Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-05-01

aporeciate education and the comforts of
civilized life; and this, we believe, may be
effected only by the introduction of manu.
factures. Ny experience at
Grani.eville has satisfied me that unless our
poor people can be brought together in vii
lages, and some means of employment af-
forded them, it will Re an utterly hopeless
effort to undertake to educate them.''
Here is the :estimonyof Gov. Hammond,
of South Carolina, the great leader of the
multiplying party pow assuming the title of
Democracy. We extract it from an ad-
dress before the South Carolina Institute,
in 1850. He is speaking of that class of
people, estimated by VIM. Gregg, Esq, o:
South Carolina, in his address before the
South Carolina Institute, in 1851, to be
I25. .OOo-one-half of the white population
ot the State:
''Tbey obtain precarious subsistence by
occasional jobs, by hunting, by fishing, by
plundering fields or folds, and too often by
what is in its effects Ear worse, trading with
slaves, and seducing them to p!under for
their benefit
Hon. J H. Lumpkin, of Georgia, speak
ing in 1852 upon the industrial regenera-
ton of the South, says:
1T is objected that these manufacturing
establishments will become the ot-beds oi
crime. ** But 1 am BY no means
ready to concede that our poor, degraded
hall-fed half-clothed, and ignorant popula-
tion-without Sabbath Schools, or any 9TH
er kind of instruction, mental or moral, or
without any just appreciation of characte4
will be injured by giving them employ
ment which Will bring them under the over
sight of employers, who will inspire them
with self-respect, by taking all interest in
their welfare"
We close our quotations by an extract
from an address delivered few weeks since
by Hon. C. C. Clay, Jr., of Alabama:
81 can show you, with sorrow, in the old
er portions oe Alabama, and in my native
county of Madison, the sad memorials oi
the artless and exhausting culture of cotton
Our small planters, after taking the cream
of their lands, unable to restore them by
rest, manures, or otherwise, are going furth
er west and south, in search of other virgin
lands, which they may and will despoil ant
impoverish in like manner Our wealthier
planters, with greater means and no more
skill, are buying out their poorer neighbors
extending their plantations, and adding to
their slave force. The wealthy few, wht
are able to live Oh smaller profits, and tt
give their blasted fields some rest, are thus
pushing off the many who are merely inde-
pendent. o: the S2O,OOO,eO0 annually ere
allied from the sales of the cotton crop o
Alabama, nearly all no: expended in support
ing the producers, is reinvested in land ant
negroes.
Thus tho white population has decreased
and the slave increased almost pari passu il
several counties of our State. In 1872;
Madison county cast about 5000 votes; nov
she cannot cast exceeding 1890. In tray
ersing that county, one will discover numer
GUS farm-houses, once the abode of indus
trious and intelligent freemen, now occupi
ed by slaves, or tenantless, deserted an
dllapidated. he will observe fields, ono
fertile, now unfenced, abandoned, aud GOV
cred with those evil harbingers, foxtail ant
broomsedge; he will see the moss growin
on the mouldering walls of once thrifty vii
lages, and will find 'only one master grasp
the whole dom aim that once furnished hap
j by homes for dozen white families. In
deed, country in its infancy, where fft
years ago scarce forest tree had been fell
ed by the axe Of the pioneer, is already ex
hbiting the painful sigrs of senility an
decay, apparent in Virginia and the Caro-
linas."
This gentlemen is distinguished as a yea
lot for the extension of the blessings c
slavery to the Free Territories. Tne abov
extract from his eloquent speech is pictur
drawn from the lie, and exhibiting to tn
eye the charms of slavery, which the sma
freehoders of the North and West, wh
cultis ate their farms with their own hands
well know how to appreciate from contras
We would not have adverted to the di:
franchisement of the mass of the white pt
pulation in South Carolina and other Soutl
ern States, by property qualification for o
flee, and the defeat of the right of suffrag
by the rotten borough system, had we nc
seen with what contempt of every principl
of free government the attempt is now mad
to carry Kansas for Slavery. An usurp,
ton, put up with force and arms by Ger
Atchson has already established SLAYER
in that Territory, has guarded it with tie:
oaths, and denounced the death penalt
against all who oppose it. The Presider
of the United States is pledged by. his Yre
clamation to maintain the usurpation, and
he is reelected, or any other nominated b
the South to succeed him, the Army of tn
United States will be employed to rive
Slavery on Kansas under the laws passe
by Gen. Atchison's followers from Missouri
The North must unite to detest this attemI
by the election of President who wi
maintain the rights of the people of tn
North in the Territory, or Gordon of Bac
, Republics will stretch from Missouri we.
to the Pacific. The consequence will /
that no free white Republic will be permi
ted to arise south of the tier OF Slave State
Tne free settlers of the North on their wa
to Kansas are now obliged to turn ava
from Missouri, to reach their destinatio
with their property and means of defen
ing it.
What will result from the creation of
Gordon of Slave States across the continen
1t surrenders all south of it to Slavery; an
= what will be the condition of the slavele,
white population which must spring up
this vast region! We see in the fate of th
poor free population of Mexico to "wh,
complexion it must come at last,' whenev,
slave monopoly has once given its owner
the mastery over the soil. Slavery neniii
ally is abolished throughout the Republic
Mexico, but exists, in fact, under the nam
of peonage. The owners of the soil fee
and clothe those who work for them; the
charge their laborers more for their suppl,
than they agree to pay them for wages, an
the result is, that the laborer is constant
falling more and more in debt, and the la
subjects him to his creditors until he wori
out his Indebtedness. The effect OF til
system is to compel man to sell himself