Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-14
VOLUME Z.
The gible ana Slarery.
For the YorkvIlle Enquirer.
ARGUMENTS FOR SLAVERY.

ARGUMENTS FOR SLAVERY.
THE ARGUMENT FROM THE SOCIAL NEcEs
SITES pREsENTED-GRADEs IN SOCIETY
DIVISION OF LABoR-CoNTRoLL1N
POWER OF CAPITAL-PREyENTIoN OF
REBELLION OF FREE LABOR AGAINST
CAPITAL HOLDERs-THE INsUBoRDINA
TIoN OF vIoE-AND UNIVERSAL EXAM
pLE-sHow THE ARGUMENT TO BIZ
VALID.
II. The second general argument that aot
adduce IN defence Of slaveholding rs draUn
from the necessities Of society.
Human society as it is generally constitu
ted, and as it practically operates, may moi
be such as the judgment of certain philan
thropists, sentimentalists, and Missionaries
dictate that it should be-yea, it may not
be such as, in reality and naturally and
justly, it should be. But as, in common
life, We are compelled to meet exigeucies
and provide for emergencies by resorting to
means and instsumentalities adapted to the
purpose, without having regard to the
causes, agencies, or facts, which may have
originated the circumstances; so, in the
ease in hand. The practical workings e1
society may not be such as are demanded,
may be very imperfect, but as they engen
der and develope peculiar circumstances
and necessities, these must be met by taking
things as they are, and not as they shoulo
be. Hence, we say that it is lawful tc
ground the defeLce of slavery upon the So
cial necessities of man, if we discover that
it meets those necessities. That some spe'
cies of slavery is demanded by the actual
operations of society, and that the practl'
cal wants of society are best provided for
by slavery, we hope to make evident from
a consideration of the following points.
l. The grades in society make it neces
sary that some shall be masters aud some
servants. These grades may be caused by
difference in lineage or ancestry, by natu
raj endowments, acquired talents, outward
privileges and advantages, or they may be
arbitrary, resulting from perverted opinions
or even fancies of man, or be the offspring
of pride; but, as they really exist and are
universally recognized, they forbid the con
clusion that all forms Of slavery shall OF
may cease from among men, as now organ
ICED into society. For consider that every
grade and class of society, necessarily, has
its own duties, its own somewhat peculiar
employment, and hence demands talents
tastes, manners and habits, adapted to it
Just as water seeks its own level, so do the
endowments and requirements, as we'll al
the characters, outward polish and the as
pirations of men, prompt them to seek
corresponding sphere, or at least give fit
ness for the occupancy of particular grade
and employment To resist this tendency
would be to violate an almost universal law
and would disjoint much of the social ma
chinery of common life. The philosophi
cal mind of a Newton or Hamilton jus
as naturally seeksto roam in the high realm
of scientific thought, as the crippled ant
unaspiring genius of the holman is conten
with his mud and his servile employment
To transpose these two classes would be alb
solutely impossible. This is but an illus
tration of practical life, whose necessitie
thus viewed, make the condition and labor
of the philosopher and lowest employee il
business, alike suitable to the wants of SO
eiety. Closely connected also with thi
thought, is the fact chat there must be
division of labor, both in the general an
particular departments of business, and ais
in the Offices connected with each of thes
departments. Duties are so multitudinou
that no man can either do little of ever
thing, or every thing connected with him
self. The king on the throne can no more
at the same time, be lawyer at the ba
than he can be carpenter on the house o
q peasant in the field. But each in hi
sphere may find enough to engage his pow
ers, and yet each is so related to all others
that he is dependent on every other depart
ment of life, for something which he can
not himself furnish. Thus, as on the grad
uated scale of society, we find diversities G
talents, so, also, We find demand for va
riety of employment This being true
then we expect to find public functions
home cares and duties, private sacrifice
and efforts, and menial employment maxim
up the active arrangements and movement
of social life. And so it is; for as nov
constituted and carried on, the world a
truly regards the servant, the man to do til
ser0ile drudgery Of life, just as truly on
of its factors and actual necessities, as tn
ruler on his throne, or the parent in hi
household, or the mechanic in his shop, {
even the student in his cell. And here "
find an argument for the essence of slavery
2. Again. The relative position of labc
and capital in the administration of th
practical world, creates also a necessity fe
servitude. Wherever there Is capital ther
will be species of slavery, 4. e. dependa'
labor. The capitalist is able to comman
the labor of him who lacks capital, and Ii
Dor thus rendered in subsection to the wi
of another. is a servant, slave, on the o.
casion, call him by any other name 20
please. "The man who holds the capit'
will be the master in despite of mere name
he is so in reality. The man who labor
is the servant or slave, and his labor is nj
mere matter of choice; he must eithe
labor, and labor at the price which the caI
italist offers, or he must steal or starve. -
Thus there is no essential difference betwee
the hueling service and SLAVE labor. Non
in the rule that governs it; both labor
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