Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-07-30
The Destiny of the srss Blacks.

Prom the New Orleans Creoie.l
Il the present agitation Of the question Of
slavery is attended with any danger to the IN
ion, it is mere frauglt with irremedable evil TO
the free blacks. 1t cannot be denied that the
condition OF the African In the fTse States is
ter of q century ago. The distance between
the two races is greater-the disabilities under
which the inferi6f iahOrs, are more marked,
and his future prospect is snVeloped in denser
gloom
While the admission is readily made that a
very small proportion Of the Inhabitants Of
the free States profess to have placed the black
upon al equality with the white race in all
tat concerns its eonheetiGn with society, still
it is evident that notwithstanding their theories,
the antagonism founded on the laws OF nature
is daily growing stronger 30 far as the masses
are CONCERNED.
Almost cSineident with one Of the most as
ton4sbing political regulations ever peacefully
accomplished, which bat istaly SWEPT over IL
linois excited by the question Involving The ex-
tension Of the area dedicated to slavery. the
saaS people who seemed to be the waTmest
friends OF ths negro, have actually forbidden
the free black freE ~polluting the soil Of the
State under the penalty OF being reduced to a
condition Of servitude. But a few DAYS since.
an unfortunate son Of Africa, who found him
self a freenan ia f~reedomJoving Illinois, was
actually sold 10 the highest bidder for the vio-
lation Of the law against black immigration.
The feeling in Iowa aLd Wisconsin is equally
strong against permitting free blacks to take
refuge in those States. Everywhere they form
4 Gaspised caste. They are made slaves in
fact thosEh gominally free, wherever the rights
Of hospitality aSs tsndered to them. Literally
are they the " servants 81 servants " in all the
free States, without protection in time Of sick
ness, or the means of support in old age. It il
difheGlt to conceive a position more degraded,
or circumstances more hopeless than those
which cluster Sregnd the free blacks in the non
slaveholding States.
There is sympathy for tie slave, bat none
for the free man. He must take care Of him
self. His destitution and ~sun-ring excite no
sympathy, provided be Acknowledges no mas
ter, Ignorant and indolent, he is forced into
eonpstition with nore Intelligent and enter
prising white labor. As population increases
and competition grows ferceF. his chances OF
avoiding starvation bscOne gr sd1ailY small.
Tbs agitation with which the rouElry Is rife
on the subject Of slavery, Is likely to produce
the addition to the free population Of the North,
OF the entire free blacks Of the South. In
many slave States stringent measures have al
ready bees adopted 70 diminish this class Of
population, and there can BE little doubt that
the opposition to the existence Of the anomaly
Of free blacks daily assOciating with slases.
Wis NNAAnI AANAEGoN AAA ~ HAA " ~ EA ]
BY the immigration of nearlythe entire number.
II is not mere e0njeetuFe that the aequisi-
tion, by ths North, OF an additional population
of this charaetef, will increase the antagonisu
Of races, and make tia lot Of the free blacks
much more dePlorsble that It il at present.
srine, disease, insanity, restitution, and
death, which are recorded ny the statistics Of
the black populatloa Of the North. are c%onviue-
ing proof that the condition OF seFvitude %
TIE plantations Of the South, IL il Infinitely better
than hat OF freedom ia the free cities Of the
North. The type Of the two CLASSES is gradu-
ally changing. It Is the Northern blacks who
Earry IN the faces the svidsnee Of toll, care,
EmaciatiOa, poverty, dependency
aud deprsvity, are more often witnessed among
he few thousands nominslly free, North Of
and Dixoa's line, than among The
Of thousands in all the slaveholding
states.
The fate Of the free black, il pEofessed Ne
ToPholiSts pursgs their present course, is