The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-08-17
From ,l,e New York Herald.

FREE BLACKS IN THE UNITED STATES
| PROBABLE RE. ENACTMENT NJ THE STA.
VERY LAWS IN fHE NORTHERN STATES,
The question Of the probable future con-
dition Of the free blacks in this country Is
beginning to force itself upon our black re-
publican nigger worshippers, and causes them
I no little trouble. we reprint in another
column, from the Philadelphia North Ame-
rican, an article On the subject, which looks
the question in the face aVi acknowledges
the dilemma.
II is found that the free negroes are both
improyident and lazy; that ia the Atlantic
States they are being gradually but steadily
driven from those class emplOyments, such
as coachmen, servants, BARRIERS, &c, which
we're once considered as belonging peculiar
lly to them that in the slave States they have
become to be looked upon as danger, through
/ the continued efforts nf the ab0lilionists; and
| that 10 the New States Of the West, even IN
i those where the Most diverse political sentl-
ments rule. there is so great reluctance on
the part of the people to have them settle,
I that il has become rule. in framing con-
stitution. to prohibit their residence IN the
State. Through the operation Of these inliu-
ences the free negroes, as class, are be.
coming daily more helpless amongst Us, and
i in view Of the impcssibility Of their counter
acting them. and making headway for than
selves. thew must eventually becOme burden
upon the resources Of society. The efforts
OF the hamaniarians have failed TO improve
their condition By the abolition Of domestic
slavery, aad have demonstrated the fact that
something more than the removal Of political
and social disabilities is necessary to improve
i the condition Of the negro.
| These results flow from natural causes.
! Crested 10 reside beneath tie burning sun
Of tie tropics, through a bountifll provision
ct nature the negro has not been endowed
with the active anil fsyer-subirct brain q
/ the white man. III bis native cline the earth
produces spontaneously, and III some instsn.
ces, a. ID case of the plantian aud sanana,
without rotation Of seasons, the fruits neces.
.ary for bis sustenanee. Ills major wants be-
ing thus provided for. he has no need Of. and
doe. not possess the proyident faculty. The
diffusion Of races over the earth, through the
growth OF commerce and the multiplication
/ Of the wants Of civilized society, has carried
him 10 other regiuns aud climes than those ol
his native Africa. In some Of these, as ~
Hayti and others of the West India island
having acquired the control Of the social or.
ganization through the preponderanee ni
numbers. he has relapsed from the eulliya-
ton which the supervision Of superior IN
telleei had given him, 70 very nearly, il not
quite. the natural state of African barbarism
Where be bear. sway the white element o.
society ha. dsinIled Or died out, aud hi.
industry his limited Itself 10 gathering the
natural productions. u 4 genial cline.
When tie causes above cited have carried
him ii other than tropical climates. a. IN
this country. sbere l0rcthought and pro.
yident Watchillnes. are necessary 10 guard
from want during tie rotation 81 the seasons,
the condition u domestic slavery gave him
% the providence ~ more active intellect
10 the Northern States We have deprived
bin u thi, By abOli.hing slavery. AT FIRST
tais act seemed to be bOga to the negro
Oar population was sparse. anil he found
employment 10 domestic service, and seye.
fai Of the minor occupations shich were
within the range Of bis intellectual capacity,
Bat as population has become more dense
be las been crowded out Of most Of these by
the competition Of the superior race. The
natural result Of a steady descent IN the %.
tial scale has attended sim. aud whsn our
population doubles and tr.bl.s, as Il will in
! lev generations, the eondaiOn of the Tree
negro among y. must become degraded in
he eatrsmp. Deprived by the fsr.sigl,ted
legislation u Tie new states 81 the pos.ibili.
n of migrating 70 the thinly settled regioss
liz can yhly resign himself - his fate, asd
become pagprr III our midst.
I In the Southern States, where slavery still
exists, The contrary result attend. the fu,1r.
vf the negro race. There We find IL sniy
increasing 10 numbers. with strides equal u
titgse IL ths white race. bit becoming every
day a more valuable element sf the social
organization. The intimate, association with
the superior race, TO which il is sdmitted
i through family seryii1dr, not only improves
lis moral tone, but increases i,s social ca.
paeity through enforced education. SO true
Is this. that the negro tOmnigtsiies Of Liberia
and lIsyti, in seeking smigrints in this