The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-08-05

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beis, tit. sl,i<i, ,,t1e oner eons'acrea es
belonging peculiarly io ihtin: that 10 the
slave States tiiey hage come TO BE looked
upon as danger, through the continued
efforts of the abolitionists; and that in
the new States of the West, even in those
where the most diverse political senti-
ments rule, there is SO great reluctance
on the part Of the people TO have them
settle, that it has become rule, in fra
ming a constitution to prohibit their res
idence in the State Through the opera
ton of these influences the free negroes,
as class, are becoming daily more help
less amongst u.s. and in view of the
impossibility of their counteracting
them, and making headway for them
selves, they must eventually become q
burden upon the resources of society
The efforts of the humanitarians have
failed to improve their condition by the
abolition of domestic slavery, and have
demonstrated the fact that something
more than the removal of political and
social disabilities is necessary to improve
the condition of the negro.
These results flow from natural causes
Created to reside beneath the burning
sun of the tropics, through bountiful
provision of nature the negro has not
been endowed with the active and fever
subject of the white man. In his native
cline the earth produces spontaneously,
and in some instances, as in the case of
the plantain and banana, without rotation
of seasons, the fruits necessary for his
sustenance. His major wants being thus
provided, he has no need of, and does
not possess the provident faculty. The
diffusion of races over the earth, through
the growth of commerce and the multi
plication of the wants of civilized society,
has carried him to other regions and
elimes than those of his native Africa
In some of these, as in Hayti and others
of the West India islands. having acquir-
ed the central of the social Organizations
through the proponderance of numbers,
he has relapsed from the cultivation which
the supervision of a superior intellect had
given him, to very nearly, if not quite, the
natural state of African barbarism.-
Where he bears sway the white element
of society has dwindled or died out and,
his industry has limited itself to gather
ing the natural productions of a eongenial
cline.
When the causes above cited have car
ried him to other than tropical climates,
as in this country, where forethought
and provident watchfullness are neees-
sary to guard from want during the rota-
ton of the seasons, the condition of do
nestle slavry gave him to the providence
of more actile intellect. In the North
ern States we have deprived him of this
by abolishing slavery. At first, this act
seemed to be boon to the negro. our
poFdlation was sparse, and he found en-
ployment in domestic service and several
of the minor occupations which were
within the rauge of his intellectual capac-
ity. But as population has become more
dense, he has been crowded out of most
of these by the competition of the supe
rior race. The natural result of steady
descent in the social scale has at
tended him, and when our population
doubles and trebles, as it will in few
generations, the condition of the free ne
gro among us must become degraded in
he extreme. Deprived by the far-sight
ed legislation of the new States of the
possibility of migrating to the thinly set
tied regions, he can only resign himself
to his fate, and become pauper in oul
midst.
In the Southern States, where slavery
still exists, the contrary result attends
the future Of the negro race. There w
find itnot only increasing in numbers
with strides equal to those of the whit
race, but becoming every day mor'
valuable element Of the social organiza
ton The intimate association with th'
superior race, 10 which it is admitteC
through family servitude, not only i'm
proves its moral tone, but increases it
social capacity through enforced educa
tion. So true is this, that the negro com
munities Of Liberia and Hayt, in seek
ing emigrants in this country, give maI
ked preference TO slaves that nave beer