The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-02

unat 10 Be trusted with political power, inea-
sr promoting the public prosperity, snssd their
diticn ss slaves subjected 1t 70 legal control There
policy on the slave aud socisy accessible all who
seek truth We say its wis 10 indicated ia
results and that under A. the African In the savsAodins
nssssn support q th,s point. propose to ss.ss him
The monuments Of the ancient Egyptians carry him back
to the morning Of time Older than the pyramids Trey
his social degsdAson before history began. We Arst
behold him slave in foreign lands We then find the
after thirty centuries, illuminated by both ancient and
modern civilization have passed over him. We s'i and
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there still without laws protecion with
out Letters arts or ndusty without reeu or even shs
sspr which would raise him to the rank OF
idolaor and in his lowest type his almost only max OF
humanity is that he walks erect In the image Of the
no rscs II his existence written naf score Of years
he would not leave behod him single monument. inven-
ton or thought worthy OF remembrance by the human
In the Eastern hemisphere he has beea found in all
ages scattered among the nations Of every degree Of
civilization vet inf to them aalways in servie
condition Very soon after the discovery and settlement
Of the ass 81 tss voIs
ana eountrymen, and imported them into tbs Western
wo,ld Here enab ed TO view them under different
snd far favorable condi IONS In Hayt by the
emit of the french government after long
baton Of slavery they becae free; and led on By the
ana
Der of whites the Island and TO the
islands under tie highest state Of cultivation Their con-
dition In Hayt left nothing to be desired for the most
favorable experiment Of the race for self and
civilization. This experiment has been tested Tor
sixty years, and s results are before the world Fanat
cisn psates but cannot conceal the utter prosrson
OF the war Of races began on the very moment
the IL Of foreign srbjugaton ceased, and resulted
the alton Of the greater number of the muAtoes
who had rescued them from the dominion Of the white
Revolutions tumults and disorder hsve been the
ordinary pursuits Of the emancipsed blacks INDUSTRY
almost ceased, and their stock OF civilization has
been already exhausted and they scarcely Dis
t guishabe from Tie tribes rom which they were ton
More recently the Same experiment has been tried in
jamaica under the auspices Of England This was one
ef the most beautiful productive ans prosperous OF the
the false theories Of her Proclaimed the
total Emancipation of the black In Jamaica Her
arms and her power have watched and protected
them ony the interests but the absolute necessities
of the white proprietors Of the land compelled them
dustry; yet the experiment stands before the
world confessed failure Ruin has overwhelmed
his nature buries himself IN filth, and sloh, and crime.
Here compare the African with himself In both
conditonsin freedom and In bondage; and we can com
pare him with his III the climate and following
the same pusuits-comIaIe him with himself under the
two different conditions in Hay'i and jamaica and with
his in bondage IN Cuba. And every comparison de-
nonstIates the folly Of emancipation.
In the United States, too we have peculiar opportuni
ties Of studying the African under different condi
ticns Here We find him in slavery here find him,
also freeman in both the ssveholcing and nslsve
holds States The best specimen OF the free black Is to
with slavery, and subject to many OF its restraints
Upon the theory Of the nsavery tie most favor
the non slaveholing States Of this UIion. There we
ought expect to find him display Ing all the capacities
perate climate with the road Of progress open before
him On active industrious, ingenious and eda
sad y tn and
it can be chargesbe to nothing but himself He has
had seventy years in which to cleanse himself and
his the eproty Of slavery Yet what his
dition today He is free-he lord OF himself but
he Lds it truly "heritage of woe After this seventy
years education and probation among themselves his
slavehoding in the saveholdng States By them he
is aejndged unit to enjoy the rights and perform the
versatile Of nature, and political rights by municipal,
law incapable Of maintaining the unequal struggle with
freedom is here most usually found in the records Of
criminal urts. jaia, poor houses and penentiares
conclusive manner throughout the Northen States No
town city State encourages their emigraton many
Of them discourage it BY gslstisn Some Of the non
boas under any ss, Of e., Thus
we treat il differently. The Northern States admit
it, 70 rid themselves Of the burthsn inct the most
from their ders and drive them out of their boundaries
into their po0rhouses wanderers and Outcass The
result Ct this policy everywhere statistics
of population supply the evidence Of tn cond ion II
the nonsaveholdipg States their sctua increase during
the years preceding the last but little
per cent per annum, with the addition OF
enancpaed slaves and fugitves from labor from the
South clearly proving tia. in this their most favored
psble C maintaining their existence and with the pros
pect Of denser population and greater competition for
employment consequent thereon they are In danger OF
extinction
The Southern States, acting upon the same admitted
eOu ue in which they @ as protect
them against themselves and conpel them to contribute
to their own and the public interests and welare and
men to prove that the African race has attain
ed q higher tesres Of comior. and happiness
county Our political system gives the slave great
and valuable rights His life is equally protected with
seainst ali others, except bis MASTER and bis power in
this respect placed under salutay legal restraint He
and e1e%psd from poo and when Hc
longer capable Of labor in old age disease legal
s5gs upon his master His s Old md young
grave have the same legal rights And in these legal
sro,Sns ey enjoy as sgs % M Of the po
know that their nights in the main faithfully secured
to them; but rely not knowledge, but subms
all other countries There are supplied BY puSc Stats
tics They show that slaves larger consumers of
than any other aborng population in the United States
and thai their nauI al increase equal TO that other
physical forts are amply secured In 1890 there were
less than hundred thousand slaves ia the United
States 1850 the number exceeded three and quarter
millions The authority shows that their increase
or the ten preceding the last census was above
twenty per cent, nearly three cent per
num- increase equal-allowing for the element Of
foreign emgraonto the white race, and nearly three
the blacks of the North But these legal rights
of the slave embrace but small portion OF the privi
tges actually enjoyed by him. He has by universal
custom the control of much Of his time which is
applied at his choice and convenience to the
chapic arts to agriculture to other profitable
pursuit. which not only gives him the power of purchase
Of the additional necsssaiiss of e but
many Of RS uxuries and in enables him
to purchase his freec om when he desires 1t. Be-
sides, the nature Of the relation of msste- and
slave begets kincness imposes duties aud secures
their Performance which exist in no other
relation Of apaI and labor. Interest humanity
operate in harmony the we'll seing OF slave labor.
Thus the monster objection TO institution Of slavery
that il depIives labor Of its wages-cannot stand
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