Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1847-1861, 1859-08-24
From the New York Herald,

The question OF the probable tuture con.
dition of the free blacks Of this country is
beginning to force itself upon our black re-.
publican. nigger-worshippers, and causes
them no little trouble. We reprint in an
other column, from the Philadelphia North
American, an article on this subject. which
looks the question in The face and acknowl
edges the dilemma.
1t is found that The free negroes are both
improvident aud lazy that in the Atlantic
States they are being gradually but steadi.
ly driven from those class employments,
such as coachmen, servants, BARRIERS, ETC.,
which were once considered as belonging
peculiarly to them; that in the Slave States
they have come to be looked upon as a
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 sentiments rule, there is
so great reluctance on the part Of the peo'
pie to have them settle, that it has become
a rule, in framing a constitution, to prohib-
it their residence in the State. Through
the operation Of these influences the free
negroes, as a class, are becoming daily
more helpless amongst US, and in view Of
the impossibility Of their couDteracting
them, and making hea dway for themselves,
they must eventually become burden up.
.on the resources Of society. The eanris sf
the humsnitarians have failed to- improve
-rheir- sundition 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 bountilul provision
of nature the negro has not been endowed
with the active and iever-subject barin Of
the white man. Ia 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 for,
he has no need Of, and does 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
to other regions and climes than those Of
his native Africa. In some Of these, as in
Hayti and others Of the West India Islands,
having acquired the control Of the social
organization through the preponderance of
numbers, he has reapsed from the cultiva-
ton which the supervision Of superior in.
tel)ect had given him, to very nearly, il not
quite, the natural state Of African batbsr'
ism. Where he bears sway the white ele.
ment Of society has dwindled or died out,
and his industry has limited itself to gath.
ering the natural producttons OF a genial
cline.
When the causes above cited have car
ried him to other than tropicrl climates, as
in this country, where forethought and a
provdent watchfulness are necessary to
guard from want during the rotation of the
seasons, the condition Of domestic slavery
gave him 10 the providence OF a more &C.
tive intellect. In the Northern States we
have deprived him of this by abolishing
slavery. At first, this act seemed so be a
boon to The negro. Our population was
sparse, and he found employment in domes
tic service and several of the minor occu.
pa,ions which were within the range Of his
intellectual capacity. But as population
has become more dense. he has been crowd
ed out Of most OF these by the competition
OF the superior race. The natural result oil
a steady descent in the social scale has at
tended him, and when our population
doubles and trebles, as it will In a few gen
erations, the condition Of The free negro
among US must become degraded in the
extreme. Deprived by the iar.sighted leg
islation of the new States of the possibility
of migrating to thinly settled regions, he
can only resign himself to his fate, and be-
come 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 numbers, with strides
equal 10 those Of the white race, but be-
coming every day a 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 educa
ton. So true is this, that the negro com.
munities OF Liberia and Hayt, in seeking
enigrants in this Country, give marked
preference 10 slaves that have been manu-
mitted after reaching the age OF maturity.
And it 10 not alone the free negro commu-
mites that confess the advantages that &C.
crus to the negro in servitude. Both here
and in the panish'American countries
where slavery exists, the negro slaves claim
a superiority ovsr the free blacks, and con
stantly exhibit in their social intercourse a
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