Des Arc citizen., 1860-01-04
I'M OF TIE nEyoLurroN.


 And now to the point. In our opinion, ar opinion which has been formed from data ob- taned by assdnous researches and compari- sons, from laborious investigation, logical re a. sonins and earnest reflection, the causes which have impeded the progress and pro osperity of the South, which have dwndled onr commerce and other similar pursuits. into tue most con. temptible insignifcance; sunk large majority | of our people in illng poverty and ignorance rendered small minority conceited and tyran. nical. and driven the rest away from their homes; entailed upon us humiliating depend ence on the free States; disgraced us in the recesses of our own souls, and brought us under repro ach in the eyes of all civilized and enlightened nations, may al be traced to one common source, and there find solution in the most hateful and horrible word that was ever incorporated into the vocabulary of human economy--slayery.
 THE srUPIp MASSES IN THE SOUTH. t It is expected that the stupid and sequacious masses, the white victims of slavery, will be- lieve, and, as a geuaral thing. they do believe, whatever the shareholders tell them; and thus 1t is that they are cajoled into the notion that they are the freest. happiest and most intelli- gent people in the world, and are taught to look with prejudice and dsapprobation upon every new principle of progressive movement. Inns, it is that the South wof,llly inert and inventioness, has Jagged behind the North, and is now waltering the cesspool of igaof- ance and degradation.
 RESULTS ov "raG SUM OF ALI vfLLAiNrEs.' .'
 While iu Virginia very recently, an elderly slave holder. whose religious walk and con versation had promoted him to an eldership in the Presbyterian church, and who supports himself and family by raising negroes and to- bacco told Us that, for the last eight or ten years, aside from the increase of his human chattels, he felt quite confident he had not cleared as much even as one per cent. per an- nun on the amount of his investment The real and personal property of this aged Chris tian consists chiefly in large tract of land and about thirty negroes, most of whom, ac- cording to his own confession, are more ex- pensive than profitable. The proceeds arising from the sale of the tobacco they produce are all absorbed in the purchase of meat and bread for home consumption, and when the crop is cut short, one of the negroes must be sold to raise funds for the support of the others. Such are the agricultural achievements of slave labor: such are the results of ''the sum of all villanies ? The diabolical institution subsists on it's own flesh. At one time children are sold to procure foodfor the parents, at another parents are sold to procure food for the chil- dren. Within it's pestilental atmosphere mo- thing succeeds; progress and prosperity are unSnown; inanimation and slothfulness en- sue: everything becomes dull dismal and un- profitable wretchedness and desolation stand or lie in bold relief throughout the land; an aspect of most melancholy inactivity and di- liquidation broods over every city and town: ignorance and prejudice sits enhroned over the minds of the people; usurping despots wield the sceptre of power; everywhere, and in everything between Delaware Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, are the multitudinous evils of slavery apparent.
 | -a. r-1sraNApy apprAr To QoyrTuruN NoN-
 SLAVE HOLDERS.
 To undeceve the people of the South, to bring them to knowledge of the inferior and dsreputable position which they occupy as a component part of the Union, andto give pro- minance and popularity to those plans which. if adopted, will elevate us to an equality, so- cally, morally, intellectually. industrlally, politically and financially, with the most fourshing and refined nation in tho world, and if possible. to place us in the van of even that, is the object of this work. Shareholders, either from ignorance or from willful dispo- sition to propagate error, contend that the south has nothing to be ashamed of, that sla- very has proved blessing to her, and that her superiority over the North in an agricul- turai point of view, make amends for all her Shortcomings in other respects. On the other hand, we contend that many years of continual blushing and severe penance would not suffice 
 justly attaches to the South in consequence of Islavery-the direct evil that e'er befel the land-that the Sonth bears nothing like even respectable approximation to the North in navigation, commerce or manufactures, and that, contrary to the opinion entertained by lninetv-nine huhdredths Of her people, she i- far behind the free States in the only thing of which she has ever dared to boast-agrcul- ture. r al sae rr -t
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 lis possible that the rickety monster may make better show on a new track; but if if makes more ridiculous disply we shall mol be surprised A careful examination to its precedent has taught us the folly of expect. ing anything good to issue from 1t in any man ner whatever It has no disposition to emu late the magnanimity of it's betters, and as fol laudable ambition to excel, that is charac teristic altogether foreign to its nature Languor and inertia are the insalutary viand upon which it delights to satiate it's morbid appetite; and 'sffom bad to worse" is the l!- omened motto under which, in all it's feeble eff forts and achievements, it ekes out mos miserable and deleterious existence.
 NoRTuERN PRODUCTS IN SOUTHERN MARTs. The person whose curiosity prompts him t, l take an account of the immense piles of north ern lumber now lying on the wharyes and busi ness lots in Baltimore, Richmond and othe Slayel0ldin5 cltleS, Wliinol, We imagine, TOT II a very hattering opinion of the products O southern forests Let it be remembered tha nearly all the clippers, steamers and smal craft are built at the North, that large cargoe
 of eastern lumber are exported to foregt countries; that nine-tenths of the wooden ware used in the Southern States is manufac- tured in New England; that. in outrageou disregard of the natural rights and claims o southern mechanics, the markets of the Soutf
 are forever filled with northern furniture
 vehicles. axehelves, walking canes, yart 1 sticks, clothes pins and penholders; that tn
 extraordinary number of factories. steam en zines, forges and machine shops in the fire States require an extraordinary quantity 0 cord wood; that a large majority of the mag l nificent ediices and other structures. both pri
 yate and public. in which timber in its variou forms is extensively used, are to be found i the free States-we say, let all these thing be remembered, and the truth will at ono l flash across the mind that the fore.ts of tn North are source of far greater income tha
 those of the South. The difference is simpl
 this: At the North everything is turned to ad
 vantage. When tree is cut down, the mai
 body is sold or used for lumber, railing or pail
 ing, the stump for matches or shoepess, th
 knees for ship building, and the branches fe
 fnel. At the South everything is either ne
 gected or mismanaged. e t9
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