Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-03

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between the shareholders and observation-disclosures Is
this not the policy of the Helper Book maintain
that the Observation-Disclosures of Tennessee and of the
whole continent have the deepest and most vital in
tcresf IN the institution OF slavery. Because all
the great branches Of the national industry are not
only based upon the institution but the elevation Of
the wages of the white laboring masses e,uiuently
depend upon its existence. Four millions of slaves
worth three thousand four hundred millions Of dot
lars are engaged In the cultivation of Southern sta
Piles; Of which cotton alone amounted last year TO
four millions two hundred thousand bales Fsns /
cotton enters into the commerce the navigation the
manufactures, the merchandise and the rain1euf of
the whole population of the United States Let this
vast amount OF slave-labor, which annually unites
with the earth, the sunshine and the rain in the
production OF sugar, rice, cotton and tobacco be
Withdrawn by the abolition Of slavery; and it woud
destroy the growth Of those great Southern staples
and confscate the capital employed in their cutiva
toni because they cannot be successfully grocn 5g s1kie
labor on the one hasd or free black labor on he other
Man like every other animated being is subject to
the powerful and manifest Influences which are ex
erted ON his health and physical nature by natural
causes and CLIMATE, facts.
This is atested by his history in ell climates and
degrees on the globe 1t is fixed fact in physics,
history and experience that the products of tropical
seni-tropcal. and of the lower degrees of the tenn
perate latitudes, cannot be successfully grown by
the European or white race. The white man is the
child and native of the elevated regions of the
earth. Though his expansive SKULL larger frame,
more perfect organization, more stimulating and
active disposition superior intellect, and nober
powers of invention, fit him in some degree to suf-
fer, to DO to meet and abide in all the climates on
the globe yet the oftier regions and higher degrees
of the temperate laitudes, are the natural theatre
of his existence, which he is capable of putting
forth his greatest physical power and exertions.
And indeed it il now historic fact. that he has
never displayed nctive yigor and multiplied his race
at its normal ratio of increase, either in the positive
extremes of heat cold. On the other hand the
negro finds the theatre and centre of his existence
in tropical Chimes and is best suited of all the types
of man for the cultivation of Southern regions He
rapidly multipiies his race on both sides of the
equatorial belt and far beyond il, fourishes where
othe- types of perish and die, is proof against
Southern epidemics and ferers, and Is capable of
sustaining proracted labor under the fercest solar
heats. African slave labor is the only effective
agency for the successful growth of the Southern
1 staples. Let it be abolished, and the growth of
rice sugar tobacco and cotton is destroyed and the
capital vested ia machines, edifces, land, labor en-
ployed in their growth is confscated amounting to
! $500, 100000
The experiment has been already tried in the
French and British West Indies. The Island of St.
| Domingo in 1871 employed 1900 ships and $4,000
| seamen in her trade, and exported annually many
millions to foreign countries.
The negroes were emancipated in 1871 by de-
cree of the French Constituent Assembly, and in
1882 the ships employed in the trade went down to
| one, and the seamen to one hundred and sixty men
And such W. the disastrous effect of British eman-
cipation on her West India possessions in the re-
duction of the quantity and the enhancement of the
price of her products, that instead of supplying
nearly all Europe formerly, she cannot now meet
the wants of her own people. She transported free
| negroes from Africa to work her plantations, but
the experiment has been disastrous failure;
while the United States, Cuba and Brazil have at
| tanned for their savelabor productions unds-
puted ascendency in the markets Of the world. And
the annexation of vast regions to the revolutionary
! States has put the workshops and the manufacto-
/ ries of New England, as her people bitterly know
! tonight, and old England and of Europe in some
degree of dependence on the South for employment,
/ for food, for raiment and for markets. Hence the
fact thatthe staples cannot be successfully grown
by white labor or free black labor, is proposition
now understood by the statesmen and cabinets of
Europe and America, and established by the laws
of nature and human experience.
