Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-05-11
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REVIVAL Of THE SLAVE TRADE-N0. XIV.

have generally been either partners of Northern
For the last 40 years the Yankees have regarded
the South as dependent province of the NORTH.
q rich section filed with barbarous and idle
drones, among whom it was easy to make a fortune,
but not at all desirable to live rs retired million
airs either to enjoy wealth (as Southerners have
justly been prejudiced against Yankees ence abo-
litionisln and protective Tarifism were Inaugural
ted) or to gain the greatest profit upon capital.
Moreover manufactures are sociaJic, and all kinds
of haudicraft flourish best together or ut least in
close proximity, and the chief occupation Of the
North has bosn shipping, or manufacturing, bet
ter field has offered itself there for the retired mer
chant (unscquainted with cotton culture) to find
partner, or artizans skiilea in the mysteries Of
machinery and manufacturing science.
4 fow native merchants have accumulated fr-
tunes at the South, in the retail, or commission
trade, aud have then erected successful factories,
but the provincial clog OF the South has been that
it consumed all hsr capital to get cotton laborers
Having no surplus capital, she could not employ
European artizans who have been excluded from
grants without trades have also been excluded, be-
cause they could not find employment here except
when negro labor has risen above the value Of
white labor and then our own poor white populs-
ton have been on the ground to reduce negro labor
to level with their own, which has generally ex-
cludei ail competition from abroad. Still as p"pu-
l.ltivn will press Southwnrd there ha, always Iccn
l,t~.,. Losn ~ A..
trade was closed from the fact that there has b.en
no surplus capital at the South either tn surt fac
tories mud build ships Or svOn to dsvclups dirsr.
sifel agricultural Industry, 81 as to give euploy
,neut to secoad GLASS overseers, to the auxiliary
mechanical pursuits.
lleuce not only have European nriz1ns and con-
mon luborcrs 10 let to obtain employment heie
but multitude of our own poor white laborers
have heretofore uud do now lack "npportnnity
for profitable business. Therefore granting that
we have drafted no negroes from tho present free
Ststes during the great rises in the prico Of cot
ton, it is still sound logic that the exclusion Of cmi
grant arti5ans and common labOrerS from the South
has depressed manufactures and ship-buildiug
here-has stimulated them ut the North-hus
transferred all the increase Of population by for
eign emigration to the same monopolizing region
and produced both the sbolitionism of the free
States aud the emancipation tendency Of the pres.
ept border slsvo Stntes, By excluding European
emigration uud forcing il to settle Rt the North,
no cheapened skiilca white llbor there and coin
peIled IT in scf.defence to engage in manufactures
nad shipping. That cheap white labor when once
settled Ut the North, necessarily precipitated eman
ripatiun-because the white man will no where
work peacefully in competition with the slave and
Northern masters found an inducenent to 0manc:-
pate their negroes by having cheaper MS well a.
moro skilled white labor ready at hand for manu-
featuring and ship-building.
But it is historical fnct that We also furnished
the capital for first employing that skilled while
labor ut the North by purchasing their negroes NJ
monopoly prices when cotton was high. A SUPER
lie al reader Of Legislation at the Nurth in respec
to emancipation may contradict me, but before do
ing SO let him study that Legislation carefully and
sean cxtraueous history also. Our own and tie
French Revolution which were both scribe walls
iur the political emancipation of white slaves did
once beget in all this country, except i'll South
Carolina and Georgia universal sentiment that
aIl men arc born free and equal which was iavorE-
bio to negro emancipation and accordingly all the
present free States that belonged to the "old tLir
teen" passed laws, at early day, for the gradual
abolishment Of slavery.
But most Of them postponed it so long that prac.
ticllly it was no emancipation at all and it isa
luushable commentary upon the sincerity Of abo-
ltionsm that several of the Northern States after
having fixed the time and conditions Of fnal
emancipation within their limits extended that
time and enlarged those conditions by many sub
reuuent euactments. If am not mistaken there
nre statuliber slaves in Neg Jersey even now, al
though 5y the act Of 1854 slavery was to be for
ever ut IN end there after 1920. New York did
not ultimately abolish slavery until lS27-that is
not until she had sold slaves to the South ut mo-
nopoly prices during two great rises in cotton to
wit lS15-20 and in 1925 Pending those great
rise, in cotton and resulting high price Of slavee
muny thousand statuliber negroes we'll as slaves
were sold by the North to Southern planters. By
getting all our capital fur hor negroes-by getting
all European emigration on account Of our exclu-
ding it, because we had no "means" to employ it
--nu cheap negroes to tempt it Southwark, the
North has not only monopolized manufactures and
shipping-has not only got untold wealth, since
labor is the only wealth but she has also got roes
to impose tho Tariff to control the Revonue-to
inaict the navigation laws upon US excluding for.
eiyn vessels from competing with hers in our coast
Ing trade, a. we'll as to give away the public aud
appropriate all the New Territpries-abolish
slavery in her OWN midst, which would not other
wise have been dono, in ut least some Of those
States and also to drive negroes from numerous
pursuits mt tho South-ah to begct Irmant
feeling of abolitionism in nearly every Southern
State. If the slave trade had been left open
Northern population would have moved South.
ward 80 rapidly and European emigration would
have resorted hero go largely that the North would
have been compelled er-necessitatc to retain slave
~ in order to get supply of labor; probably
most Of the Northern States would then have
changed as much for slavery as they have since
changed against it.
Tho question now is and the question has ever
been since 1908, not whether slavery would pay in
any particular section of the United States, bu,
uherc would it pay best. The high price Of ne
grocs during great rise in the price Of c,ttun
will not permit the realizing of q good per cent
upon their purchase money except when their labor
is employed upon the very cheapest and most fer
tile land, Us well as in the finest climate Of the
entire South. But because slave costing $1,000
Gun make 20 per cent ON his prime cost each yeaI
by working ,hs choicest land in the Mississippi
Valley, it is not a fair deduction that his labo
would be improbable in South Carolinu, or in
Virginia, or in Illauois, provided that labvr could
he commanded in these States, at reasonable
price. If Central America were annexed to the
United States, without re-opening the slave trude,
Louisiana herself would become depopulated Of
slaves, by Of the richer soil, better climate
and spontaneous productions OF that Paradise ma
king slave labor, much more profitable there,
than in Louisiana. But if the slave trade were
open, although Central America and Mexico too,
might be annexed, slavery would still be preserved
in Louisians. Nothing but local attachment TO
the country affection for their negroes or devo-
HON 10 lne Institution VI sia'eIy VI pteivteuee
Of dear negro labor to cheap white labor, will pro-
vent slavery from being abolished in South Caro-
lima within the next half century if the value Of
negro labor shall continue equal to, higher than
white labor. Every time the North and South
have struggled for the mastery in Territory since
1905 negro labor has been higher than white
labor on account of high priced cotton and hence
the cause Of the South's defeat.
During that period ever memorable to the South
1880 Eve States were admitted into the Union.
To wit Indiana, Mississippi IllanoY, Alabama and
Maine. They were admitted in the order here
named, from which it may 10 seen, that they came
in first free State, then slave State. Missouri
another slave State also applied for admission in
1919. But the North under the lead Of Massachu-
sstts and New York opposed it most strenuously
and successfully upon the ground that ,oo slave
States should not be admitted before another free
State. They said to Missouri in emphatic terms