New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-12

cotton-fed hands. Such is not the case Supineness
may superinduee competition abroad, and gradual
diminuton in our wealth at home, which is, accord
ing to political economy, tae amount Of surplus pro-
auctions we send off,
That we need more lahorers Is evident WHY the
increase in the hireings wages il his labor Is not in
creasng IN pecuniary importancel Why is the negro
worth to-day $780, who fifteen years ago was readily
purchased at $500l The flush times will hardly be
urged rather the contrary will be studiousy concealed
or industriously mystifed. Then again, which con-
duces better for our welfare, as proves by exper-
ence, cotton at high or low price 1t is provsrbisl
with the farmer that at the time he desires high
prices for his cotton, be is compelled TO pay for
the necessaries Of life. Here we are taught the
lower not always drags the higher down. But we
must defer for future consideration other facts we
had thought Of advancing 10 make our position
firmer.
What is said OF the abolition OF slavery in the
border States has been partly met heretofore by us
But admit the assertion OF Mr.. Polk on this point
aud his conclusion as an inevitable consequence
1. e. our then inability to preserve rights only by
stout hearts and strong srms-and the death.kne Of
the Union is toed almost already. Inchoate States
less identified with the interests of the South than
those on the border, are now counting company Of
the Black Republican junto in Congress. We allude
to Minnesota, Utah New Mexico, Kansas Nebraska,
and others-A Of which, when admitted, will league
with the open foe Of the South Is not the crisis
already right out yonder II true in one case, it i.
so in the other.
The committees alluson to the prospective magni-
tude of our slave estates is not an original idea We
have seen it In the strongest pro-slavery organs.
Admit the doctrine and it fails to corrupt free suf
frage, the base OF our Government, any more than
money will always do. Applied to slavery, as being
antirrpublican, it carries more weight than when
spilled to land specustons. Money has its infiu.
ence aud power whether its representative be Wall
street paper kinky headed Africans. Money Sc
cures to no man extra constitutional rights and guar
sntees over his neghbor who lives fugRlly and with
bis own hands provides the wants OF hs cherished
family both are sovereigns 10 law, politics, and CO.
ordinate workers In the cause Of religion. Hence
the charge OF antrepubcansm can be as cogeutly
and as pertnenty urged against the millions invested
in Northern shoe pegs wooden clocks as the same
amount represented by flesh and blood-equally rs
justly against Northern chstiels as Southern effects.
Summing up the points OF the case, we conclude,
that inssmuch As Our Legislature has power sufficient
to obvisto all the evident consequences which may
result from the residence Of free negroes among u.s.
and that there is constitutional prohibition against
Importation, nothing remains TO be proved, to make
African importation feasible and expedient, but its
sound policyl Cheapness Of labor and economy ofcap
sa constitute agricultural wealth. the absence these
must multiply the hardships Of the working classes.
Were the South separate people two years would
not elapse ere the slave trade would be re-opened
and the readiness with which our people would avail
themselves of additional labor ia conclusive evidence
OF thls assertion as well as OF the imperative wants OF
their condition. Then. labor is greatly needed
What is the best means OF supplying i'll Aanifesty
African importation.
Entertaining the full conviction of the stesdy pro-
gress OF slavery and its ncacHlsble benefit TO us as
people, we see . new and more brilliant dawn open
ing upon the hopes and the absolute perpetuity of the
institution. Mind ia asserting its dominion over mat
ter intellect is hourly subdnng MUSCLE and making
its value to subscrve the ends OF Jehovshs allwse
intentions. The white mans destiny is pre-eminent
over the black mans; and the genius Of the one will
alone develop the inherent virtues of the other One
originates the other will plumb every inch OF his
superior's demands. From the day that Noah cursed
Ham, as the servant OF servants his descendants
have been earnestly going onward to their proper
sphere. There they will rest eyermore.