Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-08-06

~ black eagle idoubeheaded) the ensign of Austria
III The King OF Naples and Sicily is called King II the
Two Scies.
ts) Emblem of the Bou,bnns who still reign in Naples.
ia In cuntradi,inction I" ,he bees. ebes VI the B-
napare family.
FREE BLACKS IN THE UNITED STATES
PROBABLE RE-EN ACTMENT OF TIN SI.A-
VERY LAWS IN THE NORTHERN STATES.
The question Of the probable future condition Of
the free blacks in this country is beginning to force
itself upon our black republican niggcr-worShip-
pers. and causes them no little trouble. We rc-
lrint in another column from the Philadelphia
North american. an article on this subject which
looks the question in the face and acknowledges the
dilemma.
1t is found that the free negroes are both improv-
dent and lazy; that in the Atlantic States they
being gradually but steadily driven from those class
cmploymcnts, such coacsiiuen, servants BARRIERS.
et.., which were once considered az belonging Pc
cularly to them; that in the slave States they have
come to he looked upon a danger, through the
continued efforts of the aboltionists; and that in
the new States of the West in those where the
most diverse political sentiments rule. there is so
great reluctance on the Fart of the People to favc
them settle that it has become rule, in framing
con>t tution to prohibit their side, IN tie State
Through the operation of these Influences the ftc
negroes as q class, arc becoming daily more help
less amongst US and in view Of the impossbility Of
their countcracting them, and making Roadway for
themselves, they must eventually become burden
upon the resources of society," The efforts Of the
humanitarians have failed to improve their condi-
ton by the abolition Of domestic slavery, and have
demonstrated the fact that something more than the
removal of political and social disabilities is ncces
sary to improve the condition of the negro.
These results flow from natural causes. Created
to reside beneath tue burning sun of the tropics
through bountiful provision Of nature the negro
has rot been endowed with the active ard fever
subject brain of the white In his native cline
the earth produces spontaneously, and in some in
Stances, in OF the plantan and banana. with
out rotation of seasons the fruits necessary for his
sustenance His major wants being thus provided
for, he has no need OF, and does not possess tho
provdcnt faculty. Tire diffusion of races over the
earth. through the growth Of commerce and the
multiplication of the wants of civilized society. has
carried him to other reg ions and clinics than those
Of his native Africa. In some of these. in llayti
and others Of the West India island having acquir
ct the control of the social organization through
the preponderancc Of numbers. lie has relapscd from
the cultivation which the supervision of superior
intellect had given him. to very nearly. If not quite
the natural state of African barbarism. Where lie
hears sway the white element Of society has dwin-
died or died out and his industry has limited itself
to gathering the natural productions Of genial
cline.
When the causes above cited have carried him to
other than tropical climates, as in this country,
where forcthOught and provident watchfulness are
necessary to guard from want during the rotation Of
the seasons the condition of domestic slavery gave
him to the providence of more active intellect.
In the Northern States have deprived him Of this
by abolishing slavery At first, this act ste ned to
be boon to the negro. Our population was sparse.
and he found employment in domestic service and
several of the minor occupations which were within
NJ :-<.N D..x-
ulation has become more dense, he has been crowd
ed out of most Of these by the competition Of the
superior race The natural result of a steady tes
cent in the social scale has attended him. and when
our population doubles and trebles as it will in
few generations. the condition of the free Negro
among us must become degraded in the extreme
Deprived by the far-sighted legislation Of the new
States Of the possibility Of migrating to the thinl,
settled regions, he can only resign himself to hi
fate, and become pauper in our midst.
In the Southern States, where slavery still exists
the contrary result attends the future Of the ncgr,
race. There We find it not only increasing in nun,
bcrs with strides equal to those of the white race
but becoming every day more valuable element o
the social organization. The intimate association
with the superior race to which it is admitte
through family servitude, not only improves it
moral tone. but increases its social capacity through
enforced education. So true is this that the negr
communities Of Liberia and IIayti, in seeking chi
grants in this country, give marked preference
slaves that have been manumitted after reaching tn
age OF maturity. And it IS not alone the free negr
communities that confess the advantages that accru
to the negro in servitude. Both here, and in tn
Spanish American countries where slavery exists
the negro slaves claim superiority over the fre
blacks, and constantly exhibit in their social inte
course . contempt for them. Under the operatio
Of these influences the statesman and the soci,
economist can contemplate without alarm the Or,
gressivc doublings Of the four millions of neg,
slaves now existing in our southern States; viii
those Of a few hundred thousands of free blacks
the Northern States awaken feeling of alarm
The logical deduction from these facts is that Il
Northern States will return to the enactment of Il
laws establishing negro slavery, and sell all the fir
negroes into family servitude Humanity will
mand this to preserve them from being reduced
state of degradation terrible to concentrate,
the increasing competition of the white race Pc
cy will require it to save the community from Il
burden of hundreds of thousands Of sble.bodi
paupers which can make no Roadway of themselvs
The negro himself will ask it. in order that he IN,
De restored to that consideration in society to viii
nc is entitled as man. They will then be ALSO,
ed INTO our families again as servants, mcchan
and husf'andmen, and will be relieved from that
cal ban which now attends them in consequence
their doubtful position and increasing degradation.
Nso- zKark Herald
THE HUxoR OF WAR.-The first regiment
A'uaves, quartered for few days at Castenedo
covered the walls Of that little town with pacards
this effect:
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