The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-05-11

O~-sNe, tAe NeheFaoiy Z. - ~
writing from Morro~. o, AprlAlo,N
gives the following sensible views, IN
answer TO the question of VIVA. shall
de done to perfect the Union and Y com q
plete the pacifcation of these
AWesshould hke p ccpy thelvhOle Htises
but have only room for the following
extrac's:
l. As toproperty. The property ques-
ton IS the one which has stood most IN
! the way of statesmen in regard to the
abolition of slavery. Henry Clay.
Conservative man, and friendly 10 the
freedom of the negro, said In the SENATE
in 1886. that the great obstacle to aboll-
ton was, that, there were fifteen hundred
nillion OF dollars in Stare property. In
1860, there was more than double that,
estim iting it in the common way II
we Is Ike the entire South { or United
States J together there are mol, in fact, one
dollar OF property in stares We may well
know how difficult this is to conceive OF.
by Il lose who have heard the continual
talk abont property III slaves, and the
orea loss the South was to incur, by the
aboliti of slavery. In fact the South
loses nothing whatever by the abolition
of slavery. That it will lose nothing,
I. we have the authority of the greatest
writer of Europe on political economy
! ADAM SMITH saws that the whole wealth
I of a nation consists of the collected labor
of that nation: that is of the products
Of labor The whole value of q man in
society, consists ia his labor, whether
physical, intellectual or moral. If, in
some fair sense he is not productive
laborer he has no value in system of
political economy. Now the negro and
their labor will remain in the country and
(, be worth just as much-probably more
after the abolition of slavery as they
I were before. 1t is time that j oHS SMITH
! loses the power of selling CESAR to
| john JONES for thousand dollars. But
the sale Of CESAR was not worth a copper
| to the country, for his tabor was not in
creased an iota by the sale. The
country had the value of his labor before
the sale, and it has no more after it. The
power of selling negroes was of great
value to the few owners of negroes, but
1T was not worth one cent to the country.
The country had no wealth in the negroes
except their labor, and it will have that
now. The whole idea of value ia slavery
was fiction. 1t was part of the ma
chinery by which knaves and dema-
gognes impose upon the common sense
and creduhty of mankind. When a
few years have passed by. the existence
of slavery so long in the United States
will be regarded as evidence of ignor-
ance and darkness, not one whit less
than that which tried and condemned the
witches.
,. Another great fear is that the ne
erroes will cone in large numbers to the
Northern States You might as well
expect the monkeys of Central America
to run up to the artics. The negroes
are natives of hot climates, and they
! naturally 60 toward the tropics There are
negroes in Canada, but they went there
in opposition to nature, to acquire free
/ dom. They will never go there volun-
tarily. For eighty years the whole mass
of negroes in this country, { taken a
whole, las constantly tended south. The
center of gravity of the negro popula-
ton in 1860 was far South of what it
was in 1890. This is fact-a natural
fact, which will not be changed by any
political laws. Nearly all the negroes
in Ohio have either come here or been
brough here to avoid slavery. When
slavery ceases to exist, the motives to
come on the part of the negroes will
cease also.
3. What must be done to recognize
labor, that the South need not suffer, or
the negroes suffer; they want work
Exactly nothing. The more meddling
with the matter the worse it will be-
Look straight at the statistical facts, and
you Will have your answer out of the
Census Report What is the condition of
negroes now? Half the negroes in the
South are home servants, or not more than
t,co three on the farm. Do you want
any reorganization for them Is there
any trouble in Maryland about the labor
or reorganization of negroes Not
bit OF it. Everything goes as smooth
as clockwork. The negro works and is
paid for it, goes to school and learns to
read. There is the end Of it. What
more do you want?
To illustrate this matter. let MS take
the case of Tennessee. This State has
just abolished slavery. How is she to
be affected by it? Will she lose anv
thing? VIII she suffer anything? Let
the facts answer. Here are the statistics
of slavery in Tennessee, as reported to
the United States in 1860:
Slave owners .-..--............... a. S44
Slave who hold slaves - $50
Slave owners, who hold less than five slaves ~ l79
" hole number of slaves Observation-Disclosures e
Farms over twenty acres sol /
In this brief table is a complete ex-
position of the enormous fraud upon the /
human intellect in the South, and the !
moral cowardice in the North, by a small
a I'd contemplate slave aristocracy has |
b cen allowed to govern this country.
Ia Tennessee. great and noble State, /
Of 100000 Inhabitants, less than To-
600 shareholders compelled the Legisla- |
ture 10 pass an act of secession. defed |
great popular majority. and carried the |
State into bloody war. which has de /
stroyed more than half her young men,
and has revolutionized its Constitution /
and laws. If we suppose each slave |
holder to be the head of. family { at the |
ordinary ratio. there were 22l ,o64 per |
sons In Tennessee interested in slavery /
that is, about one sirtf Of he population |
There are hre-s irths of the people of /
the State who cannot lose one cent BY /
abolition There are 5000 farms, and |
only 1000 persons who own over four /
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