The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-05-11


naturally flows to that point where it is most de-
manded or will procure the highest market. At
this moment almost every branch of mechanical
business, commands much higher wages in the
Southern than in the Northern States, and but for
the obstacles placed in their way by institution
that degrades them to the level of slaves, mechan-
les and laborers would emgrate thither. If such
demand can exist under the present dilapidated
condition of her agriculture and the depressed
state of arts and manufactures, as exhibited in
meagre population of eighteen to square mile !;
what would it not become, when by a rapid and
natural increase, her population should approx
mate to that of some of the New England States.
All the laborers they have, and more than all,
sources which emancipation would place at the
disposal of her planters and capitalists. Witness
the result in the British West Indies.
g "They are there And the trouble, expense,
distance to be travelled, time necessary for the
journey, &c. would forever dissuade the main
body from migration to the North.
| 3. There is far more room for them in the
slavehoding portions of the United States than in
the non-slaveholding. In the former there is one
third more territory and third less population
than in the latter
A. The climate of the South is congenial to
them, that of the North uncomgenial.
S. There is far less prejudice against the col
ored man there than at the North.
6. They are remarkable for their local attach
ments. This is one of their peculiarites every
where-wherever they are to be found, their aver
sion to change Of residence, especially to dis
tan removal, is procer6ial. All travellers in AT
RIGA unite in this testimony. Edwards History of
the West lndies-Wash's Sketches of Brazil
Mathesons Notices of Jamaica'-Dr. Dickson's
Mitigation Of Slavery Surge and Haryey's
/ West Indies in 1S37'-Thome and KimbalPs Six
months in Antigua, Barbados and jamaica abound
with testimony to this trait
We insert from the latter work, a few tesmo-
MES of ex-slaveholders in Antigua. The ne
groes are not disposed to leave the estates which
they have lived, unless they are forced away by
bad treatment H Armstrong, Esq.
Nothing but bad treatment on the part of the
planters has ever caused the negroes to leave the
estates on which they were accustomed to i've
S. Bourne, Esq.
The negroes are remarkably attached 10 he1T
ome.'-JameS HoaOeU, Esq.
'The negroes are peculiar for their attachment
to their homes. IS. Barnard, Esq.
Love of home is very remarkable In the ne
groes. It IS a passion Nth Mem- Daniel,
Member Of the Council
An aged planter said They have gerry strong
local attachments They love their little hut and
will endure almost any hardship before they will
desert that spot
Messrs. Thome and Kimball say Such are
the sentiments of West India planters express
sed in the ma jorty of cases, spontaneously, and
mostly in illustration of other statements. We
did not hear word that implied an opposite SEN
timent One gentleman observed that it was a
very common saying, with the Negroes Me a,e6-
Der leace mig Jornin groumd.'-i.e birth place.
T. The slaves rarely run away from mild mas
tiers nor. When they become their oacm masters
and are protected by just laws, why should they
leave their native region TO roam among strangers
in an uncongenial cline?
g. Slaves, when emancipated in the South, stay
there unless driUen out.
There were, in $780, 1000 more free colored
people in the slave states than in the free states
and this Notwithstanding all the barbarous laws OF
the slave states, made expressly to Cypress and
drive thep out. From 1920 to 1880, the free col
ored popAation of the slave states increased 35
per cent, while the colored population of the free
states increased only 49, per cent but little more
than half as fast, and this in spite of expulsion
laws, and Notwithstanding the removal by the
Colonization Society of 1908 from the slave states,
and only 155 from the free states.
The utter aversion of the slaves, when free, to
migrate from the State, was asserted by General
Broadnax, an advocate of colonization, in his
speech in the Virginia Legislature, in 1882, in IA
vor of a bill for the forcbe removal of free color
ed people He said 1t is Idle to talk about not
resortng to FORCE. X They must be
to 90. ALL OF US
LOOK TO FORCE, OF SOME KIND An
other member, Mr. Fisher said: If we wait until
the free negroes consent to leave the State, we
shall wait till time is no more
If they are reluctant to leave mOao, while slave
holding laws crush them to the dust will they be
more disposed to leave when slavery is abolished,
and with it that bloody code against the free col
pred people which slavery made necessary" {
Further. When the slaves are emanclpated,
he present masters acould choose to employ them
is hired aborers in preference to any other class
They hare azpcayS been accustomed 10 Mem-
MANY of the Shareholders in the West Indies, en-
aged at the passage of the Emancipation Act,
md in hot haste to verify heir own predictions Of
uin, imported white aborers to supply the places
If their emancipaed slaves But brief expert G
nen let off their zeal meanwhile the importa 1
ion came to stand their wrath got cold enough
o swallow; and instead Of paying IA hundred per
ent premium for the reputation of prophets, and I
ftcr all having their labor and losing their cash b
Or therPains, they turned their foreign laborerS
drift, aid were glad to hire those 10 whom they il
h.. xJ,n, ,,o1 Ia