The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-09-27


slaveholding States. For years you hav
held Southern Conventions, and passed rel
olutions to that effect. You resolved not |
purchase any longer the products OF Nor;t
ern industrial labor. but TO build your ow
factories; not TO carry on your exportin
and importing trade any longer by NORTH
ern ships, bat to establish steamship line
and commercial connections Of your own
Well enou.h h. Why did you not do it, afle
having resolved it? Was it want OF money
You have an abundance Of il. las it wan
I Of determination? Your resolutions dis
played the fiercest zeal What was it, then
And. indeed. the failure is magnificent,
complete. Senator Mason's homespun coat
sewn with Yankee thread and needle
adorned with Yankee buttons. hangs in th
closet lone star in solitary splendor -
Loud Laughter. After trying to establish
= large shoe factory for the South. You cam,
after a while to the irresistible conclusion tina
you muss wear Massachusetts, shoes and
boots or 90 barefooted. And even you
No folk steamships are not launched ye
from the dry docks of Southern imagina
.tion. Laughter How is this? | will
tell you. The very same institution for the
protection and perpetuation of which you
want to establish your commercial acd in
dustrial Independence is Incompatible with
commercial and industrial labor and enter
prise.
For this there are several excellent reas
ms. First, that class of your society which
rules and wants to perpetuate its rule, does
not consis, OF working mon. The inspira-
! ton of regular activity is foreign to their
minds. Living upon the forced labor oI
others, they lind their pride in being gen.
tlemen of leisu.e. But it requires men Of a
superior organization to maze leisure pro-
ductive; men Of the ordinary stamp. who
have too much leisure for doing something.
will in most cases do nothing. Bat it re-
uures active labor to make US understand
aud appreciate labor; and We must under
stand and appreciate labor in order to be
able to direct labor. H.nce the sIavehol-
ders cannot take the lead in such CONNER
cial and industrial movement without chang
ing the nature Of their condition. But you
may object that they can at least encour-
aye commerce and industry. aud leave the
execution Of their plans and wishes to 9TH
ers. Indeed! But you must not forget.
! that in modern times the most active and
enterprising class Of society as soon As it
becomes numerous will inevitably become
the ruling class. How can. therefore. the
Shareholders do rs you ssy. withou. under
. mining the foundation of their own ascen-
dency! But il is Just that ascendsncy by
which they mean not to weaken but to for
tify. D, not bring forward this city Of St.
Louis as proof to the costrary. Your com
merce and your industry are indeed largely
developed, although Missouri is slave Stale,
5ut do YOU not see that in the same meas
ure as they rise, the ascendency Of the
slave power disappears. Repeated cheer
inp Thus this has become a free city on
slave soil.
But this is not all. Not only are the
Shareholders, as class, unfit TO direct the
commercial and industrial movement, but
j their system OF labor is unfit to carry it out
Commerce and industry, in order to become
independent, need mt, ltgent labor. In the
North every lsborer thinks. and is required
to think La the South the laborer is for
hidden to think, lest he think too much. fol
thought engenders aspirations Laughter
and applause. With us. progress and en-
terpIise derive their main support. theil
strongest impulses, from the Intellectual de
velopment OF the working clesses. We do
no, dread the aspirations arising from It: II
is the source Of our prosperity. and. at the
same time. of our safety. Our Iabo'ine
man must be freeman. in order to be whs
he ought to bean intelligent lsborer.-
Therefore we educate him for liberty by oul
system of publin instruction. In the South
the intellectual development Of the laborine
classes necessary for Intelligent labor woult
create aspirations dangerous to your domes
tic institutions. Your laboring man mus
be brute in order to remain what yot
want him to be-a slave. Therefore yot
withhold from him all means of intellectual
development. Among our farms and work
shops there stands an institution from whic!
oxr system OF labor derives its inspirations
that is, our school house. where our fre
Iaborers are educated. 90 your plantation
fields there stands another institution, frou
whichvour system of labor derives its inspira
6ou.;and that is your rschoolhouse. where you
slaves are fogged. And You speak OF es
tablishing the commercial and industrial IN
dependence Of the slaveholding States! D
YOU not see, that in order to do this. yo'
mus, adapt your sy stem OF labor 10 that pun
pose, bv making the laborer intelligent. re
spectacle. and At the same time aspiriny!-
Ba, il BY making the lab,rer intelligen
respectable and aspiring you attempt t
force industrial enterprise, IN large meas
ure, upon the slave States. do you no, &c
that your sy stem OF slave labor must yield
To foster commerce and industry in th
slave States for the purpose of protecan
slavery. Would it not be like letting th
sunlight into a room which You want
4 keep dark! Hence the slave States ca
never become mecommercially and Industrial
independent IS long As they remain siav
States They will always hs Obliged to bu
from Others. and others will do their carry
ing trade. At preseot they do their bus
ness with friends, who are united to the
= by bonds OF Uaion. They speak of dlsso
wing that Union; then. As now. they vi
be obliged To transact the same busin >
with US. their nearest neighbors, Tor If the
could do otherwise they would have done
, long ago. Waald they prefer by the diss'
luton Of the Union To make enemies of tnos
/. on whom they viii always be comnercia
; ly and industrially dependent!
Thus. you see. would the dissolution
|, the Union in all points of dispute defeat Il
very object for which the South might fs
inclined to attempt IL Il would effect ia
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