Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-01-12
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REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE-N0 !.
9" TIE ,cur mu,, be- Carried into africa"


There ia great deficiency of labor Mt the South,
and this is the why We have so little diversity
of economic pursuits. We cannot .pure the labor
from agriculture, and yet mpuiacurcs, transporta-
ton and exchange quito us Indispensable to the
prosperity aud independence of country us agricu
| ture is or can be in economic sense. Where are
our factories? Yet neither cotton any other
material have any value for eth0rusc exchange,
until it is first manufactured. Where our ships
Yet neither cotton any other article Of commerce.
@hclLas raW or manufactured can be sold or exchan-
CAD without transportation; Who manufactures our
cotton? England! Who transports it's The Yam
KEGS. Still boast of independence, while England
makes aors profit by manufacturing and the Yankees
as much, or m0re NY transporting our cotton than we
do by producing it. Welark diversity In anr industry.
soins mHy guy wq need more Gapits uon,- Granted
But ws rE1 tr5 required LABOR fha oapIfal would
soon come, because if it could noL DO accumulated it
could readily be borrowed 1t may be contended also
that We could borrow as much capital want
nov. rsrhaps VIC can, but why get moro capital
when there Id is!sor 10 employ it? Why procure
tool when there ia no one as,iit II the South
had the needed labor, shs could manufacture got
vii herself well transport it and if she to
DO ;tss0 i@s things her annual income from even her
present crop would ~ tt2h!a That it is.
But from the deficiency Of her 4ha, cir is pot only
unable either to Manufacture or transport Aer present
crop of cotton but she k h,0 actually unable TO sup
ply the wants Of the world with even raw eutton.
The consumption Of cotton is steadily incroasingyo
the supply has remained the same for many years
psst. proving tlIut the productive cnpucity Of the
South iias attsit,sa its maximum. 1t is not fur the
want Of aud, tLnt the pspisii t,r cation remains
stationary, because the single snte Of Mississppi
could produce cotton tlan tho whole aotb does
ut present if she had the necessary labor. Six mil
lion ucres, yielding half bale to the acre, which is
moderate calculation, you'd produce much as the
present CROP and Mississippi hos thirty million
acrcs half Of which would certainly produce two
million bales of cotton and support the labor
sary to do it also.
Thorc is likewise deficiency Of labor in our rice
culture. Only tluk of the millions aeros of un-rc-
claimed rice lands in the Southern Suites. In South
Caio,.& !;ne it is estimacdby competent judges that
there arc two m,ua p~,a # the very best rice pro-
ducing land in tho world lying ~ustS &i:h cn alum
dance of cheap African labor might export rcc "
China Tho same deficiency OF labor attends
our sugar culture too. If, in place Of protective
fG,is yn sugar. VIC had enough labor, Florida Tuxas
and Louisiahs e4si} probably supply the whole Union
nt half the present price or s4s4s %s us export it.
But why specify the particulars In which ous ui.,,
is deficient? Who will say that with the requisite
lshor Maryland, Virginia and kentucky could not
frrri<h tps TfF!!l with all the Tobacco it wants and
crush opt all e"Wpe,.liiop= that with more labor
kentucky and Missouri GOULD not raise saiient bag
Spg 10 pack tho whole cotton crop of the South, au4
80 ksup vt hO@e two or three piIlion dullars year
which VIC oxpond fur pnnlsp and East India gagging
and Rope? No well ipturmed person y4astiups, but
that with adequate labor, our states bordering the
Gulf and Pacific could produce enough cooo for tho
wants Of the whole Union; and two opinions cRpnot
be entertained, to the fact, that if Tennessee und
Missouri had tho needed labor, they could cxtruct all
the iron consumed in this country, and successfully
compete with the forges of England and Sweden in
the markets Of Europe, yet VIC pny from eight to
twelve million dollars annually for foreign irun
YLl more labor Florida might raise nearly all the
tropical PFoal!ufl; rph wo require, and other States
gould beyond s ths t hcstI IF foFpp Ffe Ffl"ce NIL the
Wine we would want, and sdll' otli:rs perhaps ri
tho Ton. "'
Finally, with moro laioF. wG might cRgage in.
various branches of Manufacturer Ut in fuW words
dirersy industry in agriculture, manufactures,
mining, shipping, etc. But instead Of this engaging
in oil the great branches of wealth. producing employ
,4e4,is Yhich must flourish together before Statc
Gun DO either truly n4sPsndsnt or the most prosper
GUS, like England for cxnmplp, Ee uayp hut Gg Hsp-
shipping-no mlnins.-no diversity of
oven agricultural industry worth tho mention, and
are actually unable ut the present moment to supply
the demand for raw cotton alone
Our labor has had no accossions from foreign sources
since 1908, while that of the North has been abun
dainty supplied from every quarter of the earth up to
tho present moment, and what has been the result ?
At hc dg,as Of the Slave trade Charleston was the
Metropolis Of tho #es4sla tSsen.:ncn. whnt is she
now? A depot for New York@up4 ai. I'M y,as.
Southern cities including Richmond and New Orleans
hold but the same business relation to tho CONNER
,ial capital. Tho slave population in South Carolina
s qo4sor than it is any whore Else, but ovon here
shcro the blacks alo to tho whites as to g. We yet