The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-30
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SATURDAY 1oRrTW5 MxRoH 8. 1851
vfrstmia when Abeiisls siaed.
The humiliation Of slave property in st.
DOMINGO, in i7ol, reduced the sugar product
of that prolific island from les, &0s, 40 lbs. In
that year, 70 eS2, SAL lbs. In 1872; producing a
loss per annum in one crop Of one hundred
and sixty three millions Of pounds. In con-
sequence Of the annihilation Of slave property
in the British West Indies, in 1891, the export
OF the chief staples Of those colonies fell of.
In ten years, from four hundred and ten to
two hundred and fifteen millions pounds Of
sugar from eight TO two and three-quarter
millions gallons OF rum and from twenty to
ten millions pounds Of coffee. In these in
stances, the negro was merely set free, but
remained in the islands. still as capable Of
producing crops by his labor as before, and
still filling the ground under all the incen-
tiyes of self int erest. If the negroes had
beeo driven forth from the islands into the
sea, or transported back to the jungles of
Africa, the whole trade in their productions
would have been 6nnihilated in a day. Such
an exile Of the negroes would have been even
more deplorabie in effect than their emanci-
patton. Submission, by Virginia, and aftiiia-
ton with the North. exiies her slaves, STAN
pcdes their owners, and brings a destruction
upon Eastern Virginia doubly more desolat
ing than that with which remorseiess mother
country enshrouded the fairest islands of the
main.
BY submission, Virginia not only covers
herself with ruin, but fixes upon herself a
poverty beyond retrieve. For, no country
that has ever existed upon the globe, employ
ing voluntary labor, has grown wealthy in
capital, or great In power, by means of that
labor. The free laborer will not toll with his
own hands. except for a subsistence. He
taxes his ingenu nifty TO the utmost after profit
which Is the product Of the labor of others ;
but for surplus products beyond his wants,
he will not manualiy toll himself. The only
countries that have ever produced surplus
products for commerce, except those that
have invested large capital in machinery, are
the countries that have employed enforced
involuntary labor. The case of England is
signal instance Of the fact. England is but
nting room for India and the West Indies.
When she conquered Hindoostan, where two
hundred millions of slaves had toiled during
countless ages for local dcspots, she seized and
brought home two thousand millions of dol
the source from which she obtained one third
Of that money capital with which she now
rules the commerce of the globe. Her profits
from her possessions in the West Indies be-
fore emancipation, and from the /, 72s, 900
Africans imported into America under her
auspices up to 1900, are estimated jointly at
thirty six hundred millions Of dollars so
that, of the wealth of England, five thousand
six hundred millions Of dollars are the direct
product Of slavery But for this now repu-
dated institution that proud island would
now be as poor and feeble as Spain has long
been, Mexico is, and Virginia will be, when
abolitionized.
Strike from the tables of Virginia commerce
the tobacco, wheat, and corn which her sla yes
produce, and you virtually obliterate those
tables outright; for all else are but offshoots
and parasites upon those main trunks Of her
trade. With these staples gone, her cash in
come ceases, her money disappears, and a mis-
cradle system of barter takes place in all the
dealings of her citizens. It ts only the indi-
viduals who sell surplus produce that have
money at command. How many of the far
mers of Virginia sell five hundred dollars
worth Of such produce in the year, not the
product of slave labor : AS with the COM
muntty individually, so it Is with the commu-
nifty as whole, except with aggrayation.-
Virginia, having no produce. to send out for
sale, would have no money returns coming in !;
without exports, she would be without in
come. Down, then, would tumble her whole
banking system, the breath of whose ,exist-
encs is the cash proceeds of her export sales.
With the winding up of the banks would come
An immense Indebtedness for collection against
the customers of these insJitut ions, amount
ing to twenty millions of dollars and along
with the debts would come the lawyer, the
sheriff and the auctioneer's hammer In
debtedness, bank Indebtedness especially, can
only be paid with money, and there would be
no money after the loss OF trade and the fall
Of banks. The only crop which Virginia, abo.
htionized and submitting would produce in
unprecedented and universal redundance,
would be the crop Of bankruptcy. This would
strike its roots deep into the community
would wave its luxuriant foliage far and wide
over the land-would SPREAD its rich and heavy
harvest around every homes tead and howell