The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-11

Ject and misery OF black slavery, al the SAINT
time overlooking the evils and sinfulness Of
white slavery! The following picture Of the
white laborers in England ought to shut for
ever every E~nglishman's mouth about the hor-
rors Of negro servi,ude: 1T is notorious that
most English GOLFERS become asthmatic at the
age of thirty years. And as hard as their life
is, there are 48O, 900 able bodied men in Eng
land alone who cannot get employment IN coal
mines or anywhere else. The commissioners
appointed BY the British parliament often men
ton such facts as these. The seams are so
thin in some c~olleries that Of then have
only two feet Roadway to all the working -
They are worked altogether by boys from 8 to
70 years Of age, on all fours, with a dog belt
and chain. Fire, damp, wildfre, sulphur and
water at all times menace instant death TO the
Iaborers in these mines. In calico printing it
is BY no means in all the districts,
for children FIVE or six years old to be kept at
work from fourteen to sixteen hours consecu.
lively"
run tIouodhd pCtooi4S ~ LH'N' PV'i anu a.
least 5000 in Manchester, live in cellars. In
England 22 900 persons pass the night in old
barns, tents, or the open air. There have
been found such occurrences as seven. eight
ten persons in one cottage for whole days at a
time without a morsel Of food" We wish
that those in England who manifest SO much
sympathy for the black slaves of this country.
could see their comfortable houses, wholesome
food, and warm clothing. We think their
sympathy had better be bestowed upon their
own miserable and depraved poor.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy, a demo-
cratic paper, gives this warning: There are
twenty thousand democrats in the State who
will not support Joseph E. Brown. if he is nomi.
mated. The democratic party can not sue
coed again with him for their standard-bearer
We hope no democrat will, through selfre-
spect, be necessiated to vote against the nomi
nee Of the Milledgeville convention. But. if
that nominee be the present executive, inevita
BILE defeat awaits the democracy of Georgia"
On Sunday, the lst inst, the missionary So
ciety of the methodist episcopal church, south,
was organised in Mobile, bishop Andrew pre-
siding. The rev. doctor Hamilton offered the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the signs of the times indicate the
near approach of an extraordinary development of the
power Of God in the salvation of the world.
FoRE1Gx TRADE OF CHARLEsroN.-Yhe total
value of the exports from Charleston during the
first 3 months Of 1859 amounts to SIS, 1854, 841,
Of which England took nearly one-haIf; France,
Russia, Spain, Holland and Belgium following
nextin graduation. The total value ofthe imports
during the same period amounts 10 1864, 1876
only about one tenth Of The value Of the exports
-leaying a large balance in favor Of the city.
During the recent general election in Massa
chusetts Mr.. Benjamin +. Butler Of the eighth
congressional district made great harangueS
proving satisfactorily that direct t~axationj is the
cheapest and best mode Of deflaying The ex
penses Of government, yet winding up BY a
declaration that il il impracticable. and being
50, 4 tariff, with indirect protective features,
must BS IeSoiLCQ W ~ Spllc VI It's 9ldlLl3 pdI
TALLY and injustice.
That distinguished Buchananite thus elo-
queutly and Iearnedly, and in the democratic
sense, justly and candIdIy, expressed himself
on the subject to the constituency that forgot
10 elect him:
The only form Of specific tax we have
through the post and patent Offices would, from
its injustice and inequality, deter statesmen
from hazarding an experiment in that direction
unless some more promising system could be
devised than eXactions upon the correspondence
and inventive genius OF the mechanic. Free
trade is illusory, and can only be advocated as
A practical question by those who would blindlY
exempt from its fair share Of the
public burden. in return for the light house, the
harbor Improvements, and ceast survey. by
which itself is guarded and encouraged by the
general government, tosay nothing of the heavy
expenses of the navy which is employed 10 pro
lect it on every sea. Besides, that portion OF
the Union which is supposed to be most in favor
of free trade would pause when lis adoption
should lead to a direct taxation, apportioned
according to the constitution. The siavcheld-
ing States have thus far almost constantly en-
joyed the representation which follows from
adding three ffths of all other persons. to the
whole number of free persons in the apporcion-
nlent of representation, without the burden OF
taxation which the trainers of the constitution
should attend that right. Would they
be willing that their negroes should first be
counted as three-6fths Of the population to
swell their portion Of a tax, and then the same
negroes to be reckoned as property on which
TO levy it? Or to illustrate, that the owner of
thirty negroes should have apportioned to him
The taxes of eighteen white men, and then
have the whole valued atfrom 81 900 to 81. $40
each, rated as property or as polls, on which to
levy the same tax as against his poorer white
neighbor."
This learned Buchananite, it will be per-
ceived, is of opinion that the south would object
to the direct taxation which would tax slaves as
chatteIs, and then again, according to the basis
of representation under The federal constitution,
just as Benjamin f. Butler and all other free
democrats would object to be taxed, first
as property and then as persons. Free trade
and It's advocates are humbugs.
BALLOON AsrExs1nx-Tha N q Picarune
of the lst inst, gives the following account Of
the safety of Miss Way and Prof. Wilson, who
made an excursion from that city, and