Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-01-23
Black and W.,

on Democracy in Ama,. tn
some twenty years ago. In G
the condition of the black n., ~ G
the United States, and ths5 5os'' 7
it threatens to the whites, he P
If on the one hand, j, h, 81
land the fact is unquestion,p., =
colored population perpetual Z ?
lates in the extreme South. an, :
creases more rapidly than Il. !,
whites; and if, on the otb.,I :
allowed that it is impossible
time at which the whites and !,
be 50 intermingled as tode1r, !,
benefits from society mustA !
ferred that the whites and A.,
sooner or later come to opeD s[
Southern States of this Unio, :,
the West India Islands the v1..
destined to be subdued, bnt /.
population which is accumuI,,.l
coast of the Gulf of Mexico. b..,
of success, if the american r.
sOlced, when the struggle h-
two races begins. If the fe5sy.
broken, the citizens Of the g..
be wrong to rely upon any asn
from their Northern couptrv,, ]
at whatever period the strife mi.
out, the whites of the South eva
are abandoned to their own =.
will enter the list with an imms.
riority of knowledge and Of ber
warfare; but the blacks will bsr.
cial strength and the energy Of
upon their side and these are m
resources to men who have tak,pr
The fate of the white popuatia
Southern States will perhaps b.
to that Of the Moors Of SDan
having occupied the land for cer-
will perhaps be forced to retin.
country whence its ancestors cam.
to abandon to the negroes the DIS
ofterritory, which Providencs y,
have more peculiarly designed
since they can subsist and Iaboro-
easily than the whites. The dam
conflict between the white and b.
habitants of the Southern States
Union,-a danger which hoveve,
; it may be, is inevitable,-pn
haunts the imagination Of the Ana
l The inhabitants of the North n,.
common topic Of conversation.
the Southern States it is not Gs
I = But there is something mm-
ing in the tacit forebodings Of1l
E than in the clamorous fears ot4t
thern States"
4 One of the truest of our 4
poets Longfellow) uttered az
warning, fifteen years ago, in The
ing strains
Beware! the Israelite Of old, who tor
The lion in his ath,-when Door and
a He saw the blessed light ofheavea nom
: Shorn ofhis noble strength, and ftai
o In prison, and at last led forth to be
A pander to Philstine revelry,-
= e Upon the pillars of the temple laid
His desperate hands, and inits oygr--
Destroyed himself, and with him thOseU-
A cruel mockery of his sightless vC
n The poor, blind Slave, the scoff andj@
Expired. and thousands persisted in tie
4" There is a poor blind Samson in tlgE
Shorn of his strength, and bound
steel,
Who may, in some grim revcl, raise be-
: And shake the pillars of this Comn1
II Till the vast Temple Of our Liberties
A shapeless mass of wreck and rnbbI--
d 1t is well known that the conc
e Of the slave population in The
5 South, referred TO by De TOcqn
: still going on, and that in SOD
4; States they are already in II
> According to the the last celsa
the blacks consulate 51.2 PEI
Louisiana ; 46 per cent. in Fm-
/ per cent. in Alabama; and 4Zia
II in Georgia. South Carolias
" largest colored population in p
e to the whites, the per cent D'
While in the Southern AthHt1
9 the increaseof blacks havea7sH-s
n about 2 per cent. per annum II H'
If in the Gulf States it has arerass' ~
= cent. per annum for the as'TeAH
d In spite of this increase, hoSs'
n blacks appear to be gaining p
n whites in only two or three o1e
ID in those quite slowly. We lnll'
y little danger of the white race BE-
,e mately swallowed up, or any p
: our tertiary becoming AirloD
% though there as danger Of ire4l,
y breaks and instructions, IN o11'7
e, the servile population ouinODD
- masters. This is an evil insePa'