Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-04-12

vitality of ITSELF but attached to the resisess loco
motive moves forward with yigor not its own. To
cast off that race in dependence on it's own resour-
ces, singular manifestation of desire for it's pro-
gress AS indication of the progress in respect of
freedom, which that makes as it is trained to
endure it, may take the numbers classified upon
the Continent. for three periods, according to the
United States census
SLAVES. FREE BLACKS
,ooo Slave States. Free States.
1900. s57 095 81 73,lOO
1880 2 005 AIS 1872 O7O. 1877 525
1910 2 1856 226. PIG .l72 500
In 1900 there were 36,946 slaves in what are now
free states. The emancipation of these increased
the free blacks in the free statesbut the multiple
cation of the free blacks in the slave states is much
more rapid, and is increasing upon the proportion of
slaves. Thus the free blacks in those states, in 40
years. reached IS per cent of the original number of
slaves-the emancipation being always 10 per cent.
of the increase. This has been greatly retarded by
the abolition excitement. 1t is observable that the
free blacks do not emgrate from the southern states
Their social position there is less onerous than the
nominal freedom of the North The increase of free
blacks at the South, in 40 years, $50 per cent
and at the North 40 per cent. 1t is undoubtedly
true, that the unconquerable repugnance of the
North to permit the presence of blacks, if they can
possibly be excluded has, to a very great extent,
checked emancipation. Thus the constitution pass
ed by Ohio its organization as a state with the
black laws passed by its legislature, by preventing
the ngress of slaves, greatly retarded emancipation
TO suppose that tie ordinance of 1887 stopped slave
Is great mistake. IL was the opposition
of the white settlers to the presence of negroes that
alone prevented it. Had any number of slaves been
settled in Ohio, they would ultimately, as in New
York, have been emancipated, and would, by so
much, have reduced the existing number of slaves
Thus, Notwithstanding all the false sympathies of
the North the progress Of emancipation at the South
is quite as rapid it should be, to avoid commissions
1t is more than probable that when the body of free
black shall have become considerable, that
they will supplan slaves domestic servants until
slavery becomes in those states almost en- irelv pre-
DIAL. There is no comparison between the we'll
trained free black ect to dismissal for mscon-
duct as a domestic servant and the sIothful slave
who has no fear OF loss Of place before his eyes The
tree blacks must necessarily crowd out the Slaves by
gradual and regular process, the latter became
more fitted tor freedom It is inevitable law of
political economy, that slavery must cease where
trade is free and the population of reemen becomes
more dense This process is gradually and surely
elevatlng the black race, and to disturb it bv anv
means, is at once to plunge this incapable race into
hopeless barbarsm, as complete as that which ner-
vades Africa. An earnest desire for progress noliti
cal and social for both races as well on this CONT
nent as upon that OF Europe, will find in firm adj
herence to the compromises of the constitution the
only sure mode OF accomplishing that double end
TO preserve the harmony of the several sections bv
retrainng from an attack upon that state of thnps
which we may wish did not exist, but which we can
not remedy, Is the only mode of ameliorating them
Those political schemers who seek for their own adj
yancement amid the ruins of an empire the desoIa-
ton OF continent, and the barbarizine of race of
men, VIII nnd In the awakened intelligence of the
people, the nat OF their own destruction