10 10 136 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Labor. Description An account of the resource Though we may differ in sentiment, yet if we speak and act with submission, it is no trespass upon the rights of individuals of the quiet society, to offer interchanges of thought, or feelings. The fear which suggests to our conservatism the need of placing defenses around the truth, is, perhaps, as dangerous an element as innovation. We are safe only, and only free, in that pure love which casts out all fear. I have felt that allusion may be made to a subject that has claimed the attention of many just and consistent persons through two or three generations past, and which seems to rather increase than otherwise; although it has not, and never may become a testimony of the Society, as a body. I allude to the concern to avoid the use of the products of the slave, or unpaid labor. That such a concern is in the abstract right, none can deny. It might seem that all who come to hear this inspoken mandate, "Be ye perfect," would feel its force as an individual requisition; yet, as it is for us not to judge, perhaps it may be otherwise. The amount of encouragement that is given to free labor by a demand for its products, has not so far as I remember, been clearly stated. It seems to me, that it would not only prove, as a record of facts, the superiority [?] freedom, but would develop a quiet force, that without war or turmoil, would raze the ever tottering fabric of oppression to its foundation. Now, that a Friend of Philadelphia not only procures free groceries of every description needed, but has in operation a cotton manufactory which supplies every essential article of that material, it seems that the scruples of those who are thus concerned, may be kept inviolate; particularly as those goods are offered at wholesale, as well as retail, and can be sent to any part of the country, where desired. S.A. Woodstown. N.J. 9 mo. 1855. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Friends' Intelligencer 12:29, p. 458 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.6.1855 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource S.A. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BEET SUGAR. Description An account of the resource It is time that all interested in agriculture, or commerce, or politics, should direct their attention to the subject of making sugar of beets. The notion was communicated to Bonaparte, on the 19th of March, 1811, by a Mr. Ishard; and by a decree of the Emperor, experimental factories were at once erected. Since that date, with some vicissitudes, this business has increased with extraordinary rapidity in France. At this time, it is computed that there are in France three hundred manufactories, producing annually, from 18 to 20,000,000 pounds of brown sugar, being about one-third of all the sugar used in that country; and so great is the ardor and success with which the business is prosecuted, that in three or four years, it will furnish the whole amount for home consumption, and begin to export. That this is true appears evident, from the notice which the French Minister of Finance, D'Argout, has given it, in bringing forward a bill imposing heavy taxes upon the sugar, and alleging as a reason, that unless some such duty belavied upon it, the colonial sugars (i.e. cane sugar) cannot compete with it, and the trade in sugars from the ladies must be entirely destroyed. Certainly the amount mad and making must be immense, to threaten the old colonial establishments with ruin! The beet contains on an average, about ten per cent, saccharine, and three per cent, molasses.  Three distinct objects are had in view in cultivating the beet. 1. The making of sugar. We give an abstract of the expenses and profits of one establishment. 500 tons of beet, at 83 20                       $1,000 00 Hire of laborers                                            400 40 Fuel                                                                   473 20 Material used in manufactory                 813 60 Rents, Sundries, &c.                                   392 80 Interest on capital borrowed                   450 00                                                                        ------------                                                                       $4,130 00 Received from sale of molasses,            pumices, &c.                                            750 00 Deducting this from the expendi-           tures, the outlay stands at            $3,380 00 This outlay has produced 50,000          pounds of sugar. 36,000lbs          of which, at 15 cents, and          14,000 do. 19 cents. produce,      $6,800 00                            Deducting                            3,380 00                                                                        ---------------                                    Profit.                        $3,420 00 2. The feeding of cattle.--Cattle, horses and sheep, fatten better on the pumice of beets, than upon any other food. 3. The improvement of the soil.