The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-28

uepeHu OH nef power. III Tic OHoH BIC u1uot
have po,oer enough to resist Northern aggres-
sion. And her share of California alone will
give it, will give her equality in the Senate
That therefore is sine qua non. 1t was before
recognized as such by the most sagacious of
her friends. II is now apparent to all, since the
signal practical failure of the Fugitive slave law.
AS for the speculations of 30 Tribune and
Courier about the abolition ofslayery, immediate
or remote, by the people of the South or by col
oniza,ion, il is chimera. Before that event
will occur, the institution Of property itself will
be aboshed-the North before the advancing
tide of Antirentism, Agragriansm, and Social
ism.
From the Tribune--"It 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
trifling 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, u dozen millions Of slaves far ex-
ceeding the present slaves in spirit and intelli-
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-
paral ly less than when the servie class has
arrived where it will be at the end OF another
half century of bondage"
From the .Nsp York Courier and Enquirer.
The Trbu and the Abotionists generally,
insists upon the emancipation of the slaves Of the
South at an early day but when ask what is
to become of the freed slave?-what is to be
mis- political and social position Eth y shrink
from the enquiry, and give US nothing but vague
generaties.
Now, nrihing is more certain, than that the
South feels the curse of slavery as s.nslbly as
WI perceive it. They know its present evils,
and apprehend from it alb the dangers with
which the future is pregnant; but the man who
is laboring under ,ngerous disease, does II 1
like to be tainted It'll it, Point To him remedy
Tor his affection, aud he will CRATE fully adopt II
if he has faith; but if the remedy recommends
ne worse llidl tlc uloed>ty HIS a W iACi
Indignant at your meddng with his atf.lIs III
all. And this is precisely the position Of our
Southern brethren in relation TO this questions
of slavery, aud the heartess and reckless inter
ference with it by the Abultionsts OF the North.
The only remedy that they prescribe, is emanc'-
patton; and when the Sou.h ask-What next
is the EN- .acipited slave to become poll icall,
AMI socially the eqn.l of his preseit master 3
the meddling busybodies of the Nor h, and their
patriotic presses, shrink from answe ing, anu
content themselves with pointing out the horrors
of n servile insnrrection at no distant day!
Thus the L. blne calls for the emancipation,
under that threat OF Instruction and servile
war and massacre such depopul.,ted st. Do
mingo; ard when called upon To say what sh Ill
be the ext STEP il pauses, hesitate, and refuses
10 answer-contenting itself with the assertion,
that emancipation would be easier now than ii
will be half century hence We very cheer
fully admit this p opposition, II the whole coun-
! try, North and South, do not unite in cIloniza
ton on an extensive scale. But we come back
to the questions, wl,nt would be the effect OF
immediate emancipation--is it practicable We
enthusiastically answer-No. Because rs we have
proclaimed hundreds Of times through our col
umns. emancipation 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, ana 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, 20 receivi 9 in its bosom
nearly four millions of such worthless populs
ton as ttese mannmitted hordes would become !
Would they ioleratei ti BY no means OHIO.
Indiana, and Illinois, have already proved what
they would doin such acontingency; and Penn
syvania, New Jersey and New York, would
promptly walk in their footsteps. The free
States would promptly drive back the free neg
roes; end the warfare with the South would be.
TO compel them TO keep theirpague 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 laid 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
py--so well cared for in health. sickness and
old age: one who perform so little labor, and
IRE so entirely without care and anxety--as the
SlHNe DOpuldiOH VI llt oOubi. <luu 10 lUl-
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 10 see even an attempt
ut general emancipation. Knowing what would
be their condition and ultimate fate, humanity
revolts at the idea; and when in defiance of the
IiOht Of rpasOn and eXrerience mon Geek snch
result at the sacrifice Of the Constitution
itself, it does appear to us an evidence finsan-
ity.
Slavery is curse, which the Almighty in his
wisdom, permitted TO be entailed upon this fair
land for me inscruiable purpose Of His own
And TINT the great mss Of our Sou bern broth.
rem look upon II rs n cnrse, ns did their In
theirs befire them, admits &c NO manner Of
donht But il is n curse for which England and
our English and Dutch ancestors. are RESPONSE
hla and mt the ppople of the limited Stotee In