The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-01-29
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THE INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN ENGLAND
A NEW PHASE OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION.

can explorer, to England, has given rise te
tone and tide Of public opinion in Great
Britain. This is nothing less than the con
flict between the true policy Of the CONNER.
cial ard Industrial CLASSES, and that Of the
family cliqucs wh;c, have for SO long a
time governed England. The London
Times, the great organ of the merchants
and manufacturers, boldly announces, in
commenting upon DR.. Livingstons discov-
cries, that the one great service which the
world demands from the negro race is the
production Of cotton" and admitting that
s'ihe white man seems unfiltel for labor
under the peculiar conditions Of place aud
atmosphere requisite for the cultivation Of
1hls necessary staple" propounds the doubt
whether, even if it were possible to transfer
the scenes Of its production to Africa, "the
negro will cultivate the soil with the certain.
ty Of purpose and regularity of resul; ncces-
sary for commercial purposes" 1t goes
even further than this, and asks :" If the ne
gro proprietor will not employ the compul
sory labor of slaves ~
The London Post, the special organ of
Lord l'almcrstun and all the advocates Of
government by Il cl:,,s, takes alarm at these
bold propositions uf the Times, aud en,leav-
ors to change the ISSUE bv assuming tlla;
the battle now going on and whose cxis-
tencc it expressly admits, is IL battle between
geography aud slavery. In the course of
its reasoning it admits that coffee aud sugar
arc articles Of universal use in alI zones
but points to India and the Cape Colony, to
French Algeria and Syria, where it says
- the cotton plant yet furnishes in the gar
dcns of the Alrrp", an the sugar cane lY
the waters Of Damascus" In the course OF
lis argument, the Post is led into singular
Advocacy OF tue mos: ultra, theories of the
American tiil'ustrrs i'll appealing, in sup
port OF its propositions, to the French con-
.Ques:s in Algeria, where an immense
tract Of land Of the most exul,crant fertility
passes from the han.ls OF the Arab. the
Turk, tl'" Moor, the negro, and the Mvza-
hi,e-indulcnt, ignorant, fanatic, without
industry or capitai-into the liatds Of those
who arc capable Of giving that territory its
due and active part t" play in the great tra-
ma Of the w"r!d.'' This is pure tiIliIustcr-
ism Of the most ultra American school
The Times i, tight in lis position, for the
commercial and industrial interests Of the
world are beginning to awaken to the true
issues involved in tie discussion If the slave
ry question. Cotton sud sugar are the
immediate results of The system Of tropical
labor established hy the early dscovcrcrs Of
America. Cotton and sugar have been the
great sources Of anrlinraliun iu the dress
and food OF man III every zone, and have
produced many Of the most valuable i'm.
pr"vemenis i'll lis hyg;cnic condition.
Cotton and sugar are at the present dav
two OF the most im"'rtant fountains of the
commercial anil industrial movement of the
world, and therein constitute some of the
greatest springs Of modern civilization.-
IN ot only their production, Int Il continued
increase Of the product is demanded by the
wants OF civilization; and any policy whicl,
shall tent: to destroy the productive contribu-
tons OF the existing system Of tropical labor
Before any substitute for il has hecn cstal,-
lished, is conflicting with the material inter
csls liberalization, and thereby with its true
development and progress.
The existing humanitarian theories, based
upon an abstract moral truth, arc found to
cont1Ict with these social necessities while
at tic same time they fail to fulfil in NOR
al point OF view the hopes of their advocates.
The first triumph Of these theories was
witnessed in St.Domingo. There commu-
"nity. which in 1850 produced $4,000, ,ooo
pounds Of sugar, 7o, ,ooe, 900 pounds of cof-
fee, and 100000 pounds Of cotton, has
been destroyed to the industrial world, and
itsplace has been filed only by communities
organized on similar social system. ,rfie
next ,triumphi is exhibited in tho West In
dia colopies Of all the Eurppean .powsss. ex.
,cept Spain. 4'lIe change in their aocial or.
gauizaliun has reduced The proauc,ion OF
sugar in tho English, French, Danish and
Dutch West Indies. since 1850, learly one
half, rreeluding .at the Same time my nd
vance inetbe culture of cott6A. Were these
theories andahoir attendant yssuls to be ap.
piled to ilio southern portishM The United
s.htcs and to$tlle. .celonis sspaio, wlIicl,