--The weeding and working of the soil, in raising beets, produced a most healthful effect upon it. In these three respects, the cultivation of the beet is regarded as of the highest importance. It has already been introduced into our country. An association has been formed at Philadelphia (we believe) and has sent a gentleman to France to learn the process of sugar making. Quantities of seed have been sent thence, and distributed in this country; and preparations are being made for extensive manufacturing. The effects of this new business is to be felt in more ways than upon our commerce. 1. It will connect the fattening of cattle, stock-growing, with sugar and molasses making, as more profitable than distilling, and thus give a sidelong blow to the employment of capital in the manufacture of spirits. But-- 2. It is to have a very much higher bearing upon another subject. If it shall outrun the West India sugar, then our market will be supplied by two competing sugar departments, the Northern and the Southern. This brings Northern and Southern enterprise into competition, and fairly tries the relative values of slave-labor and free labor. It is said in France, that the beet will hold out acre for acre with the cane; but will slave labor on cane sugar, equal free labor upon beet sugar? If not--if Northern free labor can undersell Southern slave labor, and take from her the sugar market, it will cripple the Southwestern States in a very essential degree, and reduce the value of slaves; and very strongly tend to make them worthless. If, in addition, free labor could compete with slave labor on cottons, or some substitute, slave property would be an enormous taxation, rather than profitable, and would soon go into disuse. These changes in business afford much food for reflection, and much room for benevolent enterprise. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Liberator 6:38, p. 1 (also published in the Cincinnati Journal and Christian Secretary) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.17.1836 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free and Slave Labor. Description An account of the resource The general impression seems to be that free labor is the cheapest; but we will suppose a case of the utter annihilation of slave labor in the United States, what then, when all competition was withdrawn would be the price of free labor?--Lou. Morn. Cour. It would be either greater or less than it is now, or continue the same. If greater, the masses of white working men throughout all the States would be the gainers--and of this they could not complain. If less, the slaveholders of Kentucky would be the gainers--and of this they could not complain. If it should continue the same, [?]dy would be the gainer or loser, under this aspect--and so nobody could complain. The fact is, free labor is cheaper,--(we do not say in this or that particular branch of industry,)--far cheaper in the main, because it produces more, and wastes less. The question of special interest to Kentucky is, not how the price of free labor would stand, were slav-labor totally annihilated in the United States, but what would be the price of free labor, were slavery extinguished within its particular limits. To answer this question it is only necessary to refer to the price of labor in Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and other new free countries. Labor is high, because the demand for it is great. Such would be the case in Kentucky--for it is not barrenness of soil or any natural disadvantage that retards the growth of her population,--it is slave-labor alone. Abolish this, and the northern hire of free laborers would swarm over the immense tracts of uncultivated land in Kentucky, extracting from the virgin soil its still hidden wealth. Meantime, till the supply had equalled the demand, there would be of course an increase in the price of labor, and in prices generally--until the equilibrium should be fairly established,--so that all would be gainers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Cincinnati Weekly Herald and Philanthropist 9:30, p. 2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4.9.1845 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free and Slave Labor.: To the Editor of the Liberator Description An account of the resource SIR--In your paper of the 19th of February, a correspondent gave a number of questions on the subject of free and slave labor. I had hoped that these inquiries would have been answered in your paper before this time, and I still hope that you or some of your correspondents who are better qualified than myself, will reply to them. Every suggestion as to the modes in which the abolition of slavery may be promoted deserves serious attention. Your correspondent, among other questions when it is not my intention to consider at this time, asks --- 'What reasons are there for giving a preference to those articles which are produced by the labor of freemen in our own country, over articles of the same kind produced by the albor of slaves?' In attempting to answer this question, I shall take it for granted that slavery is an evil, and that the emancipation of the slaves is a desirable object.