The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-01


Noshang coaAd be more rrepostcrous. notfina
Moss stupla. than the dogma that slavery il !
curve % = country. On the contrary. ths
heaviest calamity that could bcfall any slave
State On Mis- continent, the greatest curxs
that IN angry Providence could ,nf,ict upon
tho South, would be the destruction OF its
slave Institution, The North ascribe its own
rspid increase In population and wealth,
chichy 70 the immigration OF foreigners. and
does 20 with r~ascn. The foreigner comes
over, In the general, destitute, obliged to
work. and willing to labor with his own hands
The xaAkee dives upon his wits but the for
etSn iMoorer 10 4 real prodncer--he works with
his own hands, he digs the earth, and he pro-
duces food for his own consumption rs well
a. Tor that OF his Yankee taskmaster. Well
may the North ascribe its prosperity in a
great degree to the immigrant; for that
individual becomes a producer from the out
set, and not until he accamulates q little cap
itai By his manual industry, does he initiate
the fankee. resort to his wits for livelihood
and rosolve himself into a consumer
IL IL from immigrat ton that the North de-
rivee Its chief want, it's most exigent desidera-
tum-laoor, manual labor dirt digging soil
filling labor; the labor decreed against man
BY the curse Of Eden the labor that brings
70 his brow the dust and the sweat Various
Ere the devices which the Yankee contriyes To
avoid, himself, this sweat of the brow-jmE
chimes without number, factories where wo-
men and girls are made TO work In droyes;
lfgneous utmugs and hams; protect tive tariffs.
and like inventions. But the influx of penni-
less Immigrants from Europe, was the YAM
KEGS godsend-roor. necessitous, stout sin
envy Immigrants, used TO privation and toll.
willing to labor with their hands, anxious to
barter their service for mere bread But the
esii OF Immigrant labor is, that il is not per-
manent. Industry in our ilourishing country
soon brings its reward of accumulated means
ana easy competency. The humble, indus
tricus immigrant soon grows too we'll lido
70 be willing or obliged TO sweat and toll lon
ger His service at the shovel and the hoe is
ous an apprenticeship of a few years, at the
end OF which he becomes, in his turn, an EN-.
pioyer and consumer, rather than a labor.
ng producer.
It's this windfall of labor by the millions,
pouring into the North during the last twenty
years, that has been the leading agent in the
rapid Development and great prosperity of
mat section. 1t remained at the North be-
cause 1t was wanted there. 1t did not come
south, because we had it already. The defect
OF this species Of labor is its want of perma-
nency-is the fact that it is not las to the in :
diSidual time service, but mere APP
premiership of a few years. Virginia con-
tains half million of life time laborers,
descendants of HAN. doubly decreed to SER
wee by the divine edicts pronounced against
ADAM and CAsAAS-to service for life service
In perpetutty. Suppose that, by some fell de-
cree every iaboring immigrant in the North
Were suddenly swept from that stiff -necked
iano, who will estimate the thousand mil.
lions OF loss that would be instantly inflicted
upon all its busy interests Labor, labor, is
the jewel of great price in nations casket.-
Labor is the bread aad breath of State
Its proposed to bind Virginia to political
association that will stampede her labor like
pestilence. 1t is proposed TO chain her to a
destiny that ut once exiles from her borders
the grandest body of productive labor to be
found In any State upon the globe. 1t is pro-
posed, by allying the mother of States to the
termigants Of New England, not merely to
make her an alien and an enemy to her daugh-
tiers OF the South, but to bereave her of her
Institution of African labor, a handmade that
was born and was fostered with her, that has
attended her from youth to age, and to whose
faithful and efficient service she owes all her
comeliness and comfort.
10 show the productive value of this slave
system to Virginia, we have only to contrast
the property values of those counties within
her borders which have few slaves, with those
which have many slaves. There could not be
q better exponent of the wealth OF each than
the taxes levied upon them by the Common
wealth; for, except the inconsiderable stipend
which is levied per capita, these taxes are all
levied directly in proportion to the values ex-
listing In the counties, which values are the
product exclusively of the labor operating in
those counties. For the purpose of exhibit
ing this contrast we have coupled together in
eight or ten pairs, "A county from the non-slave-
holding portion of the State and county
from the slayeholding, bringing together such
81 contain nearly equal numbers of white in
habitants. 1t will be found that in every one
of the cases addnced below, (and we will ex-
tend the remark without fear of contradic.
ton that in every case which can be adduced
at ALL the amount of taxes paid by the slave
holding county is more than double, often
treble, that paid by the county having few or
no slaves. In each couple given, the first is
a Western, the second an Eastern county.
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