Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-12-25
CORRESPONDENTS.
Slavery and Free Labor.

| will give to your readers specimen of the
grossly absurd notions entertained by the
advocates Of domestic slavery compared with
free labor
Ii will be seen that the author hold. that
all ia5otinS men are necessarily slaves, and
that 81 sure, and So far, as the laborcr is
set free, he a, oncc becomes a savage -
Hat will let the reviewer speak for himself.
The extract is from Art. l.. Vol. : for Janu-
AIRY aud February lSG2.
=. Set men free, and they at orce become
Savaccs, They are not free until they are
equal participators in the soil, either by d.
rect ownership, or by mean, of other capital
which will command the rroduct. Of the
soil. Yet. compelled to work by capital
owned by others, and exploitattd of large
portion Of the products Of their labor, they
are infinitely better of than they would be
in q country where bonds were in common,
and Of consequence, all men inproyiient saw
ages The ancient Brit0ns numbered n few
hundred thousands, lived on acurnS, held the
soil in common, and wee tree, savage, max.
ed and starving Now, England contains
more than twelve millions OF people, only
thirty thousand Of whom own property in
her sill. This thirty thousand, and prJba-
bly, a. many owning capital in other forms,
are the explotatars Of the rest Of her peo.
pie They take from them, without paying
for it, one third Of the proceeds Of their Ia.
Dor. But they keep them at work. and
make them rrOvidcnt, skiiiful and CIVILIZED.
aud consequently the two thirds of the pro.
ducts of thc labor of the English peasant
which the landowner ermits him to empty,
provides him with five times "a much OF the
comforts and the nccessarics of life as were
enjoyed by the ancient Briton.. Tina, socie-
ty is in the most healthy, normal, natural
historic and biblical state. which combine.
the slavery to skill and capital, with dunes
tic slavery.
The master Of ncgr es employs more os
physical force in making his slaves work
/ thar the capitalist in compelling the labor.
ers to work The masters. say work or will
whip you. The capitalist, work, or |
will siarye y5u." Ii is mere difference be-
tween hunger and "hickorirs - Yet, az
Yankees boast that free labor is cheaper
than slave labor" they, in fact. assert that
"huugcra is more cihcacous physical force
than "hickariss That is,that the employ
~ VI it-Al4'L NALl IA4A4L lAHEt OK lilS &c
suits of hired Labor, than the master can OF
slave labor. Exploitation has taken the
place Of domestic slavery in all free socie-
ties and expl5itations is but generic term
winch comprehenas all kinds Of slavery.
| Appropriation Of lands by individual own
ers, besets slavery, and slavery alone begct,
civilization. The mass OF mankind, wheth-
or blacks or whites, must lie slaves or rav.
ages, If they prefer civilization, they have
only - choose between "hungar and hcko.
ries. The ancients preferred hick5ries the
mJdcrns like hunger best We think in the
! long run, TIE hickaries viii carry tie day.
and domestic slavery whether with blacks OF
whites, vii! be fund more merciful and
more profitable. y
There we have tie sentiment. ol learned
son of Virginia. The article bas one good
quality it isoutspokcn-unIissaisel There
caa be no mistakiag the meaning Of the an-
thor. Bat is it not astonishing, that an in
telliseDt man can have the aGr5ntery, to say
such things in the face 1f the CIVILIZED WORLD
What ne middle ground for the lah3ring
f, class, between u ssY-gs state and slavery =
Inc .sbCrins man or woman nns; q neces.
sity be 4 saga,I or slave How IrePoster.
GUS How complete; AT odds with common
sense-wiih all rhiios ply, all history, and
especially with the state Of society in all the
free States Of this country. T. adopt such
views and publish them to the world is SUR
passed only, by tie folly, the presumption.
and the madness. Of the SJuth, in making
war upon tie free States in order 10 sustain
domestic slavery aad make it universal. per-
petual, and the foundation Of republican
g,ycrnmant. Such fJlly and maine.,, on
the part Of intelligent m,n, can only be &c
counted for, on the ground IF Judicial blind
ness, The heather were used to say, +whom
the gods would destroy they fret make mad. ."
Nothing can be more certain than, that the
living Gol often acts upon that principle, as
is clear, both from his revealed will. and
from matters Of fact. He thus oiten makes
the grossly wicked, the instruments OF their
own c9ndisn punishment. The South have
sinncd with Ligh hand and for a long time,
in practcing the .sum Of all yillianies "
and now, they are left, with blindness and
stupidity, at which We are Acknowledgement
only to adop: views the most corrupt and
absurd that ever entered the mind Of the
most dsbastd oil the race, and to spev them
out in most shameless manner before the civ
ilized world, but to make var, without the
shadow Of cause. against the bes, govern.
men. the world ever knew. In this, it seems
TO me they have "flled up tho measure Of
their niquity '-csp'd til, climlx of their
enormities, that 1.-THE wrath OF God nav
come on them to the utternost. Already.
they have drank deep Of the bitter cup which
they mingled for themselves, and still they
must drink from it to the very dregs. With
their own hands they have pulled down upon
themselves an oycrwh lining seourge from
which there is no escape JIG.
.-LWS have before spoken fii Ia 65 me
menIation of Mr. FlIv tho IN, .,.., 90