American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-05-14

since their freedom they have utterly abandon
ed themselves to universal Idencss, with al! lis
attendant evils and vices, ohdurately refusing
to labor, under any circumstances, even to pre-
vent starvation. The bloody instructions too,
in the Island Of Barbados, III 1916, taking IN
to the account, causes and consequences, is L
comment to the same general effect. lmpro-
violence and idlcncss, vagrancy and crime, are
the notorious fruits OF emancipation in the Uni
ted States and the West Indies Crime, in the
United States, among tree negroes, is in some
thing like teniold proportion, compared with
what it is among Southern slaves, and the NOR
tally is more than double Our criminal and
medical statistics abundanty attest these facts.
A pretty extensive acquaintance with more
than half the States of this Contederacy, and
about an equal number, North and South, has
led me to believe that the slaves Of the South
are better conditioned and better satisfied than
the free negroes of the North; and, as genera!
rule, are better informed especially on the
subject of their moral relations And, also,
that they are well disposed, and inclined to VIZ
tue and morality, greatly beyond those Of the
North, or the free negroes Of tie South. The
latter too, do much better III the South than in
the North. Two reasons have long operated
accordingly, in driving free negroes from the
North, where they properly belonged, TO the
South. First, the repulsiyc inhumanity OF the
North, III so treating them, that they nave pre-
terred seeking shelter i'll the Southern States.
And, secondly, the fact, that even the free ne
groes, so injurious to the Southern slave inter-
est, have generally Jared better in the South
than in the North; and thus large proportion
of the freed slaves of the North, especially from
1890 to 1880, subsisted, in fact, on Southern
charity.
About three millions and half Of slaves
are BOW part and parcel of the population Of
the United States. They are here in our
midst and must be governed, and must have
support. They were originally entaied upon
us, against our will and wishes, by the mother
country, during our colonial existence; but be-
ing here, they must remain and be controlled,
unless some plan can be adopted for their re-
moval. Remaining, how can they be govern
ed, except III state of slavery? Every State
in the Union is disposed 10 cast off the few
who are free. Every where their presence IS
regarded as a nuisance. The South will not
enancipate except upon condition of removal.
The North will not consent to receive even
fair proportion of them, should they become
free; and hat is to be done with them
Their gradual emancipation and removal has
never been objected to by the South; and car
rled out upon the principles of the original
compromise of the Constitution, never viii be.
We say to our common country, free us Of the
danger and ace consent 10 the remoUal Of the
evit
In this view Of the subject, three questions
press upon us:-our own good, in the Slave
States; the good of the negro, free and slave;
and the common good of the country. In our
deliberate Judgment, those who are conducting
the Northern crusade against Southern slavery
have no eye to either, or having any such end
in view, have been infinitely unfortunate IN
the selection Of means, and the temper dis
played in the use of them. If the clamorous
censors OF Southern policy are the true friends
of the negro, why do they IN the same breath
urge emancipation in the South and legislate
to exclude the negro from the free States? Is
it merely intended in this way to annoy the
South by violation of the plain duties of
citizenship, or are they willing to be understood
as conceding that there is no chance for the
negro except in the South?