The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-02
From the New Orleans Delta
THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE UNION.

~ the question of revving the slave trade The govern
en under our federal Union the first nterdct the
trade and il can be revived while Union en-
durs No color ought to be given to the suspicion that
the South has any wish intention it had the power
10 revive the slave trade Unless driven extremtes by
northern fnatieism there not the smallest probability
that the South viii favor its revival In addition to the
reasons given in the Enquirer Of the 26h ult Others might
be stated The principal is that it would be injurious
to our negroes however beneficial it might be for the
barbarous Africans 10 be brought in contact with civil
lied and Christian people Charity begins at home and,
however much the Shreveport Democrat may desire to
benefit the black sayages Africa By resiyng the slave
trade ia measure il urges IN the number with great
power moments reflection win show that il cannot be
done without njuring negroes who have higher
claims ON us than any people elsewhere residing whether
civilized or savage.
The high price Of slaves in the southern States is in
per wall of defence thrown around negroes protecting
them agains, wanton abuses all other walls broken
down. II the interest of the master 10 treat his negroes
well at all times and places That interest increases with
the slaves value. But il negro slaves made cheap by
their introduction from Africa and the expense Of rearing
children exceeded the expense OF buying imported slaves
there would not be sufficient protection against abuses Of
the institution by ayaricious and tyrannica masters.
What has happened when negroes cheap would hap
Ten again What happened before federal Union
would happen again il abotonism succeeds in overthrow
ing il According 10 Gantin and Humboldt (see also
Researches upon the Vital Dynanics Of Civil Govern
ment by Bennett Dowler NJ d. abstract Of which was
published in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Jour
nal for May sf9) the whole number of negro slaves inn
ported into the United States from first TO last did not
exceed three hundred thousand From that stock have
now about four millions presenting says Dr. Dowier at
the same time greater number Of longlived heahiu per-
sons than any people Europe excepting the most M
yored classes More than twice the number OF slaves import
ed into the United States have been imported into The British
island Of Jamaica alone yet Jamaica at the present time
has not half the number originally imported, whereas IN
the United States the increase has been more than ten TO
one According TO Humboldt Gallan, and others il APP
uears that previous ss the British had imported into
their West India islands 2l3o0oO African slaves that
the british West India islands, settled century before
North America received than times tie num-
Der Of slaves ever received in the United States etin 1875
under British management but G2lTtI remained! More
than one million and half had disappeared One mill
lion and hall less than the orignst importation! The
greatest Of all ply Biological is the death extin
guishnen of This not the fault Of the ne
groesH Dowlers Vital Dynamcs Speaking Of the free
blacks of the United States the author of Vital Dynamcs
continues characterization suddenly arrests their vital
progress longevity psychological energy, ana physical I'M
proyement Their Numerical increase is not inherent but
eytraneous and contingent arising from abseondng and
manumed slaves Disease short life and speedy DEATH
everywhere mark the downward progress of free blacks
Archcal governments have only failed 10 advance the
vital condition of the negro but they have actually con-
,ributed TO his extinction
The Visible decline Of the human species in despotsms
has excited the serious apprehenson throughout the
Turkish empire 1t is remarkable that the writers upon
civilization and its advantages have not recognised the
principle the type of all that deserves
to be called modern civzatonthe only really fruitful
discovery in social physc of which the world yet
boast The type Of all other governments is the patri-
rc1c laienai which becomes unnatural the moment
i. transferred from family since it cannot be tempered
bv the real parental affection ii modern civilization tends
huane man. it is chiefly by lis e4uazng operations
that is BY appToximatng towards the American prinri-
pie" Dr. power might have added that the American
principle republication among the heads of families,
while all the each family under the patrarchcal
government called slavery Facts prove that the pari-
archcal government when administered hy republicans Is
the best government the weak and helpless conid possibly
be under and is the only form of government which is
adapted the negro When their masters not
republicans bat proud lords residing in England owning
number OF large estates each containing many hundred
negroes it would be perversion Of terms to call the
government they are under patarehicai The pa
archcal form Of government ceases and the despotic
government slavery commences when the master
and mistress abandon their people to the exclusive man
agement Of agents who have no interest in Them and
whom the negroes love. Ii the mutual love
Sng between the and his master which tempers the
government and extracts the poison that turks in arba-
~ power 1t Is the equalization Of property among repnb-
Leans caused By republicapism, that makes necessary
for the most of our shareholders 10 reside their plana-
ous-the properties generally being too small TO permit
them live away from their people-the income not be-
ing sufficient support them in Incidence and luxury as
was the case With the West India slave propetors Hence
while the government of the negro slaves in the West In
dies was desposm that Of the American slaves Is the
most perfect OF all gorernments-the parental patri-
archcl bearing the same aue with West India slavery
altogether different thing. Hence under the patri-
archca government as administered by American repub
leans each residing among his negroes and taking care OF
them, the 100000 have become 100000; while in the
British West Indies the 10000 originally imported have
under despoim slavery been reduced to 627I'h
If the safe tgnde revived negro slaves would he
come 80 pqny that capitalists would convert the pres
ent mild patriarchical government that American ne
aroes arc under inio despnsn slavery like the
British Fast and West Indies The American mistress
often sets UP all night or half the night in nursing sick
gro children and chief part Of the time Of good house
wife spent in providing for The health and comfort Of
the children and the sicka large portion of whom would
die their msresses lived the other side of the
il they had no and mstresses to take OF
be a. the free negroes Of The West Indies and north
trn Staies
Negro slaves increase faster n Virginia, Maryland
Tennessee Ksnteky and Missouri than they do in Louis
lana Alabama and Mississippi because the estates arr
smaller in the former than in the latter each slave coming
directly under the supervision Of bis her master and
mistress.
On small plantations in the latter States where the pro
preors reside their estates the increase is fully great
in any part Of prolific Virginia As Ear as the common