--Both these positions I know are denied by individuals at the South, but I am writing only for persons who believe them; and to prove these assumptions would take more time than I can at present devote to the purpose. Does, then, purchasing any article produced by the labor of freemen in preference to the same article produced by slaves, have any tendency to effect the emancipation of the slaves? I cannot doubt that it has. No one, I believe, will question that if all the inhabitants of the northern States were to purchase articles produced by slave labor, the effect which it would have in producing emancipation would be irresistible. The demand for the produce of free laborers, being very much increased, and that for the produce of slaves very much diminished, slaveholders in every part of the country would have the strongest inducement to liberate their negroes, in order to bring them into the preferred class of laborers. Indeed I have no doubt, that if all the inhabitants of the northern States were to agree to prefer the products of free labor in the manner supposed, and would act in strict conformity with the agreement, the result would be a general emancipation of the southern slaves. On a smaller scale, the result would be similar. Suppose that only a few hundred persons in Philadelphia or Boston reslve to buy rice, the produc of free labor, whenever it can be obtained: Is not the tendency of this measure to lead some planters to cultivate that article by free negroes, in order to supply this demand? But it may be said, what can one person do?--His buying the products of free, in preference to those of slave labor, can produce no perceptible effect. But this reasoning is not sound. The whole community is made up of individuals. If every individual should always take it for granted, that his own exertions in any cause could not produce any good effects, it is very clear that all works of benevolence, which required a general co-operation, would go on but slowly. Besides, there is every prospect that so far from any person, who entered upon this cause, being alone, he would soon find himself united with many others. That this result may be confidently expected, will not be doubted by any on who recollects what numbers in Great Britain agreed to abstain from West India productions, when it was supposed that it would tend to put an end to the slave trade. At this very time, too, there are numerous associations in Great Britain of persons who abstain from slave produce with the hope that it will diminish slavery. Societies of the same kind have already been formed in Philadelphia and New York. I doubt not that there already numbers in this vicinity, who are prepared to adopt a similar course. I have, without making any inquiry, heard of several persons who now abstain altogether from articles produced by slave labor. If the whole community could be brought to think upon this subject, I am sure that large numbers would soon be found ready to prefer the produce of free labor wherever it could be procured. I am inclined to believe that the establishment of a store in this city, which should vend only free groceries, would meet with a liberal patronage. I hope that some conscientious person will be found to attempt it. If individuals giving a preference to free over slave produce have but little effect directly on slavery, by diminishing the market for its productions, the efforts made in this mode will not be unavailing.--They will, by directing public attention to the subject, tend to disperse the prevailing prejudices against the African race in this part of the country, and to put an end to slavery at the south, by showing to the planters the conscientious opinions of many persons here on the subject. I am sensible that I have not done justice to my subject, which I consider one of great importance. I have confined myself to the question, whether the produce of free should be preferred to that of slave labor wherever it can be procured. I have not examined the other question, of equal importance, as to the duty of entire abstinence from all articles produced by slave labor. But I hope, as I remarked in the beginning, to see this quesetion, as well as the others connected with it which were proposed by your correspondent, answered in some of your papers. To those who are doubting whether it is worth while to make any effort on this subject, I recommend the following remarks of the benevolent Clarkson, taken from his History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade: 'It cannot be otherwise than useful to us, to be impressivly reminded of the simple axiom, "that the greatest works must have a beginning;" because the fostering of such an idea in our minds cannot but encourage us to undertake the removal of evils, however vast they may appear in size, or however difficult to overcome. It cannot again be otherwise than useful to be assured (and this History will assure us of it) than in any work of righteousness, however small the beginnings may be, or however small the progress may be that we make in it, we ought never to despair; for that whatever checks and discouragements we may meet with, "no virtuous effort is ever ultimately lost."' Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Liberator 1:14, p. 54 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4.2.1831 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Labor Products Description An account of the resource We are truly glad to perceive that anti-slavery men are more generally waking up to the duty of abstaining from the products of slave labor. "By their fruits shall ye know them." Goods uncontaminated by the blood and tears of the bondman, may be obtained in this city, as advertised in our columns. It should be remembered that this is the lever which has been so effectual in moving public opinion in England. Let Christians ponder on a coming judgment, and do unto others as they would that they should do unto them. