The Burdens of the Southern People
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Excerpt from The Burdens of the Southern People: Ignorance Which Is to Be Exposed Before Responsibility for Our Sectional Wrangles Can Be Located And we cannot doubt that these "wise men" carried many thousands of these black people to the West Indies, and brought away hundreds of millions of dollars. Indeed, these traders were able to monopolize the business because their ships did not cost more than half as much as British ships. Fiske´s "Critical Period" says: "An oak vessel could be built at Gloucester or Salem for $24 per ton. On the other hand nowhere in England, France, or Holland could a ship be made of oak for less than $50 per ton"; and even as early as 1727, as Hildreth says, the ship-carpenters in the Thames were driven out of the business, and in 1766 those of New England, Bancroft says, were selling 150 ships annually to the people of Europe and the West Indies. It cannot be doubted, therefore, that one of the most potent reasons why New England rebelled against the British government, was the refusal of that Government to permit the owners of the cheap ships to have a share of the profits of that inhuman traffic; and it is equally as evident, from statements made by Bancroft, that opposition to the slave-trade was the only Southern reason for objecting to British rule. On page 410 of Vol. Ill he says that the Southern Colonies "objected to the dangerous increase of the colored population"; and in Vol. VII, page 84, he says that in 1774 Jefferson, being too unwell to attend a "provincial convention", sent a letter in which he said: "The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa; yet our repeated attempts to effect this by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to a prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his majesty´s negative; thus preferring the immediate advantage of a few British corsairs, to the lasting interests of the American states, &c. The Two Sections in the Revolution. 1. Although, according to a statement made by the late Senator George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, the Southern people "had not the slightest particle of personal interest" in the Revolution, these people, according to the report of the first Secretary of War, furnished more soldiers, per capita, than Northerners did, the numbers, for example, furnished by South Carolina and Massachusetts being in the proportion of ten to six, and paid a larger per capita share of the cost of the war. 2. In November, 1775, after Gen. Washington had been for some months in command of New England troops at Boston, he became disgusted with them, and he wrote: "Such a mercenary spirit pervades the whole that I should not be surprised at any disaster that may happen. Could I have forseen what I have experienced, and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command". And Gen. Nathaniel Greene, a Rhode Islander, than whom "no one", Irving says, "drew closer to Washington at this time of his troubles and perplexities", said in a letter: "The common people" (New Englanders) "are exceedingly avaricious; the genius of the people is commercial, from their long intercourse with trade. The sentiment of honor, the true characteristic of a soldier, has not yet got the better of interest". About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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