The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-08-02
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ing; and it grows worse every year, as that popu-
lation augments ia numbers. In vain do many Of
the States give the negroe the right of sufrage and
all the legal privileges Of the whites the color
marks the dreadful difference which, here, at least,
ages cannot obliterate. The negroes, however
equal in law, are not equal in fact. They are no.
where found in the colleges or universities, upon
the bench or at the bar, in the muster or the jury
box, in legislative or executive stationsj nor does
marriage, the great bond ofsociety, unite the white
with the negro, except rare occurrence OF such
unnatural alliance, to call forth the scorn disgust
of the whole community. Indeed, could truly
say, if passing into the immediate presence Of the
Most High, that, in morals and comforts, the free
black is far below the slave; and that, while the con-
diton ofthe slave has been greatly ameliorated,
and improving every year, that o the free blacks
(as the official tables demonstrate) is sinking in
misery and debasement at every census, as, from
time to time, by emancipation and other causes,
they are augmented in number. Can it, then, be
sinful to refuse to change the condition othe slaves
to position Of far greater wretchedness and de-
basement by reducing them to the level Of the free
negro race, to occupy the asylums of the deaf and
dumb, the blind, the idiot and insane; to wander as
mendcants to live in pestilent alleys and novels,
by theft or charity; or to prolong miserable ex-
iStence in the poor-house or the Jail? All history
proves that no people on earth ar. more deeply
imbued with the love of freedom, and ofits diffu-
sion every where, among all who can appreciate
and enjoy its blessings, than the people of the
| South; and if the negro slave were improved in
morals and comforts, and rendered capable of self
government, by emancipation, it would not be
gradual, but Immediate, if the profits of slavery
were ten fold greater than they are.
ADMITTING TEXAS SECURES THE EXITING
TIoN OF SLAVERY.
Is slavery, then, never to disappear from the Uni
onf II confined within its present limits, do not
perceive when or how It is to terminate. 1t is
true, Mr.. George Tucker, the distinguished Vr-
ginian and professor in their great university, has
demonstrated that, in period not exceeding eigh-
ty years, and probably less, from the density opop-
ulationin all the slavehoding States, hired labor
would be as abundant and cheap as slave labor,
and that all pecuniary motive for the continuance
of slavery would then have ceased. But would it,
therefore, then disappear? No, it certainly would
not; for at the lowest ratio, the slaves would then
number at least ten millions Could such mass
be emancipated? And ifso what would be the
resut' We have seen, by the census and other
proof, that one-sixh of the fee blacks must be sup
ported at the pnbllc expense; and that, at the low
rate of $50 each, it would cost $50 900 900 per
mum to be raised by taxation to support the free
blacks then in the South requiring support namely:
l,666 ,666, if manumisslon were permitted; but as
such tax could not be collected, emancipation
would be, as it now is, rohi6ted6y by la,c, and sla-
very could not disappear in this manner, even
when it became Improbable. No, ten millions Of
free blacks permitted TO at large In the limits
of the South, could never be tolerated. Again,
then the question is asked is slavery never to dIs.
appear from the Union' This is startling and
momentous question; but the answer is easy, and
the proof is clear; ii ,ciH certainly disappear i
Teras is reannered to the Union; not by abolitions
but against and in spite of all its frenzy, slowly and
gradually, by diffusion, as it has alleady thus near
ly receded from several Of the more northern of
the slaveholding States, and as it will continue
thus more rapidly to secede by the remuneration Of
Texas, and finally, in the distant future, without
shock without abolition, without convulsion, dis
appear into and through Texas, into Mexico and
Central and Southern America. Thus, that same
overruliug Providence that watched over the land
ing Of the emigrant and pilgrims at Jamestown and
Plymouth; that gave us the victory in our struggle
for independence; that guided by His inspiration
The trainers OF our wonderful constitutions that has
thus far preserved this great Union from dangers
so many and imminent, and is now shielding it from
abolition, its most dangerous and internal foe-wili
open Texas as safety-valve, into and through
which slavery will slowly and gradually recede,
and finally disappear into the bou ndless regions of
Mexico and Central and Southern merica. Be-
yond the Del Norte slavery will not pass; not on.
ly because it is forbidden by law, but because the
colored races there preponderate in the ratio of ten
to one over the whites; and holding, as they do,
the government, and most of the Offices in their
own possession, they will never permit the ensave-
ment of any portion of the colored race. which
makes and executes the laws of the country. In
Bradford's Atlas, the facts are given as follows;
'sMexico-area, 100000 square miles; pop.
ulation 5000, ,O00-one-sxh white, and all the rest
Indians, Africans, mulattoes, zambos, and other
coored races.
"Central America-area, 1856 GOO square miles;
population nearly 1000, ,000--one-sixth white, and
the rest negroes, zambos, and other colored races
South America-area, $500, 900 square miles;
population IA 200, ,000-1 900 900 white, 4,000,-
0O0 Indians; and the remainder, being 1900, 900,
blacks and other coloIed races.
The outlet for our negro race, through this vast
region, can never be opened but by the reannexa-
ton of Texas; but in that event, there, that
tensive country, bordering upon our negro popu-
ation and four times greater in area than the whole
Union, with sparse population of but three to the
square mile, where nine-tenths ofthe population II
Of the colored races there, upon that fertile so.
and in that delicious climate, 80 admirably adapted
to the negro race, all experience has now clearly
proved, the free black would find home. There.
also slaves, in the lapse of time, from the densi
ty ofpopuation and other causes, are emsncipated,
they will disappear from time to time west Of the
Del Norte, and beyond the limits of the Union,
among race of their own color; win be diiused
throughout this vast region. where they win NOT