Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-18

eminent, and almost exclusive trade Is given to
you in the carrying trade of these valuable experts
England. France, Holland, cannot compete with
you.
Now how is it with your wooden goods! There Il
a tariff on them think, varying from twenty to
thirty per cent for various kinds. Your cotton man
ufacturers also largely protected iron the
Here then is what? To be sure we derive revenue |
from this thing but in deriving revenue from ityou
derive also 4 premium your labor. COnse- |
quently the labor of the North which have been |
with the South has the benefit of |
the premium given to it by the government to the |
extent of twenty thirty per cent But the South
has such premium. and asks more. We af |
ford to give you all that. [Applausel know |
some of my >outhern friends complain of this, they
think it is not exactly right South Carolina as you
recolect at one time nearly brought the govern !
ment to the verge of dissolution for what she deem
ed a discrimination against her interests. But
that passed away, and a mutual understanding or
a comparatively mutual understanding has come
about and a less amount is demanded now by You
than formerly You compete better with for
eign industry than you could formerly and bye and
bye Won ear perhaps throw off your premium alto
gttfer Tor tin Sc articles which are mast generally
III in this country. Now. this historical tH'' IS
that his Northern labor which Nr. seward boasts
of as suuPriar 10 Southern labor demands and re
ceives premium from the Governments while tn"
South demands it. and vet il Outstrps You in the tar
race of labor (Applause.) This, then Is very
valuable to you; it also very valuable to US; II Is
ton those facts for the purpose of inducing in your
minds fear Let you this cent per cent trust
YOU are not on that level in which your LOYALTY
could only be measured by the amount OF money
you make out of this government. (ApplRuse.)
Now if this is the result as far the South is con-
cerned as it affects the North, then comes up anoh-
er question This mutual interchange of commodi-
ties throughout vast country, the gold OF all
fornia the grain of the West the manufactures the
commerce, the shipping Of the more Eastern States,
including what is called the Northern, Middle and
Eastern States, what a vast whata magnificent pros
pectIt affords for the prosperity of all under our
glorious Constitution. (Applause.) We should ald
each other, with proper brotherhood, proper
sense that citizens of the same country, that
we have like and common shield and a common
protection, which should deal out justice TO each
section with equal hand; raising up this sec
ton at the expense of another section, to deal
with no section save to deal with them IN
spirit of justice If all that should exist through
out the land, this cry of assailant that now re-
sounds throughout your border. from the rock
bound coasts of Maine to the golden sands of Ore
gon and which, it is said, IS made by majority Of
your people, that this great interest in itself worth
50, 500 900, of incalculabe worth, more than that
when we consider the social relations which are
interviewer with it must be broken down. and with
it all those relations and interest which connected
with it. This government, say, of this great value,
thus assailed by this people presents an issue,
and ask you, gentlemen of New York, you, gentle
the 100000 that have been up in terTOrem by one
unwise and traggart of your section. able TO
conquer $4,000, 0O0-l ask you, my cOuntrymen,
what benefit will it be to you TO have all these vast
industrial and social relations of the South out
RACED? (Applause) But It is said it is not to be
outraged: it is said that this cotton which is so
greatly valuable and which builds you up, and
which builds up the South, ard which keeps the
world going, out of which nations and nationalities
make their profit and derive their comOrtthat this
incompatible article can be raised By white labor.
How utterly absurd to any man who knows any
thing of your cline and system of labor, and the
necessities of cotton production. We have range
of the thermometer in the open air in the summer IN
Alabama from 100 TO 1900 Fahrenheit. No white
man living stand labor under that burning sun.
and they do not The owners of these slaves seek
your genial cline: they fill up your watering places
they ill tie hotels of this vast metropolis; they
are 20 be found all over the Union upon your rivers
and your lakes; at your watering places, at your
springs all over the country north Of the southern
line of Tennessee; north of South Carolina. They
are to be found all the country seeking not for
recreation-sOme Of them do that-but the vast
amount 90 north in order to get rid of the miasmas
and tevers hazardous to life, to be found IN the hot
southern cline in August and September, yes, IN
July even How DO the Overseers do? They protect
themselves with all the OF men who do not Ia
Dor themselves. They even 90 into the fields with
umbrellas over them seek the shade of some
friendly tree, while they watch the labor of the
on their heads or anything to cover them, and
can almost look the sun in the eye. daughter and
applause) Those glorious of toll, who sat
istied with their condition and love their masters,
and contribute TO the wealth of the civilized world,
have the least population under the if these phiO
SOphers will only but let them alone. (Applause)
Now them bilious fever Chills and congestive chjis
are matters peculiar to cline where heat and
moisture prevails, and heat and moisture neces-
sary to the cultivation OF the cotton crop and
" nh 1isf
rates disease. in which the black man moves per-
fecty unharmed. and are fitted for that clime-not
dying, you perceive. with all the pTIyatiOns OF
nard labor with ali the priyatiOns incident necessa-
rily 10 labUring population under the command ct
others. who get their bread the master gives It to
them, who Get their who get their
clothes as their master gives Il 10 +heIn.
