Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-05-18

In order to keep their places and from the hopeless
ness Of getting redress by law, they very often
submit to worse treatment than Is imposed upon
Southern slaves even by hard masters.
The negroes Of tho North are for the most part
rigged out by Goldfish aristocracy in livery-brass
buttons, rod tape, and such like. They ore en-
ployed as footmen, coschmen, out-riders, waiters
etc., are thrashed under apprentice laws or by the
countsnance of public opinion, whenever it suits
the master. The underground rail road is freighted
with passengers many-a-time to supply servants
In the free States, and what yell of rcge tho 70.
elamation Of fugitive slave serving Northern
msster occasions among them. The abolition gon-
try, who are the chief slave owners at tho North,
live in constant dread Of being deprived of Cut.
fees services, by the appearance of his true
ter from the South, to prevent which, said Cufee
has to be spirited of to Canads, or elsewhere In
the free Ststes. But either event disposes Of .hs
abolition raseals servant In hurry after the loss
of whom, to bo consistent, he must spout Of the
negro's wrongs.
The sboitionistS Of course pay no wageste their
negro apprentices, and as public opinion EXCLUDES
negroes from most profitable employments, such
negroes as work voluntarily, must do 80 for nomi-
nal wages. Hence, negro labor is alyays cheaper
than white labor in the FREQ States and hence also
in part, the strong desire, which is everywhere
manifested in Yankee land, to welcome free ne
groes and oppose tho execution of tie fugitive
slave law. Arkansas, by banishing her free ne
groes, has rendered the abolitonists an important
favor. Missouri by sgitsting the same policy ID
likewise serving them good turn, for which they
will applaud herj and as TO tho grand move now
making in Maryland, to Danish or soil into slavery
he. 100000 frse negroes, the whole abolition world
Of the North are exercised with fears that she will
not do it. The truth ia, that 1t Is the scarcity of
negroes in the froo States, which intsnsifss the
abolition sentiment there just it is the scarcity
of them in the South, making negro labor higher
than white labor, which is stimulating similar
feeling in our section,
The growing abolitionigm of tho North. West is
strengthened mostly by the want of permanent
negro domestica. All the negroes which the North
Western States can get, must come from the South,
as they never had any slaves to emancipate by
Statute or Constitution, except the few which
were taken to Indiana and Illinois, while they
were Territories. At least twice as many were
carried to Illinois, and one and half times as
many to Indiana, as have been taken TO Kansas.
AS some of the sterile New England States, with
both thin soil, bad climate and dense population,
are able to keep darkies in livery, how much moro
uUlt 10 uU So Dc tut W eStcED StNte6,
with their prolific soil, bcttor climate and sparse
population. I am aware that some of those States
have laws excluding the iugress of free negroes,
hut still thereis minority always powerful enough
to introduce even fugitives from the South, and
give them q suit Of livery any where in the towns
of the Northwest.
In fact, the greatest want for negroes in Illinois
and Indiana between 1850, was house servants,
and that want still exists. The subsistence Of a
negro in that fruitful region is comparatively moth.
ing, and the services of negroes as domestics are
needed there throughout the year, as much as they
are at the South. Still it would pay to subsist ne
groes there even as laborers in grain and stock
culture. Although the main seasons of labor In
grain growing are at seed and harvest time, yet
stock require attention at all times. a line drawn
from the Northern boundary of Missouri Eastward,
will throw nearly two-thirds of Illinois, Indiana
and 0hio-about one-haf of Pennsylvania and
nearly all of New Jersey South of it. If slavery
can thrive 50 we'll in Missouri, and all the hemp
planters toll us it does, why could it not in those
free States East Of her in tho samo latitude? If
fugitive negroes and apprentice negroes can wear
Everies in Connecticut or can prosper 30 well in
Michigan and Massachusetts, as to marry beauti-
full white heiresses, why could not bona fde ne
gro slave thrive there?
If stalwart negroes can bo reared and proftsbly
held to slavery in the cold mountains of Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Caro-
lina, Georgia and Alabama, why cannot the Same
thing be done in tho less severe climate of many
free States? If slavery can flourish in Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, kentucky and Missouri, why
not in Kansas, whose entire area is in the Same
latitude as those States? If tho slave trade we're
now revived, slavery would be replanted in the
North Western States and in Kansas, despite the
laws prohibiting it. precisely as slavery dsre garded
tho inhibition of tho Ordinance of 1857, in the
Territories of Indiana and Illinois. Many of the
Newspapers in Southern Indiana and Illinois, are
at this time discussing tho necessity of getting
moro steady and stable labor. From their first set
tle1nent till now, healthy feeling has existed in
tho South Of both those States, favorable to the
establishment Of slavery there if tho negroes could
only be commanded at prices below the value of
white labor. In Illinois especially, bitter sec
tional fsud prevails between the Southern and
Northern parts of the State. The abolitionsts of
the Northern part which is inhabited chiefly by
New Englanders, and later German importations
style their section "Canaan," in a spirit of self
Righteousness, while they dub the Southern soc.
tion Egypt" in rsprosch for its African pro-
clvities.
As remarked before, notwithstanding millions of
foreign cmigrsnts have settled in tho North West
labor is still high and scarce there because every
newcomer as early as possible buys himself q
farm, and instead of hiring himself out as labor.
err he enters the market to hire others to labor for
him This state of facts pre-supposes that there is
q largo demand in the North West for house SER
wants, as well rs for farm laborers and that each
farmer there would gladly pay tho interest upon
the moderate cost Of at least two negroes and feed
them for their labor. That country is only sparse
ly populated and it has tho capacity to sustain
feels the necessity Of possessing several millions
OF negroes as house servants, grain growers and
stock tenders. Yet farmers there cannot afford to
employ negro labor, when it is higher than white
NahA ,tn 1ako
work required Of common lab0rers in the North
West-vhereas only negroes can do the constant
labor Of cotton culture TO any considerable extent
We have seen that negro labor was higher than
white labor, when indiana and Illinois were nd.
mitted into the Union, caused by the high price
of cotton in 1850, with the slave trade closed.
Therefore to assert that slavery cannot proftably
exist in Indiana and Illinois is simply to say, that
it cannot proftably exist there when negro labor
is higher than whito labor. Even if slavery had
been established in those two States during thoir
Territorial existence, it would have been abolished
ere now, or nearly so, as has boon done in other
once slave States, account Of the great rises in
tho prico eff cotton in 1925 in 1857, in 1850 and
since that time, making negro labor more valuable
than white labor at all those periods. So like
wise to say that slavery cannot exist in Kansas is
only to declare that it cannot be established or
maintained there, while negro abor is dearsr than
white labor, which has been tho fact Utmost over
since Kansas camo on the tapis.
Hence the standard price of negroes, requisite
for the permanent establishment of slavery in the
North West while the slave trade remains closed
Is, that negro labor must be more valuable than
Thite labor, even to do work which white labor
can perform and that too when there is ON unlimi
ted supply of white labor. But if negro labor
could be obtsined always at, say SO per cent less
cost than white labor, who doubts but that slavery
Tould then be established there, in face of the |
facts above cited, and tho anslogiss drawn to sup
port those facts. Mules do well In tho North West
and why not negroes, rs the ass and negro both !
Originally csme from the regions about tho Equa-
tor. I will advance another proposition, whose |
correctness, or incorrsctness am willing to leave
to the decision of those who have had practical |
observ alton Of the uegros capacity to endure
cold. With the same clothing, food, shelter and |
fire negro can bear well nigh as much cold and |
do aB much work as white man. Let the matter |