The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-08-13
AN Old FABLE wtTH A MODERN AprL1cA.
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AN OLD FABLE wtTH A MODERN AprL1cA-
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Every body is fnnnr with The story of the
iux who had his tail cut "il, aud thrr.,,lou
tried tn convince his brethren that tail, were in
nll respects useless anil runh"rsuInc urprnin,es;
TINT they served II" ,:"nI r"rpsc. hut, on tho
contrary. s"ri"tsly iniriicrd with the daily b,si
Of fife; that they neither useful nor
"rn"n'"ntal; aud that, IN fact for grace dignity
and agility. nothing in The upinc world could
compare with drca,d;tlHcd fox.
This an excellent example for the Eu,li>,
whcn tlIrv suffered Themselves {" be caught il,
tho Abolition trap. On hat occasion the lion in
,i,c British natur. was snllucd, and the fox us
sorted an inhiSpuiall" supremacy. Ever since
that time Great britain has been trying TO per
sia,lc the world that the great ,.sitl,ratum of
nations, the exrclient which would render the
world great. prosperous and happy, is the total
abolition Of African slavery.
No sensible person believed Great Britain to be
really sincere i'll her pretended nhhurreucr of
slavery, while i'll The midst Of her Littcrcst male
dictinns sl,o was all the time trying to establish
system, which, if NOT slavery, was at least an imi-
tation of slavery 1t was very much as il the
fox i'll the fable, while cxpatin:ing on IN. evils
Of tails. had been husily engaged in fitting hm,-
self with mn artificial appcmngc. Nevertheless,
there are some pcop!c in this country who still
make prctcncc Of believing that the abolition
of negro slavery in t?ie United States would he a
rource of great benefit morally socially and CO.
"nomcnlly. They insist Oh having the expert
mcnt tried here, notwithstanding its ln,nrniahlr
failure wherever it has been attempted We're
mcmbcr once rcu'ing Of youth who was lee
turcd by his father OH the mplopricy of his con
duct, his designations and his cXccs:rs. when
yon are an old man. as | ann said The parent ,
you will see the folly Of it, "WclI. father"
tsplicd The gracrless scamp, "I wan, to So. the
folly it, too IL is useless to lecture our Alb
Iit lStS intnr A.
theories; it is worse than useless to reason with
them on grounds of constitutional right il is
nttcrlv supcruous to tell them that the Abolition
experiment has been trir,! and denounced, even
''v its inventors, rs not only palp,l lie hu,ml1y
but IN c.,rcyr"ns folly. All this time and reason
thrown away; they are bent on seeing the folly
of il themselves; and il they alone were Ia I,r
affected should Offer no objection to their
stubborn inatuation.
We Il" not intend now To discuss the question
Of slavery either with or for the Aholitiunists;
our design just now is simply 10 rcca the att III
ton Of our readers TO the extracts we have gwen
from 'arnaica paper containing the acii inowl-
cdl.cmcnts and opinions which could scarcely
havo been expected TO appear in any paper pub.
lisi.eI within the British "nlininnS. The Nor
thcrn AbolilnniSts or su.h Of them as co,,tl.-
scend to give rcasonS for their faith affirm coll
tinually that free labor is profitable than
slave labor. They insist on this prnposit ion not
cnly III regard 10 their own communities which
have been organized the free labor system
but as Of general and Unlimited anp,i.otion
wherever the industry Of man is devoted to the
production of wealth.. The .Inmaicn .JnurnnI
published IN n community which has tee. l,n h
theories aud experienced both systems. bodily
rroc!,ins that slave labor is moro profitable
THAN free labor. One of The arl,uncntssmost fire.
Gucntlv present cd by the Abolition economists *
the assumed difference in the value of real cs.
tate ut the North and real estate aL the Snuih.-
They tell lis that farm lands in the Northern
States arc worth n fabulous amount rcr acre
while i'll the Southern States the same kind pC
lands arc worth much less Sum-and the differ
cncc i'll the price they attribute to the absence of
slavery IN the one ease and tlc presence of sInvc
ry i'll the other Whether the assumed s,prrinr
ity i'll the value Of Ians is any proof of surcrior
prosperity, whether the difference is ,lrncu,cu,
III any way Oh the existence or non existence of
Atncan slavery, we shall not stop To Inquire
'it IL the price of real estate is in fact s,lc!, nm
eminent and infaIlibc test of prosperity; We should
like our anti Slavery economists to consider the
contrast presented by Cuba and jamaica; and
Icconcilc it with their peculiar theories This
contrast is strongly insisted OH by the paper TO
which We have alluded. "Iook," saws the
journal, cat the value of real estate lin (:ub, y
compare it with that of frecloI,ls in Inmaic:.. ~
ihc price paid 'r one single estate there is cS0O-
600 i,oO1,ooo) Thisis the condition OF Cuba
under the slave system Now look at Ia,nnica
under the free What has been the result Why
"e price nf real estate fell 10 nothing after il
could not bc sold and when sale was made
the land actually given away-the price n,iJ
i"r freehold moi more than c1ualng the v;,luc
"f its live and dead stock. Bear in m,nd th,t
previous te free labor Janaca was us PROSPEROUS
~ Cubs; land ruled high estates tln,,risl,r,l
and all The widespread ruin we now sec has been
subsequent to emancipation"
This is q picture which in sombcr color;pr w;,l
We with the pictures Of the South drawn I,v ,hr
Abolition lilnners. There is one difference, how
ever which recommends the jamaica artist to :,
much higher consideration. While our AboI;.
s'on'sts nre forced to appeal entirely to their i'm
"ghatlohs' he pants from nature herself The
consequence is that while Abolition n;rturos 80.
merely earicatnrcs Of things only seen in disor-
dered visions The Jamaica landscape is d faithful
reproduction of things actually cxistrns.-N. O.
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