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reprinted from New York Emancipator Genius of Universal Emancipation 3:12, p. 191 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10.1833 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Markets for Free Labor Description An account of the resource We have repeatedly called the attention of our readers, to the gross neglect of the interests of Free-Labor, shown in our negotiations with foreign States. Further statements in proof of this, we now submit to their examination. Our trade with CUBA is highly valuable. In 1840, we imported from that island, merchandize to the amount of $9,835,477; while our exports were but $5,331,471. The fact to which we would direct attention is this--that, while for 14 years, say from 1826 to 1840, our exports to Cuba did not increase one dollar in value, our exports therefrom nearly trebled--for in 1826, they were only $3,894,597. The reason of this, we presume, is, that our commerce with Cuba is placed under very heavy restrictions. The average per cent duty on the value of our various articles of exports, in her ports was 67 PER CENT! The average per cent on English imports at the same time was only 12 percent!! Have any systematic efforts been made by our Government to relieve our commerce from this iniquitous burthen? We known of none. And why? The reader may guess the reason, when we state, that slave-labor staples constitute not one-fifth of our exports thither. The balance is the product of Free-Labor. Does any one doubt, that, did cotton, rice, sugar, or tobacco, enter chiefly into our commerce with Cuba, the mightiest efforts of every administration would have been made to secure more favorable terms? Let the protracted negotiations of the government with England, France, the German Union &c--answer. Let us now look at our trade with BRAZIL. And here we quote Mr. Webster, as sufficient authority. "There is no more unequal trade in the world," he remarks, "than that between the United States and Brazil. It is altogether on one side. The United States takes some five millions, (I believe trifle more,) of Brazilian products untaxed; and half a million slightly taxed--I mean her sugar. And what do they receive from us untaxed? Nothing at all! Their taxes on commodities from the United States are excessively high. They tax the products of the labor and lands of this country and sea 30, 40 and 48 per cent? We take five millions untaxed, and a half million slightly taxed. "How did they stand with England under the late treaty between that country and England?--Her stipulation by treaty--which still exists--was that English commodities should not be taxed more than 15 per cent. English cotton, clothing, &c., is taxed only 15 per cent., and ours from 30 to 50 per cent! Yet England taxes them 100 per cent, on some commodities. We take Brazil coffee free, and England taxes it 6 to 12 per cents per lb. Is that an equal treaty? Of course the tables of our exports to Brazil show no increase for years. If there be any increase of the trade, it is all to the advantage of that Power. In three years, 1838, 1839, 1840, the value of our merchandise was, 6,374,817 dol., on which she charged duty to the amount of 1,466,207 dol.  Has our government tried the effect of negotiations in putting our trade on a better footing?--Not at all--an why? In 1839, two thirds of our exports to Brazil consisted of Flour, and the balance of cotton goods, other manufactures, provisions &c., nearly all the products of free labor! Similar disadvantages burden our trade with MEXICO, from which we recive four or five times as much as she receives from us. In 1840, our imports therefrom were 4,927,296 dollars; our exprts thither, 969,038. When we tell the reader, that our exports to Mexico consist chiefly of cotton goods, manufactures of iron, flour, and other products of free labor, he will no longer wonder at the inattention of our slavery-ruled government to this commerce. The history of our relations with HAYTI, present a most humiliating picture of the subjection of the interests and wishes of the freemen of this Union to the tyranny of the slaveholders. In another number we shall say something about it. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Philanthropist 8:1, p. 2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.20.1843 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource PRODUCE OF FREE LABOR. CIRCULAR.: To the Farmers, Planters, Merchants, and others, in the United States and elsewhere. Description An account of the resource The system of slavery, as it exists at present, particularly on the American continent and islands, has produced much uneasiness and deep concern among the philanthropists of our time. It is very evident that the evil resulting from it is increasing steadily, and in an alarming degree. It is also susceptible of the clearest demonstration that, unless something be done speedily to arrest the progress of this evil, those sections of country wherein it prevails are