14 10 250 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 or Slave Labor Description An account of the resource In the first page of this paper, I have copied from a work, published a few years since, by Daniel Raymond, Esq. some remarks on the "Influence of Slavery upon National wealth." Something further, from the same source, will be given hereafter; and before the subject is dismissed, I shall endeavour to show the impropriety and inutility of employing slave labour, in any portion of our country, instead of that of free-men, as exemplified in numerous instances. It is true that I have but little respect for those who consciences are carried in their pockets; but it is necessary, at time, to pay some attention to them. PROGRESS OF VIRTUOUS PRINCIPLE. An esteemed correspondent writes as follows: the conduct of those, to whom he alludes, most truly "speak volumes." Let them persevere in this course, and we shall see whether it will not have a beneficial tendency. "Although many of our strick and steady Quakers say they own no slaves, and have little or nothing to do with the Manumission Societies but to wish them success; yet the words PORT AU PRINCE, &c. may be seen on their coffee sacks, and many are heard enquiring, at stores, if the sugar or coffee is from Hayti.--This speaks volumes. I wish success to a fashion and spirit of that kind--it will work miracles." While on this subject, it may be remarked that Jeremiah Thompson of New York, offers a permium on cotton raised in our southern country by free labor. Charles Collins, also, of New York, keeps an extensive Grocery Store, consisting wholly of articles which are produced by free labor. I am informed that report is industriously circulating, representing that this paper is mainly supported by the society of Friends--that it is under their direction, and that few others have taken any interest in the establishment. This is one of the miserable shifts which the advocates of slavery are under the necessity of resorting to, when they wish to exercise their vituperative talents, or issue their splenetic ffusions against the friends of emancipation. It is well known to many, that the paper is patronized by a considerable number of respectable citizens, of different religious denominations; and further, that no person whatever except the editor himself, has the least degree of interest in, or control over it. I shall notice this subject more fully in a future Number. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 1:4, p. 28 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9.17.1825 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 Produce Description An account of the resource Blackley, near Philadelphia, 2d mo., 5th, 1850. RESPECTED FRIEND, WM. LLOYD GARRISON: Looking through some of my exchange papers today, I noticed an article in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, under the title 'Expurgation of Books.' The facts stated are not, of course, new to thee, but I enclose the slip containing them. Abolitionists are well acquainted with the distaste manifested by slaveholders towards any thing which conflicts with their sentiments and interests, and we are accustomed to condemn the dough-facism that mutilates books, poems, &c., to suit them. Pursuing my task, I took up the Liberator, and casting my eye over the report of the proceedings of the Syracuse Convention, copied from the Syracuse Journal, which I had previously seen, I was disappointed, astonished, pained, at finding an 'expurgation" of an incident--the introduction to the meeting of Henry B. Marshall, together with his remarks upon the duty of anti-slavery men to refuse the purchase of cotton, sugar, &c., from slaveholders. This man doubtless felt that for fourteen years he had been robbed of the products of his labor, and he was taught, by his unsophisticated sense of right, that the purchasers of those products are partakers in the wrong committed by the oppressor. I think great weight is to be attached to the feelings and testimony of such a man. I have known other cases of a similar character; Wm. W. Brown is one of them. The first time I saw him was at a large anti-slavery meeting in this State. I offered a resolution affirming the duty of abolitionists to refuse to purchase or use the fruits of the cruel system which they were seeking to overthrow. After two or three had spoken, Brown rose, and, as I was entirely ignorant of his sentiments on the subject, I felt some anxiety; but he soon relieved and delighted me, dclaring that while he was in the condition of a slave, and when he began to reflect upon the character and nature of slavery, one of the first impressions on his mind was the wrongfulness of purchasing and using the products of slave labor! Such, too, has been the conviction in the minds of thousands, during their early, fresh, pure anti-slavery life. Such was the early conviction of WM. LLOYD GARRISON! and the writer of this has long believed, that if this champion of freedom has continued, as he began, to earnestly and powerfully advocate the disuse of slave products, in connection with other anti-slavery duties, the downfall of slavery would at this moment be nearer than it is. O! that his eyes were opened to see, as they once saw, that slavery is not sustained merely by the political and ecclesiastical union of the North with the South, but that the commercial union, which at once gives and satisfies the motive for slaveholding, largely contributes to sustain the system, and should be dissolved by every one who would not strike hands with the oppressor. Is it not plain to him, that slavery in Cuba and Brazil is sustained mainly, if not exclusively, by a commercial union between those countries and others, including the United States? With sentiments of great respect, I am,  Very truly, thy friend, SAMUEL RHOADS P.S. If abolitionists would but go 'onward, hand to hand and heart to heart,' in realizing themselves, and pressing home upon the people in the free States, their INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY in sustaining slavery by purchasing and using its productions, it will not have to be said, after another twenty years' persevering effort, that 'there was not one single village in the country, however small its population, that was thoroughly imbued with the anti-slavery spirit; that there was not an anti-slavery pulpit or church that has a reputable character; and that the leaders in Church and State are still with the oppressor.'--See Proceedings of Mass. A.S. Society. For a brief rejoined to this complaining letter--this impeachment of our fairness and moral courage--see editorial department. