New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-28

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On tfe subect of Free Schools. | have but little to
add TO what had the honor to sabmt to your prede-
Then expressed the opinion mat IL q un-
Fortunate that the END which was evidently conem-
sted bv the act 1911 had been abaL dODed and that
What was Itended to introduce gradually general
system of common schools has been perverted 70 me
exclusive education Of paueers thai, 10 my Judg,
mept we should return 10 the policy OF iSi j, and
seek 10 naugu,ate system, which, III It's ultimate
"deyelorment, should bling the means of education
"wiihin the reach Of every family IN the state Sluce
the last sosson the Commsc OF Free Schools 10
the CITY of Charlie ston with similar views a. 10 the BEST
mode Of improving education, have opened common
school in that CITY, and without abrdglGg the oppor-
Turtles OF the or they offer to the tax payers par
ticipation in the benefit from which heretofore tney
have been EXCLUDED. About seven hundred c. ildren
are now receiving education at this school, ana even
this lars number am informed, would be increased
if the rel COL accommodations would permit The
complete success which would attend this weu-lmed
ar iudcious effort is checked Only by the difficulty
of obiairng pr, per teachers. This difficulty was ALEC
ully TO lie notice of your predecessors and
would 1cspt ctiuly renew my recommendation mat
YOU would earn, silly seek to provide an appropriate
remedy.
Ia connection With the general subject Of educution.
il has occurred to ne that encouragement should
he held out TO induce the citizen to supply his family
with the meaDs OF instructive readlng, family ooo<s,
OF libraries. suggest that such encouragement ihgn
arise from cxempting family books aid libraries Ia
actual use by the owner, FROM legal process under con
tracts 10 he her, entered INTO and that they shodd
also te exempt fom sale by executors and admin srA-
tors and that instead they shouo be delivered over to
" 50 To " HON they ore bequeahed and in the alb ence
oftostanentary that they be allotted among
tie family or next OF kin, in cases oil int stacy
Tie outward pressure egans. the Institution OF Sl4v
cry should prompt us to DO all we can 70 ior,ay
ess Our true policy is TO dfuse the slave populiti N
as much ss possible and thus secure in the whole cont
uuity the motives of seifin;erst for lta support.
have doubt Of The Inherent ability OF tle nftHu ioa
10 maintain Itself against al assaults. 1t is tue basis Of
our political organism ana il would not be difficult 10
show Il a. the pooiCst Thie msn among lie Is Directly
concerned in it's pIeserva'ion but tie argu'nent OF
sefinferet is easy Of comprehension and sure OF &c
flor. recommend the passage of ? Ia ? e1cmpilng
from ae urder contracts to be hereafter entered into
at leait one slave. such immunity would stimulate
every one to exert himself to possess his family at least
Of property in some degree above The casualties OF
debt * you multiply the number who acquire the
property will yOu widen and deepen the determine
lion to iustain the institution
The COZ sumption of cotton has steadily increased,
and will in few years exceed the suppy-not iioin
want on ur part of land on which ID grow it, but
from want Of operators to cultivate it. The demand
for the article berg greater than the supply the price
must go up, in the absence of all disturbing causes
As long as this continues 10 be the case, must pros
Ter; hut the certain effect Of high prices will be -
stimulate the growth Of it in foreign countries AMI 10
tine TO destroy the monopoly which We have so long
euoyed. The possession OF this monopoly Is the chief
element OF Southern prosperity and the dependence OF
the manufacturing interest us for supply OF this
srticle will continue TO prove to be of strongest
safeguards The amount of cotton now grown in the
East Indies should open our eyes to our true policy
The idea that African slaves only can success
fully crow cotton, is an entire mistake In
producing in the East than the entire crop of the
United Staes in 1870. From report OF the Hon. W.
L. Marcy Secretary of State in answer 70 resolution
of Congress, II appears tina during the year 800 the
Shipments of cotton to Great Britain from the
United States in round numbers go 600 600 of pounds,
and from the East Indies Egypt and Brazil 209, 600 900
of pounds. Whenever England and the Continent can
procure their supply Of the Jaw material elsewhere than
ron us and the cotton States limited to the home
market then will our doom he scaled. Destroy the
value of slave labor and emancipation follows inevita
bly,. This England, CONNER cal rival clearly sees,
and hence her systematic efforts to stimulate the pro-
duction of cotton in the east The which has
thus far aiteu ded those efforts will ncie her TO redoube
them. The East Indies abound in fertile land and
cheap labor. France too Is encouraging and stimulating
It's growth in Algeria with like advantages OF soil aud
labor To maintain our present portion, must have
cheap labor also. This can be obtained in but one
way-by reopening the African slave trade: Until
Providence lnteposes and changes his organim, the
African must continue TO be newer of wood and
draw er of water" Ii is diseased sentimentality
which starts back at the idea of egsizing the slave
trade and at the came time oontempates without emo
The cruz tcrNluCt Nflch VI
all the world over. There time when cantinS
nhspthrcpists had insiilled into cs belief that
slavery wsswrong. Investigation has entirely changed
Ii once common sentiment ON this point. The South
row believes that my sterous Providence has brought
hc two races together this continent for wise pur
poses and that the existing relation has been mutuay
beneficial Southern Slavery has elevated the African
10 degree of civilization which the black race has
never attsined in any other age or country. We
see new in its true light, and regard il as the
most safe and stsble basis for fee institutions IN
the world" Had the slave trade never been closed,
tLe eauihbrium between the North aud the South
would not have been destroyed. The North has had
the Old World from which to draw her supply Of labor
Since 1868 the nth has supplied her labor, and
has ecessary made slower progress in settling up the
Southwest II the trade were open nov, am per-
suaded that South would not consent to close it.
a, this Is perhsps the best 10 the argument
derived fo the mere ssntm, IT that Is arrayed against
The proposition II apPehended thai the opening OF
ibis trade will lessen TIC value Of slaves and ut maey
Se,trov the institution. II is sufficient answer TO
MONT TO the fact II at unrestricted immigration has not
diminished TIE value Of labor II the Northwestern sec.
tiop Of the Ccnfederacy. The cry there Is, want OF
bbor Notwithstanding capital has the pauperism Of
the old World 10 press into its gin ding service II
we canrot supply the demand for slave labor, tnen
we must expect to be supplied wish species Of
labor we DO net want, and which Is, tom the very
nature cf things antsgoniSiic to our institutions "
J. much b, that days should be driven by slaves
hat cur factories should be worked by slsves-toH
,rr hotels should be served by saves-that our loco
,r,,iv,s should be manIed by slaves than that We
hid he eyp< sed 10 the introduction from eby quar-
o., ~ a population alien 70 BY birth tr.lnlog and
Education. and which, III the process Of time, must esd