Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-01-24
READ AND REFLECT.

south Unit.
When in charge of the national Office several years
since found that it had been stated by Abolition Sena'
tor from his seat thai the number of shareholders at the
South did $50 0O0 Convinced that gross
misrepresentation of the facts caused careful examna
ton Of to be made which fixed the actual num-
her at BAT l55 communicated the information by
to senator Cass who read in the Senate first called
attention to the fact that the number
families and that to arrive at the number OF slave
holders would be necessary to multiply by the proper
ton of tS which the TO aSou
Since these results made public have nad reason 10
the free calculated to lead to omissions of the single
properties and that this account would be safe to put
the families at $1,000 and the number OF actual
shareholders at about two million and quarter.
Assuming the Published returns howeyerto be Gorrec
South are Shareholders The average of slaves
each holder and half OF the whole number OF
holders are in possession of less than five slaves
will thus appear that the shareholders of the South SO
from constituting numerically an insignificant portion OF
greater in relative proportion than the holders of
other species of property WhaeVer IN any paa u
with equal ruthuness that it an interest OF the whole
community.
shareholders, but family in three and half fam
lies Maine N Hampshire and Connecticut
are holders agricultural land and European States
the proportion is almost indefinitely less The proportion
which the shareholders of the South bear to the entire popu
aon greater than that of the OF land houses
rcultua stock State bank or other securities
s ere Sven sees are the
slavehodng South Carolina Georgia and tennessee the
proportion the owners of the property Maine Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut and the average NUMBER OF
nine and halt of the whole number of shareholders
under five slaves, will be seen how prepOsterous
an organized wealthy aristocracy The poor men of the
South the holders Of one to oe saoes and 1t a1oud De
equally consistent ecih truth and justice 10 say that they rep
The fact being conceded that there very large class
persons in the slavehodDg States who have no direct
ownership in that property may be we'll asked, upon
what principle antagonism can be presumed be-
them and their than there exists among
the larger class of in the tree States and
the landed interests there If conflict of interest exists IN
one instance 1t does in the other and PATRIOTISM ana pup
lie spirit be measured upon low standard as this,
the fabric the North far greater danger OF dis
Though protest against the false and degrading
to which Northern orators and Inc
of patriotism which to be expected from Tree
enlightened people, and in the name OF the nonsaVe-
only bound to their country by the OF Its
loaves and fishes and would be found derellct II honor
principle and public in proportion that they
were needy in circums ances think but easy show
that the the poorest among us is
make with and die IN the last renches IN
defence of the slave property of his favored neghbor
The shareholders Of the South may be classed eth
such desire and incapable of purchasing slaves or
such have the means to purchase and 40 not because OF
the absence OF the motive to do So preerrg TO hre or
ing the ownership of this property does not exist at
the South for all such scrupes have long since been sen
ced by the profound and arguments
Yankee controversy has driven statesmen popular
tors and clergy Upon the sure testimony OF Gods no
Book and the principle OF universal poy they have
defended and justified the institution.
competition free labor with slave labor is the
upon this they rely support of future social con-
fct in our midst, clear that where the compe
ttOn possibly exist the argument whatever weight
it might otherwise have, must fall to the ground
Nov from what such competition be argued in our
cities? Are all the interest OF the merchant and those
whom he employs Of necessity upon the side of the slave
hGderS Inc products "hlin ne ouys, tne cohmGates
which sustain him of future fortune all spring from this
source and other. The cities towns and villages of
the South but many agencies for converting the pro-
ducts of slave labor the products of other labor obtain
ed abroad and every other agency the interest
! S
sble to SELL and be enabled much possible to buy In
the absence of every other wealth the South
mercantile with those of slave
labor almost to be Identical What is true of the
true of the clerk the drayman or the aborer whom
he empoys-the mechanic who builds his houses, the law
who his the physician who heals, the
teacher the preacher, etc, ETC.
And illustration of the truth of this is furnished in the
city of New York-amos as much dependent upon South
ern slavery any city in the Southwhich records ma
r of nearly $4,000 votes against the further progress of
abotionism.
AS the competition does not exist in the Cities equally
certain that does not exist in those sections of the South
which employed upon the cultivation of commodities in
which slave labor cannot be proftably used.
Having then followed step by and to what
amounts this much paraded competition and conflict
listing between the nonslavehodDg and savehodng inter
ess OF the South will several general
considerations, which would be found powerful enough
influence the Observation-Disclosures if the claims of patriotism
were Inadequate to resist attempt to overthrow the
stituons and industry OF the section to which they belong
l. The non-savehoder of the South assured of this
That the remuneration afforded by his labor above
by The labor the Free States To convinced of
this he has only compare the value of labor in the South
of the large number of abore who represented
out of employment there and who migrate to Shores
times of ordinary prosperity has been forced to leave
midst, or remain without employment. Those who
among enabled return their homes with
handsome competency The statement is nearly for
the agricultural as for other interests the statistics will
show.
The following table recently compiled by Senator
Johnson of Tennessee, from information received in reply
to a circular letter sent to the points indicated
Daily in New Orleans, Charleston and Nashville:
BF eSl tae Carpenters Laborers.
Daily wages in Chicago, Pttsburg and Lowell, Mass:
B sI!1as Css3 ar enf Laboregs
The of board weekly for aborers as given in the
census OF 1880 were in Louisiana 81 TO- South Carolina 81
Tennessee 81 81 in Illinois 81 49, Pennsylvania 81 r.
as given in Parliamentary France $50
the United States agricultural 80 bgbs ptf in h Sou
west and lowest in the Northwest South and orth diff
ferlng very ttle by the official returns
The non Shareholders Glass; not reduced by the
OF our condition. as the in the free States
petition in close and scky workshops and factories with
remoseless aud untring machinery They have but to
operatives the North and EUROPE g
be thankful that God has reserved them
there from early dawn until after candeght from one
to another, for miserable pitance scarcely above
The records Of British free labor long exhibited this
and those OF our own manufacturing States rapidly
excessive bounties which in the way tariffs have been
paid to 1T without an equivalent by the saveholdng
idDoIer Vi Cne ooutn. Let this tariff cease
TO De PAID for single and the truth of what is stated
will be abundanty shown.
f. The nonsaUeolder of the South preserves the status
OF the sce man, and is not regarded as an inferior or
dependant He not told that the Declaration Of ndepend
ence when 1t says that all born free equal re-
ers to the negro equally with himself 1t is proposed
to him that the free negroes vote shall weigh equally with
his own at the ballot box and that the little children of
both coors shall be mixed in and benches of the
school house, and embrace each other fay its outside
sports 1t never him that white man could be
degraded enough to boast in public assembly, as was
Gently done in New York of having actually slept with
negro And his patriotic ire would blow the
ree negro who would dare in his presence as is done in