Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-30
The impending Crisis of the South
--PennsYIvania and South Carolina.


! The following article, so wholly meets on
views of the matter, that transfer it to on
! columns 1t is from the Albany Journal.
"There was time within the recollection O
| some yet living, when Charles ton, in Soutl
| Carolina imported foreign fabrics for the Phil
adelphia trade. That time has gone by, neve
| to return whilst Pennsylvania remains a FREE
State, and South Carolina continues under tn
curse of Slavery. Charleston has a spacious
harbor, central position, and mild climate
but with the incubus of Slavery weighing up
on her and crushing her down, these advantag
es availed her nothing against the vigorous
competition of free people. She could moi
overcome the immutable decree of the AL
mighty, that Slavery is curse which bring;
dessolation and ruin in its train.
Mr.. BENTON, in this ''Thirty Years View,
says that in 1860 the imports of Charleston
were s., 100000 In 1858 they had dwindled
down to 81, 100000 decrease of $4,000
in ninety-five years, slow but omnibus and
highly significant diminution.
1.-The census of 1850 shows the value of all
| the farms, farming implements and machinery
in Pennsylvania to be worth $442, ,598, $40
whilst in South Carolina the same articles were
worth only $86,518O38 "a difference OF
$356,0SO6O2 in favor of Pennsylvania In
other words these items in Pennsylvania were
worth fire times as much as the same were
worth in South Carolina.
"By the same census the value of all the
real and personal estate of Pennsylvania a
mounted to $729144,9S8. In South Carolina
including 364,925 Slaves, to $288, ,257 ,664 ;
difference of $440, ,S87, ,304 in favor Of Penn
sylvania. In other words, the Free State of
Pennsylvania is worth nearly three times as
much as the Slave State of South Carolina
The number of free inhabitants in the City of
Philadelphia is 4O8, ,762-in South Carolina
283, 44-showing that the City of Philadel-
pha, alone, contains 125, ,218, more free inhabi-
tants than the whole State of South Carolina
We might extend our abstract to books,
schools, and public journals, in all of which the
comparison is equally fattering to the Free,
and equally disparaging and degrading to the
Slave State. But enough has already been
presented to furnish abundant materials for so
Der reflection. Strange as it may seem, in
view of the facts shown by the glaring statis-
tics we have presented to our readers, Southern
Shareholders are moving heaven and earth to
extend the curse so fatal to their prosperity
In pursuing such a course, they initiate the ex-
ample of those wicked spirits, who being I'M
able to elevate themselves to the abodes of the
blessed, exerted all their malignant ingenuity
and skill to bring down the dwellers above to
the Internal regions which they inhabited, re-
solved that if they could not be happy they
would do every thing in their power to make
others as wretched and as miserable as them
selves.
"And stranger still is the fact that the
Northern men who have from their first en-
trance into life breathed the pure and whole
some air of Freedom, who have witnessed its
snvigorating effects upon the prosperity of in
dividuals, and of States, should for the paltry
loaves and fishes of office combine with the
Slavery propagandists of the South to extend
this desolating evil
THE punishment of the South is upon her
for her violation of Gods immutable laws. 1t
is visible on every sidein her decrepitude and
decay. Can the North persist in the sin of
aiding to extend this iniquity and escape the
righteous retribution of Heaven?''