Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-24
The Solution Of the Negro Problem-A
f7Ir Coed T,irre Coming.

D00u TlMtD ONuahuNs |
We confess that in spite of the prescience
which the editorial profession gives TO even
the merest tyre who takesup the lead-pencil,
we have not been able to see clearly the end
Of tho negro problem as our neighbor, the |
Gazette, calls ii. We have seen various pro-
jects for taking the slavery question out Of !
politics, even the last one Of our Bell Everett
friends Of sticking their heads in the sand
and calling the slavery agitation settled, un-
conscious of the very extensive posterior |
view which their position presents. The
question was taken out Of politics in the |
Kansas organization, and the country had |
what our csmp-meeting brothers would call
@ refreshing season over it. These plans
seem TO have resulted thus far in taking the
inventors out of politics. and at this time
the great pacifcator of slavery agitation
finds it necessary to catch at drift-wood,
straws, bubbles, or any thing within reach,
to combine q raft; to keep his head above
water.
Our Republican friends have found it con-
venient to retreat from their positive declar-
alton of the means by which they would
solve the slavery question, by excluding it
from the Territories by Congressional legis-
lation, and to fall back on the general prin-
ciple that all men are free and equal--a very
valuable principle, which is almost as perth
nent to the purpose as if they had resolved
that all men are brothers. But we have
much consideration for them, for the princi-
ples of party which will net permit the
negro to be slave, nor allow him the
rights of a free man, and which has no place
for the negro but state of betweenity, like
Mahomet's coffin, are not easily defined.
The plan of stopping the slavery agita-
ton by an appeal to "inexorable logic" is
perhaps the most promising; that is, to en-
courage slavery into the Territories by con-
stitutional protection, and when it has been
well baited, and has vested large rights
under the Constitution of the United States,
to spring on it the dead fall of State Con-
stitution and abolish it if there happens
then to be popular majority against this
kind of property. This is the mild remedy
Of taking slavery out Of political agitation
and settling it by civil war.
IN ali these we had not seen a satisfactory
solution of the slavery question, until the
Gozeifs Of Wednesday announced one. It
is not Republicanism, nor philanthropy, nor
Providence; but production. Alas for the
true faith in this city, when the Gazette, its
ancient defender, lets go its hold on the
breeching, loses its confidence in Providence,
and seizes on production. Here it is;
s'Looking, then, to the future, we say that
If cotton be a necessity of civilization, then
il must be raised in Africa. The capacity of
our present body of negroes is now reached.
They can no longer produce more than the
If more cotton is to be raised, IL must be raised
in Africa. The world has proved one thing
in commerce: The checper production pre-
walls. Cotton can be raised in Africa by
negro labor for ttco cents per pound. 1t can
not be raised in the United States for double
that. Hence the negro must return to the
land where both he and the cotton plant arr
natives. There is just the alternative to take
him there voluntarily, or to let the price o
slave depreciate till no body will keep him
This is tie only peaceful solution for thu
negro problem. All else involves war, bloot
and convulsion.
Garry the African back to his native land
The thing is upl Tuppence pound ha
done it. ls II not singular that allour grea
revolutions turn on tuppences2 Tuppence
pound on tea caused the revolution; an
now tuppenny cotton is going to carry a
our slaves back to old Africas shore; or
the owner does not "take him there voluu
tarily,n the only alternative will be "to Il
the price of slave depreciate till nobod
will keep him. Is il not strange that th
South can go on buying, raising and begc
ting negroes, when the price Of them is to
collapsed by this tuppenny African cottor
Is it not strange that, as Pharaoh did, aftt
his heart had been divinely hardened, not
let the Children Of Israel go, and divinel
softened by disciplinary course of frog
blood bugs, murrain, lice, and death Of a
the ifrst-born, to let them 90, the South d
not rise up early in the morning and thru
out the negro, for his own land, even If the
have to lend him all their jewels and ra
ment to get MIN of, as the Egyptians
the Hebrews? % q 2 N 4H3
But a,twas ever thus" the South go {
buying negroes at 81, 800 apiece, and MARI
ing and giving them in marriage, after the
sort, and improving the breed by judicio
crossing, and raising ten-cent cotton al
getting rich, in spite of the warning of Il
Gozstts, that their slave property is all de
tined to an inevitable collapse, just as Il
people of the whole earth went on marryii
and giving in marriage, and scoffing at o
Noah pegging away for a hundred years
his ark, and at his well-disciplined caravs
and declaring that it was not much OF
shower, until the water was up to thu
chins.
There might have been some excuse
the world then, for inthe lack of daily new
papers, and of all the modern improvemer
for communicating intelligence, Noal
warning could have reached but mint
portion of the earth, although all wt
under, all the same; but there is no su
excuse for the South now, since the wal
ing is published in the Gazette, and especia
since we have--to use metropolitan phrast
'given ii the benefit of our circulation"
The Gazette puts in slight proviso, in
''solufionH-"Ifcc cotton be a necessity for c
ilization.p, III Why, what are we to
What article can supply its place? Are
to 60 back to fg-leaf aprons, as Mother h