The national Republican., 1862-11-01
EMANCIPATION Al WHITE LABOR

EMANCIPATION Al WHITE LABOR.
The discussions 10 the press Of measures o.
white colon alton, which have been pre- posed
10 re'pect to Florida and Texas, must have
served to direct popular attention to the i'm
raensity CT the areas at the South, perfectly
adapted to white labor, and yet now subslau-
TALLY unoccupied. No new discoveries in the
geography Of the country have been made, bui
old facts are displayed IN new lights, and
brought home to new minds by reIterstlon and
frssh presentation.
These discussions turn the tables upon those
who have heretofore prospered politically spop
the delusion that The abolition, Of slavery will
injure the working men Of The North, by sub
jsctiDg them at home 10 the competition of ne
gro labor. Upon the widest calculations Of the
number Of freed negroes, who, contrary, to the
natural love OF that race for warm climates,
might migra." to thef States, It must be OK
ceeded hundred and thousand fold, by thai
migration to the sou'h Of Northern workingmep
which can only be rendered possible by the alb
olition Of slavery, and which would De sure
to follow that eveat. Every new 6sld o, med
to Northern enterprise and emigration, i'm
proves the position Of The people at the North,
as We know By the old experience Of the wes'
and the more recent experience Of California
It Is in the South, If slavery 10 abolished, tha,
we shall 6ud such 6eld, vast, illinitable snd
Of resources 50 great and inviting, that hey
eansot be truly described v,.hout exciting the
suspicion Of exaegerstlon. And ss discussion
progresses it will be made so plain that he who
runs may read, that what the workingmen Of
the North will gain by the opening Of the South
to then, through the abolition of slavery, will
immeasurabIy exceed all the loss which cal
possibly accrue to them from the northward
movement OF freed negroes, a movement, BY
the way, which is at the best matter Of mere
conjecture and is contrary to all the probabI-
tiles q the case.
Florida, with total p pcpulation, black and
white less than ;ha; Of Rhode Island, has al
area equal to hat Of New Engla1d, and al
though tn e most extreme Southern projection ol
our national territory,is yet so tempered IL
climate BY its peninsular position, as 10 be re.
markabls for sala6ri,y. 1t is perfectly dapt.
ed t. white labor and to free labor, and very
little adapted to the employment Of negro
slaves, as is shown by the TACT Of It's allow de-
velopment under that system. Agricultural,
1t is adapted to farming, 81 zing, gardening,
and fruit raising, rather than to plantations
upon ;he Southern plan. Eve and twenty
years ago, the late DR.. Linn, Of Missouri, and
then Senator OF the UDi,ed States, made 9
report upon this subject, showing that Florida,
II developed a. all, must be 60 by free, white
people, and he insisted es- "cially upon th.
importance Ct streDgthenin in that way, a.
the defence and bulwark Of our Southern froh
tier. The occasion Of his report was the me-
mortal Of the late DR.. Psrripe, long U. s. Con.
sui at Campeachy, upon the feasibility and ad.
vantage Of Introducing into Florida the pro-
duction ofvarious forous and medicinal plau. s
known in Mexico, and Of great value In com.
naerce.
The adaptation OF r d. to Northern i'm
migration, was we'll Understood when We &C.
quired It, and attracted great attention. A
company based upon that idea was formed In
Pai!adelphis, although withou: important re-
suits.
Texas is as large as France, or 10 take auoth.
ef comparison, is as large as the northwest
territory" Of our revolutionary fathers, spc -
which they looked as having the capacity }
receive the increasing numbers CT their D postsri.
ty for an indefinite period. Itis, for the greater
part, 80 manifesly d!ic- for white labor, thai
at the per cd Of Its snusIstion, it was assumed
on all tands, that three cf the Eve States into
which it was expected to b. cut up, would be
free States.
At the epoch, however, Of the breaking out
'f the present civil war, slavery had obtained
suoh perfect political control Of both Florids
sud Te1as, prescribing erybody who could
by possibility be charged with "abolitionism, y
hat free labor was etfsstual!y shut with the
exception Of the lodgm"". early effected in
Western Texas by the .Ge mans.
Florida and Texas have attracted special
Attention, because the mos. 9arssly settled
regions o! the South. But the most depssly
populated of the slave StaIes have very few in
,abitants, compared wi = their capacity, under
hat System OF free labor, which only awaits
be catastrophe Of slavery to be firmly and
tgorously established 10 all OF then.
The workipgmeu Of the North, the farmers,
isheImen, miners, aud lumbermen, will be O,
% loss to perceive how immense must be the
gain to them, Of opeuius the eight hundred
thousand tquare miles Of the South to their
unrestricted immigration and enterprizs and
which they know can be Iscted only by the
,ntire overthro, OF that ystem Of the owner.
ship OF labor by capital, which as kept them
our OF 1t hitherto. With the prize before them
VI such an incalcuisbIe field Tor their produc
i've toll, they will smile at the dslusion that
hey can be reduced to idleness and starya' a,
~ an il fix OF negroes into the North, as the
imaginary result OF emancipation.
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