Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1851-08-28

4 ups euect " tue only aPhoBy ioS mou
ern Abolition.
H But we do not believe % and re-
H peat again, that the two races, in such
event, would remain seperats and dis
sinct. while they continued to oeeupy
the same land On The truth Of THE
/ position our asQumcnt rests. Of this
each one must judge for himself The
reasons Of the faith are inferences
drawn from existing facts.
H Having made the whole colored race
free, it is not to be supposed that
Victor Hugo's sympathy with what he
calls "the august cause Of slavery"
would cease. On the contrary, nat
ural curiosity would interest him in the
subsequent condition of the new-madc
freemen. 1t might have been well,
perhaps, if Victor Hugo before ex-
pressing the strong opinions of his let
Ter Of the 9th July, had considered
what would be the probable condition
Of the empancipated Slaves. He does
not appear, from any thing that his let
ter contains, to have done SO.
Had Victor Hugo reflected he would
have found that all history teaches but
one lesson OH the point, which is, that
tpo races Uhieh eannOt anal igamate
by intermaridge, can eIist in the same
land sniy in the relation Of Master and
Siare, or, II both are nominaHy fee,
IN that ofthe Opprcsssr ana the oppreSs-
\ ed.
L The instances are striking, and nu-
merous. The Moor, superior in learn
ing to the Spaniard, but not amalga-
mating with him, was expelled the land,
or remained as an ill-treated inferior.
The Saxons and the Normans were in
continual strife, until intermarriages
amalgamated them as one people. Our
own country, in its Indian history pre-
sents another instance of the truth Of
the dogma. In Mexico the Spaniards
and the indians amalgamated, and
formed one people: but what people
In the old United States, it is true that
some Of the best blood Of the land, no
bic in spirit, steady in purp, ,se, and
brilliant in talent, flows down from an
Indian maternal ancestry to the pres
ent day but yet, the Indian in our
country will soon be a memory only
There was an experience therefore to
which Victor Hugo might have refer
red touching future probabilities, should
modern Abolition, whose advocate he
is, be triumphant in the end. 1t is,
perhaps, pity that he did not push
his enquiries further; an indilerc mt
cause, we think, would have lost the
weight of great name but humanity
might have been none the worse off on
that account.
Nor is History in this respect, with
out the confirmation of every days
experience, in our own country.
In the city ofNew York where the ne
gro may be voter, he is not permit
ted to drive a dray or cart. | am
not aware whether this is by law, or is
tho effect ofa combination among white
competitors Lut the inference is the
same in either case. In Philadelphia,
he has again and again been made the
subject of attack by an iniuriattd pop
ulacc. In Cincinn III, to protect him
from such attack, it has been necessa-
~ to parade cannon in the streets
Boston and Hartford have both wit
messed scenes Of violence when the
negro was the victim - and yet all
J tl,a.a 80 ,.,h.rn
the negro has enjoyed for years nearly,
or quite, all the rights which law could
give to him. What hope is there of
different future for the black man in
these respects i? What prospect is
there of present change for the benc-
fit, either Of those now free, or the
whole race, should a general emanci-
patton take place None under the
canopy Of heaven A more barren
present, more hopeless future than
that OF the free colored people of the
United States cannot exist st,-America
is the white mans home, and his cx-
clusively. God hath SO appointed it.
During the year 1850, the total inn
migration to the U. S. from all foreign
countries can hardly have been less
than four hundred thousand persons,
persons of a class that, at once, enter
into competition with the black man,
in all the avenues of labour and in
most of them drive him to the WALL
In Baltimore, my home, ten years
since, the shipping at Felps Poin, was
loaded by free colored stevedores.--
The labours at the coal-y ards was free
colored labour. In the rural districts
around Baltimore. the principal city
of slave State, free colored laborers,
ten years since, got in the harvest,
worked the mine banks, made the fen
ces, and, indeed, supplied, generally,
all agricultural wants in this respect.
Now all this is changed the white man
stands in the black mans shoe.,--or
else, is fast getting into them. And
where, fifteen years ago, nearly all the
signs above shop doors on Felps Point,
showed English names-now two
thirds of them are German; fact of
notoriety and almost daily comment.
In Cincinnati, the labour that used
to be performed by free blacks in tho
great Hog establishments, is now per-
formed by white men and, as Mr..
Coleman well knows, the firemen are
now whites, where they used to be free