The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-25
Abolition Philanthropy for the Southern
Negroes.


Negroes.
The sum total of the abolition zeal for the
Southern slave amounts to turning negro into
q niger. Every candid and intelligent man
who has ever travelled through the South de-
clares that there is no comparison between the
happy lot of the Southern negro and the unfor-
tunate negro of the North. Yet the present
war has had its origin in the mad attempt
to convert the Southern negroes into
paupers. What would be the effect of
such . course, II would be to murder
one-half of them-to set them afoat as
vagabonds and wanderers over the country, es-
peoially in time of war, when CO. N,sion pre-
walls, and every white man has enough to do to
feed himself, without being burthened with beg
gars Of another race. But this wretched de-
generation Is what the philosophers Of the Til
bssws propose for the sleek, contented, well fed
blacks Of tho South. eff we really mean to
put down the rebellion" says Greeley, Eve
must encourage the negroes to come over to
our side" But how docs he propose to en-
courage them, By Offering them liberty. He
says-@We can give them the best reason for
80 doing without cost to the Treasury or obli-
CATION for the future; for we are utterly oppos-
cd TO all schemes for taking care of the negroes
at the public expense. All we need or should
offer thorn as inducement to come over to our
side is liberty" Cheap sacrifice for the poor
negro. He is to cost the Treasury nothing, and
there is to be mo obligation for the future"
lie is not to be taken care of at the public ex-
pense. What then is the consequence Of
emancipation? To take them from under the
protection of their masters, who are bound by
law to feed and clothe them, and to provide for
them in sickness and old age, which is more
than white men are compelled to do for their
servants at the North. II is to set them adrift
to shift for themselves, without the intelligence
or the habits necessary for success. 1t is to let
the negroes die by thousands from starvation
by the wayside and in the streets, and to make
of the balance thieves, robbers and murderers
What is the condition of the Northern negroes
at best! We are told they are free. But what
sort of freedom is it! Have they any political
privileges, or any social standing' Can they
be elected to any Office? Can any white man
or woman intermarry with them without being
disgraced and an outcast from society," Are
they not pariahs at the North more than at the
South-mocked with the empty name of free
dom by the abolitionists who take care not to
are despised race at the North more than they
are at the South They are only BARRIERS, and
bootblacks, and whitewashers. They are for
the most part degraded by vice and crime; so
that Southern slave despises them, and calls
them, by way of derision, "free niggers." Their
numbers diminish at tho North. They increase
at the South. These two facts speak volumes.
Their only security is in servitude, which diff
fers from the bondage of white free servant
only in this that the term Of service is for life
instead Of for o month or for quarter of q
year. The advantage of the arrangement is
altogether in favor Of the negro. He is to be
taken care of when he is sick and too old to
work; whereas, if he were white man, he would
be allowed to rot in . cellar or garnet.
To destroy this patriarchal institution at the
expense Of millions of lives and oceans of trea-
sure is the ayowed design of the radical aboli-
tionists, of whom the Tribune is the chief organ.
The success of their schemes would ruin alike
both blacks and whites, while it would render
the restoration Of the Union hopeless forever.
The sooner the government puts them down,
by the same means by which the open express
sion of sympathy with the Southern rebellion
was crushed, the better it will be for the cause
q tAe Union the Welfare q The country and the
success Of the administration T'.~