New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-06
LONELINESS AND UTILITY OF THE SLAVE
TRADE.
From The ChG,!a,on staS<ard, oct q.

From The Cha,le,,on staa<ard, Oct q.
The evil Of Slavery is IN the want Of slaves. We
ventured yesterday to bring the attention Of readers
up aga to the subject Of the slave trade and to-day
We would present other aspects of that question
We have no doubt but that all he ob0tas col Of
.S1ogrrv Is ~ tie rant Of FLARES; and TO the end Of
showing that this s tue, with respect TO some Of
them at least we address our present article.
1t il regarded fG Instance, as evidence OF evil
that we are inferior to tire North in improvement aud
in powers Of legislation but it is demonstrated that
both these have occurred from the very cause which
We have mentioned. b. fore The abolition Of the dzr'
tradc The South ira IN adrdnce 81 the North. We
had mole weak more enterprise, and more political
mower and while we have still continued to progress,
while the products Of labor have continued vaua-
be we have only not kept pace with Improvements
at the NORTH for the want of equal labor to effect them
The labor Of our country has been tasked to cover
continually extending territory. The agricultural
wants of such q wide domain was enough, and more
than enough for the capacities Of all our people snd
there have been to start into collateral pursuits
and in collateral pursus, therefore we have been left
behind. BIT y ue stoce trade had 6een permitted 10
continue so that without unnatural effort we could
lave advanced upon the West, II, without widen
ing Wet our labor bad been localized and forced to
work upon itself within restricted sphere there If no
for the slightest question but that in every branch
Of Improvement we would by this time have cqualed
any people and haze led The North beyond ne hope ct
competition.
Nor would there have been the political inequality
between tie North and South which now exists.
Pennsylvania, New jersey, Delaware aud New. York,
held slaves which they never gave away, and which
they would Lot have given away ana which, IN TACT they
never would have sold TO the South If 1t had been
more prof able to keep them. But, with most profit
able agricultural products, and an unlimited ex-
pane Of the finest lands, wanted labor, end were
able pay for it than its value in these states
nlahax oft
and they did sell it, and thus from being Slave States
they became Free States. And ins,esd OF being for
US they became against u.s. and joining with the
other Northern States, they found their interest in
preaching a crusade against institution which, but
for this accident, they would have heen pledged by
every consideration of feeling and interest TO defend
This turned the balance OF power against us, and
taking from the sceptre of political influence rem
dertd II profitable at the North 70 become phiIau-
thropic; but if the slave trade had continued open
they would have found no such profitable market for
their Slaves. Our wants would hove been supplied
from Africa cheaper than they could afford to supply
them II cir slaves though 81 less value to them than
to us were yet too liable 10 have been disposed of
without very valuable consideration, and not find
ing sale for them away, they would have found en-
ployment for them at home. These slsves would
have increased and multiplied. New lines of employ
nent for them would have given them addition 81 value
ard doubt whether there States in the Union more
welded TO the institution than would have been those
very States that call the help OF heaven to put 1t
down.
Nor is this all that happened from the suppression
of the trade to place us in the minority The Southern
States themselves are much less popuous than they
would have BEEN From fret 10 last there has been
constant rant Of la6or three millions of our people
have perhaps any slaves as they naturally require,
but there thee msHi0ns more dchO are hnsaPptted
Thu ,rould take SdUcs If they could get item, but they
are not 10 be had at prizes wiich rW enable them to be
used ia competition ruth the Free LABOR u the w0rld.
AL We have are wanted for agriculture, and even these
are not enough While all are employed, and en-
ployec most probably, lands all the country
parched and unprftable for the want of labor and
millions more could have been absorbed. The labor
of those brought year would have pail for those to
be brought the next; as employ ments opened white
men of enterprise would have come in more album
dainty than they have done the stream OF labor from
Africa would have met a stream Of enterprise from Eu
rope both would have poured in together the popu-
laiion of the Southern States would have been more
dente the population Of the Northern States would
have been more sparse; Georgia would have been To
New-York as New-lork is now to Georgia; other
States from Texas and New-Mexco would have been
brought in and thus, il the Slave States had held on
TO the OF their real power the South would
have been the Union.
Not only would this have been the material and polt
cal condition of the country but there would have been
no market for philanthropy. The South possessed Of
paronsge and power of Government, would have been
infinitely attractive poets and politicians w0ud hare
rted WM each other 10 make much ny their praise as
they hare made BY their abuse Of her, and for that rea
son they would have praised beyond all reasonable
conceI ton. Like every other embodiment OF soyer-
eighty her form would have been lovely her opinions
Just, and from the whole Atlantic coast there would
have been broadsdes of literary artillery 20 open upon
the Old World whenever she should fire shot among u.s.
tbet would have silenced her completely. The erH Of
SoreTy therefore, so far as any IS eTh6ted by c7n-
pa,isoa bctceeR he Norm dsd South, has certainly
consisted IA the insufficient support II has receired
With slaves enough and we have reason 10 believe
that enough would have been brought TO U.s. for the
merchants of the North and o: England We'd with each
other TO the las. in supplying tnem If would be hard
10 say what might not have beer the measure OF our
advancement; DC: without them we have failed in a
contest, even with the North and, as among nations
amosg men, success il the criterion Of merit, the in
s,tuticn bears the properly attributable 10 the
wants of il and Slavery has been condenne and
branded for the want OF slaves.
Ii has been said, and with great propriety that We
are under no nee, ssaIy dependence upon the North
in fact upon any Other people that If fail Of their
good opinion we can Co without il; that if fail OF
equality within the Union can quit IT, and that thus
we can do well enough upon our present population
without the slave-trade, an Ute revival is at least OBJ
jectionabe for the that il is unnecessary We
doubt however, whether condition of political in.
dependence, may ut be If not ne >esssry) at least
vastly important. and 10 this question We will call a.
tention in another number.