New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-29
THE soUTH AND Irs PRODUCTIONS.

Everybody has heard of Bayard Taylor. Ther
is crazy fellow somewhere up North calling hin
self z Daniel Pratt, the great American traveller
who announces himself, every four years, a eandi
date for the Presidency, but has neveryet had tn
good or bad luck to be elected. Daniel Pratt 4
the great American traveller but Bayard 1aytol
is the great cosmopolitan traveller. He travels
everywhere China, to the Holy Land, to tht
Continent Of Europe to the Sandwich Islands, to The
\ Cape of Good Hope. Most people learn wisdom
in their journeyings, but to this rule we find no
table exceptions in these two gentry, Daniel Prat
and Bayard Taylor The former still believes him
4 self, notwithstanding his American travels al
i available candidate for the Presidency, and til,
latter is impressed with the belief that slavery il
! the Southern States of this Union is great cal
| amity.
Bayard's organ, naturally enough, is the New
York Tribune. Atpresent he appears to be travel
ing in the New England States, having recently
returned, we believe, from Hindostan, or some
other Asiatic region. The following elegant ex-
tract from one of Bayard's most recent eontribu.
tions to the Tribune we find floating about in the
sea Of Northern newspaperdom;
TALK WITH A SoUTHERNER. - Bayard TAYLOR
writes to the New York Tribune:
AT White River junction, where we were
obliged to wait two hours for the train from Bos-
ton to Montreal fell in with intelligent South
ern gentleman, whose statements with regard to
the gradual deterioration of the soil under slave
labor (of which, nevertheless, he was an adyo-
cate y went even beyond Helpers abhorred stats-
tics He candidfy admitted that slavery can only
exist as profitable institution through continual
expansion; when the soil of the State is exhaust
ed, It must move to new one. But how long can
this process be carried on ?n l asked After a
century or two, when there is no more new soil
lett, what thenn He shrugged his shoulders
That, at least, does not concern u.s. | think no
intelligent Southerner can fail to take the same
view Of the final effect of slave labor. But, con.
sdered from their own standpoint, what sugges-
ton does it present! Slavery has no future !!
Through its own operation it destroys ITSELF by
making itself Improbable. and the question whieR
must come at last What is to be done with it is
carelessly passed on to succeeding generations
Evidently somebody has been hoaxing Bayard
Some wag has been passing himself off upon the
great traveller as an Intelligent Southern gentle
man." We say this because it is simply impos-
sible that any Intelligent Southern gentleman
should seriously have youchsafed to Taylor such
information as that ilustrious traveller fayors us
with through the columns of the Tribune.
The gradual deterioration of the soil under
slave labor " is very good. There exist only two
circumstances which oppose this view of the case,
bat these two circumstances were doubtless so
trifing that neither Mr. Taylor nor the intelligent
Southern gentleman took them into the account
The first is the fact, proved by the official records
that the productions of that portion Of the soil Of
this country worked by slave labor bsve doubled
in quantity and value within tic last ten years
and the second is, that nowhere in the South can
/" soil be purchased.sat this time, for one-half,
one-fourth, and Ii many cases one-tenth, of what
Il il Ta1ier difficult in view of these facts, to un-
iefstand the ruin and disaster which are about to
,vertake the South in consequence of the dete.
oration of the soil-but then some people have
seener optics than Others and greater facilities of
eeing into milestone than the man who pecks it,
The soil of the South, let Mr.. Bayard Taylor and
IL others be assured, has not deterorated It |
as deteriorated neither in value nor in produc- |
yeness. 1t has increased in both respects-won-
erfully increased. And it will go on increasing |
a both respects, notwithstanding the vast guam
tiles of unoccupied land west of US, yet to be re-
uced to cultivation Estates which, twenty years |
go, sold for fifty thousand dollars now readily |
ring two hundred thousand. Estates which,
wenty years ago, produced one hundred bales of |
otton, now yield five hundred. These are no.
orious and indisputable facts which everybody in
be South knows, and they completely upset all
he fine theories which Mr.. Taylor deduces from
he remarks of some quizzing Southerner who was |
,oking fun at him.
In view of the fact that slavery thus g destroys
tself, as Bayard concludes is the case, he anxi-
usly asks, g What is to be done with it?n We
suggest to him that if he wilsssT
lone it will not seriously hRSyM hRS ST de- sTrsnv oraa
aid lazy son nfqs'@ "a let IL -