If this be SO. 1t follows. that the policy would
end in the extinction Of two-thirds of our foreign
commerce. The exports for 1852 exclusive Of
specie. amounted to two hundred and seyenty-eighi
millions of dollars, one hundred and sixty-one mill
ions of which was composed of cotton alone and
twenty-one millions of dollars worth of tobacco
amounting in Southern products to two hundred
millions of dollars. Abolish slave labor and com
MERGE goes down more than one-half. In the mex
place. the Government itself would feel the shoel
IN the diminutioa Of Its revenues For exports are
the basis Of imports, and imports the source of
nue.. Diminish the exports and you cut off the i'm
/ a
degree The consequence of the policy must be
resort to direct taxation on the rich and posr &c
support the Federal Government. The policy would
. powerfully cripple manufactures, as has already
been the case. To prosper they must have the raw
material to have tit must be grown in the Soutl
to grow it, slave labor is necessary. Take away
slave labor and cotton fails, manufactures are Grip
pied, prices enhanced, and every yard of calico
and domestic becomes heavy tax the white
man; while by the destruction Of the growth O
In
his tea and coffee morn and evening.
It would at the same time destroy the markets Of
these grain and provision producing regions for
mules horses, lard, bacon, -four and beef and pow.
erfuy effect the agricultural classes of those vas
regions. Since they find their markets in the Soutl
and not in the North. But great and disastrous al
these widespread mischiefs would be- there is still
another of far deeper to the white aborins
classes throughout the United States. If the scheme
of emancipation were accomplished it would quick
ly result in the reduction of the wages of the Amer
= lean working classes to the rates of the paupera
y and peasants of Europe. For the STAKEHOLDER is til
natural The Interested and legitimate alley and friend
The trlde dbor0g man; and SLAVERY the most efecLd
and powerful safeguard furnished by the institutions
Of this or any other country for the protection O.
white labor against the selfish dominion of capita
and its remorseless struggle to increase its profit
the expense of wages.
For lay it down proposition which eauno
be successfully controverted, that labor is the praa
. /
wealth. All men in a civilized State live on wages
| or on the profits of capital, on both together
The capital Of the Shareholder is not practically
vested in the flesh and blood of four millions O.
slaves abstractly, but in their labor; aside from
| which they are utterly worthless. The profits o.
the shareholders, therefore arise from the wage:
of four million of slaves and are enhanced IN pro
portion to the general elevation of wages. As
wages on black labor the source of profits Il
the Shareholder and labor on white labor are also
| Of
follows that the interests of the Unite labor and the
Shareholder are Identical since the income of botf
arises from profits in the form of wages on labor
performed by one, and purchased in advance by the
other. The STAKEHOLDER is powerfully and deeply
concerned to keep up his wages on black labor and
doing so, by inevitable consequence, keeps up the
wages of white labor throughout the United States
He is therefore the interested the natural and the L.
climate friend, ally and defender of all labor every
lcere against national banks factory systems pro-
tective tariffs souess, but splendid corporations
which, surrounded with immunities and exemptions
armed with immense faculties and powers, and
vast aggregated capitals ever seek to increase
their profits at the expense of wages. Capital
and labor, like good and evil, are antagonistic
The war between them is perpetual; and the one
has maintained its ascendency intellect and pow
er have been associated with it in the government
Slavery in this country, has interested In the wages
of four million of slaves, splendid, enlightened
and powerful association of men in the South ever
prompt and every ready to rebuke the war of money
on labor and to resist its merciless encroachments
on its price and value And the outside objection &c
slavery by the fanatics, is pretended philanthro
py the inside one in its tendency the principles
have explained to increase wages. If they can
abolish slavery and disband that brilliant associa
ton of powerful men, interested the side Of labor
at the South then here. as in England and the
continent the capital of the nation North and South
would coalese and very soon screw wages 10 the
| proper standard of Europe, where they arc barely
sufficient to keep soul and body together. And when
the day shall come that capital shall be all on one
side and labor all on the other side when the dead
ly and remorseless conflict comes on, between wa
ges and profits, wealth and poverty, svarice and
hunger landlords and tenants then shall the cry OF
the distress from the hungry and the poor, go up
from all the land, as in Egypt when the wrath Of
Heaven was manifested in its plaques, and the an
gel of Death spread his wings upon the blast
Then let no voice be heard to divide the people Of
the South. Let traitorous tongue attempt to ar.
ray class of the Southern people against another
by intoxicating the false idea that the nonslaVehod
ers of the South have interest in the great ques
ton of consttutonalrigh and equality of the States
and citizens that staked upon the issue of the
times have already shown ihat they have the
deepest nerestan interest which viii tell upon the
destiny of posterity. The property Of one man in