Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-04-23
Free Labor In the sou,b.


ton proclaim ton of President Lincoln or
whatever may be our predictions for or
against the negro, no sane man can fail to
see, in the signs of the times, that slavery,
as an institution, is likely to be brought to
termination, al leastin the more northern
slave states, by the action Of tho present
war. This fact has become paten: to all
to Republicans, FRO slavery Democrats,
copperheads and abolilionists alike.
The CathtIic Telegraph of Cincinnati,
ons Of the abltst and most influential pa-
pers Of the West, which has ever been re-
garded as highly conservative" jour
nal in speaking of ITO ultimate emigration
to the West Of eur foreign emlg ants,
SAYS;
awe know from personal knowledge
that mot extensive landhoders in 1ennes-
see aud kentucky have offered extraordi-
nay Inducements to German and Irish elt-
liens TO move into those states. We hare
receired, gears az, the pro En- authority
10 cHr,y into effect the intentions of those
aoho tins desired 10 haze their lands ans-
prQOed, 6s,t not eUen he prospect of a farm
fn foe could tempt the German or tie LtiA
agracuJturaSt TO lice side By SIDE with STAG
cry. At the same time they were not alb
olitonists, nor did they wish to interfere
politically with any mans interest in hu.
man flesh, but they desire to abide where
no distinctions were recognized. A differ
ent state of things exists now. SdUery is
nearly egtiact, aoith0m an effort on or
part TO destroy 1t. We Catholics have
kept our oaths most scrupulously; we
have lit the South alone, and only when
effort failed, and the whole fabric Of the
government was about to fall into ruin. and
anarchy overspead the land, did we utter
word jan self-delence, against. that PERM
cious system which has brought all this
suffering on our country.
"The distress which prevails in Ireland
foretells the amount of labor which will
soon be added to the Union. The condi-
ton of affairs here is such that almost all
their labor will be required by agrcultur
lists 1t will he eXprnd, d on the and ia
stead Of the cities, and no one who wishes
the welfare Of the emgrant will regret this
result. There is, then, little fear of that
Generalization which so often overtakes
them in the crowded town"
This is highly important testimony, in
many respects. 1t shows the fact which
many have fer a long time been aware of,
that quito large portjol of the people OF
the border slave states have been anxious
that free labor should be introduced there.
In Missouri, TO instance, strenuous efforts
have been made for the past several years
to encourage this emigration, and compa-
MES have been iormei, aud agents sent to
Europe to accomplish this desired end
And it is undoubtedly to the result of these
efforts that very much of the rapid ad-
vancement made in that state for few
years previous TO the breaking out of the
rebellion may be attributed; and the
growth which this movement has given to
o sound anti-slavery sentiment in that
state is undoubted,
The N. !. Post, in reference to the
above extract says that it goes to show
that g the slave-lords, whose hostility to
compensated labor, and determination TO
maintain bond labor in all the southern
states, were the real cause of the rebellion,
have been, to use homeiy phrase, biting
off their own noses. she insecurity and
disorder produced by their revolt has
shaken the slave system to its foundation
in the border states, until the large propri-
etors are looking about and offering in
ducements for the introduction Of free la
Dor. These are beginning to say to the
Germar AMI Irish emigrants, eco no
longer to the distant wldernesses of the
far West, but stop with us amid the fertile
fields, the rich valleys, the genial climates
of Kentucky and Tennessee. You shall
no longer be molested and disgraced by
the contact Of slavery, but shall work as
freemen on free soil.n
We have no doubt that these invitations
will he needed, and that very soon. No |
states of our western empire are in them |
selves more inviting to settlers than Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Missouri. They |
would have long since attracted the emf
grafton from the east, but for the presence
of that odious practice of bondage, which
repulses the Independent and self-respect-
ing white laborer. In richness Of soil in
saiubrity Of climate, in facility Of comma
nicatioa, they surpass other western states
which have filled up more rapidly, and |
nothing has been wanting to render them
the favorite stopping places of the lmmi- |
grant but those free institutions which |
have created the superior wealth of Hi