The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-12-16

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less, ard passes on to seek new soils
for that fertility under Nhich, alone,
the agencies at his disposal, / a., slaves,
can be proitably employed" Ae-
coriingly. the ruin, and in many cases
the abandonment 10 nature, Of what
were once tie most productive por-
tious Of the older slave States, are
facts palpsble to the eye, and admit
ted and loudly proclaimed by slave
holders. Hence that pressing demand
for pepefpai cxienaoa of she area Of
slavery, and that uneeasing struggle
for the opening of fresh regions 10
shareholders and their human proper
ty, which has grown ueh the growth
Of cotton cultivation, aul ,irengihened
with it, strength, which produced the
seizure of Texas, the war with Mcxi.
CO. tie blerancering expeditions 10
Central America, and The sanguinary
contest for Kansas; which has been
the Que determining principle Of Souih-
eru politics for the last quarter Of a
century and because. al last, though
lardiy resisted BY the Norlh, has de-
riled the cotton States TO break up
the Union !"
Bot this view Of the slave power
and the vices Of lis operations, Is mild,
when compared with tic social and
political organization to which il gives
rise. The result, in this respect, is
presented in strong light by the
work already quoted. Ii is not every
man in tho South that is able to own
a plantation, and stock il with slaves.
At the same time, human labor is
brought into discredii by the fact thai
The working class, who give character
TO work or labor, are slaves. Hence
tie white men, however destitute Of
property, are ashamed Of work, lest
they should be esteemed Oh par with
the slaves themselves. f" Hence, also,
those districs whicL.arc worn out and
given up, become a wilderness, the
resort Of what are called moan lchiteS,
or Whtte trah-a numerous horde OF
people, who, too poor to keep slaves
and too proud to work, prefer va
grant and preearious life, spent in the
desert, TO engaging in occupations
which would associate them with tie
slaves, whom thcy despise. In the
Southern States, no less than fre NIL
hons II heman beings are now said to
exist il this manner, in a condition
little removed from savage life, cking
out a wretched subsistence by hunt
ing, by fishing, by hiring themselves
out for occasional jobs, and by plan
der; combining The re>tle,sness and
the contempt for regular industry, pc
culiar to the savage, with the vices Of
the proletaire of civilized communi-
ties, these people make up class at
once degraded and dangerous; and
constantly reinforced as they are, by
all that is idle, worthless and lawlcss
among the population Of the neiglbor
ing States, form an inexhauslible pre-
serre Of rullianism, ready al hand for
all tho worst purposes Of southern
ambition. The planters complain Of
these people for their illeuess, for cor
rup,ing their slaves, for their ttievish /
propensities; but they cannot dispense /
with them; for in truth, they perform /
an indispensable function ID lie econ.
omy Of slave society, oi which they
are at once the rietims and the prtaci-
pal supporters. 1t is from their ranks
that those expeditions are recruited |
which have been 50 effective an in
strument in extending HE slave pow |
er; they furnish tie border ruilians,
who contend with free soiIers on the .
territories, and it is TO their antipathy /
to the negroes that the planters se-
curely trust for repressing every at
tempt at seryilc insurrection. To
sum up in few words the general re-
suits Of the foregoing discussion, the
slave power, that power which has
long held the helm Of Government in
the Union, is, under tie form Of a de.
an uncontrolled despoiism,
welded by compact oligarchy sup
ported by tie labor Of four millions Of
slaves, it rules population Of five
millions Of wh tes,-a population ig-
norant, ayerse to systematic industry,
md prone 10 irregular adventure. A
system Of society more formidable for
evil, more menacing to the interests
1f the human race, il is difficult 10
I .-ne3 ,ef f,n any fas4t,or g.. ela,ss