The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-23

sioh. anu her snare OF Caluornia alone VII
/ giw IT, will give her equality in the Senate
That therefore Is u sane qua non. IL was befor,
recognized as such by the most sagacious o
her friends. 1t is now apparent to all, since tn,
signal, practical failure of the Fugitive slave law
AS for the specuIations Of the Tribune anC
Courier about the abolition of slavery, immediate
or remote, by the people of the South or by col
oniza,ion, it is chimera. Before that event
will occur, the institution of property itself vii
be abolshed---the North before the advancing
tide of Antirentism, Agragranism, and Social
ism
From The Tribune" Ii is vain to talk about
admitting negroes to social equality, or of their
condition being better in slavery than it would
be in freedom Such argument is the poorest
trifliug compared with the serious nature and
magnitude Of the subject As we have said
before, there are, no doubt, difficulties cOnnec-
ted with emancipation, but this common place
about bed and board does not affect the fact
that as things are now going, there will be in
| fifty years, dozen millions of slaves, far ex-
ceedng the present slaves in spirit and inteli-
gence, crowded into the sugar, rice and cotton
districts of the South and that the white popu-
lation will be relatively mere handful What
will these millions of bondmen say when the
hour comes for them to free themselves
Will they then parley with their owners about
bed and board and social equality! No, no.
The difficulties of Emancipation are less at this
day than they will be at any future time incom-
parably less than when the serye class has
arrived where it will be at the end of another
half century of bondage"
From the .Nslo York Courier and Enquirer
The Tribune and the Abotionists generally,
insists upon the emancipation ofthe slaves of the
South at an early day but when asked what is
to become Of the freed slave what is to be
his political and social position they shrink
from the enquiry, and give us nothing but vague
generalities.
Now, nothing is more certain, than that the
South feels the curse of slavery as sensibly as
we perceive it. They know its present evils,
and apprehend from it all the dangers with
which the future is pregnant; but the man who
is aboring under dangerous disease, does not
like to be tainted with it, Point to him remedy
for his affection, and he will CRATE fully adopt it
if he has faith; but if the remedy recommended
be worse than the disease, he has right to feel
indignant at your meddling with his affairs at
ALL And this is precisely the position Of our
Southern brethren in relation to this question
of slavery, and the heartless and reckless inter-
ference with it by the Abolitionists of the North
The only remedy that they prescribe, is emanci-
patton; and when the South ask-what next?
is the emancipated slave to become politically
and socially the equal of his present master p
the meddng busy bodies of the North, and their
patriotic presses, shrink from answering, and
content themselves with pointing out the horrors
r 10 ion nat n defiant dow
Thus the Tribune calls for the emancipation,
under that threat of Instruction and a servile
war and massacre such as depopulated st. Do
mingo and when called upon to say what shall
be the next STEP it pauses, hesitates and refuses
| to answer-contenting itself with the assertion,
that emancipation would be easier now than it
will be half century hence. We very cheer
fully admit this proposition, if the whole coun-
try North and South, do not unite in colonial
ton on an extensive scale. But we come back
to the questions, what would be the effect of
immediate emancipation-is it practicable We
upbesitatingly answer-No. Because as we have
proclaimed hundreds of times through our col
nmns, EN- ,xpation must be followed by the
immediate emigration of one of the two races.
They cannot both live in state Of freedom
when so nearly equal in number; and either the
Southern planter must abandon his home as
well as his slaves, and give up the whole South
| ern section Of our noble country to the negro,
or emancipation must be followed by driving
the free negro into the free States. And what
would the North say, to receiving in its bosom
nearly four millions of such worthless popula-
ton as these manumtted hordes would become :
| Would they tolerate it BY no means. Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois, have already proved what
they would do in such contingency; and Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and New York, would
promptly walk in their footsteps fhe free
States would promptly drive back the free neg
roes and the warfare with the South would be,
to compel them to keep their plague sore within
their own borders.
We yield to no one in sympathy for all the
human race and if the condition of the negro
population of the South could be benefited by
emancipation, we should be among the first to
desire it, But we said in November last, and
we now repeat, that there is not in our judg.
ment on the face of the globe, except in our
| Northern States, laboring population so hap.
pv-so well cared for in health, sickness and
old age one who perform so little labor and
are so entirely without care and anxiety--as the
slave population Of the South. Add TO this
| fact the equally well established one, that in
state of freedom they are less capable of taking
care of themselves, less moral, and more de-
pendent than any other race, and we are free to
confess, that from motives of philanthropy
alone, we should regret to see even an dttempt
at general emancipation. Knowing what would
be their condition and ultimate fate, humanity
revolts at the'idea; and when in defiance of the
light of reason and experience, men seek such
a result at the sacrifice of the Constitution
ITSELF it does appear to us an evidence of insan-
| ity.
|
Slavery is a curse, which the Almighty in his
wisdom, permitted to be entaed upon this fair
| land for seine inscrutable purpose of His own
| And that the great mass of our Southern breth-
rem look upon it as n curse, as did their ia.
theirs before them, admits of no manner of
doubt. But il isa curse for which England and
our English and Dutch ancestors, are RESPONSE
BILE, and not the people of the United States Ii
was held to be q curse in l776, and its evils then
as plainly foreshadowed in the future, as they
now are. But it rendered our forefathers no
less patriotic than are their descendants at this
day. 1t lessened not their love of civil and re-
ligious liberty, nor did tweaken their arm when
/ raised in defence Of republican institutions and