Des Arc citizen., 1860-04-04

haf million bales of cotton, she would by tte varied produc,iveness of her so'', be enabled 10 sustain the price by her farmers turning their attention, for sin ale season, 10 other products. But with the increased demand, throughout the world, for cotton, we have no fears that the market will ever be glutIed, or the price reduced In truth, the best, writers, and ablesi men agree, that unless the quantity of cotton produced can be greatly augmented, t will in less than ten years command twenty-five cents per pound.
 Therefore, we maintain that tke in- creased demand for cotton, creates the necessary for more labor to produce it. The fiat of Heaven has gave forth that none but the negro can successfully eul,l- vaie the great fields Of the South--he seems 10 have been created for the posi- ton he occupies in our sunny cline, and those who would confine him to the idle ness and ignorance of Africa, certainly forget that he has been and even will be the servant Of servants"
 The price of negroes would not be ne- cessarily reduced by re-opening the slave trade. Thousands have been and are yet brought into the country every year. Yet, their value has steadily increased. And why Because the demand was SC great that reduction in price was out ol the question. From 1881 to 1883 ne- groes were bought at Norfolk and other points in Virginia. from S250 to S400- about the average price now of freshly imported Africans.
 The position assumed that freshly i'm,
 ported Africans are < fit tools to worb Abolition vengeance Is by no mean: lenabIe. We have an abiding confidence in the fealty. respect and faithful obedi
 ence that the negroes of the South have for their masters and their families. We are conversant with numbers of instance, of the failhfulness Of freshly imported Africans, which demonstrate the effect 0
 the law of kindness. bat will advert t
 but solitary instance: 4 planter tha we wot of, about one year since, received thirteen freshly imported Africans s--sever men and six women-they were located on farm that had been worked two sea sons. Two nalIve-born negroes wer' placed with them to aid in lnstructlns them in cultivating the soil. In thre'
 months time they become used to th'
 routine of planting and scraping cotton &c., and at the close of the years labo they averaged four bales of cotton to th' hand. Ii they had been lnterspercet
 among other hands, the average would doubtless, have been much larger. Tn, use Of the whip Is unknown among thes' new recruits on the cotton farm the onl, punishment necessary IS to deny them | meal, when they are disobedient, and the,
 very rarely repeat the offence. The JohI Brown insurTecticnis,s are more 10 b'
 feared among the intelligent and South ern born negroes than those who have been q brough from afar of"
 But we have extended this article to a suf1icien, length for the present, and will concude by asserting that we think [ wisdom to reopen the African Slave Trade--the move possesses intrinsic mer. n--that not only our own ' but all the nations of the earth will thereby be blessed 1.-the naked will be clothed and the hungry fed. The African negro himself will unquestionably be benefited morally. feligiously and socially, and the South will assume the position vouchsafed by Heaven, in all the relations of life. The unfraternal opposition of the North to the consummaiion Of this great and vital principle IS but feather in the bal ance against the true interest of the Sou,h--the Union, and the nations of the earth.
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