Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-11-28
slavery, and white worItIur wen.

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"Amcrics for white men r. IS the cry by which
ingenious demagogues in the free states have
tried TO mislead ignorant white men into favor
ing the extension of Slavery. aAmerica for
white men r by all means. But is the unliini-
ted extension OF slave breeding the best way 10
preserve this continent for white men?
The shareholders divide their work Those
in the border states-especially in Virginia
breed slaves; those Of the cotton and sugar
states use them. Now, It has always been The
aim OF these persons 10 extend the area Of slave
territory southwark to get more cotton and SUI
gar lands But they have not slaves enough to
supply the demand in the territory they now
have; how will they get sufficient to possess and
cultivate the new landsf Mr.. Spratt Of South
Carolina, says, by reopening the African Slave
trade. But the cooler heads in the South long
ago saw better way. They demanded that
Shareholders should be protected in their "pro-
perty" all over the Union; they asserted the
right TO take their slaves where any man NAV
take his horse; and they hoped to turn the whole
North and West gradually into vast slave
breeding-place, to supply the increasing de-
mands of the cotton planters.
This was the pretty plot against free white
men and free white labor at which the slave
holders and their northern allies tinkered for
the last four years before the rebellion; and IL is
this which persons like John Petit Of Indiana
are openly ready to give them now, as the price
Of peace. extend slavery over every state in
the Union, says that dirty dog" sand the re-
bellion will be at an end in sixty days. No doubt
But why not give them this privilege then?
viii it not be the most barren? Are there not
climatic lines drawn by Providence, beyond
which slavery ceases to be profitable? Did not
Webster and others declare that no prohibitions
were needed to keep slavery out of the northern
territorics2 Why. then, break with the slave
holders on mere punctilio2
t1 l..
refusal-beeause every slave brought into the
world occupies the place of free white man.
takes the work out of his hands aud the bread
out Of the mouths of hIs wife and children; be-
cause every slave brought into a free state by
his master deprives free white man of work
and the means of living; because it is as profta-
bic TO breed slaves as to work them, and it is as
possible to breed them in Ohio as in Kentucky,
in New York as in Virginia in Illinois as in
Missouri; and because slave-breeding and not
slaye-working is the business the shareholders
have sought to establish in the North In KAN
sas they hoped 10 breed the slaves with which
TO people Texas, the slaves bred in proud
Virginia sufficed TO people the plantations of
Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana.
''Slave-labor would not pay in the North" it
has been often declared. But does slave-labor
pay in VirginiaH Stop the interstate slave
trade, and slavery would be quickly abolished
in that and other slave-states. Why7 Because
slave-labOr ism profitable there, but only slave
breeding; and the thousands Of black and yellow
Virginians who are every year sold to the plan
ters of the Southwest, alone keep the slave sys-
TEN alive in the Old Dominion. They raise men
there, as the farmers of Illinois raise cattle; and
all who know intimately southern society and
life, know well that as much care is taken there
habitually, to raise healthy and vigorous slaves
and to increase their numbers, as is used by
stock farmer Of the free states to increase the
number and vigor of his cattle and sheep
There are secrets of that shameful business
known TO every SHAREHOLDER which cannot be
mentioned-or thought of without blush Ii
was to transfer that degrading pursuit to the free
states that the slave-lords intrigued in past
years. 1t was to breed and sell, and not to work
them that Mr.. Toombs hoped to call the roll of
his slaves under Bunker Hill monument
"The most profitable business which young
man of some small means can undertake." said
a distinguished slave-owner 10 the writer, "is to
buy a few acres of cheap land, and put upon it
all the negroes his means will purchase. They
will support him and themselves, and their mere
natural increase will make him an independent
man in twenty years, without the slightest trou-
Bile on his part" And the northern allies of
these slave-breeders cry, "America for white
men!" They mean America for black slaves;
they want to see every free state made a slave
breeding state; they want to increase by every
means and by special and favoring enactments
the number of black slaves, well knowing that
every slave drives out a white working man.
This is the conspiracy against the white working
men of America. So, they wanted to put black
slaves in the place of the free white miners Of
California: where would California have been
now had they had their will?
We, too, say, America for white men. We be-
lieve that this country, great and free, was des-
tined by Providence to be the open asylum for
the oppressed millions of Europe. We believe
that one of the principal offices of our free and
fertile country, in the Divine scheme, was to Of
fer to the teeming populations of Europe homes
liberty, prosperity, secure place for themselves
and their children. Our free states have been
thus open; but from the southern states the white
emigrant seeking liberty and comfort in Amer
| ica, has always been turned away. 1t is only
| the barbarous black emigrant from Africa who
has found welcome there. Shall the free states
too, be closed against white workingmen2 OF
shall not rather the whole continent be thrown
open to the Germans, the Irishmen, the Norwe-
gians, the white workingmen of Europe who
have so greatly helped to build up the wealth o
/ the free states, and who are ready to enter th'
i South, also, whenever they are permittedg-
America for white men-certainly-Texas a
well as Minnesota, Florida as well as Iowa, Vir
ginia as well as New York.
As the Indians were crowded westward, aDI
out of our bounds by the irresistible advanc
of the White man, so will the blacks be, when
J ever that powerful protective ystem with whicl
the shareholders have guarded them is sremoVed
1t is the destiny of the free white woFkingmer
of this country to possess it; the efforts Of tn
; shareholders have hitherto robbed them Of on
half of 1.-THE richest, fairest half-and devote'
tito blacks. 1t is the shareholders who hav
preserved the negro race from decline among US
i, it is the shareholders who have increased tn
blacks from seven hundred thousand in 1890 {
four millions in 1860. 1t Is the shareholders, tn
! slaye-breeders. who have crowded the poo
whites'-the free white workihgmen-from ey
ery southern state into the free states. 1t is tb
] SHAREHOLDERS and slavs-breeders who bar III
! way now, as they have always done, and b
their selfish system close one half Of this cont
E nent against the free white workingmen c
Q America IL in our cities and in our easter
: states, white men find themselves overcrowdeC
E find it hard tc live, let them remember that the
| suffer and toll at disadvantage, because th
3 Shareholders, the declared enemies Of mud
0 sills hold Virginia aud all the South, and clos
E against them, BY their system, the most tertil
part of the Union.-NsE York EVsniHg P0sf