Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-04-06
For the AdYQrtiQer.
REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE-No. x

"The par must be carried into africa"
Having disposed Of the general question rs to
the ability OF the prosent slave States Of this
Union, either alone, Or in conjunction With Mexico
and Central America to probably subsist and cm-
ploy millions more Africans for thousands of
yoars, or unit! population shuil have attained 100
or 200 to the square milo let US now consider
whotkor IL the slave trado revivod the iusti-
tuition of slavery could be established in our terri
torios, or in the Free States. As hctcrodox as the
following propositions arc, niaintain,
l. That if the slave trade had never been closed
none of the old Northern States, except may bc
those of New England, would have ever abolished
slavery.
2. That perhaps none Of the New Free States
would have failed to establish it.
3. That if the slave trade were now revived
slavery would bo established 10 oil or noarly all
of both the Territories aud Free States.
AS all tho issues here raised naturally run into
each other, it would be better to examine them
collectively instead of in detail.
In the first place, social phenomena are governed
Man with all his god-likc faculties and fierce pas
.iunsas Ar much an even quantity az any other
mobile element III nature and il left free TO work
ont his happiness in his own way, he will seek it
in the most obvious paths, according to the rulos
prescribed hy tie Divine Creutur. IIcEee it is
only in obedience to the laws Of climate that popu-
lstion is always impcllcd Southgard unless re-
strained, OF diverted hy sono adverse Influence
The specification Of few simple facts will snfice
to dumonstratc this. Less labor can be performed
in Northern latitude than in Il Southern, because
snow and extreme cold exist for many months Of
each yenr in high latitules. Tho same labor pro-
duccs much less in Northern climate than in
Southern one, en- account Of the variety of pro-
ducts being smaller md tho scason for their growth
being 50 much shorter in the Eurth than in tho
South, anu from many other facts which will readi-
ly occur upon little reflection. Labor nlso COIL
sanes much more Of what it does produce, in tho
North than in tho South. 1t requires more jood
hccausc larger quantity is necessary to supply the
fuel for animal heat. ANY one cats moro during
winter, than in summer, even in tho same latitude
The people of tho tropics take but two very light
snd mostly Vegetable nealS, in the twenty four
hours. Labor need, thicker and warmer clothing
in Northern climate. 1t aso demands more
fuel aud bettur shclfer against The unfrendIy elc-
mcn,s. In addition to NIL this man forever desires
to inhabit country, where he can fool c"rnfortn-
ble at all timos against inhnspitsble weather. The
result is that although mast men in rmigrating,
theoretically, prefer to get hume in the Same
latitude as their old ono, yet tboy uncontciuusly
drift Southwark
Then as the timo for labor is shOr,er, as the
yield Of labor is lcst--aS the subsistence of labor
is more sxponsiye-as the elements urc moro un-
prontcus in cold climate than in a warm ono,
it is ouly natural that population. should graytatc
Southwark. Accordingly We fud that the dcnsrly
pupulous Empires Of Moncznma and Atahunpa
were neither ef them more than 20 degrees frGm
the EQUATOR and that the Southern parts uI Europe,
~ well ss OF Asia are now and have hlwnSs been
thicky peoplcd, much moro SO than the Northern.
As man cannot subsist except by the swpnt uf $umc
hndy's browns he strives 10 tubsst, as well as
enjoy the u1urcso fo without any sweat Of hisuwn
hruw-as power itself is sweet, and slavery there
fore the u"rma relation, which hc will impe,c
upon all the labor he can control, it follows that
population will not ouy rnnvc Southwark but that
il will alsn establish and preserve slavery there
until the institution ceases To be prnflnhlpgntil
tho excess of pr"iucti"u over subsistence il W
small TO make the slave vaiiicess, when cmanc-
patton will either take place Ur the slave will be
carried Nurthward where his lSbur will produce
more profit in u less thrkly sc.ted country.
1t was l,y the operation If these calses that
emancipation, or sbuli.hmont of white slavery
commenced in tbu South Of Europe and moved
Nnrthwarl. But in the United Siatcs-ts nnts.
raj law of migration-this Inv Of slnvery in other
words has been reversed by emancipation com
lneneing in the North, whence it is moving South
ward with almost irresistible pressure, which
shows that there is something Wrong-thnt the
laws which have governed slavery frcm the earli-
est recorded time have been derangcd in some
uny, and couteni that tho d,ranging cause ha,
been the closing Of the slave trade in 1865.
But willis slsvcry aud emancipation hnrc both
been moving Southwark, white population nt least
rs far rs foreign emf grafton is concerned may bc
said to hnvo bcon moving .HDrthaord, agnin rcvcr-
sing the universal law of migration to countries
where land is bo:h cheap and fertile. Not only
has tho huge wave of the European Exodus rolled
into tho North to swell her population, but the
natives of the North have also been driven back
OF damed up, in face Of the fact, that f only equal
pecuniary and political Inducements arc offered
in Northern and Southern cline, tho lsttcr will
always be preferred, on account Of its greater ge-
niality. contend that this anomaly in the move.
ments Of Hhtc population In the United State,
has likewise haon brought about by the abolish
ment Of tho slave trade.
Previous to the political explosion known na tho
French Revolution, foreign omigrants, elected to
sattle ut tho South, because they could then get
not only genial climate, but also rich and cheap
land, together with cheap Stare laJor. The white
population of the North Lif,ed Southwark for the
SAME reHsuns. Every white man Thu tlien srttlcd
mt the South cnu!'! hGy nesrnc. ut importers price,
sn, then it was that the wloie S1uth blusSuu,cd ~.
Tho ru,r--thnl Charleston tnurishcd hs the Queen
IL. t,.l Al
Baltimore. Philadelphia, New York or Boston.
After tho French Revolution summoned all Europe
TO arllls emigration thu.ce 20 our shores almost
ceased, rs nun remained Mt hume either from pm
lriotiym cImpulsiUn To eht their countrys bat
;os nor did it revive until after tho fall of Hapo-
leon. But in the ncnutime the slave trade Mt the
South had boon closed. Still, up to the tilno of its
closing nud for some years subsequent, Northern
men had continued to como Suuthwsrd. either
with their Slaves, in search of better climate and
better land or with their skill and capital to got
goud elimatc-good land and cheap snru labor
OIL the spot.
But when tho wars Of Europe ended, white emil
grafton to the South from either EuruJc or The
North cuded alsu. The slave trade had then boon
closed years aud with its nu.ing cluscd also
the prosperity of tho South and the prosperity Of
Charleston. Her Shipping aud commerce ilcl
Her infant manufactures dcclimerl. Her wharvcs
were deserted. Her supply Of capital, Of wLto
masters aud nrtzaus from Eurup, nnd the North
ceased. Even her supply Of African ahorers for
the Agriculture of tho interior cnmc no more
Labor being tho source of all wealth and tho
stream Of European labor which then flowed into
tho United States all touching the continent at the
North, remained thcrc, in defiance of the ountroll-
ing law which makes population move Southwark,
If loft FREQ to oboy Its own impulses, and tho blight
Of stagnation fell upon tho Palmetto City, Whie
all NON bccano busn0 and prosperity in Now York,