The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-02

tale Of every fsce, from The Mediterranean
shore to the Cape. Neither civilized intercourse
nor religion can alter this essential character
istic. Three hundred years ago the Gospel
was preached to races in Africa, which are still
as barbarous, as hcpelessly unsuited for any
station in life but slavery, as they were whsn
first discovered. The earliest navlgators bought
slaves from petty chiefs en- the African coast,
whose descendants have regularly sold their
children and their dependents ever since down
to the present day Nor is thip savage trait
consequence of surrounding circumstances or
prevailing customs. Negroes whose ancestors
have been domiciliated on American soil for
two centuries preserve all TIE barbarous spirit
of their race. The attempts which have been
made to educate them confirm the fact of their
unteachable ignorance in the most strikingrnan-
ner. Monsters have been exhibited, in the shape
of learned and reasoning negroes, and have been
nearly as successful as the intellectual monkeys
and the learned pigs enc sees in menageries
But Notwithstanding the most persevering and
conscientious efforts for the last half century,
the mass of the co,ored people in the North
have not, under the most advantageous circum-
stances, been asle'to acquire the most superb
cial rudiments EFF an ordinary education.
Schools, churches, books, have been thrown
away upon them; the curse of Ham
still grinds Thorn to the earth. They are free,
it is true; but who would exchange a slaves
cottage Oh Southern plantation for the free
dom of the Five Points? Despised and loathed
with loathizg unknown in the South-per-
secuted by thousand vexatious prohibitions
which render the name Of equality q mockery-
utterly incapable Of ever attaining any real
rank or station in society--the free negro of
the North is truly being to be pitied. He
has rights, which he cannot exercise; wrongs
which he dare not avenge. He is called man,
but denied the privileges Of manhood: pro-
nounced our. equal, but invariably dealt with
as our inferier; invited to share the prizes Of
industry, and jeered for his invincible sloth;
called to win the reward of intellect, and
spurned as one on whom the divine ray never
descended. What is the consequence Of this Z
What else ceuld it be but the creation of q
large class Of idle worthless creatures who
lead the life. of parias, are ready for any vice,
keep the police and ministers Of justice con-
stantly busy and do no earthly good either to
themselves or any one else during the whole Of
their wretched existence. They are, in fact,
the victims Of mistake, q misrepresentation.
God made them to be servants of the white
man: they refused to obey His law of adapta-
ton; and their miserable fate is the result.
There are no doubt in many of the Southern
slave codes provisions of doubtful justice and
questionable humanity, which it would be we'll
to have repealed. But to attempt to subyert
the entire system, and to abolish slavery alto
gether, would be tc do violence to q law of ma
ture which cannot be violated with impunity
The negro was made for servitude; and of all
kinds of servitude, that suits him best in
which he has least opportunity of injuring him
SELF 1t may be possible that parts of the. South
would thrive better under freedom than slavery,
though We doubt the fact, and believe that where
such is the case, slavery is sure to 60 to the
wall without the aid of Northern agitation
Bnt Intil some provision is made for at
least three millions of slaves-and by such pro-
vision we mean means whereby they are to be
expatriatad, and the country entirely rid of
thein-MT. Seward ought not, will not make
much Roadway with his abolition movement.