The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-12-04


sugar from Louisiana-<who is clothed, fed
and enriched by slave labory with all bis vile
co-Iaborers, and who then, in sheer graft.
Iude, first cheats us in everything he sell.
us, and then abuses US, because we are his
dupes-we would ask these people who
from our experience, would invade the do.
msins of Pluto if gIittering copper was
visible in his realms, whether, if by reducing
the cost Of negroes one>fftb, We could feed
and clotle them for one fifth less than now,
would they not consent to the fe,openinC ct
the slave tradeg If the slave trade would
give employment to all Northern seamen,
and enrich all Northern ship owners, will
not these, too, consent to its proper reyula.
ton by law, instead of advocating its sup
preston as piracyl Mr.. Seward and his
partisan politicians care nothing for The
actual interests OF the Northern laborers
he is using them to destroy the South, to
impoveriSh both sections Of the Union, aud
deIudiug bis own that he may reign over
both. For these reasons alone, he would
oppose the repeal OF the present slave trade
laws.
But, if the people of the North would be
vastly benefited by the accomplishment ci
the object we have in view, how infinitely
Greater would be the advantage, resulting to
the people of the South Not ou!y would
our vast unproductivc territory be III ,de IN
endless garden-not only would the aggre
gate wealth of each State be increased bs
yond all human calculation. but every South
ern citizen would be enriched; aid our
white population would grow in the same
ratio with our wealth, for men FROM aI QUAR-
Iers Of the globe would migrate to the South.
Even from the Uyperborean regions of the
North, The eloying Yankees, who are no
better with all their absurd Gins than
their slave holding and slave>deang ances
tors-even these, attracted by the aIllrements
of wealth and greatness, would flock to this
portion of the con ederacv. The planter
who owns slaves now would be the better
able to purchase more the poor man who
has none, could more easily become slave
holder; less capital would yield greater
proceeds, and all men, not only here, bu'
everywhere throughout the world, would be-
benefited. The re~opeuing Of the slave
trade would lave precisely the salne effects
upon civilized society as the discovery OF
the applicability of steam power TO machinery
-lsbor would be cheapened, and laboring
men, together with capitalists, would receive
alike lnca!cuIable benefits. But to the cor
ton producer we can present considerations
which seem to US more important than anv
to which we have referred. The British
Government, for years past, has sought t.
grow cotton in her East India possessions,
but not until the beginning of the eooIie
trade-more odious in all It's aspects than
the Atrican-ha any success croHned these
efforts. A larger amount of cotton from
the East will this year enter the ports OF
Great Britain than at any former period.
Such is the cheapness of the labor employed,
that our products are undersold. China, tor
centuries past, has been cotton growing
country, bu' until now, those ports of the
Celestial Empire whence cotton could be
exported, have been closed to the CONNER,
cial world. In China, NaHkin cotton is sold
at two cents, and even less, per pound such
is the cheapness Of labor The French
Government, which has re-opened the Ari>
can slave trade under the guise of the ap.
prentice system, that cotton may be producet
in her African provinces and islands, is now,
by means Of cheap labor, underselIiog Amer
lean planters in Havre. Forty thousand
bales OF cotton have already been shipped
from ConstantiDople, and now for the first
tine American cotton is grown in the do
lninions of the Sultan. The production OF
ou' great staple in Egypt and Syria is rapidly
on the increase, and even to>day, whilo the
producers in these distant countries are as
yet comparatively unskilled in the cultivation
and preparation for market of the great els
ment Of Southern growth and greatness,
such IS the cheopness Of tabor there, that by
them we are undersold.
Unless some change cccurs-uness some
measure is adopted by which Southern agri-
cultural labcr is cheapened, we must cease to
grow cotton. Must, then, our three billions
of capital invested in slaves be made value
less, even worse than valueless to the South,
because Of the non repeal Of the inlquitOus
slave trade laws? Must we be driven from
the markets Of the word by foolish and weak
prejllices, aud by the hate OF men like
Seward It must not be, aud the time will
come when sad experience shall have taught
the lessons we would now inculcate, that ali
Southern men will say with one voice, let
the slave trade laws be repealed. They will
soon see that, unless some pro iuctive source
Of labor is supplied, the South will be de
prived Of sl territorial and political rights ;
they viii behold their artizans homeless,
houseless beggars, since Southern agriculture
must cease; they will see their fields desc
late and uncultivated, and the fSirest land
on which God ever smiled, overrun by a
worthless, degraded and debased black pop
alation, which, in no cline nor country has
ever been able to feed and Clothe themselves
three billions Of wealth will be lost, and
ruin, misery, haggard want and widespread
desolation will reign everywhere, and then
and not till then, will the hslI-born designs
of Seward and his accursed followers b,
accomplished.
The Saturday Press says that Hon. Edward
Everett has under consideration an offer o
eoO 0on ~ danca On fha tirht rona Eon Al,