New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-22
INVENTORS WANTED.

Had not q Connecticut 1ankee ghcu !" 'Ao
South cotton-g in-supplyipg want which DO in'
ventiop. the growth of a ,lavehodiDg community
coud have ever met-Slavery would ere this un'
doubtedy have been where the trainers oil 'he
Constitution meant it should be-in the limbo OF
things dead and damned. To one of those work
;nomen whom a STAKEHOLDER 80 despises, whose
labor he enslaves far as he can, and whose per-
son be would put in bonds if be had the po~eri TO
one of these wOrkingmen, who grow where WOODEN
nutmegs germinate-another invention, by the bie,
which no STAKEHOLDER could ever have compassed-
ia the South indie bted for all her wealth But TOT
him the staple crop of South Carolina would stlii
be indigo; but for him the staple crop OF virginia
won d not now be "niggers." His ingenuity made
machinery do what the human hand could not, ana
rendered Slavery profitable in the culture OF cotton
on the rich lands of the South and in the raisiog
of slaves in the States just north of them.
It would be curious to calculate, if it were pos
sible the influence OF this invention upon the
commerce of the world. Cities have grown up,
fleets have been launched, mines have been opened,
Dew branches Of trade have been created, and new
inventions have been made which without it would
never have been needed. 1t has given to millions
and millions of meu another garment, and TO
millions more two shirts a week VIII would other
wise have had but one or none. Count the mills
and The spindles, the ships and the rail cars, tue
threads and the needles, ard the busy hnge
which ply them to make cheap garments Ia lhdia'
10 China, in Europe, and in America; count tue
dollars of the capital required TO move all tnese
firms and appliances of Industry; reckon then all
the subdivisions of labor which have sprung from
these, measure the wide domain OF virgin soil
which has been opened for the babtation OF map,
and over which the blessings of peace and civiza-
top have been spread like garment, and we
learn something of the value of an invention which
could do in one day the work of three hundred
men, and made thing Of comparatively little use
of the first Importance to the whole world.
How do we reconcile the creation of so much
prosperity at the expense of so much human woe
and degradation as is necessarily involved 10 the
existence Of Slavery We shall not pretend to
answer the question. But it is certainly very
trite, and possibly may be called a very Pro- Slavery
thing to say that the Providence which directs all
human agencies will not be, in the end, without a
witness in this. 1t may be that, as Slavery has
grown and fourished under Oae piece of machinery
it VIII be overthrown by another. The production
of cotton this year, unles, cut off BY drouth,
will be probably 20 per cent larger than 1t
ever was before. It's production must go on
increasing, and is only checked now by the
want of hands 1t is therefore. that the States of
the extreme South snd Southwest demand more
African laborers, for their force is large enough to
plant far larger breadth of cotton than they do
now. They want the long, slender, black fingers
to pick it. They raise it, but cannot gather it.
Where is the next inventive Yankee to come to
the aid of the cOttOn-grower in his hour of need
Another Whitney is wanted, that shall put 10 the
place of those dexterous black fingers some curious
implement which will rob thousand acres of its
feecy treasure while negro culs from one.
Con be not be found
But the negroes When machinery can be
made to do the work of the slaves, then slaves and
masters must stand aside, aid leave the work to
men who driye--nOt nigeers"-but engines