The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-09-02
THE FREE NEGRO PROBLEM.

he Columbus sun, candldiy aonhs
hat free society is failure, and dis
.usses with seriousness the question Of
arriving at a satisfactory solution of the
problem of the final destiny OF the /
negro. Making due allowance for the
influence engenderen n the breast O
he white race, and the partial legisla-
lion naturally resulting from the rela-
tive social status of the negro, it still
finds loss in attempting to explain the
general degradation that charaoterizes
the negro in the state of freedom.
In the free States be has the adyaa
tages of liberal laws, the exercise and
expansion Of his faculties are unrestrict-
ed, and the way to the accumulation Of
wealth ard the comforts of life are as
free to him as TO the whiternan. True,
in some localities, municipal regulations
may modify the relative social and po
litical condition of the negro but gen
orally, his liberty is so enlarged that
bis capacity for competing with his SUI
perior, the white mans thoroughly
tested. The American thinks that the
difficulties might beremoved BY trans
planting them as colonists to their ma
tive Afriea. But even there experience
has preceded him, and proclaims his
utter capacity for self government. The
Republic Ct Liberia is but melancholy
iIlustrationsof the blindness of fanati
cism, and affords the negro a gradual
transition rom civilization to the list
lessness Of bis native barbarism.
In slaye States, his contact with
slaves would be incompatible with their
condition, cursing them with his idle
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and vicious habits. In the erection Of
new free States, their immigration thi
Their is prohibited by the provisions d
the organic law; because he sinks in
the effort Of competing with the White
population, and is utterly unfit TO con
stitute an element in thrifty and en-
terprising community. Where lies ii.
difficulty ? Its. as the American trul,
says, in The constitution Of the nsgf,
himself t is eongenial, aud stanpes
upon bis nature by the ordaining hapc
of God, Hgher-lawism NAV defy anc
run rough-shod over the laws Of tn.
country, but natures laws have place,
az insurn1enntable obstacle in lis patti
% far it may GO, and no farther.
ln the expressive language Of III
New York Herald upon the same sub
jet THE efforts ofthe humanitarian
h have falle5 TO improve their condi.io
3 BIZ the ahclition Of domestic SLAYER,
and have demonstrated the fact tina
something more than the removal {
q political aud social DISABILITIES is neee.
sary to improve the condition Of ii
negro. u II needless here to expatia,
4 rpm the effect Of slavery upon the pr
saft and future condition Of slaves. an
1 tbtir lanenaable condition IN free d
4 ciesy. # freedom does not suit hin
/, slaFeTy mast Be bis natural and norm;
sion
aias parent to The Black R,
y publican = Il slaEelsolder. Aft
i candid hait reluctant confession of I'll
regro's inaptitude for freedom sshK j
bis pseudo phiianthropists prate g mue
OF the benefits of liberty and The 4cur.
of slageryg' is because agitation
a necessary element in the success
the Black Republican party. and i
selfish Leaders hold their leading string
/ helnoye them and the sober sense
i ttiie masses will soon recover the swa,
Is The Coolie trade, and the Apprel
tee system, though spurious forms
slavery attest thu necessity which soon,
or later viii compel England ard Franc
: so re-establish it in their colonies. III
Jnited States are manufacturing
lWsll Is . producing people. Englan
fHean only maaufactnre The staple we prc
duoe, and return i in different form,
2ut of the supply Of the great cotto
a ptaple Afforded by the Southern st..,