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Show Appendix. the great increase in the supply of gold, the prices of their c0mmo<litie!'! tend steadily towards a lower point, and their own power tends steadily to decline. It wns said of old that "those whom the gods would drstroy they first make mad," and all history proves the fact; but it would be diiTicult to find any where a more striking proof of its truth than is now being fur· nishcd by the Slnxc States of this Uniou. The outh now desires Cuba, and for the purpose of obtaining it will agrrc to tax the people of the North some eighty millions of dollars to. wards the hundrrd millions rrquired for its purc·hasr. ~uppose, however, this object attained, and the island purchased, will thnt increase the power of the South? "\Vc doubt it. Thus far its real power has diminished as its territory has increased, and it has only been by means of purchasing "Northern men with Southern principles" that it has maintained its posi. tion in the Union. Its real and enduring strength is far less now, as com. pared ,;·ith the North, than it was before Florida was bought, and greatly less t han it was before Texas was dragged into the Union; and it will be still less after Cuba shall haYc been purchased. The reason for this is, that thus far all its measures ha,·c tended to increase competition for the msaelne to. f its products, and such is the tendency of the present Cuban move\ Vith the annexation of that island, the duty on sugar will cease, and the sngar cultivation of J.ouisiana and Texas must pass away, the conse· qucnce of which mu~t be n stcndy tendency to in crease the number of pro· ducers of cotton, with a decline in the price of that staple. "\Vc shall, how· <'vcr, be told that the negroes of Texas will be taken to Cuba to raise sugar. Aclmit that such be the case, will not the effect be to produce a still n1orc rapid decline in sugar, and will not this drive more people to the pro. ducrion of cotton? uch must certainly be the case. The only cllcct of t _hc in corporation of C'ubn. into the Union will be to increase the competi· tHm for the sale of Southern products and to dimini~h th eir prices. lt i:=: not, howcver, uba alone that is to be incorporated with the South· Hayti is to be add ed. ""\Vith Cuba and St. Domingo," says Tlta Charles~ ton Strmdard, "we could control the procluctions of the tropic~, nnd with th elll, the commerce of the world, and witl1 tlwt, the power of the world." \Vel!, suppose Hayti added, and her land rendered more produ ctive, cnn s_uch n. measure have any other effect than that of increasing the competi. LIOn for the snlc of outhern products, and dimini~hiug th eir prices, nnd the power of the men who have them to sell? "\Vc think not. "\Vc sec every where that men who have to work cheaply lose powrr, nnd to pro. mduecaes uthreiss .s tate of things appears to us to be the tendency of all outhcrn . It is ~ot, howe,·er, to Cuba and Hayti alone tlwt SonthC'rn insanity now d1rect~ Its attention. It would haYc the lands of the Amazon rendc•red Producti \·e of all the conunoditic that Southern men have to sell, with a new, prouably, of reducing their prices with the greatest possible rapidity. vVe quote again from 1'/10 Staudarcl: , "~~11r true poli~y is t~ look t~1 Brazil as tho uext grortt s la ve pow('r, and as tho govctHmont that ts to du·oct or IJ couso tho dovcloputOnt of tho co1t111ry drained IJy t110 Appendix. Amazon. Jnstoad of ronrtin~ England we should look to Brnr.il nne) tho \Vest ru. dies. Tho time will rome WIIC.'n a tr<'a ty of I"OillltlCrro :tnd nllianco with Brazil will give us tho coutrol over the Gulf of_Mc~iro,_ uud irH hor~lor COIIIl!rlos, rogutltor with tho islandA, and the COilSOfJIIOilro ot th1s will place Afncan Hlnvory hoyontl fanaticism, at homo or ahroad. These two groat !!lavo powcr11 11ow hold IIHJre undovolopod territory than n11y orlwr two 1-(ovcruulcuts, aucl thpy 011g-ht to l!tlilrd nud strollgthcn their lltlllual inr cre:;tA hy actiu:.: . tog-otl1 cr, iu tilri cr l1ar_n10ny aud concl'rt. CorH~idering our vas t rosomccs an~J th? 11111-(ltry t'<IIIIIIH'rTo tl1at 1::1 about to expand upon tho hO!IOill of the two rounrn<'s, 1f we nc·t tngP11H:r hy rn'a ty, 1f'C ca~t 1wt only prr3 ervc dome11tic scrvit1ulc, IJut we can clofy tho powt'r of tho world." To accomplish all these objects, however, large supplies of laborers arc required, nnd, that they may be obtained, the African sla vc trade is, according to 'J'I1a Standcwrl, to be opened up "again to people the whole region of the tropics." \Viii this, however, enrich and strengthen the South ? We think not. 'Vith the reopening of the slave trade, the price of negroes will probably fall about three fourths; and if we take the present average value of men and women, old and young, sick and well, at but five huncired dollars, here will be a diminution of wealth to the extent of not less than twelve hundred millions of dollars. In such cnse, what will become of the owners of the existing generation of slaves? Must they not be ruined? This, however, is not all. The more slaves the 1111)re cotton and sugnr there will be, and the more of these commodities for l::ialc the lnrgrr will be the quantity to be given for the same qu antity of cloth, corn, lead, or iron. ]~ very planter knows that he profits by short crops of cotton in In. dia or of surrar in Drnzil, and that he suffers when they have large crops ; and yet thc~e very men arc now laboring to increase the crops of Cuba, Hayti, and Drazil, under the idea that power goes with the surface owned, and with the quantity of commodities produced, and n ot with the quantity of other commodities obtained in exchange for them. A more remarkable case of insanity has never yet been furni hed by the world. \Ve arc told, however, that the North is being enriched by immigration, and that the condition of the immigrant is improved, and arc asked, as the eminent authority we have already cited tells us, "ff it ho mercy to give the grain-growiug- sections of An~ ~rira }t~ ,tho poor ~nrl hungry of Furopo why not open up tho tropics ro tho poor Alnratt . 1 ho ouo regwn is 'lH ominc~tly s1;itod to thorn as tho orl1cr is to tho white raro. Thoro IN nH ll lttch flilanthropy in OnO as in tJto Other. W? h;~VO hCO II ~On lOII I! /-:OV('I"II,~d I!~ (lR:tllllP. · . 1 ool u1aHtors from tho North. It IS 111110 ro th1nk for oursl'lvc:,>. I Ito folly fHilJ:(IIIg sc0 1 1 1• 11 ~~l' ~wn rrovorn 111011 t uuitinJ:( wirh Groat Britain to dcrlaro slavo icmom 11ornrtoantico nl piracy. Pira"r y is a cn·n 1o ou t 11 0 1I l·l :( 11 soas, :~r·t s1· 11g tlltc1 o r rh. o l'a w of rtntJ·O ns, anu·' ·I t 1·..,, a' s well defined by those law· s as 1111J1 r·d o1r ·' " ar tr onunnn l,tw. Aucl 1 for two nations to atternpt to make that ptracy w uc 1 IS uo so 111 dor tho Jaw of untiOHH, i:1 an absurdity." That the North 1·s enrichetl by immigration is most true, but such ~voul.d not be the case if the North were pertinaciously to insist that e,·ery 1mm1· grant should raise only wheat, corn, or tobacco. The men '_vho ?orne ~o the North sell their own labor, and arc always seeking so to dt~erst~y thea· employments as to render each and every man a cu::;tomer to lus ne1ghbor. The market, therefore, grows with the supply, and the faster n~cn _come the grca tcr is the demand for labor, except when Southern pollcy 111 ter· vencs to close thr mills and furn aces, and to force the whole people of the North to resort to agriculture as the sole means of suusistcncc, as was the 43 |