The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-09-04

that men shall realize their indiUidudl
responsibility. 1t is timo that each man
shall explore himself and enquire
scarchingly whether in his heart he is
pursuing the right course, and whether
his devotion to party may not cause him
to do injustice to his Country.
Here let me remark that the man who
can find a pleasure in traducing his
fellow-citzens while they are struggling
to uphold the Government in its hour
Of Peril-not to speak harsbly,such n
individual must be his own worst enc
my His mind must ultimately 60 to
decay his head and his heart, his will
and understanding, his thoughts and
affections must sink into overwhelming
iusignIicance, and when his body dies
and is buried in hole in the ground,
there must take place a final caving in or
annihilation of the whole mind'S or if il
can have power to pass over to the OF h.
er side Of that line which divides time
from eternity, the inhabitants there will
recognize him not as q masculine nor as
feminine, but as one of the neuter gen
der-not He nor She, but H--be.
longing to that class of spirits of whom
the Prophet makes the solemn enquiry,
"Can these bones live ?"
The time has been in the history OF
our country when slavery was consid-
cred an evil everywhere, even by those
Immediately connected with it, But of
late years it has been common in the
South to assert that it is not an evil
but blessing--it is claimed to be q
good thing in itself, a real benefaction
to mankind, Thus the sentiment of
Pope is verified
'"Nice is monster Of such hiloous mcn
That to be hated needs but to he seem
But seom too Off, familiar with her face
We first endure, then pity, then embrace"
Very few people seem to be aware of
the immense extent of slave territory
within the limits of the United States
: Previous to the admission of OREGON
and Kansas the area of land in the
slave States exceeded that in the free
States by two hundred and thirty y-nine
thousand square miles, and where it is
cultivated it is far more productive
Heretofore it has produced very little
> in comparison with its capabilities
Texas alone is able to supply much
more cotton than is now or has hereto
fore been raised in all the Southern
States together. An estimate has been
made by which it appears that if Tex.
as were cultivated by free labor and
+ pushed to her utmost capacity, she
. could furnish Gir times more cotton than
has been raised in the entire South
But the objection may be raised, thai
. white people are net able to work ir
y cotton fields. This is an old song. We
have Southern authority for asserting
that one ninth of all the cotton nov
raised is the product of free labor, As
to Texas, more than half the labor o
that State is performed by white peo
q pie. An intelligent white woman, II
g. the first year that she gets sight of
cotton field, can pick more cotton ant
pick it cleaner than any of the slave
d in her neighborhood. ... -.'
= The labor of emancipated slaves i
q not to be overlooked. 1t is reasonabl,
/. to suppose that when slavery comes tC
e be abolished the negroes will begin t.
J.. spread themselves the old negroes viii
IS find themselves "crowned with the Clio
It rics of new youth" and the earth W il
. rejoice and yield mp its treasures more
+. abundantly. These results substan
TALLY have already been realized in th
! British West Indian Islands. There
!! since emancipation, the negroes d
E. more work, they are better clad ant
y more coutented than they had been
e there, exports and imports have increas
= ed, lands have risen in price, and tn,
d comforts and cOnveniences of life hav,
&c been diifused in far greater abundance
t, On one estate in the Island of Blrba.
@ does, it has been found that NINETY fre
l. men, working for wages, have been a6l
It to raise more sugar by an average G
j. fifty four hogshead year, than was pro
n dueed on tho same plantation in tn
: time of slavery by the ompOymen O
!, too hundred and Thirty slaoes. The cos
e of free labor in producing a hogshea
y of sugar is only twenty dollars, wherea
in the time of slavery it was upward
: of fifty dollars or to be more nearl
/, accurate. the cost in the one case wa
'e slightly less than four pounds sterlin,
!. and in the other it was ten pounds an
10 twelve shillings. -a.
9 Thus the blessings, the vaunted bes,
e ings of slavery, do not manifest then
a selves by increased productions, or
lie satisfying the natural wants Of the hr
le man family. On.