New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-01
that if the slave trade were now open the southwoud
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not consent to close 1t, the Governor says
If supply the demand for slave labor then We must
from the very nature of things ang99se our rs
that our factories should be worked by .laveshA hotels
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ucon from any quarter of population alien to ms BY birth
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SO difficult to maintain free reel IN AL wea d ya ana
We take direct issue with the Governor on every
point involved in the foregoing and contend that the
policy recommended is raught with evils of gigantic
magnitude the carrying out of which would result in
ultimate ruin The very opposite of the policy ncul-
Gated is the policy the South should pursue. Instead
of virtually banishng we should hold out the strong
est inducement to white emigration and settlement,
and to DO this we should conine the slave to his egi
innate sphere of labor-the agricultural sphere. In
stead of black, we should prefer white draymen. We
ought to have five times many cotton factories as
we now have, and they should be filled with thousands
Of sklful and thriving white operatives. They would
create market, which slaves could not; would add
strength, sodity and intelligence, to their section,
which slaves could not would contribute to rational
advancement and natural Development which slaves
could not would render certainty rebly certain, in
cases Of emergency and would be eevatng and adj
vantageous in every conceivable respect, without
compound, politically, morally socially Instead Of
using slaves to man our locomotives run our en-
gines or superscede white labor in any essential par
ticuar we should try to bring among US as many resi-
dent engineers as possible; should strive to induce
skilled artisans to settle in our midst and should en-
courage mechanics artifcers, manufacturers, ship and
boat builders founders, rcners, tanners shoemakes
sadders coachmakers etc. etc, etc, and followers of
all the industrial pursuits, without whose productive
aid and wealth and strength creating effort, no sec
ton or country can be independent in the true
of the ternl-to come to us, become of US and with
u.s. and be the recipients of our undivided patronage
in preference to foreign Or nimical labor
Instead Of experimenting danger from the introduc.
ton OF the species of labor repudiated by the Exc
cutlve of South Carolina, anticipate the greatest
possible advantage. Would to GOD that "species Of
labor could be quntupled within twelve months
The beneficial results flowing from its introduction
would soon be apparent on every hand and the South
would be strengthened prepared and nerved for any
and every contingency the future may have in store
for her
/ There are some other points in the message tt
which We have referred, that we may alude to or
some future occasion. In conclusion We will say
trne and that if South Carolina wishes an unitel
South she had better stop running against the scnti
ment of the country, cease the pursuit of impractical
bic vagarcs and come down to a practical com
mon sense standard. She will never be recognized
a leader in any Southern movement until she doe
this.