New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-19


color, which prevents the growth OF mutual sym
patty, and makes the brand of disgrace perpetual
Kept in the grossest ignorace, this people can
furnish only the crudest form OF manual labor IL
is unfit for every branch Of industry wmch requires
the exercise of care, intelligence, or skill, and Is
virtually restricted 10 the pursuit Of agriculture
I'm agriculture, its labor is Improbable except III
raising crops of peculiar kind, and upon SOUS oil
more than average fertility. Its thriitless methods
tend constantly to the exhaustion of the land. The
industry of the enslaved race is thus confined TO
the production of a few leading staples. The de-
fects of seryile labor place premium on the en-
ployment Of large capitals. The whole wealth OF
the country has thus gradually accumulated in the
hands Of a few persons. -Four millions of slaves
are held as chatel property by less than onc-enth
of that number OF masters. The rest of the doml-
nant race, more numerous than the Shareholders
and their slaves together squat over the vast area
which slave labor is too unskllful TO cultivate,
and exc out precarous livelihood, by hunting
and fishing, by plumber, or by lawless adventure.
Three elements are thus presented in the economy
of Slave States. A few planters cultivating the
richest soils; host of slaves toiling for their
profit and the bulk of the white population seat
tered in semi.savage condition over vast terri
tory. In course OF time, the system begins to
bear its fruit The more fertile soils at length be-
come exhausted; they refuse any longer to yield
riches to seryie hands; but there are soils within
reach not touched by the pillow, eminenty fitted
for the cultivation of slave products but uDfavor-
able to human life. A new phase OF the system is
presented at this point. A division OF labor takes
place. A portion Of the Shareholders. with their
chattels, move forward to occupy the new terri-
tory. The remainder, clinging 10 their old seats,
become the breeders of slaves for those who have
lett them, repairing the waste OF slave life pro-
duced by tropical toll. The domain Of Slavery Is
thus extended, its organization becomes more
complete, and the fate of the slave more harsh and
hopeless. Slavery in its primitive form IS now de-
veloped into Slavery supported by slaye-trade
This is its most dangerous and atrocious FORM ex-
pansive aggressive destructive OF human life, re-
gardless of human ties. Such is an outline of the
social economy in the American Slave States. In
the opinion of our author, it is structure essen
italy different from any form Of social life hitherto
known among progressive communities. Ii OIL
lowed TO proceed without interruption, its normal
development can lead only to an organized bar
barism of the most relentless and formidable kind.
The system of Slavery in the South is not only
sustained by political and economical views; 1t has
also the prestige of a fashionable taste, social
passion. The possession Of q slave forms the same
sort of distinction in Carolina as the possession OF
land in England or the possession of horse
among the Arabs. 1t brings the owner into con-
neIion with the privileged class. II is, in some
degree, pledge Of his social position. Slaves
have thus in the South acquired an artificial
value. The institution is in accordance with the
proudest feelings Of the population. II Is loved
for its own sake. Even the poor whites share
in the same infatuation. SO far from hitting
policy which keeps them at low figure IN The
scale Of humanity, they are It's passionate al
mirers. To own slave is the highest ambition
of the poor white. The social dignity Of his su-
perior is estimated by the number Of his slaves.
I Inc slave ROVER mas luu1 DC'oii' SA'''ks"'"''
and consolidated 1t finds moral support IN the
minds of the people, which aggravates its WORT
evils. The position Of the slave IN the South at
the present moment is in all respects more hope
less than il has ever been IN any fone: age, or In
any other quarter OF the world. The fugitive
saye-law, which was strictly enforced until the
recent disturbances, throws into the shade the
previous atrocities of the system. The education
OF the negro is more than over vigorously pro-
scribed. Emancipation finds more serious obsa-
cles in the growth of extreme Pro-Slayery opinions
even than in the laws. Everything has been ar
ranged with the single view Of degrading the ne
gro to the level OF the brute, and blottng out from
bis mind the iaintest idea Of freedom. The abso-
Lutte disregard Of al consequences with which tins
purpose has been pursued IS but little understood
beyond the United States II is long since free
dom Of discussion on any question connected with
Slavery would have been tolerated. But this IL
not all. The design h,s been formed OF putting
down every vestige Of freedom OF thought sys-
TEN Of espionage was in full operation before the
war. A complete reign OF terror prevailed
throughout the South. In the ethics OF the Slave
Power. an aboitioDist j. the Slest OF human be-
ings; and every man Is obotionlst VINO does
NOT sbars the dominant Pro Slavery sentiment
Such is the point which civilization has reached
in the South. At this cost the Slave Power is
maintained.
The designs Of the sluyehoders, in case OF The
.ucce.s of the rebellion are set forth by Professor
Gaines in chapter Of remarkable ability ana IN