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

snd some steamboat captains. but the larger
pun Der Of those who have any enterprise IN
| them lave moved 10 Illinois or Winconsin to
| escape the contagion and digrace Of the diss-
| creeable state Of things at home.
| 1t il also to be rema rked of the social life at
| the South that just in the degree in which her
/ material prosperity has advanced. or in other
words Just to the extent in which she has sue
ceeced in introducing commerce and industry,
| the slsye-system has decayed and the Preju-
dice- in favor of Slavery have been mitigated. 10
| and srouno New-Orleans Mobile, Savannah aud
/ other cities the labor OF the Irish and the Ger
mans is fast supplaDting tina. of the blacks
! in innumerable vacations, while the same is
| true If the northern parts of Georgia and OF
nearly all the frontier States, not excepting
! Virgin ia which derives so much Of its subsist-
euce from the breeding Of slaves. The energy
| OF the muscle, uncontrolled by the lash and
stimulated into action by feelings which are
peculiar to men, is superior to the energy Of the
mere brute muscle, while there ls no compir-
son to be drawn between the ssgacity and intel
ligtnce Of freedom aud those of seryitude \
free man is at any time and in almost every de-
partment Of work, except the most mental and
coarse, worth at least a half dozen slaves.
What. then, would become of the South if she
were left to rely wholly upon the labor of her
necroesi Would not the little she has already
accomplished be lost Could she retain even
tie few white mechanics and functionaries who
have been attracted thither by the prospect of
higher pecuuiary reward Yet without these
she cannot be more than food and cotton pro-
ouoiug nation almost wholly dependent upon
other laticns for every article of consumption
beyond the simplest necessaries of life
II is easy to make calculation on paper that
as the present estimated imports of South are
Sl70,O0O,COO duty of ten per cent would
Weld revenue of 81, 100000, wherewith to
support a new General Government; bat it
would not be easy to turn those imports away
from New-York or Boston into Charleston or
New Orleans. 1t is easy to show how direct
trade with Europe would be the means Of saw
ing large commercial profit now paid to North
ern merchants, but il is not easy 10 divert those
profits from their present channels inIo entirely
new directions. \ small river falling from the
tops of the Aleghanies would be an inexhausti
bic source Of water-power, but the trouble is
to get the water up the hight. The harbor of
New-York removed to Norfolk or Savannah
would be an excellent thing for the Virgnans
or the GeOrgians. but who is able 10 take Il to
Norfolk or Savannah 1t cannot be done by
political revolutions, nor by newspaper leaders,
nor even by act of Congress. y sound system
Of labor might improve the trade of both Nor
folk and Savannah without injuring that of New
York, and an unsound system of labor might re-
duce New-York to what Norfolk and savannah
now are bat no human contriyance can rendersn
unsound system a sound one or derive from
moldy and wOrm-eaten shoot the same fruit
which il derives from healthy and vigorous
tree.
The sad, the deplorable error of the South is
that it does not, or rather will not, see how all
it, inferority springs from this single curse of
Slavery; and it may try to the end of time and
il will not force the laws of nature and society
into 40 approval Of what nature and society ut
terry abhor and condemn. Did the man in the
fable who tried to wash the black man white
succecdl Has any child ever caught the end of
the rainbow Has ingenuity yet found the
secret Of perpetual motionl No and neither
will the South achieve marked and eminent
success 10 persuadiDg the Great Author of All
Truth that four millions of his human creatures
are not humans but only animals or things. Yet
this is precisely the experiment in which she is
tenaciously engaged.
Failing in this perpetually the South charges
her losees uDon the aopressions of the North and
gets as mad as a piper when the North tells her
the plain truth on the subject. Compelled to
remove perpetually from her exhausted fields
exhausted through bad form Of culture-she IN
sists upon the constant acquisition of new ter
Iitory, and when the North refuses, busters fu-
riOusly about dissolying the Union. Dlseon-
tented and restless at home she seeks relief in
quarrels abroad regardless Of the peaceful pur-
suits and Christian convictions of the North,
which more than once has saved her from eX-
ternal conflict, as il necessarily saves her from
internal decay and dissolution. II is true that the
North has reaped some small advantages from the
charge, and has not been anxious TO sever tie
in which both parties were benefited, but the
most enduring patience is sometimes outworn,
a. the strongest interests also often give way to
stronger convictions of right. Let not those
who not only consented TO the Kansas nquity,
but who forced it upon the reyolted North, for
get that the force of insolence and outrage lean
no further go"
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