Vigorous Growth Of Free Communities

in our iraveis m vanous chrections, we wereforcibly struck wilh the vigorous and healthy growth of the country all over the free stutes, forming a remaikable contrast with the general appearance oí the slave States, where thero are very few places that do not bear the marks of decreptitude and decay. As an instance of the condilion of the latter, even in the new states, and among the most iavorably situated places, take the fact statcd recently in our hearing,1 on the best authority. ín the town of Montgomery, Alabama, four years ago, there were sixty dry goods' stores. Now there are but fiftcen, and several of those quite 8mall. We have not seen or heard of one town in the corthcrn states that has declincd like that - hardly one that has not actually advanced in population, and business, notwithstanding the 'hard times.' Yet Montgomery is the centre of trade for one of the most productive and well settled parta of Alabama. Now let any man go toNew Haven, and Springfield, Worcester, Albany, Poughkeepsie, and see what marks of thrift are every where 10 bc seen. Even Newark, which has euíTered prodigiously by its southern trade, is at this moment increiising its number of buildings. Our readers both North and South may form sorne idea of the djfíerence in the growth of the two sections, und perhaps may be led to phi losophise a little on the cause, by reading a paragraph from a Séneca county correspondent of the last Genessee Farmer, dated Waterloo, September 18. ín a recent jaunt as far a9 Madison and Chenango counties, that which struck our uttention mo3t, was the great number of rural visitora on the road, journeying almost without exception, in expensive L springcd carriages and buggie?, with ele-f gant sido lamps, the horses caparisoned]with brass mounted or plated hurness, the dress and boggage of tho travcllers in keeping with the equipage. Tvveuty ycara ago, when we passcd through this country, our springed earriuge was looked on as a struggling exotie, to be wondered at rather than admired, much less lo be desired. Ox teams were then more common than horse teams. I doubt whether was a farmer then within ten miles square, who coüld boast uf a spring carriage ora plated harness. Two farmers would then once a year fit out a team for Sa!t Point to buy salt, by furnishing eacli a horse, with a ccrtain quantum of rope and leather, callcd a tackling. Ifl was asked what has produced this great change in the sucial condition of our rural populaiion, Í should say, it was va-" ried and increased production. The birlh or inlroduction and increase of the mechnnic arts in the country, has no been a whit behind the progress of agricullural industry; it may be eaid that from the nature ofiheir mutual wants, they have incident.illy stimulated each other. Thus has Hamilton grown up with its endowed seminaries and schools - and Log City has been converled from a little city of logs as its significant early name implies, into one of elegant mansions, Grecian cottages, extensive factories, and workshops. "Varied and increased production." - That is the secret of the growth of society.. And that alchymy is as impracticable n u slaveholding community, as the Philosopher's stone ilself. Slavery is condemned by its nature, to pursue a beaten round of the most unsküled, and ill-directed, and the least productive, and generáis ly unremunerating toil. Look now at the picture drawn above, of a couple of counties of cold, rough territory in a Free State. Then let our merchants and politica! economists consider the comparativo valué of the trade of forty thousand such peopie, and of a populaüon of forty thousand in the western part of Alabama. - And finalty, take into consideration the almost absolute certainty of payment,always and in all conditions of trade, with the equal certainty of a general failure of payments every five or six years in a slaveholding seclion. Now toll us where are the resources of the country, and who pays for the support of the government. How disgraceful it is to see the representatives of such a peopie forever led by tho nose, or brow-beatcn by the bullying beggars of the Souih,