Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-29
to make COED their loss from the frequent
inroads of their fighting neighbors.
THE INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT.

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tone and tide of public opinion in Great
Britain. This is nothing less than the con-
fict between the true policy of the CONNER
cial and industrial classes, and that Of the
family cliques which have for so long time
governed England. The London Times, the
great organ of the merchants and manufac-
turers, boldly announces, in commenting up
on DR.. I.vinsston's discoveries, that "the
one great service which the world demands
from the negro race is the production of cot
tom" and admitting that "the white man
seems untitled for labor under the peculiar
conditions of place and atmosphere requisite
for the cultivation of this necessary staple"
propounds the doubt whether, even if it
were possible to transfer the scene of its pro-
duction to Africa, "the negro will cultivate
the soil with the certainty of purpose and
regularity of result necessary for CONNER
cial purposes" 1t goes even further than
this, and asks "if the negro proprietor will
not employ the compulsory labor of slaves 2"
The London Post, the special organ Of
Lord Palmerston and all the advocates Of
government by class, takes alarm at these
bold propositions of the Times, and endeav-
ors to change the issue by assuming that the
battle now going on and whose existence it
expressly admits, is battle between geogra-
ply and slavery. In the course of its reas-
oning it admits that coffee and sugar are ar
ticles of universal use in all zones; but
points to India and the Cape Colony, to
French Algeria and Syria, where it says
I" the cotton plant yet Aourishes in the gar
deus of the 1Aleppo, and the sugar cane by
the waters of Damascus" Tn the course of
its argument, the Post is led into singular
advocasy of the most ultra theories OF the
American fllibustes, in appealing, in sup
port Of its propositions, to the French con.
quests, in Algies, where "an immence tract
of land of the most exuberant fertility pas
scs from the hands of the Arab, the Turk,
the Moor, the negro, and the Mozabite-in-
dolent, ignorant, fanatic, without industry
or capital-into the hands of those who are
capable of giving that territory ills due and
active part to play in the great drama of the
world" This is pure fillibnsterism Of the
most ultra American school. ....
The Times is tight in its position: for the
commercial and industrial interests of the
world are beginning to awaken to the true
;,,, Ar ;,rol,o,l ;n tbo 1;,onss;on of tbo ,loya
ry question. Cotton and sugar are the i'm
mediate results of the system of tropical Ia
Dor established by the early discoverers Of
America. Cotton and sugar have been the
great sources of ameliontion in the dress and
food of man in every zone, and have produ-
ced many Of the most valuable improvements
in his dygrenic condition. Cotton and su-
gar are at the present day two Of the most
important fountains Of the commercial and
industrial movement of tlTc world, and there
in constitute some of the greatest springs Of
modern civilization. Not onl their pro-
duction, but continued increase Of the
product is demanded by the wants Of ciyili-
zatiou; and any policy which shall tend to
destroy the productive contributions Of the
existing system Of tropical labor, before any
substitute for it has been established, is con-
hicting with the material interests of civil.
zation, aud thereby with its true develop
luent and progress.
The existing humanitarian theories, bas
ed upon an abstract moral truth, are found
to conflict with these social necessities, while
at the same time they fail to fulfil in Il NOR
tai point of view the hopes Of their a'lro-
Gates.
The first t!nnph of these theories vas
witnessed in St. Domingo. There COM
munity, which in 1880 produced 145,ooO,-
900 pounds of sugar, 10000, 00o pounds of
coffee and G,000, 900 pounds of cotton, has
been DESTROYED to the industrial world, and
its place has been filed only by communities
organized on similar social system. The
next triumph is exhibited in the West In
ilia colonies of all the European powers. ex-
ccpt Spain. The change in their social Or
ganizaton has reduced the production Of su-
gar in the English, French, Danish and
! Dutch West Indies, since 1888, nearly one
half, precluding at the same time any ad-
vance in the culture of cotton. Were these
theories and their attendant results to be ap-
piled to the southern portion Of the United
States and to the colonies of Spain, which
still hold to the system of involuntary negro
labor, not only would they be involved in So
cial ruin, but the shock to industrial Eng
land would be of the most disastrous magni.
tude.
1t is true that in the sugar culture the
coolie labor Of India and the NIauritius is
beginning to replace the loss of St. Dom;n.
90 and the West Indies. But there is a
we'll founded doubt springing up in the world
whether the coolie system is any more con.
>onaut with the abstract principles Of hu-
manity than is the system Of negro slavery
as practised in America. Waving, howev.
er, this point, i, has been demonstrated that
cotton cannot be cultivated as successfully
in Tulia as it is in the United States. In
Africa the experiment has not yet been
practically tested, and even should it be pos
itively ascertained, there rises the great ques-
tiors propounded by the Times: Can it be
produced there with the certainty of purpose
and regularity of result necessary for COM
mercial purposes? If SO, will not the me-
gro proprietor employ the compulsory labor
of slaves. .~...-