Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-02-09

not DENY our people the same privitege-let US
place oil upon the same footing-let demand and
supply regulate the slave trade as it does every
other kind of trade
Permit even a single other country than the
South 10 raise much cotton for expectation and
then will the price Of cotton as well as our mon
opoly of it, 60 down to rise no more-then will
the price of our negroes 80 down 10 stay down,
until We shall have embarked in some other pur
suit than growing cotton For once let other
States organise thu necessary African labor and
acquire the skill Of directing it in the cotton
field, SO as to compete with us successfully and
they will adhere to it to the end of time. No
one denies but that our slaves have been degra-
ded much in value ere now by war, by CONNER.
cial revulsion, or by glut in the cotton market
by overproduction But the chances are
thousand to one that our civilized negroes will
never be able to slut the cotton market again.
Still although We may not glut the market any
more, othor States eau and will unless we import
more negroes. Cotton must fall in price and
our negroes must fall in value do rs we will.
The only question is whether we will sacrifice q
great and permanent good for splendid, but
merely tempory advantage. We musts elect be-
tween having high price for cotton and high
price for negroes during few years, but finally
lose the monopoly of raising raw cotton forever,
or We must import more negroes--keep cotton
at paying price and keep negroes at reasona.
BILE price also for an indefinite period, well as
preserve our monopoly Of furnishing cotton to
the world. This is the lilemmas-the fork Of
the road at which we have arrived. Which route,
will We choose, men of the South ? You cannot
eyade the question will you have moro aborers,
or not and if you will where can you get them?
Not in the United States, for i they could be
had here, the present price of cotton would have
them forthcoming. They cannot be had in the
United States else why is negro labor so scarce
Why is it so high? Why is a negro worth one
dollar and a quarter day to work upon Texas
Rail Roads? Why does common farm negro
hire for three hundred dollars year in the Mis-.
sissippi valley-as much, or more than is paid
for an Irishman? Why are the Irish driving
the negroes off the Steamboats, on the Mississippi
and its tributaries by underworking them? Why
are white servants dispacing negro walters in
nearly all the hotels Of the Southern Cities, by
working for cheaper wages than the slaves hire
for? Why is it that white operatives are ex-
pelling negroes from all the factories at the
South? Why is it that the present fabulous
prices for negroes cannot get supply equal
to the demand for more slave labor in the
cotton fields? Why is it that the South, arc ag.
citating revival of the slave trade ? Why is it
that the question of selling free negroes into
slavery is being seriously discussed in every
State Of the South ?
Simply because there is universal demand
for more slave labor in every other pursuit as
we'll as in that of raising acotton. The rice cul-
ture can spare no labor-the sugar culture can
spare none--the tobacco culture can spare none
the hemp culture can spare HUHe-rie tur.
pentine culture can spare none-the stock cul-
ture of Tennessee and Kentucky can spare none.
Indeed no department of our present limited in.
dustry at the South, whether agricultural, or
other kind can spare any of its LABOR to assist in
the growth of cotton. In place of being able 10
spare labor, our sugar culture. particularly de.
mands more labor than even the cultivation of
cotton does. Having countless acres of mex.
haustable sugar land, in Florida louisiana
and Texas, we might proftaby export large
quantities of sugar. if We only had the necessary
labor, but although We have heretofore aSpired
to raise our own supply of that article and have
burdened it with a Tariff for that purpose, yet
we have not succeeded in growing more than
about one third Of what we ourselves consume.
AS u consequence, Cuba by smuggling negroes
and importing Coolies at u nominal price is ena.
bled to pay an export duty upon sugar at home
and an import duty upon it here, amounting in the
aggregate, to over five million dollars annually
and supply us with the other two thirds which
we consume. Nearly all our imports Of sugar
SD 900, 600 worth come from Cuba. A laborer
in Cuba, costs on the average, but half, what he
does in the South. How then can our sugar
planter contend with the Cuban in the f.seign
Markets when he can hardly do it at home to
The extent of one third the supply with a Tariff
of twenty.four per cent at ratorem to assist him.
The remedy for Cuban competition in the culture
Of sugar, is not to oppose the annexation of that
Island and infict high Tariff upon our own
people, but to reopen the Slave Trade, so as to
give our planters an equal chance for procuring
abor.
At the lowest calculation, we need four hun.
lrcd thousand more Africans to raise our own
sugar. Because rs the present number of me-
.roes employed i'll the sugar culture, is but about
2,iu,JJu wno P1,durr -e,rtu year "5v $3.50
Hos sshshetls and Is our annual consumption
reaches near 100000 Hogllsheads, when high
prices almost prohibit sugar to>lle poor, we may
assert that cheap sugar, grown at living rate to
the producer would increase the home consump
ton, to nine, or ten hundred thousand Hoghs
heads, weighing half u ton each, which is the
size, have in mi ID. From this it is plain,
negroes would yield hire of ten, or fifteen per
cent, upon their saleabe value in the cultivation
Of sugar, when the cotton market might be glut.
ted by the importation Of too many cotton
laborers. Is it no. desirable to have the price of
sugar SO low, as that the poor may enjoy it?
Without more labor and cheaper labor, how can
the planters raise either more sugar or cheaper
sugar? Is it not more injurious TO the South, to
drain her border States of slaves, with which to
grow cotton and sugar than it would he to I'M.
port them from Africa? Which is the worse,
to import Africans to make sugar in Louisiana
or 10 eat the sugar after it has been raised in
Cuba, by newly imported negroes? Are we not
doing the same thing, fos which we denounce
the Abolitonists They consume our cotton
and are parttceps criminis to our slavery if it be
q crime. We consume the sugar of Cuba and
arc party to her slave trade, if it be a crime
As we must have the sugar, why not import the
negroes and raise it for ourselves? We're it not
for the slave trade still being carried on in Cuba,
we should have either to do without sugar, or be
left to the mercy Of our producers in Louisiana.
let the yankees make q note Of it, that if they
abundance 0fGheap sugar, they must
hat mighty Instrument Of Abolition according to
ather Giddnys viii not dot will not granu
ate. SCIPIO.
v Adams Express Company was robbed one day
art week on the Rail Road between Montgomery
nd Atlanta, of $4,000. An arrest has been made, r
says the Montgomery Adrsrtiser) but We forbear
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