Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26

know not how many free negro have been gotten mn
from time to time in Northern cities With these North
manifestations OF hostility the doctrine Of social and civil
equality with the negro before eyes, how can gen
expect US to welcome and endure Of things SO abb
4 horrent TO them =
We charged with doing violence to the moral liberal
and regenerang free principles Of the age which we ye
when ask to be- allowed emgrae with our slaves 10
New Mexico and California The uprisen people of France
and the overthrow of Louis Philippe have been referred TO-
and those OF who voted appaudng sympathy 10 French
men charged with inconsistency. In France there is
homogeneous population The difference of castles does not
prevail No natural jeaouses anipathes exist growing
out of difference of color Hence there could be in France no
objection TO placing the entire population upon the basis of
political and social equality, allowing intellectual and moral
attachments to regulate the grade Of individual elevation
believe there are nsupeabe barriers to this equality among
the black and white population Of the United States and
hence am not inconsistent when sympathze with French
men in their efforts establish republic But sir the re-
cent instruction in Paris furnishes striking illustration
OF the danger keyto result from the sudden withdrawal Of
the gamens by which society is bound and to which it is
hablluated We have muludes curriers', under the
fascinating idea OF organized labor living upon the public
treasury in deness until obvious that public bankrupt
cy would result from the continuance of the system We
have seen the same persons organizing overthrow the Cow
eminent SO soon as their craft in DANGER nscbing upon
their nsureconay banners, plage if victorious cona
gration if defeated Sir if the working classes Of France
as soon as they are emancped from the sackles Of
achy forgetting their duties liberty by the establishment
OF just laws and social ORDER and organizing public plum
der march to the accomplishment Of their nerous purposes
through scenes Of acda carnage what may not expect
from the emancipation OF three millions of slaves, and mme
datey conerng upon them equal social and political ghts
seems to me that gentlemen from the North in their in
cessant attacks OF our pecuar institution, influenced
by zeal without knowledge Let them cooy look facts,
and they VIII ind involuntary seryude enough besides negro
slavery to deserve their sympathy What the relation be-
tween parent and child but system involuntary servitude
differently regulated in various countries but continuing on
the part of the child until the period fixed by law arrives
when parental control and authority cease / admit that
lling n
but there many OF Them where the service is ex-
torted coerced by the authority of the parent concede
that this relation OF parent and child founded nature and
regulated by law, deserves the of h0lY admit the
great difference between the relation of parent and child and
that OF master and slave only refer the former to show
that there where the will and actions one person
are for the good Of that person during minority subjected
from necessity 10 the control the will another The pe
Rod at which nohage terminates is regulated by law and
hence the service of the child may be continued long after his
and physical capacity have enabled him to provide
! for and take care Of himself.
There yet another instance Of involuntary servtude i'm
posed by law not for the punishment crime but display
the nobes humanity. What unatic asylums but
houses, not prisons, in which unwilling subjects slaves
are subjected by law to the control of anothers will Their
sevitude involuntary and continues through the lucid in
terva and that justified upon the ground that the patient
is not yet thoroughly relieved Of his maady Now sir am
well aware that in putting these involuntary servude,
sanctioned by law and not imposed for the punishment of
crime, may be doing little else than laying the foundation
for raiery and more Indignation in the Northern mind and
heart admit the difference in degree between these
cases OF involuntary servude andhat Of negro slavery but
defy the intellect OF man TO make them less than of
voluntary seryude in which the will volon of per-
son controlled and subjected, according law the will
OF another In the parental relation the father may
tain an action against the educe of his daughter and
damages upon the idea that he has property in her service
his and il is this idea of properly the service of
his child which alone enables him maintain the action.
Now, sir, these things prove that society," for its welfare may
subject men and women, until they tweny-one, any
during their lucid intervals the custody and manage
ment OF keepers might mention the victims of poverty in
county poohouses further illustration. may be told by
gentlemen from the North that putting where the
law through benevoeuce towards those who restrained
in their liberty and volition Be it deal
ing with motives my object is 10 establish the fact that nvo
luntary servude may and does exist in harmony with the
welfare and good order Of society," without being punishment
fer crime An appenticeshipitc learn trade is another
strong Illustration. My object in putting these is to
show that involuntary serviude the horrible thing il
represented be- and that when the permanent safety and
welfare Of the community require IT. negro slavery may be
tolerated and regulated by law, especially when those among
whom exists not all responsible for its introduction.
Can any good result from the denunciaion of slavehod
ers Will benefit the slave to exasperate his master If
the aboont could but know that his Incorporate denuncia
ton and misguided and dgesed expressions of sympathy
have had other effect than tighten the cords Of slavery,
surely he would allow his reason control his feelings and
he would leave to the people Of the South the entire manage
ment of their domestic institutions in their way. II
afflicted with evil, let Judge We reject obusive and
gatuous instruction do not doubt but that there cruel
and nhuman do doubt but that many indvid-
ual Of cruelty have occurred and may again.
There Of cruelty in the matrimonial relation and for
many OF which divorces granted but will any assert
that the relation Of husband and wife necessarily cruel and
inhuman is not true, sir that African slavery is
say accompanied by acts Of cruelty. In my State
have laws TO take slaves from cruel masters and apprentices
likewise. So also have laws take children from cruel
parents and release wives from cruel husbands There
nothing falacious than to make few individual
the basis Of conclusions regard the whole subject Now,
sir do not hesitate that there abong popu-
aon be found earth who, in the general better pro-
vded for than the slaves Of Kentucky. Our tables Of popu-
aon prove beyond controversy that the slave popua
ton Of the United States treated with kindness and hu-
mainly is the masters pecunary interest abuse the
slave, and me guaranty for good treatment if higher
motive existed. But look the facts. Can down-rodden,
halstaved halclohed miserable, workedto death popua
increase and duplicate their numbers the slave popu
aon and free blacks Of the United States have done In
1890 there only So 466 free persons of color in the Uni
ted States In 1910 there 1856, 303-makng increase
Of than sx-lod No other fact Is necessary prove
the existence Of strong disposition TO emancpate The i'm
poaon OF slaves from abroad allowed up to the LIST Of
January, 1908. have no knowledge how many were i'm
ported between 1890 and that time therefore take the
OF 1910 the basis Of calculation TO show how the black
population free and slave has increased The total coored
population 10 - ,377 sl0 In 1910 ,s73 759
Thus in thirty years they increased at the rate OF 2Os3
per cent Now, compare this with free white population
In 1910 had $500, 00d free whites. In 1910 we had
a. sos. Thus the increase with the free whites was at
the rate Of 242 per cent making difference Of only s33 per