The southern press., 1851-06-04

INC Wiilte u1aH mus mas HatuTal Increase al the
South Of thrty-six per cent, and the black mar
of twenty-two,-in the North the natural in
crease of the white is only eighteen per cent
: and of the black only nine per cent. in ten years
and this although the black consists largely Of
, fugitives who of course are the most cnterpriz.
ing and energetic of their race, and of the most
. prolific age.
Let it now be considered that the natural i'm.
crease of people depends not only on their fe-
cundity but their longevity: and that fecundity
and longevity are the most unquestionqble indi-
cations, that we have of peoples morality and
comfort. Length of days and plenty of chill
dren are the old fashioned and scriptural indi-
cations and rewards ofrighteousness. And the
nation or people which succeeds in securing the
longest term oflife, and the greatest number of
offspring, is the most virtuous, happy and pros
perons-and is entitled to occupy the earth, and
to enjoy the inheritance of the races whose vices
have curtailed or restricted their numbers 1t is
a remarkable dispensation of Providence, that
the fate of the two barbarous races of this con-
tnent, the Indians and the negroes, has been
given to the two sections of the Union respec-
tvely-the North and the South-so far rs the
fate of one race can depend on another. The
Constitution confers ample power over our In
dian relations in the federal government. And
that government has always been under the
control of the North. For the North has gen.
orally had majority in the Senate and always
a majority in the House of Representatives On
the other hand the destiny the negro has been
confided to the South instead of the North-for
Congress has not been authorized to interfere
with slavery, and in the South alone has African
slavery prevailed to any considerable extent
The number ofnegroes imported into these col
onies and States from Africa could not have ex-
ceeded the original number of Indians already
here. Yet under Southern institutions and pol
icy, the negroes have increased to a number
more than ten times as great rs those originally
imported! whilst the number Of Indians under
Northern power, policy, and philanthropy, in
stead of increasing to the same extent, or to any
extent, has diminished to about one tenth of the
original number. Such is the result Of the two
systems of the North and South on the two IA
ces respectively under their care. And yet the
Mort h presumes to reprosch, to reform, and even
to coerce the South!
/ The truth is, the whole system of Northern
civilization is essentially erterminating. 1t e.
terminates that portion Of the white population
which it devotes to servile employment. We
have seen how it reduces the adult fugitive he.
gro population, to natural increase of nine per
cent in ten years. rate which ifapplied to the
made for the unproductiveness Of young and
old, would render the whole race a declining
one. And we have seen how the Indian race
has been exterminated Let then the South re-
nouuce the theory, that in the present state of
society and progress, slavery is moral or polit-
icsl evil. Let ssr regard il as a trust conferred
on her to promote the welfare Of the African
race within her borders and let every man to
whom this trust is committed, discharge its du-
ties with religious fidelity. Let him be merci-
full, benevolent, just and faithful. But let us
hear TO more canting, at least in the South
about the moral and political evil Of slavery. II
slavery did not exist in the South, there would
be no South in the cotton and sugar and rice re.
gion, for the white man. 1t is one Of the most
wonderful, yet one of the most demonstrable OF
the results of the great phenomena of the age
and country in which we live, that without sla-
very neither the white nor the black race Of the
| haya m
tenth of their present numbers. If the negroes
who were brought here from Africa had re-
manned there, they could not have increased ma
teriay beyond the other native population Of
: Hence the greater part Of the three millions OF
American negroes never would have existed al
ALL So if there had been no negro labor to cul-
tivate the South, the white man never would
have occupied tho rice, the cotton, and the sugar
region. The white race would have remained
in the North, would have crowded more the
cities of that regon and instead of increasing at
the rate of thirty-sx per cent in ten years, is
the case now in the South, must have reduced
the rate Of increase in the North even below
eighteen per cent,-the existing rate. Hence
millions of the existing race Of the Southern
whites would never have been.
II, therefore, slavery in the existing state Of
the world is moral and political evil, then the
vast region ofSouthern population, wealth, com
: fort and refinement is a curse,-and Northern
States cold and sterile, and Northern people
d crowded sickly barren, and shortliyed are th,
only legitimate products Of moral and poltica
J principles.
- Every one ecellects RECOMMENDATION ex
element which sprung up in Kentucky som,
: years ago under the auspices Of HESEv Clay
and which, it was at one time apPrcmnded, woul'
make il Frce.soil State.
!. CAssIUs NJ. CLAY has recently attempted L
repeat the experiment, and the result shows th
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