New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-12
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1859

- go -, . Vt old Commonwealth the MotAer
S S,s"I IT. sn Intended patriots might pay he7
a stiIl higher compliments eAAns rs' ,,r;s,sa ard
ruotker Of States. For our Ps h,,r5 sooa,,;on IA
.rs ~ ~, Ge black children have
go bsr - dry tbat now Tor long time past $40
hes DOT milk enough for her ohspN "'e'
white. as.aa,, II a saJ
humilia tng fact. wheh should peDetrsh =. ~; -
every Virginisn, thai from tie year 1870 ~
Virgins hss lost more people By emigIstoA a.. tba
TIE old Free States together. Up 10 lSlV, w -
last cersus was taken, she bad lost morn by 49,
sec Gee She has senior should rather say, SIC
has driven from her solst least one-,hird Of all a
eusiCants who have gone from the old Sta~s 10 Tue
new. More than anotber third have gone frOs the
o,herolS slave States Msny of these multitudes who
have left the Slave States, have stunned the regions
Of Slavery. and settled IN the free countries oil ehe
Wet. These were generally industrious snd enter
rrsiuO white men who found, by sad experience, thai
a country OF slaves was not the country for them. IL
j. truth certain truth that Si1rery drires Free ff
Iorers-farners mechanics and al, and some OF re
test Of H6m. too-oNt Of the coRHtry and .R"' Aeir
ria,es srtik negroes.
"What ia Il but Slavery that makes Marylanders,
Cnroliuians and especially Old Vrgnians and New
Vuginisns ~ their country at suoh rate some go
beceuse they dislike Slavery and desire 70 &c, away
from il; oil en- because they have gloomy forebodngs
of hal il 10 bef the Slave States, and wish TO leave
their families in country of happier prospects, ohers
because they cannot get profitable employ ment among
slsveholjers; Others industrious ana nigo-spir'eu
work.nguen, viii not stay in country where slavery
oeQrades the workngman others go because they see
hat their country for some reason does not prosper
and hat other countries, not far OF are prosperng and
will afford better hopes of prosperity to themselves;
o;ber,-e numerous oiass-who are shareholders, and
cannot live without slaves finding that they cannon hVe
longer with them their worn out soils, go 10 seek
better lands and more profitable crops, where slave
labor may yet for a while enable them ana their
children TO live.
So our great Virginia, with all her natural faei
ties for trade brings TO her ports about ono hye-hun
dredth part of the goods, wares, and merchandise
imported into the Uniied States Shall be told that
the cause of this decline ~ Virginia commerce Is the
growth Of Northern cities, which, by means OF their
canals and railroads and vast capital draw on the trade
from smaller ports to themseiyes And what then
Tie cause assigned is se the effect Of prior cause
We would ask those who take this superficial view of
the matter-Why should the great commercial ports be
all outside of Virginia and near or IN the free states
WHY should every commercial Improvement, every
wheel that speeds the OF trade bat to
carry away from the slave States more and more OF
their wealth for the benefit of the great Northern
cities The only cause that can Do assigned Is that
where slavery prevails commerce and navigation can
not flourish and commercial towns cannot compete
with those in the free States They are merely places
Of deposit for such country produce as cannot be carried
directly TO the Northern market. Here Northern and
foreign ships cone to carry away these products Of
slave labor and this constitutes nearly all the trade OF
Southern ports.
When white family own fifty or hundred
slaves, theN can, so ODE US litf piouuNcn NCuf
afford 70 be incident and expensive in their habits,
for though each saye yield only small profit, yet
each member of the family has ten or hfteen OF these
black work animals to toll for his support. IL IA not
until the fields grow DID, and the crops grow short and
the negroes and the take nearly ALL that the
day of ruin can be longer postponed III the family
be not rery ndoent, and rery expensive, tins neva-
bic day may not come before the tnnd generation;
But the ruin OF Snail Shareholders Is oIleh accomplished
in a single lifetime.
"Wben white family own FIVE or ten slaves they
cannot afford 70 be indoent and expensive IN their
habits for one black drudge cannot support one white
gentlemen or lady. Yet, because they shareholders,
this family will ieel seine aspirations for life OF easy
geutiy andbecause feld.work and kitohen.wo are
negroes work the young gentlemen VIII dislike to 10
with the negroes to dirty ield-work, and the young
Ladies' will dislike to Oin the black shuts IN any sort of
household labor. Such unthri9ty sentiments are the
natural consequence of introducing slaves among the
families of country especially negro slaves Ihey
nfnliby grow and spread, creating among the white
families dstas;o for all eeryie labor, and desire to
procure slaves who may take all drudgery OIL their
bands Thus genera, industry gives way by degrees
10 iudoent relaxation, false motives OF dignity and
refinement and taste for fashionable luxuries Then
deb syly accum The result ~, that many ftm
lies are oompeo, their embarrassmons 10 sell Off
aud leave the count. Many who are unable 10 buy
slaves leave II also because they feel degraded and
cannot prosper where Slavery exists. Citizens of the
Valley is Il not 20 IL not this the chief reason why
your beautiful country does not prosper like the North
ern Nalleysl
" And then fellow-citizeus when you have suffered
your country 10 be hed with negro slaves instead of
white freemen when its population shall be motley
as Josephe coat of many colOrs-as rngstreaked and
srecked az father Jacobs flock was in Padan Aram-
what will the white bass OF representation avail you
If YOU obtain il Whether you obtain II or not, East
Virginia will have trumphed or rather Slavery will
have triumphed, and all Virginia will have become
| land of darb ness and of the shadow of death.
"Tben, by forbearance which has no merit, and a
supneness which has excuse, you Will have given
to your children for their inheritance this lovely land
| backened with y negro population-the OhscOurngs
| Of Eastern Vrgnia-the fag-end Of Slayery--the
loatbsone dregs of that cup OF abomuation which has
already sckened to death the eastern half OF our
| Commonw ealth. Behold IN the East
the dolefl consequences Of letting Slavery grow up
to an oppressive and heart sickening burden upon
| community. Cast il of, West Virginans, while yet
| you have the power for if YOU let II descend I'M
broken 20 yOnr children, IL VIII have grown 70 a
| mountain Of misery upon their heads
II appesrT then, that the above (which venture to
cay il Just as good treason any that be found
in nv book is the sort Of Anti-Slavery in which the
Governor elect Of Virginia reposes bis political faith
| In what respeci, then, is John Sherman greater
traitor than John Letcher Ii the former is unfit to
he elected Speaker Of the House Of Representatives is
| not the latter unfit to be inaugurated Governor Of
"the Mother Of StaiesW II is to be sincerely hoped
that our dear sister, Virginia, may suffer violation
Of her honor from any OF the doings Of his designing
| Lkieher Let him be looked after.
II k. HELPER No. 40 Pine street, N. Y.