New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-26

than bv Slave. 1t is so raised by GERMANS IL
Tera, 1t il an established fact tha> "hefe'
eyer Free and Slave Labor have thus fur peer
brought into fair competition, the latter ha'
gone under A..
There il not planter in the South that
could not do better without than with Slave
Labor. if he would only think so. Let him call
his hands around him tomorrow and say,
" You are all free; ] an willing to hire aud
nav YOU fair wages: but l cant have idlers
and paupcrs around me: if you wo Mt work,
Won must quit my estate" he would have help
enough. and make more cotton and more
money than ever.
Let no one say that we assume the capacity
and good behavior of the Blacks. The negro
race is far inferior TO ours, and especially IN
persstency of application. Many negroes are
law and shftless--somo of them abomiuably So
Slavery ia a bad school, and they have long
been ia L. We presume that considerable
proportion of them would prefer TO be idlers
aud yagabonds and would perish of the face
of the earth, as the race OF idlcrs ana 'aga'
bonds tends ever to do.
Still; men choose to live, and as between
food and hunger have Inherited prejudice IN
favor of the former. Offer them fair wages,
aud the great majority would worn. oNe 10
upright magistrates power to arrest aud bind
to labor at fair wages for year or less any
one who moderately tramped or stood idle,
and the class would soon vanish.
We have admitted that Emancipation would
for q time make Cotton scarccr. consequently
denreT, than it formerly was. This would en-
able the growers to pay good wages and sun
make fair profits. And good wages viii al-
ways command labor where laborers exist.
They never failed. ard never VIII fail. Even
among orr Western Aboricincs-thc iaZleSt
race On earth--we will warrant any upright
man 10 obtain work by paying for it. Let him
keep 4 stock Of Flour, Meat Sugar and other
necessaries, and say TO the Indians about hiin'
"You can have tbese ut fair rates Tor your
labor. and for labor Alone and we are
sure labor could be procured oven from AEa5
pahoes or Dggers, who are abont the lowest
aid dest of human beings.
But if every negro in TIE South cbould prove
a yagraut still the Souts would gain immensely
bv Fmanc patton The idlers would die, and
their places be rapidly taken b. workers. y
million white laberers could 90 thrown INTO she
South IN three months, upon assurance that they
should there ind work ard good wages. And
these would do more real wcrh than TIE whole
Four Millions of ignorant, brutalized slaves,
whose daily study NATURAL, !, How Not to DO
If. Then the Poor Whites-no longer hndiug
rural labor u badge Of degrsdaiion-"ould
work and produce Immensely more than at
present We Do not favor constrained eapairi-
alton. but if nil the negroes were 20 leave The
South tomorrow, and the Whites ther"npon
set to work half 80 mach as 90 many New
Enelaaders the annual product ct the Scuth
would soon be- much greater than il has ever
yet been.
BE assured, Mr.. Stiles, that IT j. SAFE 10
DO RIGHT In fact, tina, it aud nol'ing else.
Were Slavery this day abolished. the Soush
would feel and know that brighter era was
before her. Thousands would feel new sense
of security. o new spur to energy and activity
Slavery ia nightmare, whereof the influences
are seen in the habitations, the fences, the
roads the cultivation OF the South. The soil
Of that section alone would be 80 enhanced In
value within ten years as ~ more than rcmu-
nerate "a owners for tie ancied lcss imposed on
them by emancipation. who ever heard of q
country thai. after il bad been thoroughly rid
Of Slavery, ever voted or wanted it back
again lha'