Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-11
nailp 9lational 4cmutrat
ATroubiesome Question for a Southern
Contederacy.


Va find SAYS the Cincinnati Commercial,
.be Border States anxious for the continuance
IS the prohibitory tariff on negroes. Virginia
..a, full of solictude for the protection OF
ber negro staple against fertile Africa as
,n.rlvonia is for the protection of iron
.a;n:t the cheap labor of England. But
,6s philosophical producers of slaves in Nir-
..;a have never been able to answer the
Question put to them by W, B. Gaulden, of
I.o.o;o in the Charleston Convention
g wbv should pay fifteen hundred dollars
oriece for niggers in Virginia when can
,nr better niggers in Africa for fifty dollars
ohoodY" As his arguments were from the
.,o-orv extension point of observation, quite
;,,es;stible, they were conveniently ignored
1r....;,;o with all her statemanship, grossly
.n.;.tent. stands before the country the
,noeote of Free trade with Europe, and de-
.aaudinr prohibition of trade with Africa.
The closer we look into the structure of
Southern society, the more distinctly recog-
nizable will we find the elements of the ir-
rrenressble conflict between the sections
whose profit in slavery is. in the production
of slave labor, and those whose profit is in
,be consumption of that labor. And the first
hattie in which the lines will be definitely
drawn and all DISCUSSES cast aside, will be as
TO whether the permanent Constitution of
,he Confederate States shall contain the pro.
l. in Ea al
Cou.tiiution. There will be no escape or
w;staking this fight. The foremoft champi-
an of the African slave trade in South Caro-
lima is Leonidas Spratt. He has recently
published very APPLE and elaborate defense
nf the slave trade as q Southern right. and
tLe Southern policy, in the Charleston Mer-
curv The occasion of the publication was
the senstiveness of the Montgomery Con-
oress on the slave trade question. Mr. Spratt
accounts for the present uncertainty of Vir-
t,inia. by saying there is too great Il prepon
derence of whites in that State, and that in
case of such a prcponderence of the white
race in the ingredients of society:
Like an excess of akali or acid in chem-
zeal experiments, they are untixed in the So
cial compound Without legitimate connec.
ton with the slave, they are in competition
with him. They constitute not a part of
slave society but Democratic society. In
so far there is this connection, the State is
slave in so far as there is not, it is demo -
cratic and us States speak only from their
social condition, as interest, not intellect, de-
ternne their political action, it is thus that
Virginia has been undecided-that she does
not truly know whether she is of the North
or South in this great movement
The lamentable disproporticn must, with
a. IL, l., .,,,Di
the forces now at work continue TO operate,
cone race mGst increase as the other dimia
ishes'
Even in South Carolina the institution
needs new blood from Africa. Mr.. Spratt
says: "The process of disintcgration has
commenced" in the larger towns The fol-
loving paragraphs are exceedingly peril
aent:
Within ten years past, as many as ten
thousand slaves have been drawn away from
Charleston by the attractive prices Of the
West. and laborers from abroad have come tc
take their places. These laborers have every
disposition to work above the slave, and il
there were opportunity would be glad to dc
SO, but without sUcl opportunity they come
into competition with him; they are necessa-
rily resistive of the contact. Although there
is disposition to exclude him; from the trades
from public works, from dlays, and the ta-
hles OF hotels, he is even now excluded to d
great extent. And when enterprises at the
North are broken up-When mere laborcr
are thrown from employment-wh'n they
shall! come in greater numbers to the South
they will still more increase the tendency tl
exclusion they will question the right o
masters to employ their slaves in any work
that they wish for they will invoke the aiC
Of the legislature; they will use the elective
franchise to that end they may acquire tn,
power to determine municipal elections
they will ineXoraOly use it; and thus thii
town of Charleston, at the very heart @
slavery may become n fortress of Demo
cratic power against it. As it is in Charles
ton so also is it to less extent in the interi-
or towns.
Nor is it only in the towns the tendency
appears. The slaves from lighter lands
within the state, have been drawn away fol
years 10y higher prices in the West. They
nre now being drawn from rice culture
Thousands are being sold from rice feldt
every YEAR None are brought to them
They have already been drawn from the cul
ture of indigo and all manufacturing employ
ments They are yet retained by cotton anC
the culture incident to cotton but as almost
every negro offered in our markets is bid fol
Iy the West, the drain is likely TO continue
It is probable that more abundant raupcr Ia
bor may pour in. and it is to be feared thai
even in this state, the purest in its slave
condition, democra y may gain foo!hoid
and that here, also, the contest for existence
may be waged between them.
1t thus happers that the contest is not en-.
ded with dissolution of the Union, and tha
the agents OF that contest still exist within
the limits cf the Southern States. The cause
that have contributed to the defeat of slavery
still occur ; our slaves are still drawn Off 10y
higher prices to to the West; there is still
foreign pauper nbor ready to supply thei
place. Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky Mis-
sour, possibly Tennessee and North CaroIini
may lose their slaves as New York Penn
sylvania and New Jersey have done II
chat condition they must recommence til,
contest. There is no avoiding that neces-i
ty. The systems cannot mix and thus it i
that slavery, like The Thracan horse return
ing from the field of victory, still bears
master on his back-apd, having achieve,
one revolution to escape democracy at tn
North, it must still achieve another to escape
1t at the South.
REy.P. S. KnLLccm IN TROUBLE AGAIN-t
new mass of revelations, duplicating th
moral character of this somewhat notoriou
gentleman, has just been made public, and
as a consequences is exciting much commen
IN this community. 1t is alleged that in TIN
latter part of February, 1860, while Kal
loeh was still officiating as minister at Ire
mont Temple, a lady member of the churcl
and choir, Miss Nelly Thomas, was know
10 pass night in Mr.. ks private room il