e more liberty than a free laborer of the North could experience. Free laborers must worry about a home, will always be insecure of employment, know sickness may overtake him at anytime and deprive him of the means of support, old age is certain to overtake him, his family is probably increasing in number and only becoming more burdensome (Fitzhugh, 248). None of this matters to a slave, he will have a house of his own, will never have to worry about employment, be supported even when sick, will take care of young children when old, and their family will be supported if it grows larger. Slaves have a life that a free laborer will never have.As soon as our cotton industry grew and became so important to our economy, the North decides to try to take away our free labor. This is the era of cotton, America's number one export. From the work of slaves and the manufacture of cotton, mankind are better clothed, their comfort better promoted, general industry more highly stimulated, commerce more widely extended, and civilization more rapidly advanced than any preceding age. To be exact, nine-tenths of the cotton consumed in the Christian world is the product of the slave labor of the United States (Christy, 335). This monopoly itself has given slavery its commercial value, and while this monopoly is retained, the institution will continue to extend itself wherever it can find room to spread. For those that look for other results must expect nations, which for centuries have waged war to extend their commerce, will now abandon that means of aggrandizement and bankrupt themselves to force the abolition of slavery (Fitzhugh, 247). As the monopoly of the culture of cotton imparts to slavery its economical value, the system will continue as long as this monopoly is maintained. In the Constitution of the United States, it states all men are created equal. This is not true; not all are born physically, morally, or intellectually equal. ...
