Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-17
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From tho N. Y. Post.


slavery, and Waite yxorki ren.
From the N. Y. Post.
HAmerica for white men :" is tue cry by
which ingenious demagogues in the free
States have tried to mislead ignoraat white
men in favoring the extension of slavery.
"America tor white men r. by all meSns,-
But Is the unlimited extension of klave-
breeding the best way 70 preserve this CON
ttnent tor the white neni2
! The Shareholders divide their work
Those in the border States-especially in
VirginiR-breed slaves; those of the cotton
and sugar States use them. Now, it has
always been the aim of those persons to
extend the area of slave territory South
ward-to get more cotton and sugar lands.
| But they have not slaves enough to supply
the demand ih the territory they now have !;
how will they get sufficient to possess aud
cultivate the new lands? Mr.. SpFatt, of
South Carolina, says by re-openipg the
African slave trade. But the cooler heads
in the South saw better way. They de-
manded that SHAREHOLDERS should be pro-
lected in their property" all over the I'm
ion; they asserted the right to take their
| slaves where any man might take hft horse;
and they hoped to turn the whole North
and West gradually into a vast slaTe breed
| tuB pluCei W supply lne increasing utLlhnub
of the cotton planters"
| This was the pretty plot against free
white men and free white labor at which
the Shareholders and their northern allies
tinkered for tho last four years before the
rebellion and it is this which persons like
John Petit of Indiana are openly ready to
give them now, as the price of peace "Ex.
tend slavery over every State in theUnion,"
says that dirty dog and the rebellion
viii be at an end in sixty days. No
doubt. aat
But why not give them this ptiyilige,
then2 Will it not be the most barren
Are there not climatic lines drawn by
Providence, beyond which slavery ceases
to be profitable? Did not Webster and
others declare that no probibition3 were
territories? Why, then, break with the
slageholdeTs on mere puntiilis2
Becapse-if there were no nObier reason
for refusal-becausc every slave brought
into the world occupies the place of a free
white man, takes the work out of his hauds
and the bread out of the mouths OF his wife
aud children because every slave brought
into free State by his master deprives
free white mRu of work aud the means of
living because 1t is as profitable TO breed
slaves as to work them, and II Is as posi-.
bic to breed them in Ohio as in Kentucky,
in New York as in Virginia, in Illinois as in
Missouri; and because slave-breeding and
not slave-workiug is the business the slave.
holders have sought to establish it ii the
North. In Kansas they hoped to breed the
slaves with which the people of Texas, rs
the slaves bred in proud Virginia suficed
to people the plantations of Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana.
"Slave labor would not pay in the
North" it has often been declared. But
does slave labor pay in Virginia? Stop
the inter State slave trade, and slavery
would be quickly abolished in that aud
other Border States. Wby2 Because slave
labor is not profitable there, but only slave
breeding; aud the thousands of black aud
yellow Yiginiuns who are every year sold
to the planters of the Southwest, alone to
keep the slave system alive in the Old Do
niniou. They raise men there, as the far
Ulers of Illinois raise cattle; and all who
know intimately Southern society and life,
know wellthat as much care ls taken there,
habitually, to raise healty and vigorous
slaves, and to increase their numbers, as is
used by q stock farmer of the free States to
| increase the number and vigor of his cattle
or sheep. There are secrets of that shame
ful business, known to every Shareholder,
which cannot be mentioned-or thought of
without blush. IL was to transfer that
degrading pursuit to the free States that
the slaye-lorls intrigued in past years. 1t
was to breed and sell, and not to work
them, that Mr. Toombs hoped to call the
roll OF his slaves under Bunker Hill mOnu-
ment.
"The most profitable, business which
young man of fsome small means can un-
I.dcrtake," said distinguished sIave-oWuer
to the writer, "is to buy few acres of
cheap land, and put upon it all the negroes
his means will purchase. they will sup
port him and themselves, and their mere
natural increase will make him an inde-
pendent man in twenty years, without the
slightest trouble on his part" And the
northern allies of these slave breeders cry,
america for white men!'' They mean
America for black slaves; they want TO see
every free State made o sinve-breeding
State; they want to increase by every
means, and by special aud faSoring enact
ments, the number of black slaves, well
knowing that every slave drives out free
white workingmau. This is the conspira-
cy against the white Workingmen of Amer
lea. So, they wanted to put black slaves
inthe place OF the free white miners o
California; where would California have
been now, had they had their will?
. iS1We, too, say America for white men,
We believe that this country, great auC
free, was destined by Providence to be tbs
open asylum for the oppressed millions o
: Europe. We believe that one of the pFiu
cipal Offices of our free and fertile country
! in the divine scheme, was to offer to thI
teemiug populations of Europe homes, lib
eTty prosperity, a secure place fog them
selves and their children. Our free State
have been thus open, but from the South
+ ern States the white emigrant seeking lib
erty and comfort in America, has Away
been turned away, It is only the barbar
ous black emigrant from Africa who hai
} found a welcome there. Shall the fre
+ States, too, be closed against white work
: ingmen or shall not rather the whole con
/. tinent be thrown open to the Germans, tn