Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-04-10

II Eartt's children sumber on their breast;
Il One bird alone pipes from his nest
Calling her wandering mate to rest.
/ Now all is still; no whispers strd
BY voice OF water, tree or bird,
Yet comes he not What steps is heardl
Joy, Joy! it my bosoms lord!
DIR. BRAKES LETTERS ON SLAVERY
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4. Having, as trust, shown that we do not need
black population, but that, the other hand, it is
source of many evils and the prospective ofmany
lmore, proceed TO inquire whether the advantages
Ito the black man OF settlement among us, insteae
of in his native land, great that from motives
OF philanthropy our doors should be opened to him.
Much OF what have written implies or proves that
the condition of negroes the free States can never be
made either elevated or secure 1t will not be that OF
the white man, however poor and humble. Severa
causes will forever oppose his rise to equaly his color
rem; his eriority in numbers and TALENT and ambition
his intrinsic ility his maveness; his love Of ease
and convvialty and finally, the perpetual recollection
by and him that he or his fathers the slaves oil
our equals. To struggle into equality under such
weight hold to be impossible. Ii some ofthese eau.
be more or less temporary, others are permanent
If some ought to influence u.s. Others should, and
all do and will. II Indiana is more affected by them
than Vermont, it is because she is contiguous to Ken
lucky II we othe free States generally more
uenced by tnem imam the people OF france and Great
Britain it is because live the region OF
slavery; and shall not change locality, that
effect will endure as long the slavery of the South
exists Thus the doom ofsocial and civil degradation
rests on the free blacks coonized among u.s. They
may rise above their enslaved brethren OF the South in
dignity, intelligence and happiness; which, however,
is and never will be the with all; but the
most cultivated among them will still be tated see
! the white man moving on higher palh-the proud
possessor OF better heritage.
This gloomy future should address selfwith power
to those benevolent people who believe in the high
capabilities ofthe negro who consider or profess to
consider him equal to the white man in talent, en-
| terprse and destiny. With that belief, why should
| they invite him into situation where his aspirations
will be forever chilled and palseds Why should they
bid him rise when ne is chained down the lowest
grade Of socety? Why should they not rather seek
to place him where his energies ofmind and OF body
might have ample scope Where the scissors worked
by superior caste could clip the wings OF his am
bton, and thereby prevent his mounting to the pure
and open atmosphere ofpertect liberty and ndepen-
dence.
lido not myself, however believe him equal in natu.
raj endowments to the white man. though of the same
species. He is superior to several savage races and
the aggregate equal perhaps more than equal to the
Indian, who is more selidependant, imaginative, and
rhetorical but less social initiative, and mproveable
God has directly indirectly, created varieties of
men, some which are superior to others. The Caucas
sian rises over the Mengoan, and both over the Ar
can, Malay, aud Indian. No would venture to
affirm that the Chinese equal to the English, the
Hindoos to the French, or the Persians to the Ger
mans. In the western parts OF Africa there are ma
ny tribes superior to those which have been brought
away slaves whose nferony is, indeed evinced by
their helpless and unresistng submission such fate
Believing In this inferorty OF race, am the more hope
less TO the rise ofhe negro to social equality and
tho more gloomy as to his prospects while he remains
a solourner among his superiors.
The natural interiority to the white man has been
giuen a reason for reducing him to bondage. But
the heartessness OF such an argument is only egualed
by its logical absurdy for where there is disparity in
mental and moral power, the legitimate conclusion is
that the stronger should help, not prey upon the wea
kerr To this to Set aside the laws of the
raj world, aud establish reign OF force and anarchy.
S. If have shown that, under the system OF colo
nzaon ia the free States, emancipaed slaves me-
reach the destiny OF the white man, but doomed
to perpetual degradation, it follows that referring TO
their interests and happiness, the phlanhropists
should not lend helping hand to that colonization, but
seek end it, and give wiser and better direction to
the destiny OF its beneliciaries Thus far have cons
dered the policy (Which fondly hope to abandon
ed in its effects upon the whites and blacks within the
tree States. We now to study its effects upon
both races in the South upon the Union generally
1t is undsnaby true that immense majority of the
people Of the free States, lying North OF those along
the slavery line know, little or nothing OF the slavery
of the South except what they have learned, directly
or indirectly, from the emancpated slaves which have
come among US, and the fugtives who have mingled
with them II the former speaks we'll of the masters
with whom they lived, they tail to portray the
character of slavery in its darkest colors In this way
prejudlce-in many hearts deep and resentful
on has been established in the North against the South,
PRODUCING as tlelr natural Hull reacuVe IeenR OF
hostility in the latter against the former When the
States othe North successfully abolished slavery chief
y becaus. it was Improbable if no emancpaed slaves
had been suffered to make their way thher from the
South, they might have INDUCED theoretical dislike to
slavery, but they would have gone no further II is
to the emancpated slaves OF the Southern States that
must ascrbe the practical interference ofcertain per-
cons in the North. Without such exciting cause,
it would have remained harmless and benevolent abb
stracton, instead of giving birth to danger and difficult
ties which have become startling topics OF conversation
at every fireside of our broad Union
1t would, my dear sir require many letters to trace
out the various alarming effects which have followed,
Immediately remotely, on this state of opinion and
feeling in the North. Other causes have contributed to
swell the catalogue of political ills but this the
greatest of ALL that without which the rest would have
been nearly harmless. Originally the South had but
little apprehension OF the North, as was shown by Vr-
gna the largest of the slave states, when in cedng
the vast Northwestern territory the confederation
she stipulated that slavery should be forever excluded.
1t not till Abolionism, engendered by the colonl-
zation among free negroes from the South, began
its abors of love for the negro, and of hatred for his
MASTER that the slave States became seriously alarmed
Under this alarm they conectured that the North might
last attain to such ascendancy as to remodel or
violate the Federal Constitution, and enact laws which
might put their property peace, and lives in jeopardy
Then it the South determined on the geographical
extension of slavery by annexng Texas; on this fol
lowed the Mexican war, with its conquests OF territory;
and then came up the fierce struggle for slave extension,
which even threatened dissolution of the Union
Such are some of the fruits of abolitonism the legll.
mate, well-meanng, but MISUNDERSTANDING daughter oil
free State. colonization. This colonization oas
great political Nunder, in ,chch he achole nation
participated, and impartial history will hold us respon-
sble for its preparation But the true origin OF ths
fatal mistake was in the South. Some OF her people
emancpaed their slaves and her laws and public opn-
ion favored the migration of the Liberated to the free
States Masters OF every grade OF Intelligence, up to
statesmen of renown sent brought families, and even
small colonies in those States return from which has
| at last been made return to slavery,
The South acted, and still acts with Increasing sever
y and under an apprehension of danger, if her liber
ated slaves are suffered remain among the Others the
North acted and continues to act, under emotion OF
sympathy for both. exalted IN latter times to its highest
drawn by those who had been redeemed from slavery
The impulse OF one fear OF the other pity and thus
two OF the most powerful passions OF the human heart
wara made TO unite in the sad add fatal result Of hostile