New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-24

bic information that fhis man ooninies 70 send on
two or three every week. his II but one case out
of many There are others employed 10 the trade,
and Il has been computed by one who has had
sore opportuny OF learning, that at least 81 slaves
week or }I2 year leave this County. The ac-
tiyiy Of the business has latterly directed the AZ
tention of the community to the different phases
and results Of the trade and opened held Ior cal
culati0ns II ia chiefly through the instrumentahty
Of these spectators that the institution has been
held in check in past years-property OF tins klnd
being more valuable further south was sent there.
An incentive to many owners to sell - fhe mae
curty we have spoken Of FOR such property. In
deed, another cogeDt reason is, the great demand,
with consequent prices, which prices are more re-
muneTatng TO the owner than the labor; the labor
cannot BE- made profitable, comparatively speaking,
the money pays better interest. It will pay few
residents of the county 10 purchase slaves ut pres
ent valuations, for the sake Of their labor There
il no branch of trade with Us which would warrant
such Investments hence no expectations need be
founded on the possibility of importatons.
With such drain upon this population, it does
not require a very astute mind TO comprehend tho
fact that the vigOr Of the institution is being lost in
the withdrawal of its sustenance, its energies ex-
hauEted, and its vitality being destroyed; this may
be remarked by all Nearly all admit that Sussex
County viii, ere long be in measure free some OF
our largest slave-OwDers assert that within ten years
the county will be free one; persons who have
heretofore held slaves, and those who still hold
them, say they will never purchase another. That
"gradual emancipation" Of which we hear 10 much,
is actually transpirng here, without any express
law avoring it; but not in the sense in which that
term is understood for instead Of rendering the
county free by beratng the slaves il is being eman-
cipated by expectations instead Of abolition doc
trines accomplishing the end, the spectators are
made the active instruments for the accomplishment
of the purpose; their efforts are furthering tho
scheme. There is no need for the existence OF any
law bearing upon the emancipation in this State at
present; it will be accomplished in time without the
aid Of enactments. All see the inevitable tendency
Of affairs in this connection; they note that in tho
event Of such continuous hegira in the future bus
a few short years will be requisite to revolutionize
the system. With the expectation Of six q week.
which is the estimate less than FIVE years would be
required; but we will allow larger margin; wa
may take the per cent of decrease from census 10
census, and the result would show that it was only
q question of time, and that il was merely one OF
thOee questions of ambiguous prOpriefy which would
eventually resolve ITSELF as a matter which has
hitherto been regarded as one of public policy, but
which has corrected itself without adventurous aids
q contamination brought about not by doctrines OPP
posing the system but by considerations of political
economy. The evil with US is one that viii care
itself without the services of political doctors.
The Pro-Slayery men generally view these conse-
queDctB Oh tue OptIdllODS Vi buch dRcuCbs as
have been adverted to as their own work, and
gard them not unfayorably, recognizing the result
as their own fat, and acknowledging with much
grace the necessity of the progress of affairs The
owners themselves have developed q system Of
practical AbOtOnism of voluntary character,
which has contributed to this end. They are better
satisfied with this anticipated result because of the
peculiar mildness of the views which have gener-
ally characterized the citizens of this country With
respect to this subject. The institution with us s
mild, if may use the term, and Invested OF many
of those Objectionable features which have gwen it
impress in other sections. With us Slavery s
NE rely nominal, and has been 30 for years. We
have no extensive slave owners, no one man, We
presume, owning a score. 1t does not at present
to any marked degree conflict with free white labor,
ror with the proper standing of the laboring man,
who we are constrained to believe, can command
as good wages az though there was not q resident
slave. This at first sight may appear paradoxieal,
but il need not when one reflects that agriculture
here has received an impetus from railroads which
have been constructed and projected, and which
are developing the Of the country through
which they pass, and which incite the farmer TO
clear ND his swamps, fertilize his unproductive
lands, and thus create demand for labor.
There is q statute Of the State which prohlblx
the exporting Of slaves except under certain restrc-
tons Consequently man having slave 70 DIS
pose of is either put to the trouble of procuring an
order from the Associate Judge of the County, or
selling him without such permit and thus violating
the law At the last session of the Legislature, an
effort was made to repeal this law, the frends of
the movement thinking it preferable to have no
statute at all of this kind than one which was daily
violated. Had the repeal of this law been passed,
it is not difficult to foresee what the effect would
have been. In two years time but moiety Of the
slave population would have been left. As tits, tho
drain is exhaustive, and the institution becoming
more and more circumscribed every day, and tho
indications are that the period not very tar distant
when the county will be, in nearly every essential
free from Slavery, and the system be classed with
matters of history.