Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-05

have q chance TO work out the salvation OIL |
their own souls, aud where they will in-
crease me products which the world needs
ana win add greatly to all the otheFhranohts
Of trade and industry. When the Moth is
severed FROM all connections with slavery,
the slave. trade viii be to them only qnes.
ton between slavery as it is in Africa, and as
it is in the Southern Republic; aud few will
say that slavery in Dabomey and Ashantee,
is 80 much better than plantation life, that
the difference will be worth eight millions
year to US especially when the latter makes
cheap cotton and sugar, and enlarges the
market for Northern products and inanufac-
lures. If the Southern Republic wants the
effort to stop the trade continued, twill have
to continue it, II will cease to be our affair,
and we will have nothing in our policy to =
connect us with the question of slavery in
the South.
With the opening Of market for African
slaves in the Cotton States, the alliance for
suppressiug the trade win drop to pieces.
England, which is the bulwark Of that al
lance, has been hitherto sustained in her
philanthropy, by its restricting the competi-
ton between the products of slave labor and
those of her own West India Islands. But
when the slave trade will increase the
product Of cotton, her philanthropy will be
/ in direct conflict with her interest. This
would be reversing the usual order of these
motives in the British mind; and it is not
! difficult to foresee which must succumb. The
British mind is eminently conservative; and
distinguished as its philanthropy is, it is al
ways subservient to its interest .....-
England aud France are looking earnestly
for means to increase the supply of cotton,
and. reduce its price. Both are seriously
entertaining projects for the importation of
Coolies into their tropical colonies, which
are but slightly, if any, preferable to what
the slave. trade would he, if relieved from
hostile cruisers. The opening of the cotton
States to the African slave trade, would
solve the problem of cheap cotton for them.
They would have no excuse for hostility to
a trade so much like their own imports of
labor and their interest would be directly
against it. No matter what course they
opening of market as broad as a continent,
for slaves. But it requires little sagacity
to see that the opening of that market will
be the end of the anti-slsve-trade alliance,
either by its own natural dissolution, or by
direct treaty with the Southern Republic.
The opening of the South to the import
alton of laborers from teeming Africa, will
give the same impetus to Southern pros
perity that the North derives from the emf
grafton of free laborers from Europe. South
ern productions will be greatly increased,
and the Southern demand for the products
of other industry, increased in proportion.
And, with an unlimited supply of laborers to
draw on, it will be the manifest destiny of
the Southern Republic to overrun all the
neiehboriDg territory that is adapted to their
great staples. The military spirit and or
ganization, referred to in the beginning Of
this article, which naturally grow out of the
relation of slavery to labor, will make them
people well adapted to acquisitions by con-
quest from weaker nations, when they have
a supply of laborers to make their acquisi-
tions available.
This increase in slave products will be felt
in all the channels of commerce, and in
all the branches of industry which are
affected by slave production, and by the
Southern demand for the commodities OF
othtr industry. Trade and industry abroad
will receive vastly moro benefit from slave
laborers than from the same number of free
emigrsnts. A little reflection will show
/, this The proceeds of free laborer in agri.
culture, are Chiefly devoted to improving hi
own place aud increasing his stock. In thes'
heputs his profits; and this we in the Nortf
; regard as adding to the wealth of the cOun
try. But the laborer retaius the wealth il
his own hands.
On the contrary, slave laborer is EN-
= ployed in converting the wealth of the sol
into exportable commodities. These ar
transferred abroad, TO make materials o
= wealth there. The habits of the master ais,
u transfer much of the proceeds abroad in som
= shape. Nothing stops with the laborer, an,
,s the land becomes exhausted and abandoned
= This accounts for the abandonment of worn
: out lands in Virginia-a feature unknown il
: the North, where lands increase in value il
= spite of their deterioration.
= Slavery is like gold mining. 1t takes th
= natural wealth of the soil and transfers
:. into the channels of trade. 1t transports th
= richness of the soil to other countries, Will
free labor keeps it at home, and accumulate
7 wealth upon itin other forms. This, brief,
:. is the reason why the addition of slav
laborer adds SO much more to the trade an
commerce of other countries having relI
: tions to slave products, than the accession
. a free laborer.
The increased production which the in
- portation of laborers will cause in the Soutl
"a will give great impetus to commerce an
to all branches of industry connected wit
- it. Commercial relations will be great
:, extended between the South and all IL
countries with which she has natural rel
~ tions of trade. Skilled industry will ev
= appropriate to itself the lions share of Il
profits of Southern production. EmanC
pated from political questions, and from Il
. sectional hostility which grows out of
VI yoking of discordant elements, the laws
trade will resume their sway between Il
- u South and the North and their commerce
y relations will extend without limit. Thu
iO tba 4vyo foruna Of industry will hava an n