Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-01-17

SuSen ~ fllI, iuu-a Hlf business lot the Cul
season Of December.
We lind the total importation of hides into
New York, for the year 1859, amounted tc
l,S52, $50, against / ,i33, ,25G in 1858.
II we examine into The results OF African
labor IN tie intcrtropical regions of the new
world whose ich agricultural resources, white
labor could never have developed. we shall find
that it has put the civilized world by expand
lng commerce and trade over the globe from
100 to 200 years in advance of what it would
have been without it.
We may estimate ilc present number o
African slaves in the New World including
Brazil, Cnba, Porto Rico. and the United
States, in round numbers at 1000, 900. The
results Of their labor amount to a larger an.
nual aggregate sum than the same number ol
people, white or black, bond or free, TO be
found on the habitablc globe, and which, in
round numbers, may be stated as follows:
Cotton, (crop Of 1859'G0) s2l0,0o0o0O
Coffee. 10000 00O
Sugar and molasscs, 40 00O, 00O
Tobacco, (American and Cuba,) 25,o0O,0 ,0OO
Rice, 1000, 0OO
Naval stores, 100000
Total, S42l ,O00, 00O
The bulk and value of the above commodi.
ties in such extensive demand by the millions
Of whites inhabting temperate lattudes, have
given vitality 10 commerce, augmented steam
ships and sailing. vessels, extended railroads,
intercourse and civilization over the world to
an extent they could not have attained in cen
tures without them, and whose sudden cX-
| tinction to-day would involve the civilized
! world in ruin and baukruntcy
The rise and fall Of communities in the New
World have been affected by the preservation
| or abolition Of African labor Who doubts but
that the basis Of American commerce and
manufactures is found in the value of African
labor at the South? Who doubts but that the
preservation Of African labor in Cuba, uotwith.
standing the oppression Of the home gov
eminent, makes her to-day worth more
than all the other West India Islands put
together? Who doubts but that the gov
crnment Of Brazil has been the only
stable and powerful government III South
America, whose products trade and commerce
excel nearly all the rest Of the Spanish Anne.
rican States put together; and, who doubts but
that this stability, progress and wealth. arises
from her preservation OF African labor? And
could wide sea have separated the Southern
slave States from the half aboiitionized free
States Of the North, it is probable that to-day,
with their vast and rich territory they would,
directed as their Institutions and industry are by
American intellect and enterprise, be among
the most wealthy and powerful States that the
sun ever Shone upon.
If the less powerful savcholding cornmuni-
ties Of Brazil and Cuba had been IN dry land
boundary in contisuity with Northern lana-
ticism, they would lung since have been utterly
ruined.
What has caused the constant recurrence of
revolutions in all the South American States
except Brazil? ? Old Spain left the most of them
rich and prosperous. What do we now behold !?
Civil wars and bloodshcd; agriculture and mines
neglected; commerce depressed and manufac-
lures non est Why is all this: Because
seized with the lanaticism Of the age, they
no sooner obtained theirindepend than they,
everywhere, set about aboising African slavery,
and trying everywhere 10 make the negro fully
equal TO the white man. Venezuela abolished
African slavery, and has been in civil war
ever since; because nobody wants to work
and every body, negroes and all, desire
10 govern. Peru abolished slavery and
imported coolies. IIcr career is marked
by rapinc and civil war; The only thing which
has saved her from utter ruin mas been her
birds manure on the Chinchas, dug and put
on board ships, by Cinnamon. Chill, posses
sing valuable copper pat little thT HEfG
Central America and Mexico are sunk into
imbeciIity amidst the richest soil and most
valuable mines in the world, or, il aroused, it
is only to engage in plundering aud dcsolaing
civil wars SO much for the abolition Of Alr1-
l.t, l.ti e pln No
where it can be made available to the advance.
mcnt OF both themselves and the whites
The ruin brought upon St. Domingo, Jauaica
and other West India Islands, the civil wars
and desoIation Of the Spanish Provinces Of
South America. have ariScn from the overthrow
of African labor, and which. to large extent,
was the work Of English interference and En-
slish !anatciSw.
This immense, widespread, and irreparable
! ruin inflicted upon the New World. has been,
to great extent, the work Of her hands.
She would probably, now, if she could, by
uniting with the fanatics Of the North force
upon the South ruin and civil war. by the aboll-
ton of her African labur, and entail upon her the
dcsolaton OF the West India Islands, with the
anarchy. bIigandism and incessant revolutions
of the Spanish South American States
Against such tide of ianatcal crusade, the
people Of the South. under God, have high
and responsible duty to periorm-in the dis
charge Of which, they must look to their sell
preservation, TO the interests of the Africans
entrusted to their care, to their political free
dom, and equal social rights as men, and to the
claims Of civilization and commerce Of the
world; in which is involved the prosperity OF
oil races white, black, yellow and coppcr-col-
orcd, all over the globe.
Suppose the rlradness OF fanatIclsm accom-
pliShed; it could only end in the ruin OF the
whites, North and South, while tho negroes
would be cxtcrminatpd. Then, in Gods name,
why labor for such ends? Let humanity and
common scuse answer. AMEEICrs.
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