Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-08-10

Two Sicilies.
a) Emblem of the Bourbous who still reign in Naples
~ In contradisncon to the bees eblems Of the Boz
naparle family.
FREE BLACKS IN THE UNITED STATES
PROBABLE REENACTMENT OF THE SLA-
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 ngger-worship-
pers, and causes them no little trouble We re- :
print in another column from the Philadelphia
North Amri,an. 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 IMPROVE
dent and law that in the Atlantic States they
being gradually bat steadily driven from those class
emplovmentS. such as coachmcn, servants, BARRIERS,
et"., which were once considered as belonging pc
culiarly to them; that in the slave States they have
come to be looked upon as danger, through the
continued efforts of the aboltions,s; 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 part of the people to have
them settle that it has become rule, in framing
constitution to prohibit their residence in tie State
Through the operation of these influences the free
negroes, as class. are becoming daily more help
less amongst us, and in view Of the impoSsbiity Of
their counteractng 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-
tion 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 the burning sun of the tropics,
through bountful provision of nature the negro
has not been endowed with the active and fever
subject brain Of the white man. In his native cline
the earth produces spontaneously, and in some in
stances in case of the pantain 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 the
provident 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 to other regions and climes than those
Of his native Africa. In some of these as in Hayt
and others of the West India island having acquir-
ed the control of the social organization through
the prepOnderance of numbers. he has rclapsed 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 he
bears 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
other than tropical climates, as in this country
where forethought 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 we have deprived him of this
by abolshing slavery. At first, this act seemed 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
the range of his intellectual capacity. But as pop
uiation has become dense, he has been crowd
ed out of most of these by the competition of the
superior race. The natural result of steady des-
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 thinly
settled regions, he can only resign himself 10 his
fate, and become pauper in our midst.
In the Southern States where slavery still exists,
the contrary result attends the future of the negro
race There we find it not only increasing in num-
bers. with strides equal to those of the white race,
but becoming every day more valuable element of
the social organization. The intimate association
with the superior race, to which it is admitted
through family servitude, not only improves its
moral tone but increases its social capacity through
enforced education. So true is this that the negro
communities of Liberia and Hayti, in seeking elni-
grants IN this country, give marked preference to
slaves that have been manumitted after reaching the
age OF maturity. And it is not alone the free negro
communities that confess the advantages that
to the negro in servitude. Both here, and in the
Spanlsh-American countries where slavery exists,
the negro slaves claim superiority over the free
blacks and constantly exhibit in their social inter-
course contempt for them. Under the operation
OF these influences the statesman and the social
economist can contemplate without alarm the pro.
gressive doublngs Of the four millions of negro
slaves now existing in our southern States while
those Of few hundred thousands of free blacks in
the Northern States awaken feeling of alarm.
The logical deduction from these facts is that the
Northern States will return to the enactment of the
laws establishing negro slavery and sell all the free
negroes into family servitude Humanity will de-
mand this, to preserve them from being reduced t.
state OF degradation terrible to contemplate, b,
the increasing competition of the white race Poll
cy VIII require it to save the community from tn,
burden OF hundreds of thousands of ablebodiet
paupers which can make no Roadway of themselves
The negro himself will ask it, in order that he ma,
oe restored to that consideration in society to which
ne is entitled as man. They will then be absorb
ca INTO our families again as servants, mechanic
ana nusoandmen, and will be relieved from that Sc
Ciai Dan winch now attends them in consequence G
New York Herald
The HuNoR OF Waffle first regiment ,
Aouaves, quartered for few days at Castenedol,
covered the walls Of that little town with pacaris