AMERICAN SYSTEM.
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The following declaration Of, or perhaps plea for,
Independence, is made by the editor Of the Norfolk
Herald, OF the 29th ult. Our friends of the south
really speak out.


We have copied to day from the NJ York Jour-
nal of Commerce, an article intended to shew the
impocy Of setting up manufactures in the Southern
States, and the great superiority of the free labor of
the North the slave labor of the South, in man.
ufacturing establishments To which we would re-
ply: the North is getting rich by its manufactures,
while the South, obstnaely depriving itself oftheir
aid heretofore, is daily growing poor, in spite of its
large capital Even in small town, it is
computed that we have half million lying idle for
want of profitable investments, and we have, more
over, eariully large portion of our population eth
er entirely idle, or employed not more than half
their time single cotton mandatory in our
town would, we are confident, materially alter the
aspect of our afairs-t would set the idle to work,
and gradually draw out the imprisoned boards of
wealth to nourish and revive dropping trade.
If the agricultural States of Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Maryland are rising to prosperity by manufac-
lures, why may not Virginia and North Carolina
After all that has been said to the contrary, we are
of opinion that slave labor may be advantageousy
employed should be necessary to resort to it-but
we have besides an abundant free population to
whom such employment would be blessing Let
us at least not be discouraged from making eff
fort, before resign ourselves to poverty and ruin