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

The Charleston Standard, admitting the great
superiority of the North to the South in all the
material elements of civilization, proceeds to
account for it by new method. II Is NOS
Slavery, it says, which impairs the efficiency OF
Southern industry and keeps Charleston at
population of fifty thousand while New-York
shoots up to a magnitude only second to that of
London and Paris, but the absence of the slave
trade.
The North has been supplied by the pauper
labor Of Europe, but the natural supply of the
South from Africa has been prohibited As
consequence Of this advantage the North has
been enabled to dig canals construct railroads,
build houses, pavs streets, turn hand to every
kind OF rs.anufacturing skill, and give employ
Eent to large masses of laborers as well as
value to every species of capital. On the other
band. the South having the Usual anu only
source of her peculiar kind of labor closed to
her, has never had more than sufficient to cul-
tiyate her fields and to perform those necessary
functions of industry incident to the simplest
and rudest forms of society
Had the great c6feina of Africa been open to
the South she would have achieved the same
prodigies of progress of which the Eastern and
Western States are so fond of Boosting. Even
as it is, Slavery has accomplished wonders.
1t has redeemed four hundred thousand square
miles of the primeyal forest; it has given nine
sovereign States to the confederacy; it has
added an unprecedented export to the CON-
merce of the country; and it has furnished any
number of Presidents and Generals beside de-
claring the law of political science for the
whole nation. What might not the South have
done then if instead of being restricted to Mary
land and Virginia for its surplus supplies of
laborers it had been allowed to transfer the in
habitants Of Guinea and the Gold Coast to its
shores
If you inquire of The Standard how it has
happened that all the pauper labor of Europe
has come to the North and so little Of it to the
South, the reply will be-ersdat Judeus -
"That white labor is too inefficient to stand the
competition Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
defective black labor of the tropics' Paddy
and Hans and Sawney run away from Quashee
and CudjOe not because they detest a commu-
nifty which degrades labor, but because Quashee
and Cudjoe are so much better workmen under
the admirable discipline Of the plantation !,
Paddy and Hans too, it seems, work at loose
ends; they will take spree, too, every now |
ard then; they waste time in quarreling with |
their wives or beating their children, or in talk
ing politics, in "cvil and domestic broils," as |
The Standard more politely phrases it; and when |
they get i'll, the want Of medical attendance |
lays them up for long seasons.
Now Quashee and Cudjoe are liable to none |
of these drawbacks. upon plantation there |
ais an assignment of every one to the service |
:" be is the best fitted to perform. There is no |
" lOss Of LAT or from incidence, for the slave is |
'not permitted TO be idle. There is no loss |
from dis option, for the slave is not permitted |
Il" to be dissipated. There is no loss from do
"mestic broils and civil connections, the slave
ais not permitted to indulge in such expensive |
"luxuries. There is no loss from desultory |
"pursuts or misdirection of his powers, for |
" the purpose he can best subserve is carefully |
g. considered by experimenting intelligence.
"There is no loss from injuries aud diseases
(Which become exaggerated from the want of |
-" medical attendance, for there il always the
ability to purchase medical skill and the mo-
tive for its employment, and there is a secu.
''rity against the general misdirection of the
IS force in the fact that if the master be of in
q" sufficient judgment embarrassments will |
promptly oyertake him and his interests will
"pass to other hands"
What delightful picture, realizing the dreams
of the most imaginative socialist, and exhibiting
form of society as near perfection as il is pos
sible for imperfect human mOrtals to attain All |