New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-02

tina. Il wants indeed to be entirely perfect are a
few urcre factories, a few more railroads, lew
more sAips, few more schoOl-houses, fe"
more libraries, and few more churches But
fortunately with few more negroes from Africa,
on the prinsiple rf smiia siniiibHS earannr, even
these defects NAV be remedied. aud the great
southern Republic "a I'D forth the envy AID ad-
mration Of tLs world
We wonder. however. that The Standard onits
al reference tcthe most essential and charac-
tc-istic difference between the systems Of the
Ne-th and the South, wAich relates not TO the
nuMbr of laborers, but to ,he kisS o. labor. The
labor Of the North is an intelligent and skillful
Labor, whereas THAI of the South is mere brute
or ancultivated labor and san never be any
thing more while Slavery is mainSained. The
labor of the North has consequently assembled
from rude and simple digging of the earth to
supply the first necessities of ife, TO an ingen-
ious and varied and refined skill, which multi
plies luxuries and develops the means Of social
existence.
Now the South might ransack the whole CONT
neut Of Africa and bring over every negro on 1t
from the Great Desert TO the Cape OF Good
Hope. and would not BE- able TO reach q high in
dust-ial development under its present scheme
of Slavery. The reason is because Slavery is
in itself inconsistent with a high degree Of iu-
dustrial refinement and progress. 1t is not in
consistent with Ger sain opulence and spiendor,
as the ancient Oriental nations show; it may BIO
made under rigid military despotism to pro-
duce stupendous effeets-as we see IN Greece
and Rome; but it is wholly unadapted to the
prosecution of the complicated and responsible
processes Of trade aad manufacture as they are
carried on in the present state of the civilized
world Industry, as il advarces, becomes more
AID more thing os adrotness, of ingenuity, OF
calculation, or of Intelligent diligence, and less
and less a thing of mere muscular energy, and
the moment you st a class OF men FOR the dis
charge of its higher functions, that moment you
unfit them for Slavery.
Could the four million slaves Of the South be
lifted, therefore, into the intellectual and moral
condition of the Northern laborer in order to
come into competition with the latter In the sew
eral branches of practical art they would not
long remain slaves. They would come to know
rather too much to submit to the Infamous DOM
nation of their superors. They would escape
if they could and if they could not escape they
would organize formidable resistance to the
power by which they were borne down. An in
cessant irritation would thus be maintained in
society, quite unfavorable to the successes OF
industr; and trade,) and the end of the expert
ment vonlJ he a reaction into military Gudal-
sin or military despotism instead of launch
forward into civilization.
The difficulty with the South has not been the
want of an open reservoir to recruit its exhaust
ed resources from, but the attempt to establish
social system which belongs to the earliest
conditions of society in the midst of the most
advanced modern industrialsm, and during the
nineteenth century. 1t has undertaken to make
war On the eternal principles of social science,
to conciliate semi-barbarism and civilization, to
engraft the most arbitrary and despotic Of hui
man relations on q society which is ESSENTIALLY re-
publican and democratic; and in order to defend
its scheme which is absurd and Impractical
BILE under the circumstances as it is unjust in the
abstract, it is compelled 10 utter more nonsense,
tc resort to more ridiculous shifts of argument,
and TO become the object of more contempt and
laughter than any "ehiyalry" that has ever
made its appearance on the face of the globe,
not excepting that so humorously depicted by
the immortal author of Don QuixOte
Mr. David L. Gregg, United States Commissioner
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