Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-01-28

The researches of Gliddon and other antiquarans show
that four thousand years ago in Africa they slaves
and as black as they now are. Since then, in that
country where they were placed by Providence and
where from their peculiar constitution, they enjoy the
best health, they have existed only as savages They
are there continually made slaves of by the OF more
intelligent and enterprsng races. Nor have they ever
gotten of the tropical parts of Africa except when
| they were carried merchandise 1t remains to be
proved however, yet to the world that the negro any
more than the horse. can permanently exist, in state
OF freedom of the tropical regions. Their decay at
the North, as well other circumstances which have
not time to detail adverse to the proposition. md
yet sir the journals of the North, while they deny that
the French and the Germans, the most enlightened oil
the continental nations of Europe are capable of free
dom, stouty maintain that the negro is-he negro, who
has never any where, when left to himself, got
ten up to the respectable state OF barbarism which all
the other races have attained, not excepting
Indians in Mexico and Peru.
While the people othe northern States and the negroes
have been benefited, am prepared to admit that the
South tif injured at alD has suffered generally sup
posed The influx Of foreign emgrants and some other
circumstances which will advert have in
pecs put the North greatly ahead But ii you deduct the
foreign population which goes chiefly to the Norhthe
little get not being equal to that portion of own
people who 60 the northwestern Staes-fyou deduct
this it will be found that thewhte population OF all
the slavehodng States has increased faster than that of
the free States Owing the comfortable condition OF our
population, il there had been emigration from abroad,
the descendants OF our portion OF the American white
family would be more numerous than the northern. Nor
is it true that the poorer: on the contrary il we
TO take the valuations OF property in the different
States assessed by the public officers, appears that
the slayeolding States much richer in proportion to
their population than the free Even il you exclude the
negroes property and count them in the population
it appears that the citizens Of Virginahe oldest of the
slave States-are richer per head than the citizens of
any of the free States 1t will also appear that the
slaveholding States have vastly less pauperism and
crime than the northern States Looking, therefore, at
all these different elements viz, greater increase Of po
pulation, wealth, and less poverty and crime,
have reason to regard our people as prosperous and
happy gEg ,,u. 40, Co., man, q ,, a,,. ;,o A,.;, 49,
these points, but conented myself with the statement
OF those general views which every candid inquirer will
am satisfied, find to be true. do seek to make
comparisons that might be regarded nvidious unless
by way Of defence against habual attacks on us but
regard it right say this OCCASION that whether
considered with reference to the physical comfort OF the
people, or high state OF public and private morals
elevated of honor, and OF all generous emotions
have no to believe that higher state of civil
cation either now exists elsewhere, has existed any
time in The past than spresented by the southern States
OF the Union.
When we look to foreign countries, these views are
confirmed and sustained. Brazil, with population OIL
two slaves to one freeman, is the most prosperous Of
the South American States and the only one which has
stable political system Cuba greatly in advance Of
the other West India islands, though St. Domingo and
Jamaica equaed her before the emancipation Of
their slaves. Besides the expense of maintaining hel
government at home Cuba pays Spain revenue Of
nearly fourteen millions. This greater sum for her
population than two hundred millions would be for the
United States Could our people, in addition to the
expense OF our State governments, pay six times as
much as the Federal Government has ever raised by
mpost and taxes2 That Cuba should be able to bear
this burden and still prosper evidence OF the high pro-
ductveness OF the system.
In spe however OF these great facts which ought to
strike all impartial minds, the Of the North has
been constantly aggressive this question. The ordi-
nance OF 1857 adopted cotemporaneousy with the Con-
stuon, made the territory north of the Ohio Free and
LETT that south OF the river savehodng giving the North
more than half Of all the existing territory When
Louisiana acquired, slavery could legally exist in
every part oft The State of Missouri, having formed
9. republican constitution, proposed to csme into the
Union but the North resisted her application Though
her constitution recognizing slavery precisely like
those of majority of the old States yet they against
all constitutional principle, because they had the power
IN one branch Of Congress obsnaely refused her ad
no other slave Stale should exist north of Sc deg. 80
min. By that MEANS after leaving the South only ter
rory for single State, (Arkansas,) they acquired
enough in extent to make ten or fifteen large States
Now, encouraged by their former success, and having
become relatively stronger they claim the whole OF the
territory.