The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-23

passed by tie British government. Now, what is
the condition of the African race under this sys-
TEN Of freedom, or personal liberty, which is found
there! 1t is well known that the coored popula-
ton, who live in scattered families In the free
States, are a degraded race, and although they
may be normally free, and may nominally possess
political rights, y the condition OF socle-
ty that those rights are never exercised, aid inuer
no circumstances can the African race sit side by
side and mingle socially with the Anglo Saxon
race, here or elsewhere. The negroes of the
North are in worse condition morally, physical
ly personally, and socially, from their birth to the
day of their death, than the same class ever can
be in the condition in which they exist In the
South In the British West India islands the ne
gro race have received the same franchises which
the different States of the North have conferred
them here. Well, has emancipation benefited
either the West India islands, or the persons whom
it was intended to advance By no means. Every
arrival from Jamaica the other islands only
brings fresh accounts Of the badness of the SYSTEM
the decadence of industry, the growth of pauper-
ism, the increased misery of the colored people,
the prostration of commerce, and the degradation
of society there.
The next system or condition in which we find
the blacks, is that presented by the history OF
Hayti or San Domingo. There the African race,
originally slaves, were liberated, became indepen-
dent ENJOY all rights, political, PERSONAL and other
wise, which the white people of this continent or
any other place can enjoy, and what do they pre-
sent! Nothing but continuous revolution, out
breaks, instructions, massacres, blood, degrada-
ton, barbarity, and the rapid decay OF every moral
and physical element of civilization. This Is the
natural result of comforting on particular race,
without education and without the aptitude to be
educated, all the rights and immunities which can
be rightly understood only by the Anglo-Saxon
race, or carried int execution only by those In
possession of education and refinement in the
highest degree.
Among all those different systems conditions
in which the African race exist this continent,
the most happy, moral, religious, and Industrious,
in every point of view, Is that which exists in the
Southern States. Under that condition of society,
the African race of the South has increased nu-
merously, and their comforts have incrsased with
them, during the last fifty years, since the abo-
lton of the slave trade. The tendencies and pur
poses Of the abotionsts of the North, with all the
accession of strength which the tree soil politi-
ohers-may give them, is, first to abolish slavery
in the territories and prevent its extension there,
and, when that shall have been secured, the natu-
raj tendency will be, to sweep the same system
from the South, hberate the slaves in that region
of the country, and reduce them to the same con-
dition in which they exist in the British West In
dies, or that in which we them in San Domn-
60 In either contingency, the result will be equal
ly injurious and lame ntable the Southern States
as well to the condition Of the very race whom
it is proposed TO advance. Yet the fanaticism
created by the abolition politicians may prevail
against established facts, that have been tested
by time. 1t Is very evident that nothing now
can stop the impulse of the popular mind In the
North, and that Mr.. Calhoun and his friends in
the South, may issue many addresses as they
please, and organize many committees as they
can number, but that nothing but some terrible
stand, at once, stop the flo cd iof fanaticisn
which has been let loose at the North by all parties,
in favor of the Ultimate abolition of slavery in the
South, under the sanction, they allege, of the
name and principles of Thomas Jefferson and the
Declaration of Independence. The organization
of all parties is broken up mems minds are be-
coming unhinged, and the practical condition of
the colored population Of the North, that In the
West Indies, or that Of the same race in San Do
mingo, or that of the portion Of them which we
find under military dominion in Cuba, would seem
to present no points OF strength influence, in the
way of resisting this excitement from raging in all
parts of the country. Nothing but some terrible
stand, some frighuu position, or some violent out
break Of some kind, can restore order or peace to
the public mind, the same as we have enjoyed In
this matter for the last half century.