Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-22
VA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH %. 1860 M

| this? EDoes it arise from the ensIaved con-
di.ion of the black? Does it arise from
analganation Or. does it arise from the
steady influence OF climate on the African?
Most probably all these causes have con-
CURED, but we shall not enter on that in
vestigation.
From 1890 to 1900, the African Slave
trade was still open, although the number
of slaves brought in was comparatively
small. In 1900, she increase of the col
ored race was 81 per cent; in 1910, 81 per
cent; in 1920, 50 per cent; in 1910 bat
"a; in 1880, 26, and in 1860, 25. The
three first censuseS gave an average in
crease OF 80 per cent. to the colored race,
and the three last but IS. If the the COL
ored race had increased during the whole
period at the rate of SO per cent. there
would now be $500, 900 blacks, or Mt least
million more than there is. Statisticians
in the early history of the country estima-
ted the increase of the colored race at much
more than it has really been, so that the
diminished increase of the black race WAS
fact not anticipated, but productive, in d
long period, of great results.
From these facts two or three interences
are plain. First, it shows that if the COL
ored race does not increase ns fast as the
white, there is much less reason to claim
| that they have an equal right to the terri
tories, especially to those into which the
white luborers are going, and which are
not adapted to black labor. In the light
I of such fact, nothing can be more absurd
and preposterous than the late attempt TO
force slavery into Kansas. The two
streams of white and black labor were
sure to come in contact, and it was to the
last degree unreasonable to force black
| labor into country so much more needed
by the whites.
| Another inference is equally plain: that
| when the current of white labor is so
much stronger in numbers, capacity and
| power, it will fill up the country at Il
much more rapid rate than the blacks can
do, and he constantly widening as it goes
West, and constantly Infringing on the col
ored race wherever they come in contact.
| This is as obvious in the free as in the
| slave States.
Another indirect inference may be made,
worth referring to. This is, that the pres
eut high price of negro slaves follows di-
rectly from the rsLghVe diminutiOn of the
| black labor rs compared with white. In
the culture ofcotton, sugar, rice, no labor is
| known but of the blacks. The blacks, do
not increase fast enough in proportion to
the demand for those articles. The South
ern States, Therefore, where negro labor on
plantations prevails, must either grow
much slower than the other States, or they
must devise some other system OF labor
The problem for the Southern plantation
States is, whether they will be cOntcnted
! to remain with their present slave popuia-
| ton, and comparatively without cities, or
will they introduce white labor into other
classes of cmployments; or whether they
| will leave the Union and flourish for Il
short time by the re-opening of the Afri-
can slave trade. This last we have seen
| boldly advanced by the ultra politicians OF
| the southern school, but il will certainly
be resisted by a majority of their own pco-
| pie. Probably, in the phantom States, the
present condition of things will remain
| But in such states as Tennessee, Kentucky
and Virginia, it is the most absurd aud i'm
practicable of all things. 1t is totally inl-
! possible. The high price OF negroes in the
plantation States, and their utter useless
| ness i'll the grain States, makes it impossi-
| bic to maintain negro basis OF labor IN
the Slave States of the Ohio Valley. Hu-
man power is unavaiIing to such AN end
The only practicable course is to encour-
age white labor, and TO allow the negro ell
ement gradually to die out. In Kentucky,
Tennessee and Virginia this can be done
| by very simple process. Let the mineral
| and manufacturing wealth of those States,
so exceedingly abundant, be developed by
white labor and skill, and the thing is done.
| Towns will arise; manufactures tlourlshi
the farmers find new markets at home
and the negroes will rapidly disappear in
the plantations of the South, where they
are wanted.
1t is not true, as advanced by Mr.. Web
| ster. that climate determines slavery; yet it
is true that the more rapid advance of the
white race in this country, constantly in
fringing on the colored race, gradually
drives it toward the tropics, where that
race must finally ind its home.