Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-01-25


They would find themselves after the
achievement in land desolated, exhaust.
ed and without any organized system Of
labor--a country whose condition of for
lorn poverty and ruin is only partially
pictured by that of Jamaica, in the West
Indies. There is no calamity which can
beiall country SO great as the loss of an
efficient system oforganized labor. Look
over the world, and it will be found that
no nation is prosperous and fourishing
which does not enjoy system Of labor
adapted to its climate and its productions.
The Republic of Mexico and the wretched
Spanish States of Central and South
America have never seen one day Of pros.
.poriiy since they abolished their slave
system OF labor. The aboriginal race is
too enervated, and the Castilian too proud
and physically feeble to endure tho toll of
the fields In consequence, they have no
agriculture, and all other industry has
persisted with the downfall of chat nursing
mother of all, the agricultural art. The
Northern United States themselves owe
their rapid advance in wealth and power
| to the vast accessions of labor which thew
obtained by the emigration from Europo.
In a broad territory, abounding in excel.
lent soils, nothing is so necessary to pros.
perity, nothing promotes more rapid and
fiourishing national growth, than an abun.
dance of labor.
The wonderful prosperity Of the Ameri
can Union was due to the admirable sys.
tenn of labor respectively in operation at
the North and the South. In the States
lying in the higher latitudes, where the
sun rays were less vertical and fevers
less prevalent, and where the neat husbau
dry require ed for'the profitable culture of
the cereals and the intelligence required
10y the mechanic arts demanded the labor
of whites, the uuceasing streams of emf
igration from Europe, and the prolific ac-
hvlty OF native generation, had popul. ted
the country with hardy and industrious
throng of white agriculturists and mechan.
les.
In the Southern States, where the eli.
mate was too warm for white labor, and
where those staples were produced which
can only be grown in regions generative of
fevers and congestions, an apparently mir
aculous series of events had provided a
race of aborers four millions in number,
better fitted by nature for bondage than
freedom, and SO physically endowed as
while capable of laboring actively in the
fields under the rays Of the sun, to be
proof, in great measure, against the dis
cases which flourish side BY side with cot,
ton, tobacco, and rice. To remove this
system of labor from the Southern States
would be to spread ruin and desolation
universally over the land. The wholesale
removal of white labor from Northern field.
and workshops, and the substitution in
their place of blacks and coolies, would
not work more complete desolation in
that busy and prosperous section than the
general emancipation end transportation
of the negroes Of the South would effect in
this.
Suppesing, therefore, the North to have
accomplished its two cherished objects Of
subjugating the South and colonzng it,
blacks-which could be done only at d
cost of some four thousand millions of dol
lars and many scores of thousands of the
lives of those white laborers, who if en-
ployed in her fields and workshops, would
be far more profitable to her than wher
employed in her armies-still, after all
she would have conquered a country moi
worth halfits costs, even in treasure, say.
ing nothing of life. The whole property
of the North would be under perpetual tar
for four thousand millions of dollars, ma
ny of her best lives will have been saeri
feed, and the public taxes saddled upon
her people would be rendered so heavy a.
inevitably to tura away from her shore.
those hcrdes of emigrapts that have here
tofore brought her SO much wealth.
In exchange for ali this debt, taxation
and loss of labor, she will have obtained a
country, the larger portion of which SIZE
would be incapable of converting into az
ricultural value, which would soon grow
up in oanebrake and jungle, to become the
nursery again of aligators, tcrrapins, rat.
tlesnakes, foxes and panthers. Only such
portions of the country as lie high in lati-
tude or around the mountain bases, ad-
mitting of grain culture and grazing could