The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-08-26
The Problem Of Abolition.


There are great many slavery people
(says the Detroit Free Press) who do not
know why they are such, most of them
would perhaps tells us that they are such
because they would ameliorate the condi
ton Of the African race in this country
If they could demonstrate to US that the
immediate and unconditional abolition of
slavery would ameliorate the condition of
the African race in this country, we might
ourselves become anti-slavery. But We
think they cannot do this. To ascertain
what would be the condition of the race in
the event of universal ncipation, we
must look at the condition of the present
negro population in the free States, and
then form some proper estimate of the
universal antagonism between it and the
white race resulting from the immense IN
fux of emancipated slaves. The present
condition Of the negro population In the
free States is so patent that we need not
describe it. 1t is everywhere as it is &C
knowledged to De in the city of Philadel-
phia, by the North american of that city,
whose abolition proclivities have not been
questioned Of late years, in which city, by
the way, this population has enjoyed pc
culiar advantages. The North American
| is "forced to confess that the free blacks
'of Philadelphia are the most thriftless
'and degraded portion of the population,
and that long years of enfranchisement
'haye not improved in the slightest de
gree their moral or intellectual statuS.'
Even Canada protests against her territory
being made place of refuge for fugitives
What city has not enough of black popn-
lation? Indeed, what city would not dim
inish that population if it could? The ef-
feet Of the abolition of slavery would be,
of course, to diffuse the negro population
over the whole country. Every State
which would admit the immigration would
receive large accessions. The negro popu-
lation Of Detroit would be augmented three
or four fold. Already negro labor, here
or elsewhere i'll the free States, is confined
to the most mental offices, and the supply
Of such exceeds the demand. The most
shallow thinker can calculate something Of
the consequences to the negroes them
selves of SO large an increase of their
numbers, especially as the prejudice, or
whatever else it may be termed, of the
whites towards them would not diminish,
but grow, intensity. Crowded out, by the
jealousl y of white labor, from the few
kinds of employment now remaining to
them, driven to the shifts of beggary and
crime for existence, they would speedily
come to be deemed a nuisance as an ele
ment of population, and we should see that
the very men who are to day the mot
clamorous for abolition would then be
loudest in demanding some violent remedy
for the evils Of large black popula-
ton.
Liberty is the greatest of blessings to
any race capable of maintaining and en-
joying it. Tue day may come when the
black race on this continent will be capable
Of maintaining and enjoying the largest
freedom; but it is not upon us yet. On
the contrary, immediate and universal alb
clifton Of slavery would, in our very hum
Die judgment, be one Of the greatest cal
antilles that could befali both races, in the
North as well as in the South. We have
not doubt that it would lead to so I'M
yielding and active antagonism of the races
that the weaker would suffer determination.
We have no idea that it is possible for the
two to live together on any other terms
than master and servant. We do not here
argue in favor of the perpetual bondage CT
the negro, but we do say that there can be
no practical plan of emancipation that does
not involve the removal of the negroes
from the country,