New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-06-06
4 sIgr1FTCArr ARGUMrNr.

The following article from late number Of the
New York Express,a journal which generally enun-
cates sound national sentiments sreplete with pac
tcal points, entirely worthy deep consideration at the
hands Of the Southern people: w
ABoLITIoNIsM IN VIRaMIA.-The high price Of
negroes is aboshng slavery in the State Of Virginia
--as fast as such q process can well go on-and
1sS Southern cotton is thus rapidly ef1ecung Wnat
Northern "wool for twenty years has been at work
for in vain. The sales for the South it is said have
been millions this year. in Richmond and Petersburg
It is very evident, il cotton keeps up-as IS the
presumption from the demands OF the world, and the
limited belt of the cotton region in America-that
corn wheat and other grain cannot be raised so pro-
ftably BY negroes in such States as Delaware Mary
land, Virginia. Kentucky and missouri, as by nee
white labor Free white labor is cheaper now in the
free States than slave labor is in these save States
and IL free white labor would work fairly in the field
with slave labor, no man in the States we have now
named could afford to own any other than worn out
decrepid slaves, that could not be sold for cotton
labor. Here are laws, then at work in these slave
States operating powerful for the abolition of sla
very as the very strongest laws which appeal to self
interest The practical difficulty now is-white hired
labor and slave labor cannot be worked well together
but this difficulty will be overcome by cotton TAX
ing off the slave labor and preparing way for the
white. Cotton rice and sugar greater aboitonists
by far than Garrison, Greeley, Giddings or Gerritt
Smithand cotton is king that does his jobs effect.
ually. II 5Es5. n, 5+4l a751 /
Providence, in due time, will regulate all these
things in its own good way-Hithout much regard
to sectionalism, North or South.
There is no earthly question that the high price of
negroes is depicting Virginia and other border slave
States notwithstanding we have seen Jesuitica pub
catons endeavorng show that the natural increase
preponderated over the generally received decrease.
Emigration southwark, owing to the causes men
toned, is doing for abolitonism than abolition
ism is able to do for ITSELF The is simply either
3 fool or knave, or politician having individual
objects to accomplish, who attempts controversion
Of this proposition. &
1t is also very evident, il cotton keeps up" that
the drain upon the border slave States will also be
kept up in augmented volume, until they become
free States unless the aforesaid drain is plugged up
y stringent legislative enactments. Here, then, the
question arises: Is it best to retain Virginia, Mary
land, Kentucky and Missouri as allies and friends by
prohibiting slave emigration for time, even at q sac
rce or is it best to risk everything in order to sub
serve temporary convenience? A decision upon
this point must be made by the people at no distant
day. That they may decide judiciously is our most
earnest aspiration. f58t 5 48i3
In all the remarks we have made upon this subject
we have intended reflection upon the patriotism OF
loyalty to the South Of the people of the border slave
states. w KNOW Uno 0lIcultleS tnhI SURROUND buel
the marauding incursions to which they are liable
and appreciate the damage they annually sustain
from the Vaccinations Of the Abotionists-all Of
which is calculated to render slave property less val
uabe its products less certain and toinduce its own
ers to part with it whenever favorable opportunity
offers. There are many reasons why border State
slave owner should get rid of his negroes when he has
chance, and very few why he should retain then
and render the institution permanent.
The concluding paragraph of the article from the
Express would be very good, were it applicable
But there is applicability in it to the times tha
are upon the country. The Southern people are en-
tirey willing feryently anxious leave the settle
i ment of the slavery question to Providence. The.
will not murmur when Providence DEGREES tina
slavery shall no longer exist. Whenever that even
4 happens they will bow in dutful and obedient sub
mission. But the Northern people will not wait 70
the action Of Providence. They set themselves abov
Providence. They ridicule the idea that they hay
anything to do with Providence, so far as the abol
tion Of slavery is concerned; and they control larg
majority of the Northern States at the present me
ment, and have before them future which promise
a continual and decided augmentation of strength.