The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-10-15

t.that section or the couHtry.H The
will come North ," They will 90 il
to the middle of the States, and ther
they will see men operating with me
chapical inventions "-and what, ask
be, "will the Southern men then do bu
provide a substitute for Stare LaJOr, b
the adoption of the mechanical inveu
tioDs that have distinguished the indus
try of tho Eastern Middle States. ~
"Thus," says he @ By this single chang
| we will pave the way for q Uaa chung
in the history aud the Institutions G
this Government"
Here then is is the successful solution
of the great political and ecouomica
problem which heretofore has tasked tn
highest wisdom of our patriots and phi
lauthropists, The proper distribution
OF the black race over the American con
tinent,-the grand continental result
supposed by some short-sighted states
men to be a work for generations, if no
centuries yet to come; to be attained il
November next by simply despoilins
the South of their. Offices in the army
the navy and the federal government"
| Now, when We consider that not more
than SO, 600, at the utmost, of the tota
Southern white population ofseven mil
lions, are in possession of the offices il
question and that it is not certain thai
all even of them will undertake, after
their election, tie task of wandering
through the North to examine the me
chanical contrivances for dispensing with
slave labor; it may be doubted whether
the means provided by the statesman
ship of Mr.. Banks will prove quite ade-
quate to the end. 1 is gratifying, how
ever, to learn from him that he does not
view this general sweep of his q South
ern brethren from the Army and Ma
W, as. a sectional process, but views it
as an eminently fraternal and National
proceeding g With the institutions of
the Southern Srates," says he 'elocal
or traditional, we have nothing to dc, !"
ard &c dismiss the matter by asserting
that the declaration that we intend to
interfere il their affairs is bold and
baseless SANDER" ConteDtiug himself
simply with turning them all out of of
fee, because they are Shareholders, aud
with their consequent efforts to substi
tute mechanical inventions for slave la
is to become CT the four millions ofhelp-
less blacks whose labor is thus sup
pressed.
He deems it quite snb rdinata mai
ter 60 inquire whether these four mill
ions of blacks, who in so years will in
crease to ten millions, are to be sent
further South, a.; d whera-or distrib
uted among the States, and which-or
sefIt to the Amazon, or to the Niger
or left to perish by starvation, or to cut
their own throats or their masters
Details so petty, the comprehensive
craftsmanship of Mr.. Banks does not
couGesccnd to embrace.
Aud now for the statistics of the ad-
dress which drew down the enthusiastic
plaudits of the Intelligent audience as
S 'mbled in Wall rect. They are GER
tainly very remarkable, dealing with
matters il no small way, but presenting
pictures that iufame the imagination
with the sublimcst visions of rational
Mr. Banks himself is profoundly con-
not only of their Importance,
but of their accuracy. Hear him In
what l have to say to you l mean to re-
ly upon GREAT FACTS, ABOVE all question
as TO Mteir truth, and facts which if ad
mitted, rcnsoUe all questions as to the
policy by which we should be directed
in the impending controversy between
twenty seven millions of freemen for the
chief Offices of the republic. " see
before Inc nation which has produced
results such as the world has never be-
fore witnessed, and such as the mind of
10 intelligent man has heretofore been
able to conceive" and then comes the
GREAT FAcT-embodying proposition
50 vast and comprehensive, and yet as
condensed, that the orator declares it to
be "the product of all that he has to
say" In its grand simplicity it is this,
that the people of the United States in
the year 1856 will give to the world as
their portion of the industrial product
OF the human race forty fire hundred
millions Of dollars !'' "a sum greater
by an eighth than the entire national
debt of the British Empire that has
been accumulating for two centuries"
The newspap rs inform us that the
anmu.scia ion of this result was received
with leud plausa by the crowd in Wall
street. How far that cemmendation was
credi ale to he intelligence of those
who bestowed it let US briefly examine
In the first place, if it were true that
the nation produces forty-fve hundred
millions annually, it does not ' remove
al quest ons in the inn ending con-
!, ,oversy" whether we shall elect Mr.
Fremont to the Presidency and " des-
poll our Southern brethren of their off
,es in the army and navy" If the Nerth
produced the Whole forty FIVE hundred
and the South did nothing
whatever but keep the black race i'll
,ubieotion, it would not follow that
the South should be excluded from
all participation in the Government, for
if as some contend, the black race be
nothing but burden on the community
which contains it, the Freemen of the
North should be thankful to the South
for bearing the whole of the burthen,
and thus leavin them unfettered to ac-
sumulate that forty-fve hundred mill
ions annually. s-
Bot unhappily for Mr.. Banks and his
admiring auditors it is not true that the
nation annually produces the 450O mill
iops-for look at his own analysis. Fiji
teen hundred millions, says he, are pro-
duced by manufacturing and mechanical
ndustry-sizteen hundred millions by
agriculture. This makes thirty-one-
and the residue, fourteen hundred mill
ons, where does it come fssm ? Let
The commipgled rhetoric and statistics
Of Mr.. Banks answer 1.-THE SEAS, that