New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-08
THE PRESS AND SLAVERY.

IL is of 10 less Importance TO .ne repute OF
the Northern States than to the veal OF the
Southern, that there should be no mlsrepresent-
alton deliberately made of the relative re-
sources and abilities of the two portions OF the
country so differently tempered and controlled
as they are We will do the press of the slave
region the Justice to say that they always put
the best face upon their affairs; and nothing
but the incorrgbe figures OF the census per-
mits us TO Judge Of the real state OF things
over the greater half of this vast country While
the South is so true to her supposed interests,
we find stupid and traitorous Journals at the
North which never omit chance TO mlsstate
the real condition of things at the South by
oyerprasing it, or TO yilify the character oil
the North by odious comparisons. Foremost IN
this bcsOtted work stands the Satanic Press oil
this City. Assured of sale of its sheets IN
region where ignorance is increasing TO an
extent which. if unchecked, will render
republican forms of Government impossible,
the Satanic utters its hardy inanities, to be
qreedily caught up by malign or unenllghtened
southern journals. Thus the name OF the North
is defed while the folly of the South is con-
frmed. 1t is monstrous, that the conductor oil
newspaper. who rates lower than a convict
among all respectable people OF this community
should be so quoted at distance.
In exemplifcation of this, take the following
sro,n the Satanic. which has been widely copied
in the Southern press:
,r, ere hes, With shor and common schools in me
1rsd and meat WIFI the south, notihstanln5 the drauth
they have co-n sraye abundance. Ana ia, !, 70
n rs within the years the only alternative for SUI
ce bread in the North for The PeePa othe Aoi s ee 70
OUT The product. supplies Of Southern ssyrr Of the as
vtr. aud we The North would be suffering the eVS OF
an Irsh famine"
such libel on the entire spirit OF people
and the life of liberty would be slightly expiated
by ten years, hard labor in a chain-gang. Let
Us analyze its measureless mendacity
Ii i true thar we eat little rice from the
few acres of slaye-worked swamps in South
Carolina: and we get very small proportion of
our sugar from Louisiana. From North Caro-
lima and Virginia, too, we receive about one
bushel of corn and wheat where Louisiana,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Florida,
get ten bushels from the Northwestern
States, the poor negroes would soon
have to dispense with meat. Indeed,
while the Southern papers are repubishing this
libel, there is famine prevailing in the upper
part of Georgia worse than we have ever had in
the North, even under drouth of two or three
years At this moment, too, so great is the
scarcity of food upon some of the Mississippi
plantations, that saye-owners are obliged to
submit TO the severest rates of interest In bOr-
rowing money TO buy food for the starving peo-
pie whom they cannot afford to lose.
The inference 10 be drawn from the article
under consideration is that the Satanic writer
and all his copyists consider free labor and
common schools in great abundance" as among
the greatest evils We can suffer because famine
is Incidental to a country where freedom exists.
The remedy, then, is plainly pointed out, and
that, too, in a journal published in the City Of
New-York in the year 1855. Ii is TO fall back
upon "the southern system OF African slave la
"bor." And a foreign adyenturer of such a
character as we have described dares 10 recon-
mend such destiny for American freemen'
The following extract from Louis NapoeOn's
explanation Of the last years campaign against