who have no ,gulauuns OF their own; with
all that ard with too the natural srltishHsss aud
ayarICv which OF course will keep the negro Out al
work lager than he ought 10 be-thIs is but human
turc, aud We d. not pretend 10 deny uIa 4 Is Z"
be f. It1 With ct WITH all tn [. We have snGwu
you IN 4 these people have ncr'lsrc. aIh McIrtry1
IN great prop, rIIOu the whites teHtOli. sIicc
the revolutionary war. and the whites have "niy il
creased IN the same ratio. 1t shows you that TN
Cline is fitted To them and they 10 the clIme they
can work IN this Sickly cline and not BE- injured.
Not so with the white man | lived upon a road
until two years ago, leading from Tuskegee to
Montgomery. Alabama, called the Line jrrek
Road. For thirty miles that road IS a fine
land cottonregOn. and " hen first to Alabama
in 1886. travelling along that road what DO You
think it was called? 1t called the Widows
Road. There was not head OF family living on
that road. The women lived in the houses, attend
ing to their domestic duties; they protected
and shielded. and did not expose themselves to the
MONDAY the midnight air. But the men who
to be out of doors who had gone out to the
negroes or 10 oversee the OverSeCrs without doing
any work whatever, nearly every man of them on
thatrOad who had owned plantation, dead,
and only their widows living. state this fact
TO indicate the nature of that cline; we must take
great care OF ourselves there, The whites cannot
do this labor; they stand the clime while the
negro can; and suppOsng the white could stand the
cline. he could rot make the cotton crop. The cot
ten crop Is put in generally from the LIST to the 10th
Of April from the last week il March to the second
week in April, and from the time that the cotton
crop is put in, until it is gathered, which, if it is
good crop is not until the first Of January, there is
not one week of intermssiOn to be spared from the
crop, without danger of loss. From the first of
April until the middle Of August during that time
OF cultivation. there cannot be spared one week from
it, continuous labor is undoubtedly necessary to the
safety and preservation Of that crop, and the care
taken IN its preservation is remarkable. | have
seen field OF 800 or coo acres in which there was
not spear of grass to be seen. 1t is far superior
to any OF your garden cultivation The cultivation of
the cotton crop is so NICE fine, it demands such
regular continuous labor to produce these results
that white labor is adapted to it. Do You not all
Know that white labor Is not regular. pei siStents
continuous during the whole season. Look at your
strikes What do you think strike such as that
you had not long ago in the town of Lynn among the
shOemakers, would do in the cotton fields of the
South: 1t would decrease the value of the erop one
hundred millions, and would produce a revolution
in Great Britain and through her arevouton in the
civilized world (applause) Therefore you see that
the independence OF white labor striking off into
new el OF labor, striking whenever he pleases for
higher wages, and to make his work more congenial
going off when he pleases to seek recreation or
called off 10 see some rich relative or something of
the kind-al this would not do for US: we could
have no kind of safety for our cotton crop it could
not be depended upOn and instead of having now as
last year. four and half millions of bales the crop
would not amount to more than two millions A wear |
and how could the world spare two and half mil |
lions OF bales from the cotton crop merely to CRAFTY
these speculative philosophers? (Applause) Thif |
institution, which Is necessary TO the civilization or
the world TO your prosperity as well as to our pros
perity, is institution that does no: harm Won for
we do not let our negroes about and iniure any,
body We keep them to US they never steal from |
any Of you; they DO not trouble you with that IA
miliar negro stencil, which however agreeable il |
may be TO the Of Southern man. il is terrible
to the nose Of Northern man, daughter and an
pause) The expense we have got go to 10 maintain
them IS all our trouble, and that expense is an IN
terestng item that you ought to consider They are
now the producers Of the wealth of the world: and
their masters are able to take care of the negro
even supposng that the North furnishes one-haIf5
The cost Of clothing four millions of slaves is 500
400 600. We have tulIy 0uO OOO Of =,