The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-02-22

sns. OF tho SO .oOo, 900. Annually yeAli,sa
from the sales Of the cotton crop OF Alaba-
ma. nearly all not expended in supporting
the producers is re-inyested in hnd and ne
gross. Thus the white population has de-
creased and the slave insseased almost pasi
pdsS in several counties Of our State. In
1925 Madison County cast about 5000
votes: now she cannot exceed $500. In
trayersing that county. one will discover nu-
merous farmhouse, once the abode oil IN
dustrious and intelligent freemen, now &c,
cupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted and
dilapidated: he will observe fields, once fer
tile now unfenced, abandoned and covered
with those evil harbingep, fox-mil and
broomscdge he will see the moss growing
on the Wondering walls Of once thrifty VIII
lagos, and win find zone only master grasps
the whole domain that once furnished hap
DIV homes for dozen white families. In
deed, country in its infancy, where nifty
years ago scare forest tree had been telied
by the Ak Of the pioneer, is already exhibit
ing the painful signs Of sensibility and de-
cav, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas.
IL is undoubtly true that the condition OF
the South would be vastly ameliorated II It's
pursuits were more diversified, II It's great
facilities for mining and manufacturing were
improved, and IL its wasteful systems OF az
ricalture were changed. The profits OF cap
sital would be raised, and the productiveness
of labor would be enhanced. To certain
extent, perhaps, the free laborer might be
benefited BY the greater employment and
higher wages which would result; but the
same fatal, oycrshadowing evil which has
driven him from the field, would drive him
from the workshop and the factory. H9rsi
in La,ere letAahs armdO. Even Mr.. Gregg,
from whom have quoted above. says that
(" all orersers, ,rAo hare experience an th,
matter, gre the beaded preference 10 black a,
opera,irss." Mr.. Montgomery, in his trea'
tise ON the :. Cotton Manufactures Of N,
Uaited STATES Compared 9th Great Brit
asn," states that there are several cotton
Eactoriss an Tennessee operated entirely b,
STARE labor, there not 6eiag a rAiie man %, th'
null but the superintendent" The employ
of slay,,s iscommon everywhere at the South
in factories and mining. The author o.
I" The future Of the Souih" (De Bows Re
view, vol. TO-, page l46) says that 18th
Oi0CAy are cqtiiffN NfftfCtdOft w JuttVftts - ~
6elds."
A writer in The Mississippian SAYS:
'0Will not our slaves make tanners? AnC
can .hey not when supplied with materials
make psoped and other shoes? Cannot oul
slaves make plows and harrows, &C.? Tn,
New England States cannot make and senC
us brick and framed houses, and therefor
we have learned that our slaves can mak'
and Law bricks and perform the work ofhous'
;oiners and carpentsrs. In fact, we know
/. That in mechanical pursuits and manuiae
tarinv cotton and wooden goods they ar,
6ne I,horcrs !"
IT, .,a,e.,., Ike Gov Hammond, look
-, r. ,,a,,.r f,or n .,ate.man's poin,
- $50 ro,,,,u,ond os bc dos. IN,
snriovnsnt of NOR whites in factories, a,
Ss;p, ynon ~, rho,c ALTHOUGH immediate
" less cheap, more for the general good o
the community. Men are not governed IN
matters Of business by any such considera
ton Is this. II slave labor is adapted L
factories, as IL would seem to be, and II
cheaper than white labor, as it would ais
seem 10 be; il will be employed, be the con
sequences 10 the community ever ~ disas
tr1us And where il Is employed ut all, il
will be emploved exclusively, as in the Ten,
ns-s.e Factories, from the insuperable repug
nance of whites to labor side BY side and on
an equality with black slaves.