Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-02-16
For tho Advertiser.
REVIVAL OF TIE SLAVE TRADE-H0. v.

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For tho Advertiser.
REVIVAL OF TIE SLAVE TRADK-H0. Y.
"Tss var must be carried into Africa"
The fact cannot be ignored, that a fierce aud
uncompromising war is waging between Europe
and America for the supply Of raw cotton. And
! have attempted to prove that if We adhere to
II Qpf existing plan of conducting the campaign,
kctory will assuredy declare for our enemies,
before thousands NOW living shall have quit
aage Of action. have also mainiained
Re revival of the slave trade, would not
sld not depress the price of cotton, below
Ing point for . great period of time-per.
bt until Que and half million Of Africans
en- landed here | then contended that
ltton had ceased to pay and cotton labor
y cheap by overupply, that We ought
The surplus labor in cultivating sugar,
6urpose we need four hundred thou
Snegtoes to supply even the home
add that when negros might have
eless in sugar culture that the sur.
build be put to raising hemp. There
Ase waste of fertile hemp lands in
9 we'll as Kansas, and although it has
6onstrated by repeated experiments at
II States Navy Yards that our Western
best in the world yet we annually
- $3,OOO,OOO of raw and manulac.
Instead of being thus dependent
In States for so essential an article
of paying duty of "a per cent upon
knd rope with which to pack Southern
why not import more Africans and raise
ourselves? At least $4,000 more negroes
~ wanted to grow enough hemp for our home
consumption. Let the yankees bear in mind
to-, that they need cheap hemp for their ship
building, quite as much as We do for our cotton
packing, and that the only way they can get it is
to revive the slave trade. White men will no
more labor in the hemp field than they will in
the cotton patch.
When negro labor should fail to pay in grow
ing hemp what business would still be open
for its profitable employ in Mining! Iron, cop
used in commerce abound ut the South. Iron
which is far more indispensable for the comfort
of man than gold itself exists abundantly in
most of the Southern States. In two mines
alene-ee Missouri" Iron mountain and Pilot
culated that 100000, 900 tons Of
yHl!gI be obtained-n suficiency for the
world during century, and greater
Gnt than the mines of Elba Sweden and
tway together contain yet, we import each
ear about SlO,O00O00 of raw iron and over
H$sO, ,UUO, 900 of manufactured iron. 1t is noto-
TOO IuGl OuT -lllteIlCdii llOu -AiuC1tSdh
hemp is the best on earh--that American Car
rails, will last nearly third longer than impor-
ted rails and vet we build or rebuild 1000 miles
of Railroad annually with foreign iron, while
our own superior ores slumber unmoleste', in
many places uponthe very surface ofthe ground.
lot less than 100000 negroes can be proitabiy
s,t tu work in digging and manufacturing iron
to- our home market. Any common negro has
sclse sufficient to work in iron ore, still with the
-. bcs ores and abundant fuel for smelling at our
A,oors, VIC pay a duty of "a per cent upon
,pn VIC import or consume, simply be-
y scarce and high priced negro labor.
lain that if the cotton market we're
kttou laborers were deprecated Us
t-:f the sugar and hemp culture
nour negroes could frl 10 other
Htside of tho cotton patch If tor
ee ought to desire a surplus of cot
order to have our iron niiacs work.
Re could save the freight on iron
kutric0 and save the tribute duty
'enusylvania protectionists and
well rs make ourselves indcpcu-
c ,Yorll tior supplies Of iron.
knlSo make ali entr un their
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ply way 70 get cheap IRON Is To
that the Soath may have more
Ter labor than she now possesses.
.. s5uri AMI Arkansas hold the great
B Of the United States, not Pennsyl-
cover those States have a lrillcr
eper fuel and richer soil for the
isions.
Id more negroes to dig our copper
At low estimate, the three miner.
the South above named demand
6rdy Africans merely to work their
mines. Can they get them without 3.
Nal of the slave trade7 Do not the negroes
now engaged in the East Tennessee copper
mines puy handsome wsges-ssy ten per cent
upon twenty-five hundred dollars as each owes
value? Are not abolition foreigners and aboli.
ton yankees, emigrating to Tennessee and Mis-.
sour, With the express object of working in the
iron and copper mines as common laborers and are
they one whit superior to negroes for that pur.
pose? If the required Africans were imported
into those States to work the mines would not q
large number of other Africans have to be car.
red thither to cultivate provisions for the miners
and has not those States 3 fertile, unoccuped
soil, sufficient to produce food for all the miners
of the whole earth2 Are not many of the gold
mines in our Atlantic States wrought by negro
labor and would not others be if negroes could
be ehad7 Is not the prolific mine of that estima.
ble gsr6linian W. B Dorm principally worked
with slave labor? Ifnegroes had not been so
high priced would capitalists have failed to make
slave trade were now would hss s5atR
resign without struggle rs she is ADDING, the
mines of Pixies Peake, of New Mexico, or Arizo.
mis- which has inexhaustible treasures of both
gold and silver, and which two last Territories
nre in the same latitude as South Carolina?
After this showing of the demand for cotton
abroad and for sugar, hemp, iron etc, at home,
who can fairly say, that if the slave trade were