The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-09-27

cxospt Ia the case Of customers with whom va have
mutual socounts. With such, settlements win be
made quarterly.
rhs slavsecvacy Degrade Labor.
We have seen that tho Democracy repudi.
ass tho aat-slavsry policy Of the founders Of
ths government and seek to strengthen and
extend slavery. And We have also seen that
ths sassts Of this slavery policy is disas.
trous to oil the great interests OF the people.
We propose now to call attention to the Of.
fects Of extending slavery into eli territory,
and IN shutting out the great masses Of the
free laboring population from the enjoyment
Of tho benefits Of the common territory of
the United States, or to degrade and injure
shsn By forcing them into competition with
slaves in that territory. That the slave
ssasss o6er no inviting Geld for free ID
borsrs and poor men Of enterprise 10 very
clearly indicated in the fact that the immense
immigration Of foreign lAborers have univer-
ally and b. unanimous consent, settled in
As aorth, and that tens OF thousands Of On.
safpfisiDg non-slaveholders leave the slave
statss 70 settle in the free, every year, while
= = bst seldom indeed that laborers, me-
chsnic6 Or farmers from The north seek res.
idsnce amongst slaves and Shareholders.
And the gensral results OF this fact have
been Indicated already In the vast disparity
Of population and wealth, value Of lands,
manufactures, extent Of internal improve
ments, facilities Of education &C., between
the South and the North. Mr.. Taryer. a
southern man, and for many years the editor
OF the South Western Review, in an article
advocating the establishment Of rnanufac-
lures in the South, estimates the poor non.
slaveholders Of the South At three times the
number Of those interested in slavcs. He
says Of the region where the institution Of
slAgery has most fully developed its effects,
- stDnthorn section of the slave holding
states:
"The non-slaveholders possess, generally,
but very small means, and the land which they
possess 10 almost universally poor, and 90
sterile that soanty subsistence 10 all tina.
can be derived from it's cultivation; and the
more fertile soil, being in the possession Of
the Shareholder, must ever remain out OF the
power OF those who have none.
"This state Of things is great drawback.
and bears heavily upon and depresses the
moral energies Of the poorer classes. :
The acquisition Of a respectable position in
the scale Of wealth appears 30 difficult that
they decline the hopeless pursuit, and many
OF them settle down into habits Of iileness
and become the almost passive subjects OF oil
it's consequences. Aud lament to say that
have observed OF late years that An evident
deteFioration 10 taking place in this part Of
sAe population, the younger portion d il be-
Ing Less educated, less Industrious, ard Ia
every point Of view less respectable than
their ancestors
WIN. l.. Gregg, OF tho South Carolina In,
stitute, in an address delivered by him il
Charleston, estimated the poor whites Of tina
state, who ought to work but did not to an,
purpose, at more than half Of the entir
White population, and says:
81 have long been under the impression
md every days experience has strengthene,
ny convictions, that the evils exist in tn
wholly neglected condition Of this class 0
pers0ns. Any man who 10 an observer o
things, could hardly pass through our coun
try without being struck BY the fact that al
the capital, enterprise and intelligence ID EN-
ployed IN directing slave labor; and the con
! sequence is, that large portion Of our poo
white people are wholly neglected, and ar
suffered TO while away an existence in stat
bat one step in advance Of the Indian in til
forest"
1t cannot in the nature of things be 9th
erwise where laborers are bought and sol,
but that labor should DO regarded a. deera
ding; and the result Of the competition o
the free laborer against the slav chi iders, Wit
his capital and scores Of purchased lAborer
must ever in the end be jus. what Mr.. Tar
yer and Mr.. Gregg and hundred Of other
who have written on the subject, declare
to have been heretofore under their observa
ton. And yet the policy Of the President
Of Congress and Of the Supreme Court, an
Of the Democratic party, ID to make oil III
territories OF the United States slave sol
on which TO grow population Of aristocra
ic sias1noiders, oppfossvi s.asse .l.. g. .sssT.
ded whites.
But while the oligarchy Of the south Ia,
degraded the common laborer by force
competition with the Negro slave, they ha,
heretofore 70 great extent avoided subiec
ing the mechanics and professional men to
Like degrading competition. But the Or,
gress Of Ariatocratic sentiments aud the lar,
profits realixrd hy mechanical labor has :
GENTLY induced them 10 put their slaves
trades, and now on every hand and especia
~ in the cities, the white mechanic ia jostl
BY the negro slave in the pursuit OF his ca
ing. The STAKEHOLDER with bis gang Of pa
chased mechanics and bis ample capital q
undsrbid and drive out the artisan who d
ponds alone on his own muscles to supp
food and clothing for his family. And ID
4 = tAAt the white mechanics Of the sou.