Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-03-16

comna,s.;vsIy sparse white population. And Mr.
Bruce popts out what inclined to consider the
only nroper and available means of increasing the
value of slave property, VIZ: the increase Of our
white population and the introduction Of variety of
in usirial and commercial pursuits. This, he pro
poses 10 effrctuate by dsvoting all the available
funds TO be applied to internal improvements, to Inc
completion Of the Covington and Ohio road, and thus
securing not only an increased commerce within our
own borders, but immense influx of trade IRON te
West, which shall furnish sufficient pabmam 'of oil
extensive foreign commerce.
We do not propose TO enter here into discussion
Of the eIpediency Of thus concentrating inc iuhd 10
be devoted to internal improvements. FMS question
ia now moot poiut with our legislators. and the pre-
sent practcabily of the scheme will soon be tested.
The point at which We have been endeavorihR to
arrive in tho course of our discursve reflections ia
an noautious and unnecessary admission Embodied in
Mr.. Bruce's remarks. We refer to the assumption
that the existence Of slave labor, in Virginia. consti
tutes principal cause for the prevention OF white
immigration. We have never been OF opinion that
slave labor and white labor cannot oo-exst IN the
same community and occupations. Even IN the case
of agriculture, which Mr.. Bruce adduces as a test
experience has proved in at least three Southern
States 1.-THE only States of which we can speak from
personal observation)-in Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessss-we find slave labor and white labor in
equal and harmonious competition. While' IN each
of these States the planter the large farmer neces-
sarily employs slaves, large number OF small Tar
mers carry on their ordinary occupations with their
own labor and that Of their families only occasionally
employing free negroes as day laborers. This mode
of farming il much in vogue in many parts OF East
ern Virginia indeed it is so general In the three
States just mentioned as to demonstrate the fact that
white labor and will exist with slave labor,
wherever the law Of climate will permit and in Vir.
gnia the climate is equally favorable to the encour.
agemsnt of both species of labor.
Indeed there is necessity to resort to chronological
reasons from which to dsduoe conclusion dissdvan.
tsgeous to the institution of slavery, satisfactorily to
account for the deficit of white labor in Virginia.
savery does not dive white labor from Virginia Let
our land titles ip Western Virginia be dsentangled
from the compeIity n which they are now involved.
Let roads and canals be constructed until they build
ND home markets and offer extended facilities for
foreign commerce, al the same time developing our
mining and manufacturing facilities. Then shall
witness an influx of white labor commensurate with
the demand for labor Then will our slave labor be
come too valuable to permit Of Southern expectation.
Then will We realize The great benefit of climate.
which promises an insaculabe superiority over both
our Northern and Southern neighbors, the energetic
employment of all sorts Of labor slave and free, in
all the branches Of agricultural, industrial and COM
mercial pursuits.
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