The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-21

tbtiOn OF the Board?
The Free Blacks In the United sGsses-Proba.
be Ks-en"ssme.t oi tue slavery Law In tho
NSIlneyn states.
Tie question Of the probable future condition
of the free blacks In this country is beginning to
force itself upon our black republican niger.
worsbippers, and causes them no little trouble
We reprint in another column, from the Phladel
pbis North american, an article On this slhiec.
knowlecges the dilemma
II is found that the free negroes are both i'm
provident and lazy; that in the Atlantic States
they are being gradually but steadily driven
fiom those GLASS employment such as coach
men, servants, BARRIERS, etc., which were once
considered as belonging peculiarly to them; that
in the slave States they have come to be looked
upon az danger, through the continued efforts
Of the abolitioDists; and that in the new Stases
Of TIE West, even Ia those where the most diverse
political sentiments rule, there is so great reluc
lance on the part OF the people to have them set
tie, that 1t has become rule, in framing q con
stituton to prohibit their residence il the State
Through the operation Of these influences the
Tree negroes, as class, are becoming daily more
helpless amongst U.S. aud 10 view of the impossi
biliy of their counteracting them, and ma
king Roadway for themselves, they mus
eventually become burden upon the resources
of society. The efforts of the humaaitarians
bsve failed to improve their condition by the
abolition of domestic slavery, and have demon
s'rated the fact that something more than the
removal of political and social disabilities is Ne
ceesary to improve the condition Of the negro
These results flow from natural causes Great
ed to reside beneath the burning Gun of the
tropics, through bountiful provision of nature
tie negro has not been endowed with the active
aud fever-suhect brain of the white man. In his
native cline the earth produces spontaneously
and in some instances, as in the case of the plan
tain and banana, without rotation of sea sons the
fruits necessary for his sustenapce. His major
wants being thus provided for, he bias no need
Of, and does not possess the prevalent faculty
The diffusion of races over the earth, through
the growth Of commerce aud the mul duplication
of the wants Of civilized society, has carried
him to other regions aud climes than those OF his
native Africa. In some of these as in Hayu and
others of the West India islands, having acquired
the control Of the social organization through
The prepoDderance of numbers, he has relapsed
from the cultivation which the supervision of q
superior intellect had given him, to very nearly,
# not quite the natural state OF African barbar
ism. Where he bears sway the white element
of society has dwiudled or died out, aud his H.
dustry has limited itself to gathering the natu-
raj productions Of coDgenial cline.
When the causes above cited have carried
him to other than tropical climates as in this
country, where forethought and provident
watchfulness are necessary to guard from want
during the rotation of the seasons the condi
ton Of domestic slavery gave him to The provi
dence Of more active intellect. Ia the North
ern States we have Deprived hiaA ~c THO by
abolishipg slavery. At first, this act seemed to
DO boo. TO the negro. Our population was
sparse, and he found employment in domestic |
Fervice and several Of the miuor occupations
which were within the range of his intellectual |
capacity. But as population has become more /
dense, he has been crowded out of most of these /
Natural result of steady descent in the social
Gale has attended him, and when our popu-
alton doubles and trebles, as il will in q
ew generations, the condition of the free
legro among us must become degraded in the
extreme. Deprived by the far-sighted legisla-
Jon Of the new States of the possibility of mi.
grating to the thiniy settled regions, he can only
resign himself to his fate, and become o pauper
IN our midst.
In the Southern States, where slavery still ex-
ste the contrary result attends the future of the
negro race. There we find it not only ircreas.
ing in numbers; with strides equal to those of |
The white race, but becoming every day a more
valuable element of the social organization.
The Intrinsic association with the superior race,
10 which it 10 edmitted through family servisude,
not only improves its moral tone, but Increases
It's social capacity through enforced education
SO true is this, that the negro communities of
Liberia and Hayti, in seeking emigrants in this
country, give marked preference to slaves that
have been ranumitted after reaching the age of
maturity. And it is not alone the free negro
communities that confess the advantages that
accrue to the negro in servitade. Both here
and in tho Spanish American countries where
slavery exists, the negro slaves claim supe-
riority ever the free blacks, and constantly
exhibit in their social intercourse contempt for
them. Under the operation of these Influences
the statesman and the socia, economist can con-
template without alarm the progressive
Of the four millions Of negro slaves
now existing in our Southern States; while those |
of few hundred thousands of free blacks in !
the Northern States awaken feeling of alarm.
The logical deduction from these facts is that |
the Northern States will return to the enact. |
ment Of the laws establishing negro slavery, and
sell all the free negroes into family servitude.