New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-26

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a. welD; 80 the question whether such learned
beads covered with black ski3s and woolly
lair should ride 10 the Sxtb-av. cars is worthy
OF legal determination.
VALUE OF TIE INIoS TO THE SOUTH
The Charleston Standard, to whose argument
on the Kansas Outrage we lately referred. h,,
followed up that article with a series Of essays
en- the value Of the MON to the Southern
States Itisneedless for u to ssy TO any one who
knows that journal that these essays are dstn-
eui.hed for their ability as well as for their ear
nestDess Of conviction. But at the same time
they display such sn obvious and ptiabls delu-
SIGN on the subject of Slavery that the reader
of them is lost in wonder at the fact that 40
much intellectual yig0r should be cOmpat bic
with such chidlike and obstinate credulity
Ii is painful to see felow-creature submit
biz mind to his prejudices to such an extent as to
blind him not only to the deductions of reason
(Which are sometimes obscure to men really So
licitous to know the truth), but to the plsnest
principles of science and the most fragrant de-
mCnstTations of fact. Yet We are forced to be-
intelligent person undertakes to excuse Slavery.
As that anomalous and disgraceful institution has
proved the evil Of its effects in a thousand ways,
through long centuries in which il has been per-
United 10 exist, be who seeks to pallate justify
it ! as 10 new and untried experiment to defend,
but 81 old, mOnstrous and many headed abuse
which las arrayed against it the accumulated
ienl pK mel iar nf M fha II
Of the sOundest political wisdom and the SINGER
est feelings Of religion. The difficulties of the
position, therefore, are intrinsic, and can only
be net, even for a transient success. By rhet-
oic as brilliant as It's logic would be necessarily
defective.
We shall not, consequently, follow The Stand
ard in all its tortuOus and mpracticabe assump-
tons as to the prOpriety of Slavery. because
We believe that the universal instincts of our
race are opposed to a condition of things
which subjects the welfare of thousands OF hui
nan beings to the arbitrary will of one man;
but its suggestions as to the ability Of the South
to maintain an independent Government, and
prosperous state Of society, we propose to con-
slider. ItaIgues that a duty Of ten per cent on
Southern imports would raise a revenue suih-
cient to support a Southern Republic, while the
South, emaDcipated from It's dependence upon
the North, could maintain its own commerce,
its own manufactures, and its own schools and
colleges, as well as its own agriculture. AS
cotton feeds and clothes all the world, of course
all the wealth Of the world would flow into the
pockets Of the planters in return, provided they
should once take the management Of their affairs
into their own hands. They would ship their
staple directly to England; they would take pay
in iron and other commodities which they can
not themselves produce; they would build their
own railroads to connect their great commercial
d, pots, aud they would carry on their own fac
tories to make their cloths, their sheetings,
their shoes and their hats.
What pretty speculation But alas like
so many other pretty speculations-the dream
Of IcaIus for instance, about flying to the sun,
when he got the wax on his wings melted-it
has one capital defect Ships cannot be sailed,
nor locomotives driven, nor spinning jennes
operated, without the labor of the human brain
ind hand. Now, who is going to do this labor
for the South Who is going to man her clip
pers, guide her express trains, construct her
water-wheels and steam-engpes, hammer her
lapstCnes, twist her ropes, boil up her old bones,
put heads on her pins and sew on her buttons
II is clear that Mr. Planter himself will not do
il, because he has already us much rs he can
attend to in keeping his five hundred acres clear of
weeds, going to Congress and perpetuating the
variegated stock of his farm. II is also very
clear that SambO and Cuffee will not do it, for
put Sambo on o ship and he will steer, supposing
him capable Of steering at all, straightway for
the North Star, never to steer back again, while
Cuilee would ride locomotive, like beggar on
horseback, l. e. to the devil. On the other
hand, if KEEP, at home, and cspped into facto-
ries. they would lose all their ten toes and hn-
gers in less than a week, supposing there was
some body 10 provide the factories first In
ether words, slave labor is wholly unsuited on
an extensive scale, to any but agricultural IN
dustry and the simplest mechanical employ
neut, while free-abor will not consent to oecu-
py the same region with it, except for short
period, and on the most unequal terms. Either
the one or the other must be driven out
The alternative which the South prepares for
herself, then, in her insane dream, Of indePend-
ence, is complete subsection TO the North by
force Of her own necessities, or q return TO the
condition of Brazil and the other South Ame rcan
nations who maintain squalid and pinchbeck na-