The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-07

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it to admit the obvious conclusion to which
their effects lead rs: that the two branches Of
labor have, in their joint operation, produced a
measure Of national and individual prosperity
which could have been secured by no other
process of industry. Each seems to be exactly
fitted to perform the Office assigned it in the
general economy Of the whole system. The men
of the North would perish in the RICE cotton, and
sugar fields ofthe South; they are neither quail
flied physically or adapted mentally for such
labor. The men Of the South surely are wholly
disqualified to perform the difficult and exacting
duties Of Northern industry in all its varied
branches. The union of the two interests under
the same political organization which assures
an entire freedom of intercourse and an unre-
stricted exchange of productions was precisely
what was required to give to each its due weight
in government and the greatest possible mate
rial advance and prosperity.
II is remarkable fact, that where Oh this
Continent there is union between African
and American labor there is to be found the
greatest thrift and the most unquestioned pros
perity, and that where such union has been
severed it has been by violence, and has been
followed by decay, poverty and Ignorance. ia
maica was divorced from involuntary servitude.
and, although controlled by the most economical
and enlightened government in Europe is
scene Of utter ruin, while Cuba, governed by
more than despotic tyranny, is successful almost
without example Mexico, with fertile soil, a
genial climate, boundless mineral wealth, with
a1n o-3a al "a lo
based, beneath contempt; while Brazil, with less
advantages, and with a stubborn, unyielding
system Of restrictions drying up the very
sources OF her wealth, in union with Afi-
can labor is successful and prosperous.
Here, too, before us, is a better illustra-
ton, in our own and the condition of our
Canadian neishbors. They have q climate and
soil susceptible Of immense production. Their
mineral wealth is also great. They have tacil-
ties for both internal and foreign commerce
and the all elements which, if properly directed
and employed, insure boundless material pro
gress. They have, toe, great numbers Of Afri-
can people; but they receive them into relations
which make them paupers and not producers.
In England the great success her system is
clearly traceable to the union of voluntary and
involuntary service. At home the aristocracy,
consisting Of about twenty-five thousand FAM.
lies, are the owners Of the real estate while the
millions below them work il at that point
which will barely support animal existence.
The free laborer in England receives not more
than one-third Of the provisions per day that
the slave Of the United States receives-less
than one-half Of what the suspected, the con-
victed and the transported thief of that coun-
try receives. Yet the British government, by
bringing to it's treasury the result of the invol-
untary labor Of it's East India possessions,
amounting to twenty-nine millions Of pounds
sterling yearly, has been eminently successful.
Like the same species of industry in the United
States, though secured at great disadvantage,
it has stimulated commerce, opened markets
for manufactures, enlarged territorial bounda-
RES, tomented private enterprises whose on
quests have made the world tributary to the Bri-
tish merchant.
But perhaps the most foreiile illustration Of
he success in the employment Of African in
connection with voluntary labor. is found in the
condition ofSpain and her West India colonies.
The home government is in process of certain and
rapid decay. Poverty, dishonesty, disregard
Of the commonest decencies Of life violation Of
treaties and Of the comfy Of nations, rapacious
seizures of private fortunes and their CONVEX
sion to the pockets cfhungry official, connivance
with the African slave trade for the miserable
pittance it yields to the royal family, is but
feeble outline Of its condition and history. Un-
like England and her East India possessions,
with the government Of Madrid and its colo
MES there are no social, political and very
limited commercial relations. The connection
between them is precisely that which exists ne-
tween the traveller and the highwayman. Com
mencing her career under the Moors it'll forty
millions of inhabitants, with fourteen rich
provinces, exhaustless mineral wealth, un-
doubted commercial supremacy Spain is re-
duced now to ten millions, while Cub. and
Porto Rico are her only notable remaining pos
sessions. The latter employ African labor, ard
though still under Spanish rule, and plundered
at each recurring harvest, are thrifty, prosper
Gus and successful.
Soft was in Rome. So long as that ancient
power united in her system voluntary and IN
voluntary labor she commanded the respect of
nations; when she severed that union she gave
fatal blow to her Own internal prosperity
and secured her decline and fall
Russia is now the most unmitigated slave
power in the world. Her political system is
one Of inherent dependence and servitude
African dependence in this country is licen-
tious liberty compared with the Russian system
of bondage and SO, indeed 10 it practically.
when compared with the relation Of landlord
and tenant in England. There is ten times
more suffering in the tenant relations in Great
Britain than under slavery in the United States
The evils Of the different kinds Of dependence
ought to be measured by what they deprive the
laborer OF. In this view involuntary service
in the United States would be az aheayenly re-
treat from'the relations Of landlord and tenant
in England