New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-05

Fchn' Ell go; Johs ii 80; Chsres sIsso; Jazz sino;
r. John s1l M s I'd 10 o.
,e .noah: siss.s They were 4. bought By cii.ea' Of
RE R,chmOnd Va EVsie of April 20, 1856, .sys:
public sale of personal property la Saturday in Win
bought BY farmer for s7co being the highest price
ever paid In TIA: county within Ieeo.Iection; 80
A Correspondent OF The ~. Loa.s RepHbt'caa, writ
ing from Pike County Missouri, gives the folio wing
actoui, Of the ra;es which negroes were sold and
hrcc there on tie Is: Of January, 1866
Price: aiscs sieia XI4O, 81 81; sl27i. These nea
.I common eT@p has co ';s , nd oa. UT
s. go: and another hsh % These two last god
house servant. and .s.m.tre..s The women bringing 900
Vile resroe. .od for hs.e price, they hired At
spending tet.. common iath hS1o' yuf ,br,
kir.d for $40 aud %l5n every instance" u" ndvduAI
hing snd the owner paying all charges OF every oe'nP
The Richmond VA Dispatch quoted in The BALI
more Sun ofJnly %, ls16, says: ,. 10.
'd slaves nj. cry during The months Of MAJ ISs
months generally The desi II me year Ii
n ls1 s sss I.o Z ry r' an. asa aa from to
s5o Not louE kely negro az sold N TINS 9y. :;
m ,peepop md pcbatly there il not les. 600
IL town now. seesiDa invesincnt in ouch property
Whiesuch has been and the advance OF slave prices,
the moet exravagst ancipaOns as TO the future are
INDUCED in by tie sGve interest. Gov Wise OF Virginia
insists bst If Mr. Buchanans policy of extending the
MsO Compr, mise lDe TO the Pacific had succeeded
slaves now worth 81, 600 would be worth $3OO, or at
least Geo. 70 be worked in the California gold mines
Gov Wise estmstes that the value of negroes in Vr-
GINA alOne would bave been augmented over = ,UOO.
GO o. bJ tha, policy. The purpoe Of his arguments
addr. SEED TO the South, to show how much the
value Of negro property ia liable 10 be affected by the
NOV. Hents Of the Government and 70 deduce the ln-
por:ance # placing the Administration in the hands Of
inan ike Buchanan, whore fidelity 10 the South has
been often tiled AID never found wanting.
III
The opinion most generally received IT, that slaves
have generally increased IN value within ~ years past
in first Of the development Of the cotton
culture and second of the constant enlargement Of
the upon which they are worked. The acquis-
ton Of Louisiana; tie removal of the Indians from
Georgia, Mi-sesippi and Alabama, commenced and
coLsuu mated during the administration OF Gen. Jack
son; and, finally the conquest of Texas by Slavery
followed by the annexation Of that extensive country TO
the United States; these are the prominent events
which hove opened large BODIES Of and rich lands
10 slave occupation and have Kept up the demand Tor
that species OF labor.
II is not doubtful that the events referred 10 have in
creased the value of slaves but another has been
ard is still ut work in the direction. IL Is mat
ter of common observation and knowledge, that the
wages of free labor have notably risen in the United
States during the last generation, and 1t will be found
upon examination that this rise in wages has been
gong on steadily during the present century, both in
this country i'll Great Britain. This rise is real,
and not apparent merely. IL is not rise simply in
money price but by comparing the variations in wages,
with tho variations IN the price of other cOmmo-
cities, IL will be found that the condition of the
labOrtr has been substantially improved and that his
command Of the comforts Of life has been constantly
increasing. Some articles OF food have risen in price,
but meme at greater rate than that OF the rise IN
wages; bDd the other hand the cost of clothing and
OF manufactured articles generally has largely DUNN
ished. The change in the position of labor Is seen
most clearly in the condition of farm aborers and house
servants. They are unaffected by any change IN the
price of food and th.y find that the money wages Of
which they receive twice what they did generation
back, win command vastly more than formerly Of the
commodities which they are obliged to purchase
Now, the same causes, whatever they may be be-
Hev(c 10 be- which have improved the situation Of the
free lob Ter at TIE North, have raised the value of
slaves at the South The two systems Of labor, slave
ard FRI, e. affect each other In Maryland, Virginia
Kentucky and Missouri, and TO certain extent in
Tennt ssee and other Southern States slave labor is
directed TO precisely the forms and objects which
employ the free labor in Penns and the Western
States II il impossible that there should be rice in
the wages of free aborcrs without corresponding rise
in be annual bire and selling price of slaves.
II oud not be suitable to the character OF the pres
ent discussion TO enter upon the wide field OF contro
veSy which is presented by opposing theories OF oti-
the fund out Of which wages are paid, and that the
condition of the aborcr will depend other things being
movable capital and the number Of laborers.
During The last half century OF general peace and
prosperity the augmentation of capital has been more
rapid than the increase III the number OF laoorers
slaves Ii impossible to foIesee the extent to which
tie continu.d rise NAV be carried. So far it s
tanly not fictitious, but rests upon solid basis
The TRUE REASON OF THE CHANGE OF SOUTHERN
OPINIONS UPON SLAVERY.
AT the perod of the formation of the Constitution OF
the United States, the system of Slavery found no
favor except in Georgia and South Carolina. The
great men Of Virginia were unanimous III lis condcHi-
nation and looked forward hopefully to its abolition
As late as 1896 General Washington wrote 20 Sir John
Sinclair that laws providing for the extinction OF
Slavery, already adopted in Pennsylvania, could not
ong be delayed i'll Maryland and Virginia.
Even long after schemes of abolition were given mp,
and long after the South seemed to abandon itself to
Slavery, as hopeless and rrenedable evil, the sys.
ten was not supported as beng good one IN itseii
and in the abstract 1t is only lately that the South
hes undertaken the advocacy OF Slavery rs positive
GOOD ard has demanded lie extension as such INTO new
regions.
II is said that this change of Southern views Is
10 be attributed to the interference OF the aDo-
litiousts The suggestion has neither fact nor pau-
sbiii;v TO rest upon. The spirit of AbolionlsIn has
been dy ing cut in this country since the epoch OF the
Revolution. That was an OF generous feelings.
Liberty was substantial reality for which the men of
that day had pered their lives and fortunes. To mat
age o; political "chivary has succeeded an age OF
calculators. 1t is egregiously untrue, that desue
for or oCt for the Abolition OF Slavery IN thi- cOun-
try hss Increased within the pest half century that
the change # attitude the part Of the South in ref
ertnce that institution, Ill lis cause or Its ush
cation, in the movements OF Aboluobi,ts lhe e1-
planaion OF the whole thing Is Gear aud plan. The
working ard breeding Of slaves have become profitable
aid il is the soIdd love of gain and that alone, which
bias de bauch and demoraized Southern opinion. The
whole thiog is matter of dollars aud cents. In what
country or in what age, have We seen such gigantic
segregation of capital in single description OF per-
sCna prop ery as in this two hous and millions OF dol
Ian in slaves which will certainly be duplicated by the
natural increase OF numbers in single generation, and
which will probably be carried TO ten millions by the
continuing appreciate of It's value
The Vireinians especially, seem absolutely TO glory
in tb,i shame. 1--WE PROPOSE says TIE R'chmoad
;rtr IN m slaves