cess of time, the United States Government will acquire not only Mexico, Central America, and these South American States, to-wit: the Guianas, Venezuela, New Granada, Ecuedor, Peru, Bolivia, and also Chili; but also the West Indies, by reason of their juxtaposition. The productive capacities of these several independent States and dependencies, would, under a slave cultivation, increase not only our own wealth and importance, but those of other nations, far beyond our present conception and computation! If the product of cotton should be cut off through adverse and unforseen contingencies at any future time, the loss in the certainty of this product will be as much to the North and to Europe as to the South, for the former are manufacturing communities, while the latter are essentially an agricultural one. If the planters make ten or fifteen cents a pound by its growth, the manufacturer makes the same, and this, too, by tasking the sweat of the white operative, whose wages are narrowed down to a Northerner's nicety in calculation. In the performance of the labor of the latter we see a rigid discipline in tasking and exaction, as we do in that of the former. The one is to a human being, while the other is to a progressive existence of color, possessing a degree of humanity. This is the best definition of the negro, Malay, Mongolian and Indian, that can be given, for it gives them wholly all they are worth to the performance of God's command and ordinance. The history of no foreign country where the manumission of slavery has taken place furnishes us with examples of material prosperity in every point of view, especially when the productions were tropical, or bordering on the tropics, since that event. Hence the abolition of slavery, in any form, is a curse to the negro, to the white man, is contrary to the command of God, and is the sequence of Atheism! By the ignorant and prejudiced it is affirmed that the great North is the most productive; and for the purpose of deciding this point and doing justice to whom, in this case, justice is due, we will quote from a Report on Commerce and Navigation a summary statement of the value of exports of the growth, produce, and manufactures of the United States, for the year ending June 30, 1859; the productions of the North and of the South, respectively, being placed in opposite columns; and the articles of a mixed origin being stated separately. It is as follows: TABLE SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE PRODUCTS OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH, WITH THEIR EXPORTS. EXPORTS OF THE NORTH. Product of the Forest. EXPORTS OF THE SOUTH. Product of the Forest. Wood and its products...$7,829,666 Wood and its products...$2,210,884 Ashes, Pot and Pearl.........643,861 Tar and Pitch.................. 141,058 Ginseng..... ..............54,204 Rosin and turpentine......2,248,381 Skins and furs............ ...1,361,352 Spirits of Turpentine......1,306,035 Product of Agriculture. Product of Agriculture. .....15,262,760 ducts....... Animals and their pro ducts..... ......287,048 Wheat and wheat flour..15,113,455 Wheat and wheat flour... 2,169,328 Indian corn and meal......2,206,396 Indian corn and meal........110,976 Other grains, biscuit and vegetables............2,226,585 Rice......... Hemp and clover seed.......546,060 Cotton Hops.......... + May • atwar .53,016 Brown sugar...................196,935 Biscuit or ship bread.. 12.864 2,207,148 ..(161,434,923) r .8,177 Tobacco, in leaf.. ..21,074,038 Drugs and Medicines, Candles and Soap.. Other Products of Manufactures and Mechanics....... Coal and Ice............. Products not enumerated... Gold and Silver, in Coin and Bullion.................... ARTICLES OF MIXED ORIGIN. Refined Sugar, Wax, Chocolate, Molasses................. Vinegar, Linseed oil.. Household furniture, Carriages, Railroad cars, etc.......... Gunpowder, Leather, Boots, Shoes, Cables, Cordage........ 550,937 1,370,787 2,722,797 317,727 3,402,491 2,011,931 5,744,952 1,048,246 1,933,973 ........ 8,316,222 3,852,910 818,117 Products of the sea, being Oil, Fish, Whalebone, etc....... It is said that the South could not live without the 1850 East, North and West! What blind presumption in view of all her exports! By some dirty Abolition sheets like the New York Tribune, Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Gazette, etc., etc., it has been said that the South, in a governmental sense, is an expense to the North. Contrast the value of the products, and then see where the expense lies, ye dupes! The South supplies the North and West with most all of their rice, tobacco, sugar, molasses, cotton, tar, pitch, large amount of pitch-pine lumber rosin and turpentine, and also spirits of turpentine, for which she receives in return some corn, wheat, flower, meat, provisions, poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, shoes, boots, clothing, lead, powder, cutlery, hardware, furniture, machinery, nails, etc., etc., etc., from the East, North and West. A large amount of the corn, June, 1864 wheat, and meat provisions, goes South from Kentucky and Missouri, and also from Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. So that the free States receive more from the slave States than the latter from the former. A large amount of the wool and beef is grown in the South, or in the slave States. The South exported in the year 1859 only $196,935 worth of brown sugar, when her product in the year 1859 was about $40,000,000. Much of this went North. and West. Her cotton then amounted to more than $200,000,000, while she exported only $161,434,923 worth. Near $40,000,000 worth was consumed in the United States, and the most of it went North. By this mode of comparing, we see the value we are to each other, and the necessity of putting down Abolitionism first, and then Secessionism will fall of itself; it will have no combatant; and this is nothing but a common sense view to take of our relative positions, North and South. If the South have consumed many European goods, the exports of the South paid in the year 1859 two-thirds of our imports. For the total imports in that year, 1859, were $338,768,138, and of this amount $20,895,077, were re-exported. Our exports that year amounted totally to $335,894,130; and out of this amount, total of exports, the South exported more than two-thirds, which, in the form of bills of exchange, paid for two-thirds of the imports, upon which is based a revenue to support the Government. Consequently the South, in the way of her exports, paid that year, and has, for more than half a century, two-thirds of the expenses of the Government, besides paying two thirds of the public debt. For the public revenue is almost wholly derived from the duties on imports, which, in point of those paying the highest duties, are consumed, in the slave States, by two to one, compared with the free States. This information has been obtained from candid business merchants engaged in importing in the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston. Such information cannot be obtained from the United States' Customhouses; it has been obtained through intelligent wholesale merchants, who knew well where their best customers resided, and those who purchased those goods which consumed the least space. This shows who foot the bills in foreign lands, and pay the duties at home, the North or the South! and who is a dead expense to the Government, with regard to postal functions! The revenue from the sale of public lands has always been a mere nominal sum in the way of defraying the expenses of the Government, compared to the duties on imports. This, sensible men know, but Abolitionists do not! and if they did, they would say that the opposite party had made false entries. They know how to lie, which is the only redeemable trait they possess in a high degree. From that statement, it is not difficult to see who are the great producers, and which are the great staples; and moreover, the South has the capacity, when developed, of feeding and clothing herself from her own productions, having in view Texas for sheep and cattle. This is submitted to the candid, and logical minds for consideration. This may make the |