Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-10
A PROJECT FOR SOUTHERN pH1LANrHRopIsTs.
FOR the NATIONAL IsrELLIorscEn.

FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIdENcER.
Messrs. EDToRs: The following suggestions are the
result of long thought and they are respectfully
mended to the calm consideration of any who may take
the time to peruse them.
For several years past agitation of the public mind
among us has existed which every intelligent man in the
South knows is gradually acting against the interests Of
our system Of slave labor Aside from the restless er
element most fatal to individual happiness this agitation
is tending to make slave labor unproductye and
attended with greater difficulties Every fugitive escap-
ing TO the free States is aggavang this evil whether he
remains at the North or is recovered his When
and how-t is now question Of painful moment--when
and how can this agitation be made to cease?
The careful student of human nature and human his
tory finds this fact every where taught there are races
of men, tribes and families of an inferior capacity either
from want of culture or from other causes who
dependant children 1t is blessing to such class
that they be taken under pupilage being placed in sub
lection similar to that Of children and it is religious
duty imposed superior the RESPONSE
bty of their guardianship. This is the fundamental
principle of the servtude sanctioned in the Old Tesla
ment. Abraham and Job, and the tribes of Israel,
duty imposed by the Creator bought and hel in pupil
age for their good the oppressed tribes and the wrcched
capves exposed around them History presents no one
enterprise of this form of philanthropy
that pure its conception and noble in
its accomplishment than that of the African trained
under the republican institutions and the genuine chris
nany or our favored country What never In the worlds
history has been accomplished is by this manifest ap
pontment Of Providence the of being effect
ed the civil and religious redemption Of the continent
of Africa.
May it not be that the design of Him who rules
human affairs is its contamination, and that the
good therefore which the institution of slavery
effect is end? The institution among the Hebrews,
Greeks, and Romans pupage; and aa the relation
of child to its parent, that of subject under
the improving culture OF superior have ever tended to
termination SO far rs the question of pecuniary profit
Is concerned, the great mass Of employers at the South
assured that some other system of labor would be
far more productive.
And why may not this consummation be achieved In
New England African labor became ruinously unproduc
tive while the hire of foreign aborers has for half
century been enriehng that section Of country to
degree formerly unexpected Upon the borders Of
Southern States begins to swarm hardy enterprise
ing tractabe race just adapted from the cline and kind
OF labor in which they have been trained to till to the
last degree OF productveness Southern plantations
Already 10 CALIFORNIA; not to say in the West Indies to
men OF far reaching views the Chinese immigrants have
been proved to be Godsend to the fields OF the sunny
South
There il reason believe that the Southern planter
who shall get rid Of his negroes and employ this class Of
laborers will be running beyond all his neghbors,
and increasing his profits fourfold What consumma-
ton might be achieved for proud country could the
ruinous agitation now experienced be exchanged for
peace, united with fourfold profit
At the time the idea of satisfactory provision
for the slave and the just requita Of the master is
no longer probematical When III years millions
of Irish the Atlantic with greater facilities than
colored people may have, the idea Of draining the
South of the African is chimera Years gone by
such Northern Webster have suggested the de-
voting Of the proceeds of the public lands to the
ration Of the and the transportation of the color
cd There are both Northern and Southern men in
halls Of Congress who in private conversation
hail this suggestion But leader, and that too South
leader is demanded for the practical accomplishment
of the work Who is the who shall earn for him
self such since Washington has gained?
QUESITOR