The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-08-02
slavers. the Proper Condition of the
"a Negro. 80

cite popular sentiment against slavery and
slaye-holders, il becomes Interesting 10 ask
calmly and dispassonatcly whether slavery
isa curse to the negro. Pathetic appeals
to human passions, pompous npostrophes
to the blasphemed name Of liberty, and the
meretricious appliances Of che demagogue,
| will serve no useful purpose in determining
practical question.
That condition IS best for any man or any
nation Of men which secures the man ro men
most happiness. gf ~
If the French people are happier under
an empire than under a republican form Of
government, il is because and only because
an empire and not republic is the better
government for them. So If slavery devel-
opes the negro. socially, morally, physically
and men tally with more rapidity and perma-
nency than freedom, then slavery and not
freedom Is the best condition for the negro.
We may, il we please, deplore that condi-
ton of things which renders slavery snperi-
or to freedom, just as we may dcplore those
national or educational peculiarities which
unit the French people for republicanism,
but the fact is none the less true for our
WINNINGS. Here is question which can
be easily settled. In the South the contrast
between the social, mental, moral condition
of the free ard slave blacks, is the subject
OF universal comment. Itis the free negroes
and rot the slaves which crowd our jails---
the free and not the slaves who lives in most
loathsome wretchedness and filth. So po-
tent Is this contrast that there is scarcely a
legislature in the South which has not had
before 1t, for consideration some plan for re-
moving the nuisance Of free negroes from
the boundaries of its State.
Nay more, so we'll known is the fact that
freedom deterioraies the morals of the slave
that some of the most rampant abolition
States in the Union have forbidden free ne.
groes to enter their borders-in only one or
two are they allowed to vote, and In none
are they or can they ever be placed on any
approach TO equality with the whites.
The ratio of increase Of population Is one
of the best indices 10 the condition of n peo.
pie. If they are happy and prosperous, the
fact will make itself appsrentin the Increase
an. ..';m 60 s .,'e" W Tue CEN
m,;r,.;,.d go, ,.". ."e ."e saves nav
'"'''''''"eu s'eauy increase OF aoont 2S
| ,..o a., q. "o ''oo
..'s as, ""'o "e'''neu 'i gu run
,soo =, "a, 20 1e"' "'' 'oo :"
1850.
"s striking contrast becomes moro re-
n"""oe ""en we renect that while the
''s "a'e received no new increment ex-
.ep' " "',"'t' increase 'he iree population
'"u"'y oe'"g augmented by manu-
'''S"' -. us '"e 'nnuman body sellers OF
;..s'a. @ 1911 A.u wholesale robbery oy the
T, "a. u'' VI "e"-Ehgiand.
-. "u Lit" a"e,e.es .' oFl~een .he increase OF
-"' '''. s'"seS 10 tue on'on Is
49, p'' ve'' pe' nnnuih IN favor OF
~. "n',..'';a. I 'as'ease wnen The immense
s'A'''h 70 our shores easily accounts
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cond;,ion g.. , sp" slavery y he proper
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est ,,rennon. ana - "e @'. ano.' earn a
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