200 PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA. 



without being prepared to better it by some practical 

 scheme, is but a selfish demagogue, and should be dis- 

 countenanced by every well-disposed man. 



To bring round the immediate emancipation would not 

 be for the interest of the slaves in the South and it 

 would be an unjustifiable plunder of the Southern people, 

 as the greater portion of them have no property but 

 slaves. It would be depriving them of that property 

 transmitted to them by England itself.* It would leave 

 the father with his family destitute. It would leave the 

 widow and the orphan to famish in want and misery. It 

 would be to make vagabonds and a discontented people 

 of the now cheerful and contented slave ; it would be to 

 cut off the right arm of the United States generally ; it 

 would be to bring round a deadly warfare between the 

 two races, which would end in the negroes being exter- 

 minated, and would for a few years deprive England of 

 one half of her supply of cotton. 



Two articles would cease to be cultivated in America 

 with the emancipation of slaves, viz : cotton and rice. 



The yearly exports from the whole of the United 

 States, taking the average of the last three years, would 

 be $133,500,000. 



* Slavery was introduced as early as 1620 into South Carolina by 

 the English, and at a very recent period the following parties took 

 part in the trade, viz : 



From 1st January 1804 to 31st December 1807, the following is the 

 number of slaves imported into South Carolina : 



By the English 19,649 



By the French 1,078 



In American vessels - 18,048 



So it is seen England can swear like John Bull at slavery, but 

 make money oh human flesh when the opportunity serves. 



