Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-01-01

blacks Of New England, receive large ac
cesslons to their numbers from the free
colored emigrants and runaway slaves O.
the South. The tide of emigration OF
free men Of color flows North:-there
has never been a rchux of it to the South
| Thus what is taken from the South by
emigration is added to the orth;-and
hence, ina comparison Of these statistics
the emigration from the South ought to be
subtractcd from the apparent increase at
the North, and added to tia; at the South
Bearing these facts in mind, it is obvi-
Gus from the above quoted statistics, that
comparatively but few Slaves have ere,
been cmanclpatcd at the North; that COM
pared with New England, the South has
been the principal scene of emancipation;
that notwithstanding the emigration from
he South, the South from 1890 to 1910,
doubled the number of her free lacks
nearly SIX tines, while the New England
'tates-aided by that emigration did not
double theirs oncc:--and moreover, that
during the period Of prospective and
post-natal enamel patton at Tire North, ten
slaves received their freedom at tie South
to one at the North Allowance, how ev-
er, should be made for emigration of free
blacks from New England to Canada and
the North Western States; and also forrhe
circumstance that after the free laws went
into effect in the New England States,
there remained no more Slaves to cman-
cipate. The result, however, would not
be very different.
The decrease OF emancipation at the
South from 1900 TO lS40,-the falling of
from S. to Is per cent. in tie sources both
Of emancipation and natural multiplied
ton taken together, is decisive as to the
practical increase at the South, Of the
difficulties in the way Of setting the slaves
free. In their own mute style, these
figures proclaim with unuttcraLle elo-
quence, the injury and the wrong, which
fanatics, styling themselves the friends Of
the black man. have inflicted upon his
race. With free coorcd population of
1888 in 1870, the South in the next ten
years, by natural increase and emancipa-
ton, swelled THIS class by 23,oi0. AT the
same rate, the increase from 1880 to 1910,
would have been nearly six times 23,ol0;
and yet with the basis Of 1880, (15G. 633)
the increase, in tire next ten years, was
only 27,l33, or only 3,l93 more from
10000 ii 1880, than from 27,00O in
1876.
The South could not, if she would,
Danish her slaves and call that emancipa-
ZION; for she has no place Of Punishment
to send them to:-aud we think we may
safely affirm that the New England and
Middle States would not have passed their
emancipation acts, if they had not had the
South or some other place to send them
off to.
Now if Maryland and Virginia, Ken
tdcky, Tennessee and Missouri desired to
pass post natal laws. can il be imagined
that the other Slave States would permit
tie slaves Of those States 10 be crowded
down upon dcm--to be carried there and
sold as those of New England were
We know that Free States would not re-
ceive them. The new Constitution Of
Indiana, so far as She is concerned, is con-
elusive on that point. But the Southern
Slave States viii never emancipate their
slaves, # they are 70 remain where ,hey