Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-03-02
For the Advertiser.
REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE-No' W.

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The Mc1icans breed hinny mules as we'll ~
cross we raiso hero. Thoy arc enabled to 90 So
sequence of having perennial and lu1uriant par.
upon which to sabsist the jennets. Wc' on 'u'
trary, can roar only the other cross, because -
lures hero dociduous, mares must oe m'1. -,
earn their own food which jennets cannot DO
this two.fold method of breeding them, mulu
much more numerous in Mexico, than in the gD ..-
States, and although the hinny mule is tar 'op',.
animal to the other cross, yet the very be'. uu.'0
(equal to any in Kentucky can be bought in 49, .s
for forty dollars head which is only one foulsD,
amount an inferior mulo commands hero The mus
tangs Of Mexico likewise arc perhaps the nne'',
horses in America, on account Of their tougnn's.
quick action and clear feot and they are so
on the other side of the Rio Grando, that o'
purchased there for twenty or thirty doiiats 80 :,
while an inferior saddle horse cannot be gosm Wv
United States for less than one hundred doa's'''
Would any person in South Carolina, object % nav
ing a few Of those Mexican mules and mu'Ans'
brought across the border! -
Whether it is objected to or not, Thousands aua
tens Of thousands of them annually impolsa INV
Texas Louisiana, Mississippi Arkansas and Ans0afi.
But for such importations from Mexico, the Pe' "
mules and saddle horses in this country would no"
be so high, as that our planters would have s'nel
raisc more stock and less Gotten, or 90 W@0u' .
suciency Of mules and horses, whose labor, OF more
correctly powor, is SO absolutely indispensable IN
cotton culture. Again, six or eight years sgo 'n'
whole South was oyorstockcd, with Canadian foneys
While they wcro so much sought for ut high prices
Mr. Mcdonald of Hamburg, S. c., imported large
drove Of thOm into Edgefeld District but were those
who then owned horses in that District to the
introduction of tho Canndinns7 We're they ALARMED lest
the price of their horses would deprecinte? Da tney
hold Meetings to denounce him for bringing horses
from eyond the limits of the United States! Is sne
planter of louisiana who owns one hundred muies'
distressed lest the importation of mules from mexico
may lower the price Of his American raised muieSf
Will the cotton growers Of the South heed the pro-
test of tho stock raiser in Kentucky and Tennessee
agsurt interfering with his monopoly of horse Po"ef'
by tho introduction Of mules and mustangs from
Mexico? No And the balance of the world Will
pay about the same regard to our compaiuso OF my
interference with our monopoly Of cotton culture at
present and prospective prices.
To oppose tho introduction sof Hmm Us and mus
angs for fear it would lower the price Of American
mules and horses would be just as unreasonable rs II
is to- oppose the importation of African negroes for
fear i. would lowsr tho price of American negroes.
No cotton planter intends to acll his mules whether
they rise or foil in value, nor does he design TO sell
his negroes, whether they rise or fall. DO would
have az much labor after the slave trade were re-
opened as he has now, and if it were open he could
then procure ors labor for ess capital than be can
now and to that oxtent Mt least he would bsbeneft-
ted by revival So if the trade revived be could
loose no labor but would gain vast deal Of it. No.
hody objects to cotton planter buying negroes any
where he can get them in our existing hftssn slave
States Imagine that another slave Stats, having
FIVE hundred thousand negroes in it, could prng up
in one night, along side of Virginia, would our pso-
pie then object to their nsighbors going inths new
that The ingdom q DaEo6ny sdj0lhed sdhh Card
lima, would sven our largest slave holders thsn de-
cline to increase thor supply Of labor for fssr might
decrease tho price of their present 'lsvos D. Would
they then fail to get more negroes from any appre-
hension that prorisions might become too scarce !!
Are they individually collectively, disturbed now
with any expectation Of famine or deprecated value
of thoir slaves by the introduction Of more negroes
from Virginia. Do they not now buy all the negroes
they can, and then sigh because they can buy no
more? Has not Georgetown District, S. c. eight
negroes for one white yet provisions worry high
in that District or the negroes there likely to
starve? Have not several counties in Mississippi
and Louisiana still moro negroes in proportion to
whites than even Georgetown, yet do we hear Of
famine in that direction
Ifany one open to conviction is still unconrinced
of how unfounded are tho patont objections 10 re-.
viving the slave trade, lot me ask him few quesions
Do you yourself not want more negroes7 II you
could get few likely boys and girls from Africa, u,
one hundred dollars per head, would you notthke
them? Are you content never to have any other
their natural increasef Is tho whole South anyth
but one extensive plantation with large family Of
slave holders residing upon and owning it7 Ifn
would advantage you tO revive the slave trade for
time, would it not advantage your neighbor also
Would you have tho slave trade revived only Tor four
personal beneft7 Can you do 50 even if You are so
foolshly selfish? Are you the State any more than
Louis NV was Loui. is dead, but does not France
still remain, and without conscnting for your neigh
bor TO get a few more Africans as we'll as yourself
will not your present poverty or want of Africans
also remain? If you wait until the slave trade shall
bs revived merely for your individual good, will You
not be like the nun, who stood the bank Of deem
river waiting for the usual How of its waters to fall
that he might cross7 Ought geographical lna to
limit the demand and supply of blacklabor any nors
Than Of whito7 Ought geographical lines to regulate
tho supply Of negroes uny moro than of mules and
mustangs? Will you assist the Aboliiopiss inbvild.
ing prison wall around tho South? Can you mike
any more clear money by growing cotton at tw,nty
cents pound, with tho labor OF ono negro costing
twenty hundred dollars, than you could ty raiinp
cotton ut vo cents pound with four nsgroe, coipr
i've hundred dours ench? When the eultur, of
cotton had ceased to pay q good interest upon tho
cost of negro labor could you not thsn 60 at soma.
thing ol,e? If not, whore orc tho inventive facus,
and superior skill which your rhio skin presupp,,,
you to possess, that you should fall back upon the
Arobic ind whis doctrine of monopoly Whence,
one day, labor in any branch Of business at tho souib
cun pay for tro days labor in any other branch of
business among us, will not all nbr quit the later
pursuit and take to tho former until equality Of prsst
from days toll in the two occupations shull hivo
been restored.
Would the revival of the slave trade stand INV
better chance to gut the cotton market than it would
the market for rice, tobacco, sugar. hemp naval stor,s
etc? Every species Of industry in The country would
soon adapt itself to the now and altered State Of
things. Only about one third Of the negroes in Ii,
South ore now engaged in planting cotton. If OH
of them were put ut it, We would not need any mo,.