, 1860-10-31
Pk0-SLAVEIlY PRINCIPLES IN
PRACTICE

P1so-sLAVEnY PRINCIPLES IN !.
PRACTICE
In the current political cant Of pro-slave-
y men, negroes arc set down MS belonging
to hopclcssly degraded race The black
man, they say, cannot cope with us in the
pursuits-for he is unskiltul, H.
", improyident, and must be oversccn by
IN acknowledged superior; nor in the
learned professionalism he lacks those
ouali.ies which constitute a high order Of
intellect; nor in moral worth-for he is
cowardly, tickle, and lasci-
vious Such is the African, as portrayed
by all the champions Of slavery, from Cal
houn down to Douglas If in this picture
there be any fidelity to truth, the negro
slave must he far less valuable member
Of community than the white freeman. lie
must be grievous drawback to tue pros
perity Of q State. What, then, shall VIC
say Of those who, rating him so fur below
other men, do nevertheless consplre with
violators Of compacts and perverte1s OF !;
universal law, 10 place him where, with all !;
his alleged taints Of inferiority, he shall as !!
a bondman, curse our virgin soil?
The evil entailed is not included in the
difference between equal given numbers oi
the two races. 1t is an exchange Of not less
than five for one Pennsylvania and Viz
cinia will furnish fair illustration. Eir-
cinia Ind nearly century the start She
has onc-third more territory; better cl!-
mate; more central position; al exten-
sire line Of sea coast; a greater variety oi
productions; as large supply Of minerals;
a richer soil; md five times the narigabie
rivers, No State in the Confede1acy pos
sesses greater commercial advantages, OF
offers so many natural inducements to the
European cmigrant Now, suppose the pco~
nle Of the two States lived under similar
laws, that they were Of the same common
stock, and that They were equally lntellI-
gent and catcrprising-as they surely would
bc,-would not Virginia to-day number
twice rs many white inhabitants as Penn
sylyania? No reasonable man can make
answer in the negative. But wc shall give
the apologist Of Slavery every advantage
and base OUT estimate Of population Upon
the relative area, making no allowance for
the greater proportion Of waste land in
Pennsylvania. Virginia has one third tic
most acres. Without slavery, she would
have one third the most white population.
PENNSYLVANIA numbers over three millions.
Vrgininia-a little over one million. And
what has she in plncc Of the missing three
millions? About half million negro
slaycs-and that is all. Six white frecmcn
| arc thrust out to make room for a being
whom the civilized and enlightened cdito1
Of the Chicago Times and Herald, himself:
Virginian, calls "greasy, black, blubbeF
, slipped, 1ons-hcelcd, woolly-heaacd, arc
, "matic, demi-savagc, and notoriously l;
, "bidinous slave" Six such mcn rs the i!
.. lustrious Ex-Governor" are outwcighct
= in the Virginia scale by one w7etched Afri
, can slave.
Arc Pennsylvania and Virginia cxcer
tional cases: Perhaps comparison
> Ohio with Kentucky would be more fayo1
- able to slavery. Let us sec When "
\ put everything together-arca, soil, produ'
tons, position, natural facilities for con
. 1nercc,-thc result leaves us in doubt as
;s which way the balance inclincs, and VI
~ should pronounce it equal, had not kel
lucky the advantage in point Of climat
- and twenty years startin settlement. Oh
- has fifteen hundred thousand the most pc
- pic. And what has Kentuckyto show 4
~ this lack Of inhabitants: About two hu
" drcd and fifty thousand slaves -notlli1
more. She, too, has thrust out SIX whi
men to make room for one African 4
h these States exceptional ones: Let us COZ
s. down still nearer our own times. The
IS, are Texas and Iowa Texas was first 81
as tied We're it not for slayery, she wou
r. hare the whole confcderncy and half
tn Europe to draw upon orpeople Her p1
:ir ductions include everything, from oats a
p- wheat to cotton and sugar-cane. She l
ed five hundred miles Of seacoast; harbors
th accommodate the whole commerce Of
Of world; half dozen nayigablc rivers; Ia
mt enough to make five such States as low.
er- everything, in truth, which nature can
he stow upon a country. Iowa, the young
ws the less inviting, the more scanty in
to sources, twelve hundred miles from thcs
u1d board, mcrc patch in comparison Of S
rity has seven hundred thousand white inha
and ants. Texas has about half that NUM-
MS; Where are The ten or twelve hundred II
css, sand others who are wanted, and
ntes should be thcrcs Kept out thrust out
NIX make room for two hundred thous
'oyc slaves
G to We're it necessary, nc could 60 righ
hey citing Exceptional" cases, such us II
up- till we had exhausted the list Of 81
oual deeply involved in slayeholding. The
hic1, Of the Southern ruling caste unders
,tion this whole matter: They know that G
less slave crowds out five or six white poop
cent For this end they strive. They would
mild no white non shareholders among L
COM They would hare capital own Labor.
chiv- State can encourage or tolerate this S.:
Isets. without including all the known attcn
She consequences, and virtually declaring
rops, negro slaves arc to it more valuable
otton SIX times their number Of white free
debt This is carrying the doctrine Of ineqt
cable entirely too far, md in the wrong diret
c the We protest against its establishment i
ering Territories, We protest against agal1
control Of the Federal Government
Eager we call upon every laborins man, Of
poli. ! cyer party, to pause before giving san'
Mt on either directly or indirectly, to the 81
oucs- of that system Of civilisation Under
cna. six such men like himself are pushed
,oyer to make room for one African slave.