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Protection Of Labor

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
June
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Emancipator has severa] columns showins the effect of the increase of the tariff on sucar, sn far as it affects alave labor. The propositlon of the riecretary of the Treasury is to impose a duty of tiiree cents on a pound of brown eucrar. The amount of capital invested is about $52.00.000. In Louisiana, it appenrs trom a memorhl to the Icgislature n 1840. that the whole number of susar estates was 525, empioying 40.000 hands. These "hands" conetitute ahout fourfifths of the whole capital iñvested. The entire annual coPt of a hand per annum. including all expenses of the plnntation, is $50. This item covers food, fucl. driver's wages, & A letter of the TTon. Joáah S. Johnston, late Senator of the U. S.. dated Janunry, 1830. says, lbo prire offiiaves is doubled by the duty on su„ar "- Uoc , p. 57. And " a reduction of duty would produm a corresnondin? roduction npon tlm v;.In of slnvcsevery wliore m the Soulhcru Smtcs "- p 50. JA roduction of onc cent on a noúndduty ón snaar would take away one cent fron. the profir. and that is cqnnl to half the profit. Whirh would reduce the value of the slavcs onehalC' He savs to reduce th.s duty would be to destroy the 'value of the slavc proper tv. and "to strik out from the protect.on ofthc .ovemment the only Creat object ,n whichi he. Houth can feel anv inlcrcst. - p. 4. ine profil on lbo canital goes back ch.efly o Virginia and Marvland to purchase more : el a ves. W9 optimates tbat éacb ten years w.ll requ. e dbufcle tbc number of hand to keep pace wHh the ixitréésU domand." Tbe present P"co f sugar, at 5J conts, is sustainod by a duty of 3 cents a pound." - 52. - .A great variety of íacts are ncwuccu, wnicn fully demónstrales that thc eficcts of the tnriffon sugnr will be, and are intcr.ded to be as folJows: 1 To alvo 525 men, proprietore of sugar .lantíitionsrabont three millions of dollars a ycar, nnidbv araised pricclo that ainonnt on Biar.- Every .non, womanand child vvho usos hnlf a íouñd of súgar, contributes a cent to swel th.6 SSS rent,'not like O'Connell s , jojunlary, ,nd devoted to the advnncoment of hberty, but Torced, and for thé benefit of slnyery 2 To iríve nothing addmonal ,to the 4O.W0 hands '' the working men, by whoso la 1,o.-b th.s ïu"ar is produccd-no wages, no cora íons , no Upects of Pood to thoirchildron-U., on the watrary, to iuflamo thc avoíicc tf we && bythe excitement of high prices, and thus incrcns the toils and the sulterings which, even in ord nnry timee, nre allowed to reduce their number 2 per cent, a ycar, bcsidcs the natural mercas - a regular hiortality of 2, l'Ó men a year fo the purpose of raisiiig the pnce of sugar. 3. To mise or keup up the price of slavcs, an add activity to the atrocious domestic slave irad - a trade as replete with horrors as that of Judia for which the British Government is so constant ly and dcservedly censured. O, how many tie vvill be broken, how many hcarts will bleed, ho many cofttes of chained Americans will travers the many hills of East Tenncssce, or crowd the barracoousof Baltimore, Washington and Iiichmond, and the holds of the Newburyport and Portland brigs, follewing the track of the Creóle - that sugar may be dear cnough to put three m.llions of dollars into the pockets of live hundren idlc ganiblers and amalgamutors in Louisiana!"

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