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THE MARRIAGE LAW.

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the other, they increase' rapidly, through an ex-
tensive concubinage. . The result is one with m hich
we have a practical concern. The total population of
the State is 668,1,07 ; and the majority of the slave
population over, the free is already 101,461, or
nearly a sixth; while the births in that class are 3
to lof the free inhabitants. The excess of deaths
among the slaves is 5,85 S ; while the excess of
births is 9,564. The anxious question is now asked,
what will be the condition of the State after another
thirty years ? Here is no increase of white popu-
lation m the last thirty—the deaths nearly equalling
the births, the small surplus always wandering,
away him its unprosporous birthplace ; and mean -
time tile black element—which is the slave element,
for there are no free blacks—steadily and rapidly
encroaching upon the free. Now we see why there
is such fierce opposition of opinion on the spot
about the reopening of the African slave trade. A
country-bred, narrow, selfish proprietor, who knows
only that the slaves in the market are far too dear
for a man with a declining estate and insufficient
capital, seizes upon the idea of importing savage.;
cheap ; and he bestirs himself to get the thing
talked up at Charleston, and even at- Washington.
Wiser men, more conversant with affairs, and more
awake to the perils of the State, see that it will be
more than they and their sons can do to go on as
they are, and to extricate themselves safely from
their perils ; and that it would be immediate de-
struetton t 9 introduce native Africans among a slave
population already nearly one-third more numerous
than the free race. The recent discussion in the
Legislature is distinguished by an earnestness and
solemnity which indicate the gravity of the case.
When we remember that the same contrast be-
tween the prospects of free and slave labour is be-
coming conspicuous through the whole range of the
States we shall admit that it would be -rash in the
extreme to depend for our cotton supply on a coun-
try already so disturbed in its industrial area, and
so certainly destined to go through a most trying
revolution in the conditions of labour. Meantime,
the exhortations offered to South Carolina by sister
States are strong and clear—to encourage the white
element and repress the black—to invite free immi-
grants and get rid of slaves with all convenient
speed. We know that this cannot be done. We
know that free and slave labour cannot exist face
to face. It is not our province to foretel what part
the South Carolina planters will take. We have
only to observe at present that their position and
circumstances are something very unlike what the
Times sets forth, and to take early care to secure a
supply of cotton for our own needs, which shall
prevent our being too much affected by any con-
vulsions which may occur in the industrial system
of the Southern States of America.—. Daily News.