Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-26
ROSS & RossER, Publishers.
From the Old Guard, May, 1864.
CIVILIZATION IN THE FREE AND
- SLAVE" STATES

barism OF tn South" "WTetchedness ar
decentralization in consequence of slavery
"What the North suffers from slavery %
y "Irreligion of'slave'- holders "The cur:
q Of slavery" This has been the harp of
5 thousand strings, played on with alacrit
Q and skill by clersymen, politicians, tra'
5 distributors. and all sorts of social iuggler
. here in the North, until all grades in tn
= community have adopted the senseless jar
gon as conclusion, not only foregone, bu
foreordained and divine.
In this article we propose to lay the fig
ures and the fncts touching this matter
plainly before our readers. We do no
hopo that the truth will open the eyes of th
victims of the Abolition fansticism. but i
may possibly save some from following th,
multitude into the dishouoriug, the bloody
: delusion. The truth is, that negro slavery
has been curse to neither North nor South
but has been blessing to both, as the his :
tory and the figures will show. We state
the question thus plainly, because we mean
to challenge contradiction. 1t is said that
there Is such thing as a man telling
o lie until he himself believes it 10 be a
truth. And the Abolitionists may have re-
peated their slanders and falsehoods until
they believe them to be true: but their
leaders do not believe them SO implicitly
that they dare risk fair and public debate
upon them. They are brave at assertions,
dogmatism, noise. and wordy defiance. but
they flee within the covert of prejudice and
| ignorance at the approach of any man who
proposes to argue the point with them -
Their facts are the inventions of i'm posters
Their logic the yell of the bowling dervishes
Foolish and m maliciousl-Behold the abom-
ination of their pretentions in the following
statistical records of the two sections of our
country;
/. How has the North suffered by negro
slavery" in the South? 1t has grown rich
off the proceeds of "slave" labor. The
merchants, the nufacturers, the mechau-
les, and all classes of laboring men here in
the North have been immensely benefited
by the fruits of negro Slavery in the South.
More than two o-thirds of the mercantile,
manufacturing and industrial operations Of
the North are based upon the slave labor
of the South. Strike down this slave labor,
and you sweep out of existence two thirds
Of the commerce of the United States at
single blow. The United States Treasury
tables of 1859 show that our sx rorts of that
year were S27S 392 $50; of which S178,-
O00OC0 were of Southern origin, while S7S,-
000,O only were of Northern origin
While the South produces more than two
thirds of the exports of the country. the
North reaps mainly the mmercai advant-
ages rising therefrom. The Treasury ia bies
of 1850 show that the tunnage of the North
was ], ,931 1856 tons, while that of the South
was only 39l 5l9 tons; and to employ this
shipping, the North furnished only So 500
600 worth OF freight; the South furnished
S24 100000 worth.
While the South furnished six -sevenths
of the freight, she had less than one-sixth
Of the tunnage, thus throwing almost all of
the immense profits of the carrying business
into the pockets of the North. The South
has not only kept our ships and merchants |
busy, but he has also given employment to |
our mechanics, artizans and laborers. In |
1850 we sold the South goods of our own
manufacture to the value OF S240, 100000 |
We sold them imp ported goods, which we
paid for abroad by Southern exports, S1O6. |
900, 900.
The interest and brokerage we made out
of the South that year, S63 100000.
Money spent in the North by Southern |
visitors, tradesmen, travellers, etc., during
that year. S53,75O.374.
Making our total business with the South |
that year, S462, ,560,374.
That is the way we have suffered by
the South. That is the way the South has
wronged Us. She has given employment to
our merchants, mechanics and laborerS, to
such an extent that We may truly say we
owe our prosperity to her. The production |
of Southern slave labor has been the great
motive battery that mas driven ueary all the |
industrial operations of the North. The |
Treasury tables OF the United States show
that not only our com merce, but tho whole
of our industrial interests have kept pace
with the increase of the slave productions
of the South. In 1920, when there were
only one million FIVE hundred thousand
Slaves producing the staples of commerce, I
our tunnage was only AZ 600 tuns; but in
1856, when there were over three millions
of Degroes prod the same staples. our
tuunage was 469 600 tons.
Every item OF the material wealth of the
North has increased 10 the same ratio with
the increase of the slave staples of the
South. That is the way slavery has hurt
ms. By the blessing Of Almighty God, may
it continue to do for our children as 1t has
for us-givng employment to our industry
giving cheap clothing and high wages to
our laboring men, and to our commerce
name respected on every sea. That Is what
slavery, has done for the North. We know
how profanely the Aboltionists will rave at
these stern truths. But there stands the
facts and the fgures-let them deny them
ir they dare.
q I'VE are told that slavery has i'm
poverisbed ed the South itself; and to remedy
this evil we are now trying to cut the tnro oa'
of every white m an, woman and child tnere'
and to give the lands to the negroes, and 10
such people, in the North. as are willing 10
live on terms Of perfect equality with the
negroes. That we may see how slavery has
i'm poy erished the South, we will take the
five old slave States from Maryland, and
including Georgia. and compare them with
the six New England States, which boast
of being possed of aim ost all possible ado
vantaees over the rest of mankind. In 1850
these New England States had a population