New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-18

sHsAVE EMIGRATION -FREEsOn. AR
I GUMENTs.
The Freesol journals of the North have told the
same story SO often; have slandered the Southern
people 90 continuously have described slavery in
horric colors frequently and have drawn on their
prolific imaginations for their facts whenever speak
ing about the white black population of the COM
monwealths below Mason and Dxon's line, or anything
in any wise pertaining thereunto SO pertnaciously-
that it is but charity to conclude they have
feeted with moral insanity which leads them to be-
eve they giving utterance to truths when in re-
atty they telling the most atrocous and Infamous
falsehoods. ~, 49,
Still it will not do to carry charity too far If the
abolitionsts are mad there is diabocal amount OF
method in their madness, which renders them none
the less repulsive or dangerous Insane people are
entitled to the musings and discipline Of an asylum
and should be watched carefully iestthey
commit injury upon themselves or upon others.
On two or three occasions recently speaking of the
exodus of slaves in this direction, we have recon-
mended that the Legislatures of the States south of
the line drawn by the lower boundaries Of Virginia,
Kentucky and Missouri should pass laws prohibiting,
under the most stringent penalties the transportation
of slaves southwark for sale or emigration for period
Of at least ten years. We still hold that recommends
ton to be wise and iudicious, and demanded alike by
sound policy and the circumstances that now press
upon and surround the more southern States. We
will briefly recaptuate, in order that may not be
misunderstood Suspend the tide of emigration now
flowing from the States named and from Maryland,
on account Of the extrayagant prices slaves command
in the sugar and cotton region and they will be COM
PEELED to continue slave to remain
the border barriers against which the waves Of north
ern fanaticsm will fret in vain. No other alternative
| will be left them. They cannot emancipate, were
emancipation profitable, and get rid of their negroes
at the same time, and if they cannot devise plan
whereby they get rid Of their negroes, emancpa-
ton will be postponed indentely-for those States
would be rendered uninhabitable to white people,
were the slaves emancipated and not removed. This
is fact known to every stakeholder, and to many in
tellgent men in the North who have been honest
enough to look beneath the surface and investigate
the subject in its natural, practical bearings.
What would this secure to us of the extreme South
in case OF severance of the confederacy? Let us
sec: Why the aid, friendship cooperation and power
of four great States all of which the fanatics of the
North making contemplating serious onsaughts
upon with view to convert them into free States at
no distant day. This fact-this mighty, significant
ct-we respectfully submit to the public is sufficient
to warrant the general adoption Of the policy sug
! gested by u.s. s.-...=s 3"
/ But, there is another reason, and it applies to
Virginia, Maryland Kentucky and Missouri, as well
as to the Southern States In all of those States
there is demand for additional slave labor. Nom
emigration for ten years would probably supply that
deficiency as well tend to reduce the value of slaves
to something like standard proportional to the pro-
duct Of their labor, while at the time it would
more closely entwine the institution around the gene
raj interests of the people-render it more positive
and ineradicable- would be material point
secured We are well aware that there is a demand
for more labor in the cotton growing States, but
are in position to dispense with it, if we cannot
supply it from other sources without suffering pecu
niariy to any great extent. The world depends on
us for cotton If cannot raise enough cotton to
furnish the world with as much cotton it wants and
at cheap rates, the world will be obliged to put up
with what cotton do raise at our own prices. This
is tremendous advantage, and have the world
the hip provided we power judicously. Then,
again. it is moderate calculation to estimate the
increase of negro operative labor in the cotton
States in the next ten years at irfythree and third
per cent Let every opponent of the plan suggested
by us, reflect moment before proceeding to hasty
denunciation. Suppose the cotton crop of the last
1 i
year had been onethird larger than 1t was-at what
prices would cotton have ruled during the season
Internationally one-third lower! And Will the world
need in 1867 over one'third more cotton than 1t dd
in 1857, which natural increase OF labor VIII supply
1t is exceedingly doubtful II the world does IL Will
not draw all its additional supplies from this country
the cotton culture beng forced everywhere In order
to free the great manufacturing ana cotton'consun
ing nations Of europe nom tpelr present absolute
dependence upon Inc soushefn onitea STATES ana
without turther encldatloh Inc inference Is feasona
BILE that negroes Will be cheaper ana cotton cheaper
in the cottonproducng States zen years hence' with
out the emlgiatloh Oh shsie save 'fo .ne 'ofuer
otases' ''ia e''''ei nv NV =, WI 'es. W
burthen ourselves Win aaat'ohai negroes W raise
CHEAPER cotton and at the same time run the risk of
convert;ner nowerfIl slave into equally powerful free
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There is another strong argument winch may De ad-
yanced in behalf of proposition In ten years the
abolition marty will know no existence-will be re-
,,s.aa ar,, n no dosr;sea and evecr,+ed IL tbis
Inetioereu ony y ~ .esp's.u CIV ' .,
Union lasts. Ihen' we CHOOSE VIC can repeal Tue
/ proposed laws and if the Union does not last,
| we can do the same thing with entire safety at an
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