Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-28

SOUND Counsets from aNirgtniun Press-Dun.
gerOus IncreRse Of Mulauoes al the south
The Wheeling Iaieligeheer the leading jour
nal of Western Virginia, has tie following ju
icious and striking remarks 10 its issue Of octod
Der 81.
The investigations which have been and arc
being made into the secret history Of the recent
terrible and remarkable outbreak will, we hop,
and believe be productive of good influence up
on the popular mind in both sections of the
Union. 1t has two lessons, which il seems &c
us thet it may very appropriately teach. The
hrst of these IS the lesson which it will convey
to the North, teaching them TO look even with
more than their wide spread aversion upon the
principles and eachings Of those visionary fanat
les among them who, like Ganistn 4 Co,
claim that the constitution of our country sis q
covenant with hell, f" and that the duty of slaves
is TO rise ia the night time and free themselves
from thraldom by cutting the throats of Their
masters and helping tht msclvss TO the property
accumulated by their Quilted toll IL will " e
say, teach the northern people, when these "a
naiica abOlitonists go about through their cities
aud towns, holding their periodical Saturnala,
to look upon their princii les in the proper
light, and will inspire in their minds more of a
deep-seated hostility TO their wicked and disor
gan'zing rawlings. In this way the results of
these Investigations will affect the Northern
mind for good
On the South it ought likewise to make deem
impression. Hero, in this Harpers Ferry riot
we have an illustration which both pre- ce pit and
example have before told us, is altogether a
possible contingency in county in whose
midst there exists large aud degraded class
OF humanity. We cannot take fire in our bo,
SONS and not be burned, the Scripture and oul
own experience have Taught us Neither can
we have in our midst four millions of serfs
whose color, whose intellect whose habits.
whose everything s different from the ruling
element, without liabilities to the same dangers
that have always attcnde society in every coun
try where such large seryile element has cx-
istcd. San Domingo his targht this lesson tc.
the world. Southampton has taught il TO the
people of this country and this State. Scarcely
more insecure are those people who work by
day and sleep by night underneath the cratefs
of Nesuvius and Ktna, and who are liable to
an Eruption at any moment of burning lava,
than many communities of our southern States
where the slaves number two or three to one of
the whites. These slaves, by their constant
and rapid illegitimate intermingling with The
whites, as well as by the very condition of CON
tact between superior and inferior races, are be-
coming in each generation more intelligent and
consequently more the object of dread Thev
are sloughing of gradually that torpor and ob
tuseness of mind seemingly natural to them,
even faster than they are shedding their oriei
nal dark hue. Slowly, but certainly, thew are
acquiring more Of the characteristics of the
white races and losing those of the African.
Look at the frightened oomplexio Ofthe race
In all our southern cities and towns in Charles
ton, South Carolina, for instance, the mixed
element immeasurably predominates over that
OF the black, and is, we believe, equal to ifnot
greater than the white population Look at
many other of the South Carolina communities
Look at Richmond, Lynchburg, Petersburg,
Norfolk and ether places in our State. We
ought to look these things all in the face now.
They have an important practical beaiing ON
our social condition, When we hear men and
papers either openly advocating or coyertly
winkng at a revival ofthe odious slave trnde.
1t is time that public attention was called 10
these things Il is useless to rail AZ wicked
and reckless abolitonists, like Brown, who in
! their blind ianaticism think-if thew think mr.
care at all-that they are doing God service
when they teach and aid slaves TO rise AGAINST
their masters There will always be such men.
They are to be expected when we think of the
vast amount of opinion, religious and non reli. /
Gus, which exists throughout 0 great country
like ours on the moral and political aspects ofa
national question like that of slavery Like
wise is 1t all useless AMI idle TO expect thai
men having minds to think-minds which
must think--and tongues which are FREQ to
speak, will ever stop having opinions or ex
pressing them upon either the Justice or the
eXpedence of slavery in the abstract. Our Sc.
curity lies in advancing not in retreatipg-
We must look to the future of the two races
| We must 60 back and read up the opinions Of
the fathers OF the republic as to the probab,e
issue OF slavery in this country We Eiust
Lrfnat fhuk Nl, ~.
themselves not only with coniectuTes as 10
what were TO be its results, but also with ways
and meals by which they might be able 10
provide against these very insurrections Mr.
Jefferson, we should remember, up to his diving
hour never ceased TO express his apprehension
and TO suggest his plans for exemptioD.-
The possible contingency Of great San Do
mlngo rebellion, he declared, was TO him con.
tlnually "like a fire bell in tho nigbt.n lie
"trembled," he said, 80 think of it," And
II was because that he so well knew tie pecu.
liar conditions which invested the negro race.
both naturally and artilicially in this country.
that he dwelt so earnestly on his plan for a
Central American colonization Of the race -
Something of this sort has got to DO done. For
look at il: We have now nearly four millions
OF these serfs among us. They .re increasing
IA ratio wholly unknown :, the white toss
Not only this, but, as we said tbev arc irrb;h.
ing the energies and t.,klnv ON tbe color Of the
superior race, Tl,sy row ranss ali H. ,,'a', ,s
up the scals irola The jet black 10 the offspring
OF quadroona, Does anybody aatter himself
'hat the NSufily sullen and sulkey mulattO has
no more ambition, no more energy of mind.
thah tne African properi DO not the facts
anew that they havel The fact that the cross
OF two antagonistic bloods makes them short
lived, as a class, has demonstrated 10 physiolo,
gusts that they are the worst class OF inhabi.
tants country can have. Nearly ali
the poisoning cases that have created so much
alarm in the South have occurred at the hands
OF mulattoes. Mrs Stowe did well 10 make the
desperate Casey, ia "Uncle Tom" mulatto
She was not an exaggerated type. And il is
notorious that not only LegTee, but that thou.
sands OF other men ia the South, readily nav
a premium for such high strung creatures as
Casey.
Bat We cannot pursue this subject further
70 day lt Is one that needs more siaustios
and more time for proper elaboration than we
can bring to 1t now. We are greatly in hopes
as iRdeet we have been for some time back. |
that It will ere long elicit attention from our
mere experienced aud sagacious public men.
And although it has more than ITS usual force
and interest just at this time, yet il is none tbe
less an everyday and permanent subject. eallin0 |
for our constant attention.
The Ohio Statesman rejoices over The fact |
that ifyOu throw out of consideration the West
ern Reserve, the State is Democratic That
reminds US Of the query put 10 DF. Samuel L.
eli he W...l l. a.sl