Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-04-04

large majority.
vIReINIA.-The edmond Dispatch, conducted
by gentleman who, making pretensions to turn
for political economy, is bitten with the Idea
that there Is but a single industrial interest
worth button-that Of the profits and blessings
Of slave labor-is industrio usly endeavoring to
inoculate the laboring freemen In the region
around Richmond with the same nonsensical
theory. IL Ingenious in his current efforts, he 10
proving beyond question that his reading con-
corning bis favorite sciencs-for II IL now a
science-has been almost altogether confined to
such works and authors a. the eccentric Mr..
Filhugh, Of Port Royal; Or. Van Eyre, Of the
New York Day Book; Mr.. Cobb, Of the Georgia
Convention; His Serene Highnea, Spratt, Of the
South Carolina Convention; viscount Yancey, Of
the Alabama Convention; Mr.. Pueh, late Of the
u. 3. Congress, from the same State; De BOWS
Rsrisp, st az o! the Inevitable negro and nothing
but negro, school II disingenuous, he Is simply
sssaying TO play upon what he believes to be the
utter ignorance Of the white men toIling around
him for bread Of the truths Of the worlds indus
trial experience, that are familiar to all who
posted IN the history Of the progress Of society
both sides Of the Atlantic.
His theory is, that unless Virginia secedes, she
will lose her slave labor and that the loss Of her
slave labor will at once reduce her to the indus.
trial condition Of St. Domingo. We need hardly
remark that St Domingo is industrially defunct,
because 1t Is Inhabited and governed wholly by
the negro race. 1t has not lost It's negro labor;
but its negro labor cannot be Induced to work.
Now, the Dispatch does not pretend that II Wiz
gtnia fails to secede, her negro labor will strike
hoe less In consequence thereof; but that Il will
therefore labor further South. So Virginia is not
to become a desert like St Domingo, ind ustrI-
ally speaking, because she 10 to be the land Of a
lazy thriftless and shiftless population; but be-
cause OF her loss Of what the DisPateh's writer
regards her only source Of profit and progress-her
negro labor.
In the face Of the worlds experience II ignores
the fact that from the amount Of land In such
climate as that Of Virginia. the intelligent white
laborer, with an American citizens future before
him, his educational and intellectual superiority,
&c, &c, will gather double the net results that
can be produced by the labor Of the ordinary
American negro slave. He also blindly ignores,
In his train OF reasoning, the known fact that
the concentration Of large bodies of negro slaves
In any county Of any State Of this Union has inva-
riably crowded out almost all small landhoIders
and given II up almos: entirely to the occupation
Of comparatively few men of large wealth, with
q Few whites with little or no property, depend
ent on them for all they require but the air they
breathe and the water they drink.
In such localities nine-tenths OF the mechanics,
work Is done, as the Dispatch well knows, by
Mr. SPratt's more-desirablefo for the Souih's class
OF mechanics-slave mechanics There, exist, to
perfection, its southern Utopia-a state OF So
ciety In which the white labo1er is the uncle,n
thing; to be rigidly banished from II by the con-
centration agains: him Of every influence likely
10 make his condition degraded, and bis struggle
Tor bread an unsuccessful one. We refer to this
branch OF the DisPateh's reasoning, simply to
show to the Virginia freeman possessing but the
advantages which God, a common school educa-
ton and the acquisition Of a trade-that of the
husbandman or Of a mechanic-have given him.
what those who would seduce him to favor dis.
union, aim TO establish as the state Of society
under the despotsm Of the Oligarchy; and to ask
him seriously whether he desires 10 build up
through the South any such condition of things,
IL he does, he should by all means lose no time
In shouting for disunion.
By way Of clinchng the nail driven home az It
were, az explained above, the Dispa.eh publishes
comparative table Of the relative amount of
State taxes paid by sundry large slaveholdIng
counties Of Virginia longest settled and that paid
by AZ many recently settled counties In western
Virginia, containing whites In numbers about
equal 70 those In the eastern counties above re-
ferred to The former are the homes Of wealth;
the latter, Of comparative poverty IL the Dispatch
will study the statistics Of those particlur counties
but little deeper, 1t will ind that In proportion
to white population there are ten land holders in
the poverty stricken western counties one In the
rich eastern ones that there five sc hools In the
former to one In the latter that there are i've tax
payers In the former-as small the taxes paid
by each may be-to one ia the latter; that there
uhOf In ~
looked to to bear arms in their countrys defense,
TO one In the latter; that the relative increase of
the wealth of the former In the last twenty wear.
las been five times that Of the latter; that the
relative increase Of the population Of the former
In the last twenty years las been ten times that of
the latter; that the diffusion Of property among
The whites In the former Is ten times greater than
In diffusion In the latter, &C.
Thusth DiSpateh mig ht continue, adj in fnituy,.
To discover pregnant facts from those statistics.
going to carry conviction TO the mind of sensible
men that so far a. the true interests of the indus,
tious, Intelligent, but comparative Door citizen
10 concerned, to sacrifice all his liberties advan.
ages, blessings and prospects under such a gov.
ernmsnt as that Of Virginia has been up to tbi.
time, In exchange for the pyonriss, held ont nv
the government Of the Oligarchy-which 4. nou,
universally known to be based on the PURPOSE Of
throwing disaoiiires In the way Of the future of
white labor, on the abrogation Of free speech, Of
the poor white mans right Of suffrage, and on
the establishment Of unq uestioned absolute author
ty and po wer Of perpetual nvcntions not elected
oy the people to govern-may not after all, prove
so oenehcent change as 10 would have its read
ers imagine
We have Of late been patiently awaiting to find
the advocates OF disunion In Virginia thus un.
masking their ultimate purposes so that her voters
may realize what they really are; and rejoice that
thsy have been compelled to do SO by the pressure
OF the manly Arguments OF the UnIonists In their
convention, ere their Cong ress onal election come.
CT In that, they will find, beyond psradr.n tu,.,
that the bone and sinew Of the Old Dominion
viii make clean work Of their cherished Spratt
theory they propose TO inaugurate as virginia,s
future industrial and social conditions; or we are
vastly mista ken indeed.
The CONNECTICUT CoSoREssIoNAL ELKcrIoy
10 stin somewhat In doubt. Up to last evening
10 was not posiHvely known whether the Repub.
hcans had lost one two members of the four IN
which the State 10 entitled. Our own impression
10 that the Democrats have gained two-that the
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