in this oOanty, he bad not
only eve facility sorced him by the planters tor personal
Dpe con OF all parts OF the process OF sugar king oai
received from fem the most unreserved communcAaons
a. TO their mansg cement Of their Slaves Mr. after BIS
return, frequently made the following statement 10 gentle
men Of ms acquaintance That the planters generally
declared him iht they were 0bgf so 70 over YORK ther
sayes during the sugar making season from eight 70 zen
weeks 10 nee them hD in seven or eight years for sNQ
th4v ait the process is commenced NUT be pushed
without cessation, night and day and We cannot a'rd TO
keep q sufficient number OF Slaves 10 DO the extra work at
the time Of sugar making As We could not roha0J employ
them the rest Of the year
Dr. Demning gentleman of high respectabli,y re
SIDING in Ashland Rcband County Ohio stated TO Probes
sor Wright, Of New York City:
Tia. during recent tour South, while ascending the Ohio
River the steamboat f'ns be bad 20 oppuniy o. onyens
with Mr. Dickinson nden Of Pustursh IN eompanI Th nas
Ter OF and dealers from Louisiana, Aaeana ADD
On he 1rsrcost IOuisana usually
Necessary employ about i the amount Of labor dais me n
inn a. op the Of raising they could
BY day and nbt duDs the eoins Son ae3-
b S eas ssoTs sasoe se had once "a sar,
nitteo By the Shareholders then on board
In the Key to Uncle Toms Cabin page 49, is the fol-
lowing from Mr. A A. Stone, Theological Student who
resided near Natcbez: On almost every plantation,
the hands suffer more less from hunger every year
There is always good deal of suffering from hunger
On many plantations and particularly of Louisiana, the
Slaves are in a condition of almost utter Punishment
during a great portion Of the year.
Mr. T. Baudinot, St Adams, Ohio, " member Of the
Methodist Church who was for some years navigator
on the Mississippi" says: The Slaves down the Mis-
sissipp are half starved The boats when they stop
at night are constantly boarded by Slaves begging for
something to eat"
Chapter ". is Or EMANcIPATIoS IN THE BRITIsH
CorosIrs-the effects Of which, Mr. Carey sums up by
saying;
The land owner has been ruined the aborer is fast
respsing into barbsrsm and yet in the face OF this fact
the land the Southern States are branded through
ont the world as yrants and slave breeders because
they will not follow the direction tits in face Of this
great that the people of the North are invited to join
m crusade against their brethren Of the South because
they still continue TO hold Slaves and that the men of the
South are frequently urged asr; their mmed ate and
unconditional Emancipation In all tins there certainly
much error and with view 10 determine whore IL lies as
well As 10 show what is the true road 20 emancipation
proposed inquire what has been, IN the various countries
of tie world the course by which men have passed from
1
zaiiop and from slavery TO Freedom That done may
next inquire the operating to prevent the
Emancipation OF the negro of America and the occupant
of the sweaters den in London and they can at once
be aScertaned il will then be easy to determine what
the measures needul 10 be adopted with view TO the
Enlistment Of freedom throughout the world.
Our author then proceeds in chapter V, to consider
How MAJ PASSES FROM Poverty AND SLAVERY TOWARD
WEALTH AND FRIEDox This is so instructive and
luminous chapter, and being key to the entire phil
osophy of the work, that give it without curtail-
ment
The first poor cuiyator is surrounded by land unoccu
pied The more 81 IL at his command he poorer n Is Com
peed TO work alone he is slave TO his cites and he
can neither roll raise log with which 10 build himself
house lie makes himself a hole in the ground, which
serves IN the place Of He cultvates the poor SOL OF
the bills to obtain little corn with which 70 exc ou' e
supply Of food derived from sharing the game IN bis negh
bOrhoOd His winters supply deposied in another hoie
liable 70 injury rom tie water viii h filters through the ght
soil into which alone he penetrate. lie IN hourly
dADger Of starvation Al length however his sons grow
I'd They combine their eSerons with his and no ob'An
something like and a spade. They can SINK deeper
into tie soil and cut logs and build something IKE
house They obtain more corn and more game ana iuey
can preserve better The danger OF starvation dnn
shed Being longer compelled 70 depend for fuel upon
the deoayed wood which all their father could com
mano they in less danger Of perhing ron colo ~ the
elevated ground which from necessity they occupy WIN
the growth Of the family, soils cultivated each 10
succession yielding larger return 10 labor ana tney %
tain q constantly increasing supply Of the necesSAes OF
life from surface diminishing lis ratio 70 the NUMBER 10
b. fed and thus with every increase IN the return 70 ocr
the power Of combining their e1eFIOns IS increased
live look 30 the solitary settler of the West even
where provided with both and spade we shall see HIN
obtaining with extreme difficulty the eommonest log hut
neghbor arrives and their combined efforts produce
new house with less than half the labor required Tor the
FIRST That neghbor brings horss, and be makes some
thing like cart The product Of their labor now ten