Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-07
MARCH Z, 1864.
The Results of the Radical Policy,
N Successful.


The Results of the Radical Policy,
n Successful. ~
A contemporary thus illustrates the probable
results Of the radical schemes in the conduct OF
the war and the management of public affairs. il
they should be successfully carried out. The
facts presented worthy of consideration by all
candid men who are sincerely desirous of promot-
ing the true interests of the nation: ~
We do not hesitate to affirm that the policy OF
the Administration carried out in the Southern
States, would annihilate Southern productions
for all the purposes of commerce, and reduce il
at once to the minimum for support. This de
precaion would be continually and Inevitably
increasing. The great staples of the South
cotton, sugar. tobacco and rice, are the produc-
tions of African labor. and they must continue
to be so. But all experience proves that the
African will not work unless he Is made to- and
he cannot be made unless he is slave. We
may slier his condition in some respects and call
him tree. If really free. he won't work. except
for subsistence. IL he does work, IL is because
some master makes him, and because, though
nominally free, he is really slave. 1t follows
that the abolition of African slavery in the
South is the abolition of African labor; but that
IS the abolition of cotton, sugar, tobacco and
rice; that is to say, of all those productions OF
the South which have made its wealth, and have
conduced so essentially (being the main elements
OF its commerce and manufactures) to the
wealth. prosperity and power of the North
In proof that the emancipated African will not
work except for bare subsistence, we appeal to
facts wherever he has been emancipated. Wit
ness first the exports of ST. Domingo in I7s9
just prior to emancipation compared with those
in lo26, some thirty years after that event:
1890 1SOe
Sugar, ID. 1853. .4u5 300 80. .S64
Coffee, 10. b........ 6S.l5l $50 80, 1S9 7S4
Cotton. III. b............. 6,266, l26 620 ,972
Now, St Domingo produces no sugar, and act
uaIly imports the little it uses. Its principle ex
ports coffee and logwood the coffee being
gathered wild from the mountains. or from the
old abandoned French plantations and the log
wood indigenous TO the.sland; is to be had;smply
for the labor Of telling the trees. Thus cultiva-
ton has ceased in st. Domingo. as to all articles
of exports.
In the year 1900, with slave African labor. the
West Indies exported IL 900 900 pounds of cot
ton; the United States, 7.IS9, 500 pounds In
le4O. the West Indies free African lebor) ex
ported e66.l57 pounds of cotton; the United
States (slave labor,) 7i3, ,94l 06l pounds
Witness Jamaica. The value of its exports in
1909 and 1910, some twenty years before eman
cipation, and in 1853 and 1854, some twenty
years after emancipation.
Years Val of Exports
l6OE. OE............... E3 ,O33 234
lelO. ..........,.......... 1903, SIS
loo3. ............-. o5I ,2it
loJf. f................ JJ2 Z
While the production of the free West India
Islands dwndes to almost nothing with free
African labor, from magnificent results with
slave labor, we see the productions OF slave
labor constantly increasing in grand proper
tons. Thus the exports of Cuba (slave) in 1926
were valued at Sl3, 500 1853, aud in 1854 at S3l
6S3. 1871.
"The freed West Indian negro" saws an En-
glish authority, will not till the soil for wages
the free son of the ex slave is as obstinate as hi;
sire. He will cultivate lands which be has not
bought for his own vans, mangoes and plantains
These satisfy his wants; he does not care for
yours. Cotton and sugar and coffee and tobacco
he cares little for them. He eats his yams and
singers at 'buckra.'"
Moral aud material retrogresSion has marked
and will mark all communities composed oi
emancpated slaves There are four millions oil
slaves in our Southern States Let the North
be assured that their emancipation will annihi
late the production OF Southern agriculture. No,
under the hands of their old masters, still less
under the hands of Northern intruders, inexpe.
rienced in the culture peculiar to the South and
in the management Of the negro, could Southern
production be successfully prosecutedf The
North is insanely striking to utterly destroy the
sources of its own prosperity. Never before has
such faulty been witnessed. The many millions
that flowed annually into Northern pockets d
rectly and indirectly from Southern sources will
be utterly lost by the triumph of the Admnstra
ton policy in the emancipation of the slaves
There were some reason but very little right
some shrewdness but very little conscience
some policy but very little honesty, in war upor
the South to restore 1.-THE Union as IL was. anc
the Constitution as t is" but a war Of the NORTH
upon the South for the abolition of slavery, is
the veriest extravaganza of suicidal absurdit,
and wick edness. Such war only be con-
ceiyed and prosecuted by God abandoned fool:
and madmer.