Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-02-22

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A writer in The Mississippian says;
"Will not our slaves make tanners -
And can they not, when supplied with
materials, make peg and other shoes.
Cannot our slaves make plows and har.
rows, &c.s The New England States
cannot make and send us brick and fram-
ed houses, and therefore we have learn
ed that cur slaves can make and lay bricks
and perform the work of house-joiners
and carpenters. In fact, we know that
in mechanical pursuits and manufactur-
ing cotton and wooden goods they are
fine laborers."
| The statesman like Gov. Hammond,
looking at the matter from statesman's
point Of view, may recommend as he
does, the employment of poor whites in
factories, as being upon the whole, al
though immediately less cheap, more for
the general good of the community
Men are not governed in matters of bu-
s.ness by any such consideration as this.
II slave labor is adapted to factories, as
i, would seem to be, and is cheaper than
white labor, as it would also seem to be !;
it will be employed, be the consequences
to the community ever so disastrous.
And where it is employed a, all, it will
be employed exclusively, as in the Ten
nessee factories, from the insuperable re-
pugnance Of whites to labor side by side
and on an equality with black slaves.
The difficulty IN the case is invincible.
The proreny-holders OF the South own
vigorous and serviceable body of black
iaborers, who can be fed for So, per an.
nun and clothed for $40 pc: annum who
can be kept industrious and preserved
from facilitating vices BY coercion, by no
means inap, IN the SIMPLER arts, naturally
dociie, and, under any tolerable ire a,mcnt,
"iat and sleek )" such is the terrible, the
overwhelming, the irresistible compe,i.
ton, to which the non.property holding
three quarters Of the whites at the South
are subjected, when they come into the
marAe, with their labor.
II is not wonderful that they seek es.
) cape from the nightmare which broods
over them, and fly by thousands to the
refuge Of the Free States. The census
Of 1850 found 500 81 persons living in
the Free States who were born in the
Slave States. while only 206, 63S persons
born in the Free States were living in
the Slave States. The number Of emf
grants from Free 10 Slave States, and
from Slave to Free States. living in 1850,
have been carefully collected from Table
CXX, found on the ll6,h page Of the
Compendium Of the Census Of lS5O.-
Tha, Table gives the nativity of the
ignite oad free eolored population, with
out Distinguishing the two classes but
".frse solored population is loo small.
and its movement too Sigh, to affec. the
substantial accuracy Of the calculation.
On the ll5,h page Of this Compendium
is found the following statement:
There arc nosc. 726. 450 persons liz.
lug in Slave Adding States rho are ma.
tires Of aon-S re-Aoidiag States, and
232, ll2 persons irime in non..Sl re.hold-
ing States ,cho are natire, Of Slare- hOld.
ing States"
This is NANTES, error. and | suppo-
sed at frs. that there was transposi,ion
OF the numbers, but upon calculation,
find the true numbers to be as given IN
the text. 1t is to be observed that :he
white population Of the Free States is
double tina, Of the Slave States, so that
The per centage Of Southern whites NOV.
ing North is six times greater than that
Of Northern VIII ties moving South.
1t Is to be observed also. in reference
to wha, little emigration there is from the
Free to the Slave States, that it results
from the fact tina, the domestic ins,i,u.
tons Of the latter do not encourage the
Development OF mercantile enterprise,
mechanical skill and general business ca.
pacity. and that the deficiency in those
respects is necessarily supplied from
abroad. OF mere iaJor, there is absolute
ly no movement from the Free to the
Slave States.
/ OF the persons who have emicrated
IRON the border Of slave States, and who
were living in other States in 1850. the
following table will show the numbers
living in free aud slave States respective.
":
exaggerated from Living IN free Living In sla,.
States States
Delaware. q, ls2 G,739
Maryland. ...............6, Oh fIG27