The North-Carolinian., 1861-02-23

- holding and slaveholding interests of the Sout:,
will proceed to present several general general co
sideration which would be found powerfud eoo,,e
ro influence the nonslayhollers if the claims Of nj
lie tlotism were inadequate to resist any attempt
overthrow the institutions and industry the sectic
y to which they belong
y !. The noa-sayeholder of the South is assure
OF this That the remuneration a.rdcd by his labt
over and above the expense Of living is larger tina
that which is afforded by the labor IN the Fro
States. To be convinced of this has only to CON
pare the value of labor i'll the Southern cities wit
those of the North and to take note annually of til
large number of laborers who representative b
out at eni, i,sevmeR: there and who migsra2e IL oi
shores, as we'll as to other sections No. white la
borer in return, in times of ordinary prosperit,
has been forced to leave midst or remain with
out employment. Those who come among us ar
enabled soon to return to their homes with a han
dsome competency. The statement is nearly a
true for the agricultural for other interests as tn
statistics will show.
The following table recently complied by Sen
ator johnson, of Tennessee, from information re
celved in reply to circular letter the points
indicated
DeiLy eoages IN n O1leans Charlsn and NasEriX.
! Bricklayers. Carpenters. Laborers
50! to 81 $24 o2a 81 to II
Do in lAiango, Pitsburg and LosceU Nuss:
Brickayers. Carpenters. I.aborers.
81! to2 SD to1a 75c to 81
| The rates of board weekly for laborers as given
Carolina 81 TO- Tennessee 81 80, in Illinois 81 40
Pennsylvania s y, Massachusetts, 50 12 The
wages Of the agricultural classes as given in Parli;l
| mentary reports are in France $40 to $50 per an
| mum with board. In Italy $l2 to $40 per annum
In the United States agricultural labor is highest in
the Southwest and lowest in the Northwest the
South and North differing very little by the official
returns.
The non-slavehoders as a class arc not reduced bv
the necessity of condition. is the case in the
free States, to iind employment in crowded cities
| and come into competition in close and sickly work
shops and factories with remorseless and untirng
machinery, They have but to compare their condi-
ZION in this particular with the mining aud manu-
i.cturng operatives of the North and Europe to be
,lanktul that God has ed them for a better
tlte-Tcnder women, aged men, dclica cd children
| toll and labor there from early dawn until after
andle-1Sht, from one year to another, for miSera-
pc pltance, scarcely above the starvation point:
ma without hope of anelloIation-TEe records of
British free labor have long exhibited s and those
iouor own manufacturing States Ii li1 idly reach
nag it, and would have reached it long ago but for
he excessive hountcs which i'll the way Of ,ariti-
nave been paid to it, without an equivalc, v the
laveEoding and nnn-slav eol,ling la ,or.r Of the
south Let this tariff cease to be paid for 81 ,~le
and the truth Of what is stated III b. album
iantly shown.
f. r. ~t:rs~~1'<-,. =, ts South l,re~rre~ the
inftr5or iepc"duni. He is not tol.! that the
Declaration of In dependence, when it Says that all
.nen born free and equal, refers to the negro
equally with himself. 1t IS proposed to him
him that the free ncgros vote shall w.is equally
with his own at the bailot-boN, and that the little
children of both colors shall s,c mixed in the classes
and hcncncs Of the school honsc, and embrace each
other ii'!ally III its outside sports 1t occurs
to him that white could be degraded enough
70 boast III a public assembly, recently done
in New York OF having actually slept with a negro
And his patriotic ire would dare, in his presence
Is done III the free States to characterize the Father
OF the Country as 'scoundrcl," No white man at
the South serves another boy servant to clean
his boots; wait on his table and perform tha mcniul
services Of his household His blood revoits aga
inst this, AMI his necessities drive him it.
He iSa companion and an equal. If a distinction
exists it is only that which education and refinement
may give, and this is courieously exhibited
scarcely to strike attention. The poor white lab
the North is at the bottom of the social lad
der, while his brother here has ascended several
steps, and cln look down upon those who be-
meath him at infinite remove.
fhe non->l,vepller KIN that rs soon as his
savings viii admit he become a STAKEHOLDER.
This, with ordinary fugality, can, in general be
comished III Il few years, and is process continl-
ally going on. Perhaps twice the number Of poor
lhc'i ut The South own slave to what owned slave
ten Years ago. The universal disposition is to
purchase. 1t is the first for savings, and the
negro purchased is the last possession 10 be parted
with fla woman her children become heirooms,
ana maze the nucleus of an estate. 1t is within |
the knWetie of the writer that plantation of fifty
or sixty persons las been established, from the de-
sccntlats of single female, in the of the life
time of the original purchaser.
=. The large Shareholders and propretors of the |
South begin life in great part non-Saveholders.
1t Is the nature of property to change hands. Lux
ury llherality, eNtravagance, deprecated land low
prices. GeDt, 'lStflOuliOn among fnltlrtn, con-
tnually breaking up estates. All the new
States of the Southwest enormous estates In the
hands of men who beg life oversccrs city i
clerks, traders and merchants.
I. But should such fortune not be in reserve for
the nOn-slav vehoder, he will understand that by |
honesty and industry it may be realized to his chill
dren More than one generation of poverty in a
amily Is scarcely to be expected at the South and
is against the general experience. 1t is unlis
al here for poverty than wealth to be preserved |
hroug gh several generations in the same family
9. The sons of the Eon-slavcholder> are and have
always been among the leading and ruling spirits of
the South in industry well as IN politics.
And nowhere else in the world have intelligence,
industry and viltue, disconnected from ancestral
estates the opportunities for advancement and
nowhere else is their triumph more speedy and
signal !
g. Without the institution of slavery the great
staple products of the South would cease to be
grown and the immense annual results. which
distributed among every class Of the community
md which give life every branch of industry
would cease. The world furnishes no instances OF
these products being grown upon a large scale by
free labor The English now acknowledge Their
failure in the East Indies. Brazil whose slave pop
ulaton nearly equals own, is the only South
: American State which has prospered Cuoa oy
her slave labor showers wealth upon old SPAN,
whilst the British West India Colonies have now
ceasedbe source of revenue and from p"opulence
nave be, to by emancipation, reduced to hegSary.
81. Domingo shared the same fate and the poor
whites nave been massacred equally with the rlch
EXPORTS.
1889 100
Iayy 49,