Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-03-30
WHOLE NUMBER. 588.

Dor. No man in his senses can disregard
such fguros as these. But this is not ali
| This seVen-years theory necessarily involves
/ the dscarding Of the female element. as.
Tor mere brute force, the labor Of men Il
the most profitable and when the labor
Is of that character that it makes an end
ol The slave in seven years, and the natural
increase is not desired, then wives and
mothers are dead loss to an accurately
calcuIable percentages. Now, it is a well.
known fact that the slave-trader brings
from Africa, for the most part, the single
article OF male negro in the vigor Of its
youth while from the Atlantic States ho
must take, so to speak, an assorted cargo
there must be acertain proportion Of woman
ana child 10 the negro man. And this diff
terence between the two trades is one that
can't be got over. It is easy to regulate
sVeallhg, bnt not so easy to regulate breed.
.ng' Inc trader who steals his negroes
'oAeS ohly the young men but he who de.
PenuS upon the more regular market where
9'1FeS are raised for export, must take the
oau Win the good-a proportionable per-
cehtage OF women and children with the
mere profitable sex and sge. For the
breeder who never sold anything but his
Young male negroes would act about aa
wisely as a farmer who should never sell
anything but the heifers of his herd. aud
should Keep all the rest. The domestic ar
ticIe, therefore, is not only 400 per cent
higher than the foreign product, but it is
mixed with useless alloy of woman and
child, which cannot be got rid Of it Is De-.
side deteriorated by certain vices of civili.
5atlon, sneh as a desire, and even necessity.
for clothing, dwellings, cooked food and
other indplgences, for which the savage
cares nothing, and which cost money. Tbs
difference thus between the. slave stolen on
the coast of Congo and the slave raised on
the shores of the Chesapeake, is even much
greater, when the calculation is carefully
made, than as 2 to 10.
And what is more, they know it inst as
well in Virginia as they do in Mississippi.
The improperly Of its discussion is con-
stontly committed by everybody in both
sections in the privacy of their own
thoughts it is, in short, On open secret.
which everybody hugs to his bosom and
believes that nobody else has ever heard or
thought Of The rich man in one sectioa
means by and by TO bring about that state
Of affairS when he shall have 400 per cent.
on the price of his 'niggers : and the poor
man looks forward to the good time COM
ing when 'niggers' shall be so cheap that
he can have one Of bis own On the other
hand, however careful Mr.. Rhett may be
not to exasperate, ALLEVIATE, or disturb tbs
brethren Of the Border, now 10 doubtful
state Of mind, he may be assured that they
are not unmindful of the condition Of al.
fairs, and know, qnite as well as be does,
that the opening of the foreign slave,trade,
witIo1t which the southern confederacy
will so to the bad--as sure as that it will
in the end, go to the bad if it has its
certan to kill first the slave trade of the
border slave states and then their slavery.
BY inevitable law, these states nust event
nally belong to the free northern confedera-
~, even if they should be mad enough to
cave US now The only danger is that Two
nay interfere with this onward and iaevit-
lbc progress of events by some imbecilo
and mischievous compromise.