The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-06-27

the CULTIVATION Of lew va ms lDr mere
subsistence. and a mere hut for n dwelling.
The blacks and mulatloes are at civil war,
| and yesterdays papers announce that an
army of twenty thousand men was advan-
] fcing against the principal town, Port au
Prince.
Another plan Of emancipation is to send
bthe liberated to Liberia. But besides the
eexpense of such system. which renders it
it is attended with the death
snf from one-fourh to one-half of the elni-
sgrants by the coast fever.
The third plan attempted is that by the
i British in the West lndies--the plan Of grad
sI,uaI abolition by apprenticeship and ultimate
scquaiIv Of black and white; and this also
shas failed. The exports Of Jamaica have
! salready, in the first ten years of the expert
amcnt, fallen one half The negroes refuse
Sto work even for high wages, beyond what
sis necessary for mere subsistence, the plan
sters arc bankrupt, plantations are already
sabandoned, and the island is Fastening TO the
scondhion of Hayli.
a The fourth plan of emanci patton is that
(which has been going on with us. That of
Smanumission by the will Of the master, the
sfrecdman remaining with black and white,
aor seeking other States. The emancipated
/ Hslavc does not appear to be willing To per-
Eform the amount of work necessary TO en-.
\ able him to compete successfully with the
alaborer. In the State of New York the Con.
situlon conferred the right of suffrage on
colorcd persons owning $3.50 worth of prop
erty. Yet in the city of New York in ls45.
aul of 1889 color.d people there were
3onlv lO3 voters. and notwithstanding their
numbers are augmented by frequent manu-
missions and fugitive slaves, they do not in
crease so rapidly as the slave population,
awhicl is evidence that their condition is not
so comfortable. 1t is also curious fact
That of 1856, 293 free persons of color in
$40. nearly half Qs3,766) preferred to re-
man in the slave States, where certainly as
! class, they are trea'ed with no peculiar
favor. In Massachusetts,, where SO much
sympathy is expressed for them, they cannot
aor will not live. There are less now of
athem in Boston than there was twenty years
gago, and in both Virginia and Massachusetts
8lhere are ten times as many free coIorcd
4people in the penitcniiary as their proportion
anf the white population. 1t Is then for the
q aasake of such emanci pation as the West
aInda, which results in idleness, barbarsm
I land civil war among the blacks, or for LIbe-
arian, which exterminatcs, or the American,
(which bjects them to crime and want.
: that Philanthropy would undertake 10 over
aturn the unrival!ed system Of Southern civil
alization.
a But VIC are told that slavery is an evil
aWeI[. SO IS Waf IAN eSI1, ana ou.r--I-r-~-:'
aSoy ernment itself all evil, since 1t also is an
aabridsmcnt of liberty. But one OF the first
II objects of our Constitution is to provide for
awar-for the common defence. And the
apeople of the United States prefer the evil
anf war tophe greater evils OF being plumber
{ ed and subdued. They prefer the evil OF
AGovernment to the greater evil OF anarchy.
80 the people of the S 'ulh prefer slavery to
a,he evils Of dense manufacturing and COM
amercial populalioa, which appear to DC N
aevi,abIc without it and the black man may
aprefer the slavery o! the South to the want.
Inc crime, tie barbars'n, and blood which
9atcnd his race in all other countries. In
athc practical affairs Of human life III It's pres
aent state, choice of evils is frequently all that
dts in our powcr. Good and evil IN fact be-
Hcome relative, and not positive terms. AMI
/ the necessity is recognized by the example
aof our Saviour, who applied the extreme
drcmcdy OF the lash to the money changers
awho profaned the temple. 1t is consistent
Sfor rigid sect like the Qnakcrs to oppose
I 3slavcry. they prescribe and and repudla,e
awar. and LUXURY, and all other evils. And
may all hope for the time to come, when
sin the progress Of Christianity, the evils OF
! slavery in the South, and those OF pauperlsm,
acrime, and mortality in the North will be
gaeatIv nitigatcd or abolished. But the
3norlh can now make no protest, because
athe luxurious system Of northern civilization
not only subjects the great mass of the peo-
aplc To unwanon labor and prlvatIon, bu,
aac,uaIIy sacrifices III peace greater amount
3of life than is usually expended by COM
Smunl,icS at war.
81 If, then, the welfare of neither white or
Ablack in the South would be promoted by
arestrc,ion or abolition of slavery, would the
dprospcriry of the North be advanced! The
aonIv thing of which the North complains, on
%its own account, is the ratio ot representation
afxcd bv the Constitution. which gives the
ssonh vote equalto lhrcc-tillhs ofthe blacks
n But on the other hand, in consequence of the
aexls,encc Of slavery in the South, the north
MAS monopoly of foreign emigration. This
Aamomed as we have seen. from 1929 To
8 10, to million and half. including its
4 increase. In the previous thirty years it
S3must have been, with its increase to this
Esdav, at least half million more. Since
Als4O it has amounted to million besides
5So tha, the North has the vote and the pow
Her of three millions of people against the
n ...uor ,,,hich clnrnrN unNN cnuErS