The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1858-05-04
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
The African Slave Trade.

We need an increased production. Oar
country is hive into WHICH comes yearly a
swarm of adventures without means, who be
take themselves to. the different employments
who flock into cities and become an addl
tional multitude dependent upon agriculture
for bread. They throw their weight in the scale
Of manufactures or manual labor of some kind
mot to agriculture. Whilst the former in
creases the latter is stationary. Political econo,
my requires some proportion between manu-
faetures and agriculture. The basis Of all en-
terprise, the true source os'weatth-agrIcuitus
raj products whether imported or raised: are
essential to prosperity; whether raw or worked
up, products are necessary for buslness-trade
being but the exchange Of one product for
another, and money is the agent fYr this traNs.
fer. Now, when there is 10. sufficient raw,
there cannot be enough manufactured materials.
A dearth is the consequence III necessary arti
clss. There should be some equality betw'xt
the two. We are filling up 50 rapidly
tendencies are becoming SO mercantile, that
we must keep up show in the way of agrIcul-
ture. great demand is made for materials,
Tor provisions we must increase our supplies.
How can we do so; will science perform it, or
experience produce them! No, but force
additional labor Can we import provisions or
u,aterinls-bny them from foreign markets !!
Are We not ourselves the mainstay of the
world in these respects9 How can We import
from others when we export their supplies 3
We are peculiar nation-the most peculiar
on record-a thoroughly agricultural, thor
,Ifvhf ,.,sE, ,,I N
y We must keep iheas il proportion. 10 do this
we must have more fosce, which we can oli!y
have BY re opening the Slave trade: for we
have not the force within ourselves.
To the North slave labor would bc beneficial,
for various reasons: lst. Because Of the com-
mand over it 2d. A manufacturers negroes
being his own, he can work without means al
most a, we'll rs with; and several Others
This, however, is impossible. But, to tho South
All addition is Indispensable, because agrcul-
ture being our forte aud the world dependent
upon US, we must stir ourSelves-must awake
from that Van Winkleism which seems to have
bound US with the cords Of lethargy, or be-
numbed the acuteness OF our faculties.
brighter day is dawning the South feels her
wants, and like some sumbering lion aroused,
is shaking from her tie dew drops Of sIolh.-
From an increase Of productions and greater
s6IIj.s je7:sr-0s x sovs:t &
Ek,lOw, for, being manufactures, 1t needs our
materialsl we would argue an Importance in
our government. These are policies 10 The M
terest Of the South. Disrrgarded by our gov
erl,lnenr, nothing will enforce them but interest.
But, Union is Il phrase Of bye'gpnc days, an
idea Of the past dissolution Is ''oU the theory.
The practical issue will come ere lolrg; no sa
gacity is requisite to prophecy il; every sign,
political, or social, por,ends ir. We should be
prepared with every possible advantage, 80 us
to berin our career uutralnmefed. We must
introduce more force. But, whether in the
Union or out OF it, III increase Of our produc
tive agencies is an increase Of our rower.