Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-10-01

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trade, it is due to him, it is right, and i'm
peratively demanded by justice and the com
mon good, that all classes in the South shoulG
unite to institute so desirable measure o.
public policy.
All classes, rich and poor will be benefit
ted. If the price of slaves be diminished
the rich can buy more, and allare slave.buy
ers. No one desires to sell, unless compelled
by debt or some other cause to do so /: and
if slave labor is increased, land will rise in
price, because there will be greater demand
for it; and this will more than compensate
for any loss in the value of negroes. If cot
ton should fall in value, more can be made
with additional and cheaperlabor, more lands
brought under cultivation and reclaimed
plantations better improved, better rcsiden.
ces built, and all the comforts and luxuries
of life increased. But it will take so long
time to make new, untaught Africans val.
liable as laborers, that, with the natural in.
crease Of population in the world, and its
known law of outrunning production, it
would require a large increase of labor, a
long time, and great addition to the amount
of cotton produced, to bring down or affect
it's price. Besides, there are so many other
channels in which slave labor is employed or
desired, that if there should be danger Of
over-producing cotton, labor might be partial,
ly diverted from its culture. Mankind, if
let alone, will always know how to regulate
best their own business and interests. Let
US have the muscular power wherewith to
work, and the almost immense wilderness Of
the South will blossom with remunerativc
crops. Is it not tantalizing to our people to
know that they have millions of acres of the
richest lands in the world, and that cruel
legal restriction prevents them from acquir-
ing the labor necessary to till them and to
realize those visions of prosperity which are
floating before their minds? They see how
they can grow rich beyond the dreams Of
avarice, but law stands in their. way. Is i,
the end of law to prevent people from be.
coming prosperous happy? I have been
taught that laws we're intended for the pub,
lie good, that is to say, "for the greatest
good of the greatest number" Consider
the numerous demands for slave labor, be.
sides for the production of cotton, sugar,
breadstufs and tobacco, and it will be seen
that a large increase of slave labor is neces.
sary. Laboris needed for clearing and drain.
ing new and fertile lands; for making rail-
roads; for manufactures and the mechanic
arts. 1t is proposition too we'll proved,
that no nation can attain the highest degree
ofliberty, independence and power, without
the trinity of agriculture, manufactures and
commerce. Agriculture alone will not make
US entirely Independent; in and slave labor
may well be employed in manufactures and
in the preparatory departments of commerce.
A state of war especially illustrates the
necessity for commerce and manufactures
Agriculture does not produce cannon balls,
arms and ammunition a ready-made shirt
or pant.aloon never hangs out of cotton
boil; war steamer or line-of.battle ship
never grows, like live oak, out of the
ground; but these things are the results Of
commerce and manufactures; and if slave
labor should become redundant in agricul.
ture, it might and would bo made great
blessing to our country when portion of it
should be diverted into numerous other oc.
equations in aid of our national protection
and independence.
Let US have no fear Of an overfowing pop.
ulation, either white or black. "Suficient
unto the day is the evil thereof" Since the
great Flood, it has been about 5000 years,
and large portion of the world is yet unin.
habited aud unimproved. Let US 60 on in
our course of improvement-"do our duty,
and leave the consequences to God" We
cannotl lift the veil which is spread before the
future, but the probability is, that when sla-
very shall reclaim our forests, drain our rich
swamps, drive Neptune with his trident into
the ocean, bring under cultivation all that is
desirable in our present Wide-extended coun.
try, Caucasian civilization will find then, and
perhaps before then, other fields provided for
its extension and for the employment of At
rican labor. Topping and crumbling gov
ernments in the South seem to invoke our
aid, and lands rich in soil and minerals, now
almost desolate, are destined for our posses.
sions. The Southern people will have Mex
leo whenever it is needed; and Cuba, the
beautiful queen of the Gulf, smiling upon us
through her tears, 'like CLEANS of sunshine
mid renewing storms" beckons us to come
and possess her and enjoy her treasures
African labor alone can make these fairrealms
valuable and profitable. With that the South
will grow in wealth, beauty and power;
without it, rude nature will overrun all our
improvements, assert her cientempire over
a bowling wilderness, and our people will be
doomed to slow, terrapin progress, if not to
mournful retrogression.
The attempt of the Northern abolitionists
to emancipate, is so ridiculous and and alb.
surd as scarcely to deserve notice. The
present plan, as suggested by Elihu Burritt,
is to raise money by contribution throughout
the Union and elsewhere, to buy all the
slaves at $3.50 each. The value of 4,000,.
900 of slaves, at $500 each-about their
market worth-would be- 100000, 900,
and at. $3.50 each, just half that sum-
Southern men, even if disposed to sell their
slaves, would, not take balf.price, to please
crazv abo|irionists. and if thew could be in.