The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-07

capital Of England; and there. they blood over
schemes Of abolition, in association with British
societies; there they Join in denunciations of their
countrymen, until their hearts are filled with trea-
son and they return home, Americans in name,
but Englishmen in feelings and principles Let us
ALL then, feel and know, whether we live North or
South that this party, IT not vanquished, must
This party propose the immediate abolition Of
slavery throughout the Union. ii this were prac-
ticable, let us look at the consequences BY the
returns of the last census, the products OF the slave
holding States, in 1910, amounted IN value TO
S4O4, 429, 63S These products, then, OF the South,
must have alone enabled it to furnish home mar
ket tor all the surplus manufactures OF the North,
also market for the products OF It's forests and
fisheries and giving a mighty impulse to all It's
commercial and navigating interests. Now, nearly
all these agricultural products Of the South which ac-
cOmplsh all these great purposes, Is the result Oh
slave labor and, strike down these products by the
immediate abolition Of slavery, and the markets Of
the South for want Of the means to purchase, will
be lost to the people OF the North and North and
South will be involved in one common rum. Yes,
York and Boston) the vessels would rot at their
wharves for want Of exchangeable products to car
ry; the building Of ships would cease and the grass
active and progressive industry. In the interior,
the railroads and canals would languish for want
of business; and the factories and manufacturing
towns and cities, decaylng and deserted, would
One universal bankruptcy would overspread the
country, together with all the decentralization and
crime which ever accompany such catastrophe;
and the notices at every corner would point only
to sales on execution, by the constable, the sheriff.
the marshall and the auctioneer; whilst the beggars
would ask us in the streets, not for money, but for
bread Dark as the picture may be, II could not ex-
coed the gloomy reality such would be the effects
can conceive, nor pen describe, the dreadful con-
sequences: Let US look at another result to the
North. The slaves being emanclpatsd, not by the
South but by the North, would fly there for safety
and projections; and three millions of free blacks
would be thrown at once, as if by CONFUSION of
nature, upon the States Of the North. They would
given them freedom, to give them also habitation,
food and clothing; and not having it to give many
of them would perish from want and exposure;
whilst the wretched remainder would be left to live
as they could, by theft or charity. They would
still be degraded caste, free only in NAME without
the reality of freedom. A few might earn
wretched and precarious subsistence, by competing
with The white laborers Of the North. and reducing
their wages to the lowest point in the sliding scale
of starvation and misery; whilst the poor house
and the jail the asylums OF the deaf and dumb the
blind, the idiot and insane would be filled to over
flowing if, indeed, any asylum could be afforded
TO the millions Of the negro race whom wretched-
and crime would drive to despair and madness.
That these are sad realities, is proved by the
census Of 1910. annex in an appendix table,
marked No. /, compiled by me entirely from the
official returns of the census Of 1910, except as to
prisons and paupers which are obtained from city
and State returns, and the results are as follows
lst. The number of deaf and dumb, blind, idiots,
and insane, of the negroes in the non-saveholdng
States, is out of every So; in the slaveholding
States it is out of every 672, or seven to in
favor of the slaves in this respect, as compared
with the free blacks.
I'd. The number Of whites, deaf and dumb, blind,
idiots, and insane, nm the non-ssvehoding States is
one in every, SCI, being nearly six to one against
the free blacks in the same States
q oLH~ IS oxurkA InaEo NA
dumb blind, idiots, and insane paupers, and In pri-
son in the non-savehoding States, is one out of
every g. and in the slaveholding States, one out of
every 1874 or twenty-five to one against the free
4th. Taking the two extremes OF north and south,
in Maine, the number Of negroes returned as deaf
and dumb, blind, insane, and idiots, by the census
Of iS4o, y one out OF every twelve, and IN slave e.
every eleven hundred and five; or ninety-two to
one, in favor Of the slaves of Florida, as compared
with the free blacks Of Maine.
BY the report of the secretary OF state OF Massa-
chusets (of the LIST of November, lSi3) to the egi
laturr there were then in the county Jails, and
houses of correction in that State, 4O2O whites and
s6 negroes and adding the pr re returns Of the
all 4,215 whites, and 1896 free blacks; icing one out
of every one hundred and seventy OF the white,
and one out of every twenty-one OF the tree black
and BY the Official returns 9" tine CEN n
their own Legislature, one out OF every thirteen OF
the free blacks of Massachusetts was either deaf
and dumb, blind, idiot, or insane, or IN PRISON
thus proving degree OF debasenlent and misery,
on the part Of the coored race, in that truly great
State which is appalling. In the last official report
to the legislature of the warden Of the
Of eastern Pennsylvanla ne says says Inc whole ne
the institution, October rs, 1901 to January !,
l843 is ,622 of these, lO04 were white males, 533
coored males n white females, and 5S colored
femaes" or one out Of every 847 Of the white, and
IF
and of the white female convicts one cut OF every
l6, 2SS; and of the colored female convicts one out
OF every 349 in one prison, showing a degree Of
guilt and debasement on the part OF the colored
females revolving and unparalleled. When such
is the debasement of the colored females, far ex-
ceeding even that of the white females IN the most
corrupt cities OF Europe, extending, too, through
out one-half the limits Of great State, we may
begin 10 form some idea Of the dreadful condition
OF the free blacks, and how much worse 1t Is than
that Of the slaves, whom we are asked to liberate
sery. Where, too, are these examples? The first
is in the great State Of Massachusetts, that, tor 81
years, has never had slave, and whose free black
population, being 5,463 in 1880, and but S,669 at
and their descendants. whom tor more than half a
century she has srived, but strved In van to ele-
vate In rank and comfort and morals. The other
example is the eastern nan p 81 tne great state ,t ..
Quakers of the State, who, with an industry and
humanity that never tired, and charity that spared
not time money, have eSerted every EFFORT TO I'M
prove the morals and better the condition OF their
free black population. But where are the grea re-
suits Let the census and the reports Of the pri-
sons answer. Worse-incomparably worse, than
the condition OF the slaves, and demonstrating that
the free black, in the midst of his friends IN the
North, is sinking lower every day IN the scale OF
of want and crime and misery. The regular ply
sicians' report and review, published in $780, says
the "facts, then, show an increasing disproportion-
number Of colored In the eastern penl-
tentiaryo In contrasting the condition, tor the
same year. Of the penitenaries of all the non-slave-
holding States, as compared with all the slave
holding States, in which returns are made, lind
compared with the slaves, in proportion to popula-
tion who are incarcerated in these prisons. There
are no paupers among the slaves, whilst in the non
slaveholding States great is the number OF colored
I aupers. 80
From the Belgian statistics, compiled by Mr.:
Quetele, the distinguished secretary Of the Royal
Academy of Brussels, it appears that In Belgium