New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-09

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kuy one who should infer that the NEST radical
AhoIitioaisla il To be found IN Canada because the
Underground Railroad terminates there, and because
regarded as Tie land Of refugethe ultimate safe
asylum Of the runaway slaye-woud form a very
erroneous Judgment, and might add to his stock Of
knowledge the axiom that it is premature to come to
conclusions without sufficient evidence, OF to base a
theory upon certain facts before ascertaining how
their existence may be accounted for. If the les
sons Of experience teach wisdom, we believe that
whatever sympathy may now exist among the whites
in Canada with the savestealers Of the Northern
States will be obliterated in the course of very few
years and that it is in fact already obliteated in
those portions of the country which have suffered
most from the presence of free negro communities.
The attention of the Canadian Legislature has been
repeatedly called by some of its leading members to
the deeterious effects Of the large admixture of this
class Of people into their population; and this, with
other evidences indicates growing popular senti
ment against the progressive increase of free negroes
by immigration.
We have no doubt that many people, in Canada
and in the Northern States have learned by this time
to their full satisfaction that the free negro class as
productive or industrial agent, is utterly and intrin-
sically worthless in the social system; and that to
the vice Of Incidence the free negro communities add
all other human vices and wickedness which can
grow out Of brutal, uncducated instincts in beings
conscious of an nnacGustomed personal liberty and
incapable Of feeling those moral restraints and tespon.
sibites which mainly constitute the superiority Of
the white race, aud which with the latter are
powerful than written laws. As slavery is uHques-
tionably the normal condition Of the African, he
not if he would, do his nature justice in posi-.
ton which depriyes him Of necessary restraints and
imposes obligations he cannot meet and responsible
ties he is incapable of understanding In state
OF slavery he, as a general thing, is a doGile,
kind-heartad Icing, loving his master, respecting
his superiors and living happy and contented.
When the Northern save.stealers get hold of him.
however, and make him his own master, this is all
reversed aud he is soon changed to different crea.
ture altogether, with his best instincts perverted
whatever good there was in him driven out, his
doeility and obedience replaced by impudence, and
his industry and sure dependence upon his master by
lazy Incidence and sgualid wretehedness and poverty
These are truths which the people Of the North
might have learned to great advantage thirty years
ago, without suffering the pains and penalties which
ever wait upon the acquisition of knowledge in the
hard school of experience. Had they frowned down
the first agitation of the slavery question: and placed
outside the pale of decent society the hypocritical
wretches who ruin the negro under pretenco of NH
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