Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-09-15

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The truth is, the men of the Revolu-
ton, North and South, believed Slavery
to be tciong, and the common understand
( ing was that it should be done array,
eoeataaky. The North honestly fulfilled
their part Of the contract, and Congress
abolished Slavery in the then Territories.
The South, and the South only, has proved
false to the promised reformation.
! Slave labor was more proiitablc-i,and
for hamd-among the industrious and
thriving masses of the North, than among
the careless aud lazy Southcrncrs. "Co,nc,
4 boys" was our iashion---this always docs
more than the $50, boys. ~ of the South
\ smart Northcrncr can get more out Of
laborcrs-pail or unpaid-than can a
Seuthcrncr, as any one who knows both
classes must testify.
| Pcnn'a abolished Slavery in 1850
Massachusetts and New England generally
: about the same time-and New York at
an early day, long before slavc-labor pro-
duets 50 callcd) were held to be particu-
larly profitable. Indeed, it was not until
thirteen years nltcr-in 1193-that Eli
Whitney, Yankee invented the cotton
Gin. of the Just fruits of which he was
robbed by the Southrons; but that ma
chine gave new impetus to cotton grow
ing. Yet, in 1s00-'~en,y years after
the Abolition Act of l7S0--thcre were
only fce thousand bales of cotton exported,
a trade which arose to .f0e millions i'll
1859.
Remember, too, that in l7S0, there was
not that manufacturing and commercial
industry" in the States abolishing Sla-
very, SO wildly pictured by Judge Wood.
ward. That came in aftcrward, in ,iespife
IF Southern oLstrsctions of those .ysfems.
They are the natural fruits Of the energy
and activity of our free institutions, and
no result of the dread incubus resting up
ON the South.
Woodward, therefore, is utterly at fault
in his ascribing the uorst instead Of the
best of motives 10 our ancestors in this
matter. His assumptions Of reasons to
sustain his ialsehoods, are incorrect in
point of time aud fact
But Judge Woodward also says:
Cotton tn. prouct of slaves labor has been the IN
DISrENSIBLE ELEMENT of all this prosperity. Mare
it mut hs indispensable element Of all our FUTURE
prosperity. say it must I've. The world can not and
all the Union cloe her family herself with
out il. Nor England do without our cotton Her
mills aud would if the n-gro.s did not rsiss
coitou. Mxnumt them, and they will never False
snothcr crop
"Aud thus it happens tbst the Providence Of that
Good Being. who has watched over us from the h.gin
ming. saved from external fv-s, has ortrr-d
internal r-intion as to make NEGRO SLAVERY AN
INCALCULABLE BLESSING to US and to the people Of
Great Britain"
There it is-"Cotton is King" Wood
ward is its worshiper, aud would make US
its blind, unqucs,ioniug slaves. But two
years have shown that the World refuses
to obey King Cotton Of America, and King
Cottons are rising up in other parts. The
long statistical list of American products
shows that cotton is only one Of our crops.
IL Is raised by free labor 10 other countries,
by our own Freedmen, by the Germans in
Texas, and in Free States. In the long
run, paid labor produces more and better
fruit than unpaid. Brutal drivers may in
some cases by harsh treatment for time
wrinsDut large profits from tortured hui
manity, resulting in early deaths......b but
the superior wealth and prosperity of the /
Free over the Slave States, most amply |
illustrate COPS law Of compensation-
the reward and incentive of labor-in !
aud in communities.
There arc only $50, 900 cotton growers
in the Union and they, in their wicked,
insane attempt to make cotton an umnip-
otcnt power, have sacrificed perhaps 25O,-
900 lives, and made half million widows
and orphans! Shall $50, 600 rule 81 ,O0O,-
)00? To render such handful of per-
sons our political or commercial lords, is
hostile to the FIRST principles Of republi-
canism or democracy. Flax, hemp, silk,
and wool, will share in the work Of fur
nishing clothing to tho race. 1t is nei-
ther wise nor just to rely entirely upon
any one textile fabric. No King Cotton
for US
So Woodward-to make out the King.
hood Of Cotton, and "the incalcuLJte
Messing of Negro Slavcry"-has to run
'gainst facts aud history, and to blacken
he memory Of those noble men Of old
Who prohibited human oppression because
hey believed it RIGHT to do 90, and only
permitted Slavery to remain under the
expectation of its ultimate removal. His
'ttack upon our fathers is uokiod, untrue,
md libels the dead. His whole argument
'ppeals to the pockets instead Of to. prin'
'iplss. Il shows that be supposss the
sSole people arc % sordid and narrow.
minded Is hs seems to be on al issues
Affecting human rights. But "the world
nove'," in spite Of "upjuss Judges" and
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