Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-03-02

toa cu1'ure py Cuoa and other States Woodworking
our scarce and high priced labor.
All nations and peoples, save only the South and
our savo hodsrs are eager to increase her gun
ply OF labor, BY any and every manner of means.
The North always applauds the invention of /. nav
labor saving machine. Even our anti.,laye traders
OF the South rejoice at it Yet there is no practical
difference between inventng machine, which with
the aid OF one man can do the work Of four and in
importing four times a many laborera, of flesh and
olood 70 DO the samo species of labor AZ the machine
performs. The man who controls sucb n machine
and its one operator, commands just as much labor
as be who controls the four laborers The .apino Of
labor IN the ono case is denal in principle with the
Increase of 1t in the Oder To illustrate A ei,euI.r
saw mill can do the work Of hreo upright saws there
by adding threefold to the quantity of labor which
would have to be employed, if upright saws were
still used to cut our lumber in place of the circular
saws, yet must We abandon the circular saw MILL bs.
cause it increases our supply Of productive labor.
Must we heed the remonsrance of those who own
upright saw mills? sewing machine, in tho hands
of single female, will execute the task of four
seamstresses, which produces the precise result in
each neighborhood, where machine is worked, as
would the addition Of four times as many seamstresscs
to its sewing industry still must we oppose the intro
duction Of the machine becauso one woman can now
do as much stitching as four could formerly3 Must
the seumsresses be allowed to obstruct the use Of
the sewing machine! No! rather let the surplus
ssaustresses and the surplus upright saw-mill men
"go at something else"
So let our surplus cotton planters 90 at something
else-growing wheat, sugar, hemp, rice, tobacco,
grapes, fruits; or at mining iron, copper and gold
or At evaporating salt raising stock building rail-
roads, constructing steamboats, erecting factories or
engaging in manufactures of various kinds, whenever
they shall be blessed with an excess Of cotton laborers
IF We were to import three million of wild Africana,
it would give the same impetus to our prosperity and
have the Same happy effect in diversying our indus.
try that the Invention Of thousand labor-saying
which one hand could hoe as much cotton rs three
hands can now, would not our planters sdoptit!
To say nothing of cotton gins, plowing machines,
reaping machines, steam engines and the countless
other labor-saving instruments, Rail Roads alone
have accomplished the same result upon the single
State of South Carolina, would perhaps the addi
ton Of one hundred thousand negroes to her present
slave labor if she werc deprived of Rail Roads. They
have almost done away with wagons carrying to and
from distant markets; they havo we'll nigh abolished
the business Of staging yet who would now dispense
with railroads at the bidding of wagon carriers,
wagon makers or of stage owners. grant that
machines do not require subsstance as human labor
doss but there is no other argumept, which can DO
urged against the increase Of human labor, which
may not be directed with equal force against the in
crease of labor saving machinery. And the supposed
difficulty of subssting more negroes at the South for
thousand years to come, is about as we'll founded,
as was the fear of clever boy once knew, that said
the world would one day suffer for shoes in consequence
Of all the cattle dying, being killed for beef But
shall recur to this substance objection to revival
At present will only say that the States Of tho
North West have no apprehension about sub.isting
more white aborers Notwithstanding the presence Of
millions of Europeans who have already congregated
there. And VIC may learn profitable lesson from
the North on tho matter CT increasing our supply Of
slave labor by little reflection. Thoy welcome,
with open-arms, the emigrants from every land, es-
timating each able bodied emigrant, as worth one
thousand dollars to the aggregate wealth Of the soun
try because he make at least hundred dollars
per annum, besides subsisting himself which squvo-
lent To the annual interest upon thousand dollars
at 10 eer reant.---~---z-= conf.
Some Of the North Western States arc 80 dssrous
of getting labor that they elothe the just Ar.
rived emigrant with the high prerogatire Of suffrage,
and with the privilege of holding Office very shortly
afterwards, solely, 'ingly, and exclusively to tempt
bis footsteps thithsr that they may have his labor.
Oregon which admitted into the Union as State
fow days ago. has clause in her constitution framed
expressly to attract foreign laborers within her bor-
dsrs. What contrast between their fears and ours
about subsstanee, and about the profit of more labor
None of the North Western States are afraid of tho
wheat culture being ovcrdono, yet growing wheat is
their chief business. 1t is' the same to them that
raising cotton is to They feed the world and we
cothe it. True sometimes, the supply Of wheat is in
excess of tho demand, las was tho with sup
ply of cotton maTy years ugo) but the farmers Of
the North West then "go at sorothing else," as I
have esssyed to show could do, if cotton mar
ket were made stagnsut by over.prOduction.
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