New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-16

1 NhAHOh VI * many UJ IbEGG VI iIhuhs utAh
| thOut just consideration or compenss
| unn-a source OF income to the holder, but
not AN item to national wealth. The aOOli
| tim of slavery, the restitution of u right
| unjnstly withheld, has heretofore IN the
aggregate destroyed no property. Il has
SIMPLY transferred the UWh' rship of the
| slave from tine master to himself TO whom
It rgh hfuIly belonged, and who will make
/ briitr uee VI II.
Does not the same labor exist? Do not the
SAINT strong arms T, mtiu in the community
with hundredftd stronger incentives tor
their proper u> Why thereture purchase
th' M NJ enurmuus Expense? IL Is a we'll.
established iacJ that one can plant three
| times as many Acr's of cotton with $40, UD0
| WHEN lie hires ii se labor as when liz pur-
,'nAsps Lis labor 900 will now go three
times farther than $50 600 III the time Of
| sinNr.y, ItWin now aslrRct thirty treemeu;
IL wOud then have bi ought ten slaves.
Why can the snt' rs and the Ap logists
of slavery not sue that the $3, OOO OO0 600
Invested IN four millions OF slaves at tnr be-
ginning Of tine war WAS y useless, unprUhta
be, uupruduCtiya expenditure for what
nlreAnJ exlotrd, and that II this enormous
sum OF money which WAS really thrown
aWny-had been Invested ia farms, bUllu.
Jugs. i'm lIlrm nts, Railroads., etc, II would
have atiraCL-u twelve millions Of emigrHuls
10 the South instead Of four mlluUus Of
slaves?
Tird-Thp planters Of Louisiana have
iaIltd 10 exhibit the rtcupt ratl' energy
prcrlisr 10 the North. Although the ab0-
ltlUu ut slavery WIS not destructive of
property III the aggreg ate, sull the south
suffered largely irum the loss of stock,
buudlngs, railroads, eLc. But the people of
the South seem 10 forget that the greater
part of the wealth now existing in this
country has been created during the last
year by the labor of human hands; tn t II
Ill NtasnV
wealth vi the land was III existence aJ he
brgiuning Of the war; aud that what tue
teueral armies destroyed they themselves
would in the mean time have, for the most
part consumed and destroyed. Cliies
ike Portland aud Quebec are land
in ashes. D stroying. armies march
over the falrest portions of Europe
and in u few months every trace of their
presence disappears. But Charleston does
not rise from her ashes, Southern towns
are not rebuilt. Why is this A Western
ilat6UatmAn tied up at Helrnt, Arkausls,
with his Carpo of hoOp-pulcs and putors.
Golng ashore he got into ore Of the little
unplea5autnSsses peculiar IT, that lOc ,litv,
ami WAS caTlaed aboard " III seventeen
tle-h wounds. To one Of the bystaudrr-
who expressed some pity, he promptly re-
marked: stranger, never you mlud, my
DISH is mighty healing. 1Ou incident look
80 gum duOuL u, inns Is tue uIaL DlL OF "a
good Time I've had since | left the Wabash
Now. although the iutheruers were spoil.
ing { "a hghU NJ the begiuiug of the war,
thy have, since their defeat, shown no suCyi
admirable rrgoneTative power. In no Eu-
rupeau pnpuH,iou Of twelve million souls
are there To be found So few producers ia
proportion to the consumers. Did that
superhumAu industry exist here which Is
characteristic of tine East aud Wtst--was
even the labor OF suCh as are willing 0
| Work directed by practical common spuse,
want would be unknown iu the South, The
tact ls slavery has drauk mp the life. blood
has exhausted the moral turce Ot the people.
FUuTJh-slsve labor was last tXhAua ing
the soil and impoverlshlng the SUutn, and
our tree labor system Hs it is managed
10 still ii g the same thing. The pressing
debts Uf the planter prevented his making
only such improvements as were AbsUlt te
necessary. Worn out plantations every.
