The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1860-06-02
SHASTA COURIER.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1860.
The North and south.


'26M Of Apra Speech.
This remark of onr talented young Senator
is made after following an incontrovertible ar
gument in opposition to Stewards new doctrine
that the slave " capital" and the free "labor"
States, to its logical conclusion. Indeed the
remark may be considered as the logical con-
clusion itself.
The Senator demonstrated the fact that in our
Northern States " capital" aud labor" are en-
tirely antagonistic-at war one against the
other-the capitalist continually striving to in
crease his profits off the laborer, while the la
borer as earnestly strives to obtain wages COM
mensurate with his necessities or his ideas of
justice-as was recently illustrated by the shoe
makers in the New England States, in their war
with the capitalists, while endeavoring to OBJ
tain living wages. He points to the fact that
while the Lawrences and Abbotts have become
millionaires, their partners in manufacturing,
viz: the operatives, have remained poor Here
the capitalists have increased in wealth by con-
Stunning the sweat and blood Of the operative, the
laborer, while the latter remains as poor as when
the co-partnership was started. On the other
hand, in the Southern States-the very States
which Mr.. Seward calls, par excellence, "capital'
Stales-labor and capital are united in the same
bands, and therefore cannot be at strife. The
slave furnishes the labor force of the country
That labor force is the capital of the country
Hence it must be cherished, i" for if it perishes,
the capital in it perishes with it." That is to
say, it is to the interest of the capitalist of the
South to take care of his labor force, whether
employed or not; while the Northern capitalist
only feels interest in his labor force SO long as
such labor force is profitable. In the South the
capitalist has no interest in diminishing the
wages of the laborer, or " working him at star
walton prices to the destruction of his health and
comfort" In the North the very opposite is the
case. There the interests of the capitalist de-
mand that the labor shall be performed at the
lowest possible rate, regardless of the conse-
quences to the health of the laborer.
Thus, if any States are entitled to the name of
capital States, as contradistinguished from labor
States it is those of the North rather than those
of the South. In what State of the Union is
capital more powerful than in Massachusetts, p
According to Mr.. Stewards sophism, old Eng
land, where capital has been accommodating for
centuries, and where capital rules Z" the camp,
the court, the grove"-where the people boast
of being subjects of the Queen rather than
citizens of the Empire, and who look upon the
possessor of capital or noble blood as a being of
a superior order of bengs-eyen old aristocrat-
ic, capital-bloated England, where there is plen-
ty of liberty but no equality, according to Mr..
Seward, is labor" STATED
The Senator then argues that the interests of
the North and South are subsidiary and not an
ngenistic- The South, with its slaves, enters
into no competition with the Northern laborer,
but supplies him with the finest market in the
world. Says the Senator:
The South confines itself to agriculture it
abandons manufactures to the North and by
furnishing market for the products of northern
labor, keeps up the demand for and thereby the
price OF, that labor. Does the Senator from New
York, does any other reasonable man, suppose
that, if the South turned its attention to manu-
features and the mechanical arts the products
of northern industry would be as valuable and
remuueratve as they are now? Not only would
the market Tor these products diminish in the
southern States, but the products themselves
would be multiplied thus diminishing prices by
the double operation of greater supply and a
diminished demand
In this connection we append portion of a
review, from the N. Y. Day Book, of a work re-
Gently published by the editor OF the Democratic
Reriesc entitled Southern Wealth and Northern
Profits, as exhibited in statistical facts and
official figures, showing the Necessity of Union
to the Future Prosperity AID Welfare of the
Republic"
" In federal bonnties allowed to fisheries
New England has received Sl2,944, sos, and
Massachusetts has received two thirds of the
whole as a protection to one other interests! and
yet she complains of the Union. The rest of the
Union is taxed for her benefit to this amount,
and yet she is constantly growing. Another
item showing the influence of cotton, is worth
noting The tonnage of the United States has,
on an average, Kept pace pari pdssI with the
number of bales of cotton produced In fact
cotton seems to be good thermometer for freight
When there is a ton to a bale of cotton the
prices are remunerative, and business healthy.
Inc oOutn furnishes SIX SeVenthS OF the
freight, but owns less than one sixth of the ton
rnge. The North owns 80 per cent. of the tom
mage aad supplies seven per cent. of the freights
The value of the freghts of the cotton crop
alone is over S2l 600, O0Ol This is what north
ern shippers make directly out of the cotton
crop. But the South also pays freight for the
importations it uses. This is estimated to
amount to Sl2,000,o0O, making S33, oO0, 900
paid by the South to the shipping interests of
the North alone. Who gets this vast sum p
Why 1t is divided among the merchants, own
ers, seamen, SC, &c. 1t builds the palaces on
Fifth Avenue and the villas on Staten Island
and the East River. And who can tell how much
of 1t is used to support Abolition newspapers
and spread anti-slayery documents-all devoted
to tearing down what they are impotent to build
up.
As to railroads, the South has Sill miles,
the North, s,6s5, and the West 1906. What
is remarkable, the southern roads are the only
ones that pay good dividends, while all the
weas;ern roads are bankrupt
FoURrH OF JULY BALL.-Wm. Davis, ESQ, pur-
poses giving grand ball on the evening of the
Fourth of JuIv Mt French GuIeh No na5,s or