New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-21

du,tr;.l ,pirit in tie South The people there de-
spi.e labor ,nd delegate II to slaves, and lsbor II
turn avoids them and seels proper home. Tie
sane wsnt Of enterprise which prevents Carolina
from being a manufacturing State forbids Charles
also from being commercial city Of high rank.
History affords 10 example Of any city being EN-
inepty com uercial withou. manufactures close Ut
hand. 1t We, so with Tyre and Venice. equally
a, il is with Nsw-Ycrk and Liverpool
No man now coming to this country seeks
South Carolina IS place for bis industry. OF
one thousand immigrants, there is not proper
ton Of ore single Que who gees thither to better
or perfect bis fortune. And why, Because Is
Dor 10 there condemned. Ii 10 considered the
work of slaves. Mechanics advertised - cattle
are there bought and sold every day. A State
University listens spprovingly to homily srgu-
ing that mechanics are unfit to vote; and the
Governor Of the State prcnounces "the lsboring
population. whether white or blesebed, s dan
"gerOus element" aud we hear Chi'slry always
praised, but Industry never.
There il not in the Union a State, says
The Charleston STANDARD, that will equal ours in
comparison to our population Our Produc-
"tons for the year 1854 will not come far short
of $50, 600 600, and yet We are net indspend-
cent. We have by our own products
made the North rich and powerful: aud now,
% in her might, she turns hydra Of abOlitionism'
"as our recompense. Our climate, our produc-
tiop,. our institutions and our interests, are
different from theirs-then why not depend
upon ourselves for support and assistance
Her task masters in the New England factories
and work shops hold up their hands with horror
at the very name of Slavery, and YET they will
q" sap the very LIES blood from their toiling poor
"at recOmpense Of from fifty cents to one or
two dollars day. so long as they are able to
" work, and when, by incessant toll and abuse,
they become weaker and disabled they then
turn them out TO die "a paupers and vsg,oond'.
"Oh but our northern friends have Great
" grounds to seek abroad for obj cts on WI d to
place their generous symPathies. through
our products and our purchases OF Boston ani
"New.York, their merchants have been made
rich, yet many Of them now use the means so
% obtained to buy up political demsgogues to
yify us in their senseless writings aud speeches.
.. Let Ia hear no more of il. but DO our own
(" business hereafter
1t is no wonder that Charleston cannot build
steamers when her journals use such arguments.
The wealth Of Carolina paraded alongside OF that
Of the freemen OF the North, when such riches
are produced by the lash and sll the infamous op-
pressions OF human bondage The North pro-
nounced az having become rich BY the Cotton
Crop, when it is, as we have already shown, 80
insignificant that the south, al told ia worth but
forty cents head to the North Aud this asser
ton. too, in The face of the fact tina. in all the
South there is not ingenuity enough to invent
lsbor.saving machine, and the whole value of the
cotton crop comes OF New Englin genius. Nor
should any one at this period Of light and liherty
longer draw q comparison between wages at two
dollsrs day and the absence ofaIl wages with Sa-
vety. Nothing but the ASSURANCE of Southern oil.
garch could now institute such parallel. AnEng
lish Duke or German Baron would scorn to make it.
Memph. Conventions however, will prate OF
direct trade and the southern journals will echo
it-forgettipg the first elements Of political ecor-
ouy which teach that commerce follows and does
not precede manufactures and that 80 long "
any State. from whatever cause. does not encour-
ace home industries, sh. cannot be commercial.
virginia ruled BY John Randolph, so dwndled
away that Norfolk neytr got over village proper
lions; and there is no reason TO make any exceP-
ton for Carolina to the inyariable law which We
have indicated. 1t is deplorable for sny sane
Journal TO ,waddle year in aud year out abeuta
supposed cause for the sleepness, stupidity aud
isziness OF the community in which it is
placed; denying ever reason but the real
one, for TIE municipal decrepitude around
il. Slavery, repelling every man of industry,
parts, talent and genius and living on the To-
sipidities OF plantation incapable Of making
a solid contribution to the progress OF the sge-
and yet Boosting OF independence Why, the
very two steamers 80 coveted would have to be
built BY Northern merchanics, and probably OF
Northern iron; or It least OF iron from that
Kingdom which boasts that no slave can press
her soil without becoming free. And when the
steamers were built they would have to be direct
ed by Northern men. The South claiming indie
pendence Why she is full thousand years be-
hind the North in civilization, and has lot the
stamina for separate existence. And let her try
indepe ndence and direct trade on the British
Free Trade model, and ,he would share the fate
OF ali Britain's commercial victims
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