The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-07-10

opinion must rest, seat themselves down
amidst the bleak east winds and chilly fops
of England to organize tropical system of
government for the negrol And this public
opinion, thus of necessity ignorant, is act
ually the controlling power upon question
in which England has more at stake than in
India and all the imperial interests bound
up in it.
While stating rs we conceive a simpIe
truiSm, that there can be no civilization
without labor, we are quite willing to ac-
cept as principle equally sound, the other
That there can be no regular and perma-
nent system of industry without the full re-
cognltion of those great principles of JUS.
tce and true humanity which 90 hand in
hand with all civilization. That negro SER
vitude can be humanized, and the condition
OF the negro gradually improved, with per-
feet safety to both master and servant, no
one can in the least doubt who has witness
! ed the steady progress of reform in the
Southern States of America, notwithstand-
ing the difficulties in the way. Laws have
oeeh introduced exempting negroes from
sale Tor debt--prohibiting the separation of
Misunderstanding the marriage tie, and
OF course, thus securing the indssolubility
boalT s9s advocated q 10 the srS SpaG thb 10 9g
evidence before jury, the jury being the
Judge of its value, as of any other testimo-
nv given il. As the actual condition of So
ciety will be inevitably reflected in the law
of its government, so the bond OF mutual
interest and affection exists in the Southern
States of America between the negro and
his master, and which is the true and only
bond of union and security, is gradually
tlking legal shape. The weight of en-
lightened opinion is on the side of these
wise and humane reforms. The negro would
be happier under them. He would certainly
not grow less cotton, if he did not produce
more. The well-being of the negro is seen
to he exactly in proportion to the refine
ment, education, and civilization of his mas
ter. The African is civilized by contact
and example, and it is law of his nature
that he must be entirely separated from the
local influences of his heathenism. The
love of locality is very great with him, and
exercises an irresistible influence over his
weak and chld-like mind. But he is docile
and afiectionate and finds his natural rela-
ton in life when brought involuntarily un-
der the influence of civilization and the
guidance and protection of the superior
white man.
The actual condition of negro servitude
as it exists in America has never been un-
derstood in England, nor the theory of the
| American Constitution-the organic law of
which consists in the full recognition Of the
| inferiority of the negro, ami the natural su-
periority of the white man. The immediate
representatives of the Institution of negro
| servitude as a wise and just system of tro-
| pical labor of course have conscientious
and honest conviction in regard to the mat
ter. The Southern philosophy is this: that
negro servitude is not "Slavery" at all in
the true acceptation of that term; that invol-
untary scrvitude TO the white man is the
normal condition Of the negro, his natural
relation in life, and is the same measure of
freedom To him as what we call ''Liberty
is to the white man; that in this relation he
finds his greatest happiness, makes the great
est progress, and is of the best service; that
in no other relation has he ever been found
except as barbarian of the lowest grade,
or when sustained in unnatural freedom by
a mistaken philanthropy. That the negro
must either be in Christian servitude or in
heathern and barbarian slavery, and that
every dictate of wise economy, true charity,
and honesty intention enforoes the necessity
of making him take an active and produc-
tive part in his own civilization.
This philosophy is now undergoing a Sc
we're ordeal. If it is unsound and artificial,
the works of human oppression, it WILL like
all wrong, fall TO pieces, and the negro will
govern himself grow cheap cotton on his
own account, send his own race to Congress
and perhaps divide the Presidency. But il
the southern philosophy is true, if it rests
on the great and eternal decrees of Nature
ii it is of Divine ordination, and wisely
bound up in the economic law of mankind
and the wants of mankind, the powers o
; this world cannot prevail against it.