destined to witness the most direful calamities; for all experience teaches us that, if the course at present pursued be long preserved in, that must, in the nature of things, be the inevitable consequence. Much has been said by persons who have the welfare of mankind at heart, to awaken the public attention, and exercise the public mind upon this subject. Many plans have been proposed with the view of totally abolishing the slave system, as the only means of preventing a state of things that must destroy the peace and prosperity of the nations, in which it is tolerated. But the advocates of this measure have difficulties of the most imposing kind to encounter at every step. The habits and prejudices contracted in several centuries, and all the calculations of avarice and self-interest (however blind, mistaken, and erroneous they may be,) are arrayed before them, and present obstacles altogether insurmountable. Many are convinced that free labor is, invariably, more profitable than that of slaves: and when this shall be fairly proven, an important point will be gained. For this reason and from motives of a conscientious nature, many have resolved to abstain from using the productions of slave-labor, and encourage those who may produce the staple commodities of slaveholding countries by free hands. Although much good has been done by the friends of humanity for a portion of our fellow-men, who have had unjustly to drink of the bitter cup of slavery, still much more remains to be done. There are, at this time, several millions of human beings, in our own and other countries, who are held in bondage, and must continue to groan under the tyrant's yoke, while the hopeless sign for liberty is heaved in vain, unless the philanthropic and the truly conscientious shall put forth their peaceful, but effective energies, in their behalf. While the love of money prevails over that of justice and humanity, but little can be hoped for through the medium of argument. While we continue to purchas and consume the labor of slaves, the cupidity of their owners will be nourished, and their chains more firmly rivetted. In order, therefore, to lessen the inducements for the continuance of this unhallowed practice; first, by aiding the philanthropic in effecting their wishes, as aforesaid, whereby the attention of many more may be drawn towards the subject; and secondly, by assisting to facilitate the making of experiments that may have a tendency to throw light upon it; we, the undersigned, have opened a mercantile house in the city of Baltimore, for the purchase and sale, on commission, of the products of free labor in general, (particularly article in the grocery line,) with the excption of spiritous liquors. The business of the firm will be transacted in the name of M. LAMB & LUNDY: and from the arrangements which we have made, and are making, together with a studied and careful attention to the orders of our friends and the promotion of their interests, we hope to be able to give general satisfaction. We shall strictly confine our dealings to commodities which are the production of free labor, as aforesaid, and shall endeavor to keep constantly on hand a general assortment of articles of that description, to dispose of by wholesale or retail. Farmers, Planters, and Merchants, in the United States and elsewhere, who may be disposed to make consignments to our care, may depend on having their business promptly and faithfully transacted.--And all, willing to patronize such an establishment, are hereby assured that the utmost care will be taken to guard against deception in the articles offered by us for sale. Having taken a commodious ware-house in a central part of the city, and being determined to use every exertion to accommodate such as may favor us with their custom, we shall confidently look forward with the hope of success in our undertaking. Persons at a distance, who may desire to correspond with us on business of a commercial nature, will please direct their communications to M. LAMB & LUNDY, No. 61. South Calvert Street, Baltimore. MICHAEL LAMB BENJAMIN LUNDY Baltimore, 8th mo. 5th, 1826. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michael Lamb and Benjamin Lundy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 1:49, p. 388 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8.5.1826 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A COMPARISON: BETWEEN FREE LABOR AND SLAVE LABOR Description An account of the resource The slave is bought, sometimes at a very high price; in free labor there is no such investment of capital. The slave does not care how slowly or carelessly he works; it is the freeman's interest to do his business well and quickly. The slave is indifferent how many tools he spoils; the freeman has a motive to be careful. The freeman will be honest for reputation's sake; but a slave has no care for reputation, while his poverty and sense of wrong both urge him to steal from his master. A salary must be paid to an overseer to compel the slave to work; the freeman is impelled by the desire of increasing the comforts of himself and family. Mrs. Child. Whenever the option exists to employ, at an equal hire, free or slave labor, the former will be decidedly preferred. It is more capable, more diligent, more faithful, and in every respect more worthy of confidence. It is believed that no where in the farming portion of the U.S. would slave labor be generally employed, if the proprietors were not tempted to raise slaves by the high price of the southern market, which keeps it up in his own.