The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-13
SIX NUMBERS ON ADoLITION.-Eo. 8.


SIX NUMBERS ON ABOLITION.-Eo. g.
Let continue the probable which
would result from the emancipation Of -four millions of A
can slaves the Uni ed States Where are they to go and
what is TO become of them questions which naturally
10 every rejecting man sincerely laborng in tie
great ofhuman happiness Are they remain where
they are they TO emgrate to the Medina OF the
North2 Or they be to the western coast Of
Africa who is to bear the expense Of their transportation
and how are they live when they get there7 Not
tainly by the charity of the aboonsts who doing
all they can to throw obstacles in the way this emgra-
ton and who only consent and then TO contribute
to purchase the freedom of slave condition it
corded in the newspapers.
We hold it utterly impossible that the emsncipatsd
slaves would be permitted to remain in the southern
States but viii admit the possibility for the purpose of in
vesgatng its consequences However wise may be the
present generation Of boaserswbc after all possess little
really useful knowledge but what they have derived from
their ancestorswe believe the most arrogant of them
will scarcely venture TO insnuate that he knows any
thing of the future except by comparison with the past
He may nationally conclude that the will,
generally speaking produce the effects unless
eracted by powerful motive of action just
river is sometimes arrested in its by violent
pest and forced 10 back its waters against the natural
rent But these exceptions and may safely
conclude that the stream which has continued flow in
one direction through all past time will continue till
time shall be more.
The universal characteristic of the wooy of
Africa is lazness and its invarabe offspring habual
neglect in providing for the wants of the future We have
the unquesonable authority Of Mungo Parke the well
known traveller in Africa that there is such thing
voluntary labor in all that great continent and that three
four Of its inhabitants are and have been from time
immemoral hereditary bondmen 1t is without doubt to
this universal characteristic of incidence that in great
is to be ascrbed the past and condition of
great portion of Africa which, from the earliest period of
history down the present time has remained in its prs
tine of barbarism While the Of the white
were by labor and gradually overcoming all
the obstacles in their way at the time making the
earth fruitful and themselves worthy of the enjoyment the
wooly of Africa remained and still remains
in state Of unmgated barbarsm the lowest in the scale
of human beings excepting the Root Dggrs of the
Salt Lake DESERT who at least Free This absence Of all
progress has been generally ascrbed to great
the barrennes of large portion of that continent and
the scarcity of navgabe rivers and harbor which has in
great measure precluded the influence of commercial in
which supposed to be Of the great nstru
ments of civilization But Africa is not desert though
considerable portion of it may be- According to Lander
and other of the latest African explorers there extern
sve tracts of the most fruitful land almost everywhere
along the banks of the Niger and its tributaries bat where
the negroes have made progress in agriculture
thing else and depend, in great measure the spona
neous products of the land and the river They bar
barous as lazy aud careless of the future the rest of
their race The great desert of Kob in China has pre-
vented the Chinese from being the most industrious nation
in the world and will venture to predict that neither
the Lano Estacsdo Of New Mexico the Sandy Desert
of the Rio Colorado OF California will prove any serious
obstacles to the progress Of civilization in the surrounding
region As to the absence of The influence Of commerce.
the Portuguese the Dutch and the English have long bad
at serre Leone the Cape Of Good Hope and
other points yet we hear the latter talking Of q"
determination the only mode of getting rid Of their
neighbors.
To come nearer home: what has been the almost uni