The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-07

short, every material and every conyeH
ience necessary for manufacturing indus
try.
Above all, think of Richmond. natures
chosen site for the greatest mannfactui-
ing city in America-her beds of ee@i
aud iron Just at hand, her incomparabse
water power, her tide-water nasiyatio
conducting sea vessels from TIE foot 81
her falls, and above them her fine e.
to the mountains, through which lie the
shortest routes from the eastern tides to
the great riyerof the west and the south
west. Think, also, that this Richmond,
in old Virginia, s'the mother of States, :"
has enjoyed these unparalleled advantages
ever since the United States became a
nation, and then think again that this
same Richmond, the metropolis of old
Virginia, has fewer manufactures than a
third rate New England town; fewer,
not than the new city of Lowell, which is
beyond all comparison, but fewer than
the obscure place called Fall River, among
the barren hills of Massachusetts; and
then, fellow-citizens, what viii you think,
what must you think of the cause of this
strange phenomenon ? Or, to enlarge
the scope of the question; what mustyou
think has caused Frginians in generaito
neglect their superlatiYe advantages for
manufacturing industry? To disregard
the evident suggestions of nature point
ing out to them this fruitful source OF
population, wealth, and>comfort ?
Say not that this state of things Is
chargeable to the apathy of Virginians.
That is nothing to the purpose, for 1t
does not 60 to the bottom of the subject.
What causes the apathy? That is the
question. No State has greater conven-
fences for ship navigation and ship build
ing than Virginia. Yet on all ler fine
tide waters she has little shipping and
what she has is composed almost wholly
of small bay craft and few coasting
schOQners.
We do not blame our southern people
for abstaining from all employments oi
this kind. What could they do? Set
their negroes to building shipse Who
ever imagined such an absurdity? But
could they not hire white men to do such
things? No; for in the first place south
ern white men have no skill III such mat
ters, and in the second place, northern
workmen cannot be hired in the South,
without receiving heavy premium fol
working in slave State.
A Carolinian uses the following Ian
guage :-"The disparity in the wealth
and prosperity, the population and pro-
gress ofthe northern and southern States
has been the standing topic ofremark fol
quarter of century. The tourist has
noted it in his memorandum book; the
statesman has deplored it In strains OF ell
oquence; the political economist has es'
sayed to account for it; even the most
unobserving traveller, who passes from
one section to the other, is forcibly struck
with the immense superiority of the North
over the South, in all the elements of So
cial advancement Northern men have
reminded us of it; southern men have
admitted, lamentcd, apologized for it, all,
in turn have used it, ''to point a moral oil
adorn a tale"
Such, fellow citizens, are some of the
effects of slavery upon the .grouth and
prosperity of State, as established by
the census, and by the testimony, not oI
abolitionists, not of hot-headed fanatics,
but of shareholders, southern politicians
and southern divines, men who speak
what they know, and testify to what they
have seen; and it is for the purpose oI
planting in this fairest portion of the
world the blighting curse of this wither-
ing institution, that the late incursion oi
the border hordes from q neighboring
State was made, and that Legislature
elected By forei ign votes now sits In Kan.
sas.
But let us glance at the state of society
in community that repudiate the prin-
ciples of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, and see if that is worthy of an in.
PRODUCTION to our new Territory. Here
again let us hear from our Souther
friends. Mr. William Gregg, of South
Carolina, says:
"My recent visit to the Northern
States has fully satisfied me that the true
secret of our difficulties lies in the want
of energy on the part of our capitalists,
and ignorance and laziness on the part oi
those who ought to labor. We need
never look for thrift while we permit oui
immense timber forests, granite quarries,
and mines to lie idle, and supply our.
selves with the hewn granite, pine boards.
laths, shingles, DC, furnished by the
tazy dogs of the North; ah, worse than
this we see our back-country farmers,
many of whom are too lazy to mend q
broken gate, or repair the fences to pro.
tect their crops from the neighborin9
stock, actually supplied with their axe,
hoe, and broom handles, pitchforks,
rakes, &c., by the iRdotent mountain.
GERS of New Hampshire and Massachu-
sets. The time was, when every. old
woman had her gourd, from which the
country gardens were supplied with seed
We now find it more convenient to per.
nit this duty to devolve on our careful
friends, the Yankees. Even our boat
oars and handspikes for rolling logs, are
furnished, ready made, to our hand
Need l add, to further exemplify oul
excessive Incidence, that the Charleston
market is supplied with fish and wild
game by Northern men, who come out
here as regularly as the winter comes,
for this purpose, and from our own wa
ters and forests often realize, in the
course of one winter, suficiency to pur-
chase a small farm in New England. "
And again: 'tShall We pass unno-
ticed the thousands of poor, ignorant,
degraded white people among us, who,
in this land of plenty, live in comparative
nakedness and starvation? Many one
is reared in proud South Carolina, from
birth to manhood, who has never passed
mouth in which he has not, some part
of the time, been stinted for meat. Ma
ny a mother is there who will tell you
that her children are but scantiIy sup
piled with bread, and much more scan
tily with meat, and if they be clad with
comfortable raiment, it is at the expense
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