Whrre abound except II the bottom lands,
where tue soil Is lnrXhhustible. / declare
10 you, gentlemen, had thn system of slavery
existed twenty Years longer large portions
Ui tue South would have been rendered uu.
mhaOtabIe by civilized man. n Xt To the
blindness of heart, the grOundless pre-, ia.
jiCes aud uufuuuded halreds, the ta=c
theories, and anliquaed practices of the
South, wOrn.Out, slavery y-impOverIahed hand
Is It's greatest curse, and the greatest Oh
stacle To It's Improvement Tue hcL is
cotton planting in the South WAS not lrgiti.
mate agriculture, hut II kind of agricultural
speculatiuu, the real profits of which
based upon slave breeding. Land WAS not
valuable. But nowhere in the North tx.
ctpt in the proximity of growing cities did
real estate increase iu value SO fast rs slaves
in the South during the years lmmcdi.
atrly preceding the war. A planter start.
lug out iu life thirty years ago with half
dozen male and AS many female slaves
worth perhaps five thousand dollars found
hlmself possessed at the beginning of tAe
war, by the law of natural iucreHse, of
some flrty slaves worth at least sixty thou.
sand dollars, besides the product Vt their
labor during all these years,
Ffth-Slavery drove away from the
South the most liberal and enterprlsing of
her population, and the spirit of slavery is
dong the same thing to-day. According to
the census of 1850 there were about 600, 900
persons living IN the free states who had
beeu born in the slave States, against Ouiy
about 100000 persons living iu the slave
States vino had been born in the free States.
In other words, slavery had driven away
three ut her own people while she had at
tract but single emgrant from the
North. Since the war Ht least fifty thOus
and SpulherIers have made their homes IN
New York cry, aud hundreds of thousands
nave tmigraied to OAiO, Illinois, aud even
u distant Nebraska.
These people they say, have lift the
5nuth To avoid radical rule. But il strikes
me, grntirmen, that any one leaving
Louisiana fir New York and Onin in ord, r
u get away frOiu the radicals is 10 sny the
least, uaNeilng IN the wIUng direction |
would say 10 such cue what an Old
heihndlst minister said To nsan whom he
net Judging over the prairie u isw miles
IrOui Chcagu. >~- ~-=s
"WDerr u you going, bFother?n
'1'm bound lur the kingdom at haaven y
'rn"u, brother, you are Oh the wrong
road.n
Nu, gentlemen; these people have been
driven away itum The South by its anarchy
aud sue a. tyranny, by bad government, ana
by all the blighnhng curseu that have iul.
lowed Ia the tratn uf slavery. What dark.
ehs the horizon OF LOuisianA is not the col
Pred man, but it Is the multitude Of lalst-
hood.-ot lies, p, ltieHi. pcOuumiCad, aud
icial-thAt ARE now flying home 10 rUusl
IKE birds of evil ON, n. 70 assert as th,
Democrats do, that ttiur millions ui hand
q IS, money lvrs freedmen lust tulauCipaIcd
from the cruel harisnips OF slavery yre
going 10 take pursessiuu OF this -uuthr rn
country, 10 tie exclusion from "a fair cbAnCe,
aud rsp' ciAliy ffon all the uifiuea rish
niiiians'd white, who possess nearly al he
band and s,,ciH4 CUnslhsiHll,,l, /, n D eur ul
mOnstrnns Dishonesty. Or otcuWHrcIce NOR,
tlon.
KIh-Out of nearly two millions of en-.
grauts wne have arrived IA the Unileu
s'A'ts slhcr tue war. nut two hundred hav,
a'ttird Ia Lohisiana. TIE tTadiInins OF
plAit 'ilnn lie ale adt'ns to the IT., pdnieh
ueY are perirC. lY unendurabla To the tr,,
,bUrins pupn alton vi Lbe North nud q
sunpe. hrIthar white men. nor bL0k
zen. nor red men, nor Vptl.vg u,,.,, ~,