The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-09-20
Slave Breeding in Virginia.

oIaVe-breedlng IN virginia.
Gov. Wise, Of Virginia, in 4 speech q
week or two siace, in Richmond. made
a statement, which, properly understood
furnishes the key to the whole pro.sla.
very policy of The middle states, and fully
accounts for their inyeterate insensibility
to every argum ent that can be addressed
to their heart and understanding in vim.
dication of the doctrines once freely pro.
fessed by Washington and Jefferson
and received without a question, BY the
American people. South as we'll al
North. The Governor is deploring the
loss Of market for Virginia slaves in
California, in consequence OF the reiec.
ton of Mr.. Buchanan's proposal to ex.
tend the Missouri Compromise line to
the Pacific in 1850, and In the progress
OF his argument says:
The cost OF not running that line to
the Pacific, may be valued thus 10 Amer.
ica: We now get thousand dollars for
a sound slave: we would then have got.
ten from three TO five thousand dollars
Tor an operative in the gold mines ol
California tour hundred thousand mul.
tlpIled by five thousand, or even three
thousand, will show our immense loss.-
One billion OF dollars would not compen.
safe Virginia for her loss in not running
the line on to the Pacific. Tie North
had fixed the line. They had the ad.
vantage oil it until the annexation. |,
was then our turn, and we did not take
IT, That was not Mr.. Buehanan's fault.
Had i. been so fixed, ebo-shins and giz-
zard feet, true, couldn't have poked their
noses moth into the dominion OF Jack
Frost. but then fire. solllsm couldn't have
poked its nose south of that line, as il
has since the compromise ol 1850
The slave population OF Virginia, ac-
cording TO the last census, was 472, $50,
and the annual increase, at the moderate
rute ot live per cent, exceeds % 900,
which, at the market value. for the last
few years, al 81 900 each. amounts to
twenty three millions Of dollars.
The product Of wheat which is tie
staple OF next Importance in financial
view, was, by the same census, abou,
eleven millions bushels. Now, putting
whea. al enc dollar per bushel, its aver.
age price in Virginia, we find the all.
nual crop Of humanity in that State. Is
more than double the value Of her other
great staple in other words, we see
that slave breeding is the great business
OF Virginia. How natural that she
should be sensitive TO every cause affect.
ing the value Of this great staple. We
see in this State Of things. the power oil
the argument used By Governor Wise,
in his speech at Richmond. He said,
substantially, open the western terrific.
ries to slavery, and you will not only
the dominion of the slaveholJ- :
ing oligarchy, bu, you will triple the an.
nual value of the great staple Of our
State.
The extension Of the slave market
caused by the annexation of Texas has,
it is supposed, more than doubled the
market price Of this product.
A shor, time previous TO that event,
Mr.. Clay estimated the market value OF
at $400, apd now we see by the
quotations In the slave markets, the price
is nearly three-fold. One Of the plain
est maxims of political economy is, that
prices viii always be governed by de-
nand. They are grown principally on
corn bread, sour milk, and the bits and
pieces from the masters table, which, at
the North, are threwn to poultry so
that the actual cost Of keeping young ne
groes, including the cotton used for their
scanty clothing, does not exceed ten dol
lars per annum. At SIX or eight years.
they are put to service OF some kind. and
soon expected to do more than pay for
board and clothing.
The act OF Congress Of 1908. for the
suppression Of The foreign slave trade
which was the work of the humanity oil
enc portion Of the country, united with
the avarice of another, has produced a
wonderful revolution in the business OF
The slave-breeding states and the change
in their views aud feelings on the sub.
iect Of freedom, is not less remarkable.
The Constitution gave Congress the pow.
er to prohibit both the importation and
Of certain persons after the
year 1908.
As we have said, the humanity oil
some, united with the avarice Of otf ers,
promptly prohibited the importation unde'
the penalty Of death, while it left the
migration, which is equally object,ona.
BILE, in moral pom. Of view, totally un.
obs,ruc.ed. THIS legislation Is now act.