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Samuel Rhoads Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Liberator 20:9, p. 36 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.1.1850 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 Productions. Description An account of the resource In our advertising department, our readers will find the card of our friends Hoag & Wood, 377 Pearl street, New York. Having recently had the pleasure of looking over their large assortment of excellent goods, we feel more than willing to recommend them to all who would prefer to encourage free rather than slave labor. To decided advocates of universal freedom, it would seem scarcely necessary to speak of the propriety of a discrimination of this nature. Were all the professed friends of Freedom in the United States to unite in refusing to consume or traffic in the productions of slave labor, it can scarcely be doubted that such a refusal would directly affect the market value of these fruits of toil unrequited. The effect of the refusal of the Society of Friends and others in Great Britain to consume slave-grown sugars in hastening the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, itself is matter of history. The personal example, moreover, has a moral power, which is by no means to be overlooked. The Diary of the late excellent William Allen, the friend and coadjutor of Clarkson and Wilberforce, contains the following entry, made when its author was but nineteen years of age, and to which he steadfastly adhered for forty-five years, until the complete abolition of British colonial slavery: "When I reflect upon the tyranny and oppression exercised by my countrymen towards the poor Africans, and the many thousands yearly murdered in the disgraceful slave trade, I can but be a zealous opposer of slavery; and, indeed, I have been so for a long time, as far as lay in my power; yet one step further may be taken by me, which is wanting to COMPLETE my testimony in this respect, and which, if universally adopted, would inevitably put a stop to this enormous evil--and that is, disusing those commodities procured by the labor of slaves. And as sugar is, undoubtedly, one of the chief, I resolve, through Divine assistance, to persevere in the disuse of it until the slave trade shall be abolished." A pleasing instance of the influence of this testimony on the part of William Allen is given by the editors of his "Life and Correspondence." "When George W. Alexander visited Holland in 1844, to promote the abolition of slavery by the Dutch Government, P. Elout, a judge, and person of high consideration at the Hague, in conversation on the subject of slavery, said 'It is to William Allen I attribute all I have felt and done for the cause of the slave. When he was at the Hague, many years since, I was invited, together with a number of serious individuals, to take tea with him. I was then quite a youth. He took no sugar with his tea, which surprised me. I was more surprised by the reason he gave for this. He told the company that he had long abstained from the use of it, because he could not, wth peace of mind, partake of that as a gratification, for which thousands of innocent people were compelled to labor in cruel and hopeless bondage. I was struck with this example of self-denial, by so great a man as I thought him to be, in a thing so seemingly small in itself, and I was led to consider how great must be the evil of a system which could make so deep and so religious an impression upon his feelings. From that period my own sentiments have been engaged in the cause of the negro, and my efforts given to procure their emancipation in the colonies of Holland.'" It gives use pleasure to learn that efficient measures are in train to ascertain the amount of cotton, sugar, rice, &c., now cultivated in the United States by free or paid labor, and to procure, as far as may be, a supply of such products, to meet the growing demand for them. The non-slaveholders of the South--the poor white laborers--who have hitherto found it difficult to compete with their slaveholding neighbors, will not fail to see the advantage of this movement to themselves. The editors of the "Non-Slaveholder," in a recent article on this subject, state, as the result of actual investigation, that a large amount of free-grown cotton is already produced in the Southern States. "Let it," they say, "be selected to the exclusion of the slave-grown, by the friends of the slave, at a slightly advanced cost, if necessary, and the energies of the millions of non-slaveholder who are now degraded and oppressed by a small slaveholding oligarchy, will be aroused and stimulated to exertions which, directly and indirectly operating on the interests and the conscience of the slaveholders, and combined with foreign action and a similar course in respect to the other staple productions of slave labor, will unquestionably put an end to slavery and the slave trade." J.G.W. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Era 2:65, p. 49 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3.30.1848 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J.G.W. (John Greenleaf Whittier) 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 Advertisements 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 Warehouse Description An account of the resource Free Labor Associations, Dealers in Free Labor goods, and individuals wishing to obtain for their own consumption the products of free labor, are hereby informed that there is now in stock, a large and increasing variety of cotton fabrics, such as Prints, Ginghams, Lawns, Colored Cambrics, Paper Muslins, Shirting and Sheetings of different grades, bleached and unbleached, Drillings and Canton Flannels, brown, bleached and colored, both light and heavy, Extra Drills for bagging and wagon covers, Summer Pant Stuffs, Hosiery, fine and heavy, Knitting Cotton, in variety, Sewing Cotton, white and colored, Table Oil Cloths, new and beautiful styles, &c., &c. Damask Table Cloths will shorty be in store. A number of articles in flax, as Shirting Linen, Long Lawns, Table Cloths, Toweling, Crash, Thread, Tapes, &c., &c. Of Cotton and Wool mixed; Satinets, Tiogas, Kentucky Jeans, Flannels, &c. Cashmerettes in course of preparation. For sale low, by the piece, a lot of very neat Printed Linen Cambrics; also, in great variety, a lot of Printed Poplins. The usual variety of GROCERIES, viz., Crushed and Pulverised Sugars, Muscovados of good quality, Syrup, Coffee, Chocolate, including a very superior Caracas, Cocoa, Rice, &c. TEAS, well selected and fine; Spices, Confectionery, &c. Patterns and Samples sent to order. GEO. W. TAYLOR N.W. cor. of 5th and Cherry sts. Address Letters to Box 2170 Philadelphia Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Friends' Review; a Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal 9:21, p. 331 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2.2.1856 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George W. Taylor 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