New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-04
Cursed with Slavery. In other words, the Slsse

c.ruDtry. az whole, is in q psupenzed condition.
II d. "a not produce enough for its own eonsumP.
finn. s,,1 Il G diference has TO be supplied by more
vi,tuous industrious and careful producers. This
is "a proper definition Of Paupersm as words can
copyey. ard it is with precisely that very thing
which Il e North has to deal.
The North ia often invited to mind her own busi.
ness and leave the South to manage hers. But,
uDlcokiy, this ia little thing which the laws Of
noli,icsl ecouomy-laws a. fixed and inevitable as
those Of light and of grayitatOn-wil not permit
her 10 DO The South cannot exist without the
North. Every article that is consumed there,
from tie cradle and the pap-spoon to the coffin and
the grave stone we have to furnish. The beds in
which they lie, the chairs on which they sit, the
clothes they wear, The hoes and the gins for their
slaves, the very slave-whips which form the main
spripp Of their social machine, we supply them
with. Az they want the things we have to SELL
the Jaws of trade compel them to flow in certain
proportions into these channels. Only, here we
have TO encounter another inscrutable law, the
operaton of which, in our blind haste to get GAIN
We are apt to overlook to wit that country
cursed with 80 thriftless system of labor as Sls
very, cannot produce in an average ofyears enough
10 pay for what il wants. Hence the periodical
bankruptcies which square off account, to the ruin
of so many merchants and manufacturers. Per-
haps there is no better test of the business charac
ter and probable sovency Of q section of country
than its postage bills. II is not necessary to recall
the precise figures, but the last time we saw them
footed up there was but one Slave State that paid
its postage And tina. was Louisiana through tho
Northern merchants in New Orleans The Empire
of South Carolina as we remember it, fell short OF
paying what it costs US TO carry her mails by
$4,000 These immense deficits we have to
make good and so as to all the necessaries and su-
perHuties the South needs We know men of
large business who have adopted the inexorsble
rule never to give credit South of MasOn's & Dix
on's line-to their great benefit 1t is too much to
expect that wisdom like this should generally OBJ
tain where business is carried on as it is with us.
But until it is, We must makeup our minds to bear
the cost of supporting our paipers at the South.
Now, We commend the consideration Of these
facts especially to capitalists commercial men, and
manufacturers. The system of Slavery is one
that saddles them, as the creators aud holders OF
wealth, with the support of this giant Pauperlsm'
IL the merchants of New-YOIk, Boston and Phila-
dclphia, the cotton spinners Of Lowell, the cord
waners Of L. and the iron-massers OF Pittsburgh
like to bestOw their wares on these needy ones,
looking not for their own again. it is their affair and
not ours But we think they cannot but see that
this Pauper System is a matter they have some
thing to do with they choose to send their chill
dren's bread-royal messes from their tables in
stead of the crumbs that fall from them-to these
sturdy beggars, they can do what they will with
their own; but is there any sense in making them
Vceroys over the country because of their mendi-
cancy The right OF those who, from misfortune.
accident or even weakness Of character, are unable
to support themselves TO be sustained by their more
fortunate fellow citizens is perfect, ,and should be
claimed and granted without arrogance on the one
part or humiliation on the other; but there ls no
reason that we can see why the dependents should
make laws for their beneactOrs. Suppose the
inmates of the Aims House at Bellevue were to de-
mand voice potential in the choice of Mayor and
Aldermen, the passage of ordinances and the rals-
ing and expenditure Of taxes, would our merchant
princes incline to grant it And yet there Is, IN
the eye of pure reason as much sense In this clam
as in that of the Shareholders which they swift
acknowledge. And shOsld they below out, were
their caprices thwarted, threats to dissolve their
Glorious Union with the Ten Governors, would all
Wall street be on its knees crying for mercy And
yet there is just as much danger of their doing it
as the shareholders. Now the great question OF
our day is, shall our Penocracyg go on from strength
to strength forever or shall the real owners of the
country take the administration of their own affairs
into their own hands There is yet poss biity
of doing this. If our Pauper dictators be suffered
to blight the virgin soil of Kansas with the poverty
ignorance, cruelty and vice which are Of the essence
of Slavery, it will be our fault II, through the po
litcal strength they would thus acquire, they
should fasten their yoke ye. more firmly on our
necks, and, their little finger waxing heavier than
their loins are now, they should chastse us with
scorpions where they now chastise us with whips.
will it be any more than we deServe'
Virginia RAMPANT,