Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-03-23
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REVIVAL OF THE sLAvE TRanE-Nn ~

ne tcor must 0e carried into Afrlcu.
From the best data, lean collect, at the tine
sertdom or White Slavery WAS abolished in Eu-
rope the population of no State except barren
Switzerland and sterile Scotland was below 100 to
the square mile. In many Of the States as France.
'a" most OF tue German Powers, tie pula,ick was
h'uch above lUO to the square mile. l:,4.or ,ryu-
n'ents sake let us take 100 to tLs>xGuare mile a.
the maximum of population = community where
slavery will pay Esafst; s:t;no or- nresen, nonr,..
Fsfe, free colored and slave ut SO, 100000
which is over the real number, we would then have
less than 10 inhabitants to the square mile and il
would require 1000, 900 of people give 10e
the square mile of our whole territory, which is
about 100000 square miles. Therefore, if negro
slavery could DO established in all our territory
(and hold that it would be, except perhaps in
would possess ample space for ljO,OOO,OOO Of
slaves to an equal number of masters.
But for the present let us omit all consideration
Of the question, as to whether if the slave trade
were revived, slavery would be established in any
O. the free States in any of the territories. AT
least We now have slavery in Is States covering
area of 5l,44S square miles to which must be nd
del the Indian Territory west Of Arkansas embra.
cling surface Of a., ,l27 square miles, perpetually
Set apart for the habitation Of the red man. A
considerable number Of whites are intermarrying
with those Indians. They have printing presses,
Aourshing schools, prosperous factories, and are
rnpidly advancing in civilization. They own n
large number Of savcs--raise much cotton, and
there is strong feeling at the South in favor Of
admitting the territory into the Union an Indian
or Mcstizo slave Stute. We have then now, say
100000 square miles of slave territory, which, al
tho ratio Of only 100 inhabitants to the square mile
will afford land enough to employ 45O0O,00O ne
groes as slaves to 45,0O0,000 white masters. But
Inuny striking facts could be quoted to provo thn
half the entire area Of the South would proftabl.
sustain negro slavery when population had reached
200 to the square mile, which would sustain a. O0O
900 more slaves and masters in equal numbers.
Some Of the European States support over 600 in.
habitants to the squire mile, besides leaving
largo surplus of production over substance fol
wages to the employee and profit to the employer.
Whether the slave trade be revived or not, when
ever Substance shall begin to press upon LAND
any where in the South, the slaves Of such region
will DO transported to where good cheap land car
be had. Either the master will elnigrate with his
slaves, or ho will sell them. The slave being
coined or capitalized will naturally float to wher-
ever there is the greatest demand for him, just
money circulates where it is wanted or as water
finds its levels despite distractions and railroads
or STEAMBOATS,, will be the channel through which
ho will pass expeditious!y and cheaply from +
dense population to a eparse one-from poor anG
costly land to that which is fertile and chcup.
Consequently South Carolina need have no fears
nbout acquiring IN over dense population in cas-,
the slavo trade should be revived. As she is i
Sea board State, let Ecr import Africans for hei
rster States of the interior. 1t only Of til,
pcrirctions in our labor system that an ignorant
negro has IN intelligent master to judge for him,
where and at what business his labor will pay best
and when that has been determined, said negro
will also soon find master pocuniarily able t,
pay for his transportation to the desired point
Whereas, ut the North, the ignorant white lahore,
for him ; and ii he had, being free, there is nj"
compulsion to carry him where his labor will b.
most profitable, nor is there any one to pay hi.
way. He must therefore either live in ignorance
Of the most profitable business he Gun undertake
Of the most illegible place to which he cun emi
CRATE. Or, if he possesses this information, loca
attachment or poverty may detain him at poin
where his labor is not wanted, and he may becorn,
nuisance to society. The Know Nothingism OF
New England got its origin in this way.
presume no one except Senator HAMMOND will
occupy the position that slavery cannot thrive il
|Ir- 20 and Central America, which our race will
idly appropriate, Whenever they shall thinl
consequently, population has not yet anu
- not begin to press upon subsistence or subsis
Ice to press upon and until the Anglo Amcri-
ns shall have arrived at the Isthmus Of Darian
Nov when will our race extend its sway to Pana.
,n, and after it gets there how long will it be- be-
fore 100 inhabitants to the square mile, will cxis:
in the broad tract stTeachng from Mason and Dix.
on's line to the mighty city which will one day b,
established on the American ISthmus-that future
highway Of the worlds commerce and Of nationa.
lnigratons, surprising the exodus of the jew.
from Egypt or of the Cuucassians from Asia.
It is entirely new doctrine, that negro slavery
cannot exist in Mexico and Central America. Mr..
WEBSTER said the law of God excluded it from.
North of $3.50, and now if Senator HAMMOND vii.
not lot it thrive in Mexico and Central Amcricn,
tho negro must indeed be becoming very delicut'
gentleman. What! q race born under the equator
whose ancestors have dwet there for thousand
generations, cannot work and thrive s degree.
North Of it which is the latitude of Panama. Tht
habitat Of the negro and ass is the same. The!
are buth children Of the Sun, and reasoning from;
fnct, we'll analogy, il is tenable that wherever
tho ass or his hybrid kinsman, the mule, will worI
and thrive, so will tho negro. am at a loss ever
to imagine the fact, upon which Senator HAMMoSi
bases tho declaration that, african slavery ap
peurs to have failed there. Mexico and Centra.
Auerica) Perhaps, and most probably, 1t will
never succeed in those regions"
All the authorities inform us that negroes have
not increased by procrcation in the West Indies
like they have in the United States. But most o:
them also state thnt sie-screnths OF the Africans
carried thither, especially into the Isands owned
by the Spaniards (and nearly oil tho West 1n-
die. once belonged to SPAIN were males. The
severe Spanith masters on the American Main and
in the West Indies too have always preferred only
males for laborers, aud the black masters in Aricl
have likewise preferred to sell only male slaves.
purtly to breed other slaves by retaining tho fe-
males at home, md partly to indulge in the sem
suality of poligamy. The Spaniard is proverbial-
ly cruel master. lie c1terminated Indian slares
by the wholesale in tho first settlement of Ameri-
ca, and his present unnatural treatment of Afri-
cans is but in keeping with the Spanish character.
But very small number of Africans, or their de-
scendents, were ever imported into either Mexico,
or Central America; and therefore it could not be
.-naotoa tbot many of them slould be found there