Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-07-02


labor Improbable, by the superiority and
greater cheapness of free labor, SO that the
political economy of the North alone, was
quite sufficient, either to emancipate the
Northern negro, or send him slave to the
South. 1t was the interest and policy of
the North to get rid of the negro. Il was
a speculation worthy Of Northern sagaci-
ty. Not so with the South. As early as
the first instance of Northern abolition,
the slave question was one of life and death
to the South. 1t was then, and continues
10 be, vitality connected with the tenure
by which life is held, and the order of
society maintained.
The greater value Of the slave South had
been a centripetal force, gradually attract
ing the slave from the North, for long
term of years, until when emancipation
began, there was found but q small num-
Der to be got rid OF. Their sale to Sou.
thern purchasers had greatly thinned the
North of slaves, as improbable servants
and prepared the way for the emancipation
of the balance. Northern humanity, which
forbade the sale of the negro within the
limits of Northern States, did not forbid
his transportation and sale in the South,
and to this process the North owes large
share of its boosted freedom from slave
ry. Reasons have always existed in the
South, both for the introduction and CONT
nuance of slavery, which never existed in
the North, and it was as much the interest
of the North TO abolish slavery, as it was
of the South to retain it. 1t was bust
ness arrangement, resulting from motives
of interest and policy with both, the South
having the additional plea of its own safe
ty TO urge in the case. The North knew
that to abolish slavery was to Danish the
negro. The South knew that to abolish
slavery was to turn the negro loose, in
countless numbers. without restraint or
control. Its abolition North presented to
no danger then or in its prospect; but it is
admitted on all hands, that its abolition
South, at any time for at least sixty years
past, would have been attended with the
most imminent danger. Even were the
Southern States to try the experiment OF
keeping in slavery the present generation,
while making legal provision for the free
! dom of the next. il would establish arin-
ciple, in the view of the mass of slaves,
which would give birth to an amount Of
Impotence and irritation, endangering the
safety of the whole South. What was safe
and Iaudable in the North, would have
been suicidal and ruinous in the South
The inutility of slavery mingled with anG
strengthened the religious convictions o.
the North. One of the fundamental prin
ciples of all slavery, the interest of the
master. was attacked in the North, ant
made its appropriate impression. During
all this period, however, emancipation il
the South, without the removal of the ne
gro, would have been not Northern bu
National madness, for it would only hav,
J disposed and prepared the two races fo
mutual destruction. Any state of things
tending to disturb the existing relation
! between the races in the South, and whicl
does not at the same time contemplate
the removal of one, must tend to the de
struction of one or both of them. Sine
| the foundation of society, the white an
black races have never co-existed, unde
the same government on equal footing
2 and never can. If the two races, as is en-
/, tirely certain, cannot mingie, they mus
!, as it regards equality of intercourse, who
. ly separate, and such separation withou
i removal is impossible, except in state {
Y slavery or civil discord. The whole orde
/ of society in the United States must b
: first subverted, and then remodelled, be
# fore the negro can, BY possibility, deriv
e and enjoy the same benefits of societ
n with the white man. 1t is incontestibI
e true of the whole North, from Maine I
/ Illinois, that in the proportion the leg;
d distinctions between the white man an
II negro are abolished, new barriers 10 an
n hing like equality of intercourse, are SIT
n diously thrown up by the white population
il by means of which the negro is re-ensla'
I. ed, and more hopelessly deemed to all Il
$, disadvantages OF both caste and condition
:. The whole course of the North, for half
el century, procIaims their purpose and pol
a, cy, not 10 mingle with the negro. ane y
0, they are necessarily pursuing cours
e the object of which is to compel the Sou
10 mingle with them, for this they must
= in some form, or else keep them in sIay
$. ry, unless they can be removed. The r
Ie pugnance of which we speak is invincibl
ID Nature, notices. than the habit and 4
le associations of ages, has established wish
ID and indelible signs and reasons of sepaF
le ton. If we subdue and overcome t
i, mere fact of servitude, the evil remain
g, as it regards the actual condition and w
he fare of the negro. and in most instane
e, is increased beyond estimation. WhereV
p. they are found, the free negroes of Il
i e i Il