--Henry Clay The labor of a West India slave costs about thrice as much as it would if executed by a free man. Dr. Anderson. A West India planter found by experiment that six slaves, stimulated by the offer of a premium, did more work in the same time, than eighteen who were driven by the lash.--Hodgson. The mind of a slave, while a slave, is like a watch without its main-spring. You may take hold of its hands by direct physical force and move them round, but you cannot make them go alone. Th self-moving power is gone. But make that slave a freeman, restore his long-lost, but inalienable right, and by that single act, you have put the main-spring back again. --Phelps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mrs. Child (Lydia Maria Child), Henry Clay, Dr. Anderson, Hodgson, Phelps Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Religious Intelligencer...Containing the Principal Transactions of the Various Bible and Missionary Societies, with Particular Accounts of Revivals of Religion 20:36, p. 566 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2.6.1836 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Labor.: Certificates Description An account of the resource A paragraph, from the "Fredericksburg Arena," which has been copied into a number of other papers, in speaking of the Philadelphia "Free Cotton Association," expresses some doubt as to "where," in our free country, cotton could be obtained untouched by the hands of slavery. For the satisfaction of those who may be apprehensive of deception, we subjoin the following copies of certificates, testifying to the purity of the material employed in the late manufactures of the society. That made use of previously, was received from the same source. Certificates. We do hereby certify, that the 30 bales of cotton, sent by us to Morris Longstreth, of Philadelphia, marked F, and numbered 1 to 30, is, exclusively, cotton raised by free white persons, or at least by free laborers, and that no cotton, raised by slaves, has been mixed therewith. NATHAN HUNT JR. for Hunt & Stockton. Third Mo. 23d, 1830 I do certify that the 30 bales of cotton, sent by Hunt & Stockton to Morris Longstreth, is according to the above certificate, exclusively the product of Free Labor; as I personally attended to the picking of it. NATHAN HUNT. 3rd Mo. 23d, 1830. It is also questioned whether the plan of proceeding, adopted by the Association, is of a nature to operate beneficially on the condition of the slaves. We should suppose no unprejudiced mind would hesitate for an instant to answer in the affirmative. We are convincd the system of Free Labor, as it is one of the most quiet, is also one of the most efficient, auxiliaries of Emancipation. And most thoroughly are we persuaded that to give freedom to the slaves would advantage their masters, in a degree inferior only to the benefit derived from the negroes themselves. The superiority of Free Labor does not rest upon unsupported theory--it has been tested by fair experiment, and found by far the most profitable. The society of which we speak, wishes not to injure the interests of any individual--nor can it interfere with the true interests of any one, to hold out inducments for them to return from a path of injustice to one of rectitude. It is but reasonable to suppose that the persons who are now slaves, would labor as cheerfully and industriously, when disencumbered, if not of the weight of actual fetters yet of the heavy sense of degradation and thrall, which presses upon their hearts and weighs down the energies of their nature with a dull lethargy. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 1:5, p. 73 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8.1830 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Free Labor Produce Description An account of the resource Can you tell us, Mr. Editor, where and on what terms we can purchase sugar, molasses and coffee; the proceeds of free labor. I use from two to three barrels of sugar, a barrel of molasses and a bag of coffee in my family per year, and feel unwilling to contribute that little to the support of slavery. It is said that the new tariff levies a tax of two cents per pound on foreign sugar for the benefit of the slave-holder. By southern doctrine, we of the free states pay on every pound of sugar we use two cents per pound to help the slave-holder and put off for a little longer the universal bankruptcy of the south. Let us hear what you can tell us on this subject. FARMER There is no Free Produce store in Cincinnati but there ought to be one. We have been repeatedly interrogated on this subject. Were such a store established here, we doubt not, it would receive a large patronage, and yield a fine profit to its keeper. We do hope some one will adventure. If any one is so disposed, and has the capital, we can put him on a train, by which he can ascertain what he may calculate upon. ED. PHILANTHROPIST. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Philanthropist 7:33, p. 1 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4.12.1843