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several German states only ut the following dates.
Baden l7S3'Swcdsh Pomerania 1910
Hohcnzollern 17Sy Austria ]Sll
Sehleswig uolstein 1901 Ilesse Darmstadt 1911
Nassau lS0SlOldenburg lSl4
Westphalia 1905 iWurtenburg 1917
Bavaria lSOSI Meeklcnburs lS2O
Berg & Dependencies lS0SlSa1ony for Lusatia 1892
PRUSSIA 1909 Hohenzollern Sigma
Lippc Detmod lSO9 ringer 1888
Sehomberg Lippe lSlUI
So that emancipation from white slavery has taken
place on grand ecale in Germany within the last
IS years. Nor has it been hundred years since
the golfers of Newcastle aud the tin miners Of Corn
wall in England were held in the most ahject white
slavery, (not slavery to capital merely and were al
lowed but miserable subsistence out Of their own
labor. The present English abolitionists chung TO
white slavery long it possible to do So, and
the Irish were kept to servtude until famine stared
masters in the face Yetnter slavery in n the British
Isles had ceased to furnish even its own subsistence,
much less surplus-aer masters had been reluctant
ly forced to emancipation, Lord Mansfield, Wilher-
force Carkson sc could make virtue of necessity,
and boart that no slave could breath the free air of
England. Bah!
Honce, from the facts Of Ill history, We may assume
that as long as outlet to chcap nnd fertile land
remains open to slave labor that slavery is the normal
relation Of producers to consumers, and that slaves
will always be high in price, c. they will always
pay good hire upon their reasonable cost, if there
is free competition in the demand and supply of slave
labor except during temporary interruptions by
gus, wars, etc.
This will be so whether tho slaves 81 a g:cw cotton
or sugar. or do any thing olse Why should the hire
! of slave depreciate below the point Of paying
good profit upon his reasonable cost rs long as good
cheap land cau be hnd in the South, any than
the wages of the white emigrant deprecates below
tae point of paying him good profit for his labor
upon the ow-priced fertile land of the North West
Permanent low wages (hre) cannot exist in any
country where industry is protected and ard is for
tile and cheap. 1t is because negro can earn dou
bio as much money over and above his subsistence
on the prolific soil Of tho South West as he berc
that he hires for twice much hcro as ho docs here
that he sells for twice as much there he docs
here, and that the domestic slave trade as we'll as
cntcrprisng emigration, depicting the older States
Of their slaves. 1t is from the TINT white
aborcrs in the brens society of the North West
worth on the average from Is to 30 cents per day
more than they are in New England. Notwthstand-
ing the hordcs Of foreign white emigrants who have
ocked to the North West within the last forty years.
vet wages keep up there ranging from SIS to $40 Ter
month for ordinary uborers, during the entire year.
| OF course as soon as IN emigrant there can, he
buys himself farm of his own, md seeks to hire
"help" which contributes to appreciate wages. but
could not and would not Southern masters also gen.
orally buy moro land in tho West for every negro
t"hop," they could get from Africa. With his mas
ter to think for and direct Giu could not the labor Of
IN African be made more profitable than that of tile
| white cmisrant in the North West. Or if not moro
profitable could it not be made ut least US proitabe
Since the labor Of the negro is absolutely controlled
by the skill Of the mast:r is not oil Southern labor
| rs much exclusively FREQ, white labor, with refer
ence to the employment of it, to make the groat
est profit as the labor Cf the North is all fee or
white for the purpose? Is not cur entire labor
| as free to seek its channel of employment rs
the entire labor Of the North isl Is it not moro 90
| Then why cannot Southern Masters direct their
and their negro labor as we'll the laborers Of the
North can direct their own and their hireling labor?
Are our captusts inferior to those of the North for
controlling labor, are Southern masters beneath
Northern laborers in respect of capacity fur setting
labor at what sill pay best? 1t would appear that
these iutcrrogatories must all be answered in the af
irma;ivc. If in the negative why cannot millions
more negroes earn good hire at the South, as well
rs that the millions of newly arrived emgrants in
the North West still earn good wages there? As
neither subsistence nor luxurieS be had without
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labor of his own, but with the labor of others, why
not leave every thing here slave tradc and ALL open
to the general scramble, or free competition which
exists at the North (which now exists at the South,
which has and always will exist here, there and every
| where else.
As labor is the source of all wealth-as it is the
only indestruct;be wealth. why not let US get some
more of it? National wealth is but the aggregate OF
individual wealth, and wealth gives power to Tho
State well happiness, or at least comfort to the
individual possessor Of 1t, why not lot ndl to the
power of the South, and to the comfort of her popu-
lation? From its greater endurance and superior
efficiency, with present limited supply ofabor,
each individual of the South may have average
wealth than each inhabitant Of the North, yet the
aggregate wealth Of the North is nearly double that
Of the South for the very easily to be under
stuod that the farmer has almost twice as much labor
as the latter. Why should the South deny herself
the reception of black labor while the North is
50 socitous to introduce nlure white labor? Must
not the demand for labor at the South be salts
fed in some way, and if black labor does not come
in from Africa, will not white labor como in from tho
North or from Europe to takp it's place? Is it not
doing 80 now?
Look iato Southern hotels factories and steam.
boats, count the number of Irshmcn engaged upon
Southern railroads White labor is at this timo
cheaper nt the South than slave labor and it will be
employed in preference to slave labor upon the prin
ciplc that the employer capitalist will always get
much subsistence and luxury for himself, as hc
possibly out of all the labor he can control Then
more labor, eithe. white black must and will fill
the present labor void ut tho South whether We re-
open the slave trade not Most poor white aborers
are now learning to regard the negro their compc
t;tor in the market for wages. Whilo write the
border States shipping their dear negro labor to
the South and are employing cheap white labor in
its stcad, and they will continue to do it until IN
equality of profit upon black and wlto labor shall
be restored. 1t is obvious therefore that the price
and hire Of negroes must fall from their present pin
Gle, whether the slave rnde be revived or not, ust
as the prico of cotton must fall whether we import
more Africans or not. Other States will ensxvc tho
Africans to make cotton if fail to do it, and
white labor will pull down the profits of black labor
to on equality with the profits Of its labor. If
cotton shall continue to rise in price will not whito
labor mako cotton. True, it caunot make as much rs
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