The national Republican., 1862-10-06
EDITORIAL CORREsP PONDENCE.
BANaoR. me. J Oct. 8, 1862.

BANGOR, (Me.,) Oct 8, 1862
send, to be printed with this letter, an arli'
Gle from the New York Express Of Sept, "a
which developes The commercial arguments by
which II will be attempted to rally an orposi-
ton 10 the emancipation policy Of the Rspub-
lican party.
II Is impossible to read this article without
being struck by its total want OF moral tone
The writer Of II eesps quite uuconscious that
there IL any such thing as rule of right and
wrong. II Cuba uses up thirty thousand human
beings, as il does, upon an average, every year
by the process Of forcing black men to work
eighteen hours per day In raising tugsr, the
Express sees nothing but the fact that the island
is thereby enabled to produce abundantiy an
article which furnishes freigh,s for ships, com
missions for merchants, aud basis for the
profitable exchanges Of trade. 1t is VI no con.
sequence to The Express that Cubais slaugh.
ter horse, in which negroes ATE tortured 10
death by everwotk, instead Of being mercifully
knocked In the head like beasts, so long as
Cuba pays.
The slavery system OF our own Southern
States ia looked at from the same point Of view,
aud simply as a machinery by which cotton
and rice and tobacco are produced The
thought does not occur 10 the writer, that the
men, women, and children who compose this
machinery are deprived Of al the rights Of hu.
man nature. and that to keep running, 1t Is
necessary to maintain the domestic slave trade
with the States on the border, which transcends
the African slave trade in enormity precisely
10 the proportion that Its victims are more
civilized and more sensitive to physical and
moral suffering.
It is probable that this style Of writing may
be tolerated by large classes 10 city like New
York, which is great temple Of Mammon, and
in which little is thought Of beyond material
gain. But 1t will be ruined, as It deserves to
be ruined, By the virtuous masses Of The people
in the free States.
10 truth, the commercial calculations Of the
Express are as erroneous Us lie morals are cor
rup:.
Experience has shown that negro slavery il
not source Of wealth, but Of poverty, and
that it exists only BY wearing out the natural
fertility Of soils. In itself 1t produces nothing
but lie merely machinery by which pre-
existing wealth Is appropriated. As slavery
has moved in this country towards the scuh
west, 1t has left sterile wastes behind, and &c
rapid Is It's power of destruction, that even Z
Texas, populated within the memory Of tht
present generation, considerable portions
already exhibit the decay and senility Ct vir
ginia.
II we wish the peculiar staples Of the Soutt
to be produced 10 the abundance which coz,
merce demands, II can only be effected by ih,
abolition OF slavery. Slave labor practically
keeps out all other kinds, and as the increas,
Of that species Of labor at the South Ia limited
70 the natural increase OF the negroes nov
there, four millions only, totally inadequate
aud Insignificant number compared with south
ern area and resources, 1t results that produc,
ton must be d~arfed for long y are by th'
scar city Of labortrs. The abolition Of SLAYER,
will be the signal for q food OF imnigratio
into The South, both from Europe and tn
!, North, which will repair the dsvasiations Q
I the slave system, and produce the peculia
9 staples OF that region In IN abundance, an
o with cbeupuess which will revoluionize th
a commerce Of the world, aud make Londo
Of New York before the close Of this century
u Mr.. Robert J. Walker, who once representa-
!. q cotton growing State in the Senate Of III
y United States and who ought to know as niue
about It's cultivation as the writer's for the Ne'
York Express, has just told the country tha
free labor is known by experience to be pei
fsctly adapted to it; and that in fact, il is onl
u BY the introduction Of free labor tLat the SOut
can produce cotton 10 the quantity which III
wants OF commerce demand and thereby b
enabled to defend itself against the compbt
ton Of India and other cotton regioDs lustea
!, : of negro labor, snd an annual crop Of fou
millions Of bales, We will have, in five yeai
.fer tho re,toration Of permanent peace, eigt
millions Of bales, aud with the Corrcspondiu
duplication Of all the manufacturing ireightinI
commissions and proaS, conntcted with co
ton.
Not ouly Ia the cotton cultivation isasibl
u by free labor, and possible in this countr
5 upon large scals by no other, but 1t is, of a
agricultural pursuita the best adapted to sma
: farms and to that social equality, great d.
y psrtures from which are uniavorabls TO repu
), llcau forms Of polity. The quantity which ca
y be produced, is limited by the quantity whit
y can be picked, and picking is performed
:, the human haud. The production, in the gre'
and controlling process Of picking, admits
no machinery. requires no other capital tha
labor, and is as profitable upon d small sea
as upon large one. No production eau
named, so adapted to The free laboring ma
or which will 70 surely attract him wit
The infamous slave oligarchy, wb,. = has bilhs
!. to monopolized' the lucrative staple of ootlo
is wiped cut.
9 Imagine the South with density of pupul
tlon equal to that OF the North, compute
:. then argunented contributions to comneIc c
" aud we shall have measure for the proioul
~ interest which the city OF Sew York has in ii,
- pressing this rebellion, in the only way in wh
j." it ever could have been or eau be suppresss