Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-22

aires that are requisite 10 insure Jnelf per
formance; dealing out bacon and brogans;
keeping watch, musket in hand, over the
quarters at night, and acting as a nursing
mother to some half million, mere or less,
of ebon and saddle. colored babies; but, elasl
it is TO be feared this scene Of primitive sim
plicity and patriarchial happiness will never
be realized Such pictures are too bright to
exist any where but in the creations Of the
artist or the fancy Of the poet. If we should
invite these colored people to work out their
own salvation and they should do it, they
might afterward, as their cousins did in st.
Domingo, conclude to keep 1t, and work or
play, TO suit their own ideas OF the fitness of
tbiDgs-and principally the latter-for all
time to come; and then the question, what is
to be done with the negro? will have settled
itself, as the lawyers say, propTio UigoTG.
The difficulty in respect to this, and all
other plans for the disposition of the negro,
after he shall be emancipated, is that they
are utterly impracticable and preposterous.
No government ever did undertake, and
none, ifit shall, will ever succeed to manage
80 huge, and at the same time so impractical
an element. As surely as the water which
enters the Ohio at Pittsburg will find its way,
in spite of all obstacles, over the falls at
Louisville, so surely will Africa in America,
set loose from the bonds which now connect
it with people of another race, dig channel
for ITSELF and work out, in its own way, its
own destiny; and this as unconscious OF
plans for its suppression as of plans for its
improvement We know that our own race
has its peculiar qualities and characteristics,
and that in these qualities and characters
tics its future is involved. What we shall
be ages hence will be but the fruit of what
we are; and all the teachings, and examples,
and influences from without, will swerye US
in no perceptible degree from the path Of
progress or ofregress in which fate has al.
ready determined that we shall travel. That
which is true Of us, is true of the negro. We
can neither educate him, nor Gospelize him,
nor elevate him in our way. To the words
which we put in his memory, he will attach
bis own ideas: 10 the symbols which we
place before his eyes, he will affix his own
meaning: to the institutions which we in.
duce OF compel him to initiate from our own,
he will give his own Interpretation and sd
ministration. We can no more impose our
civilization upon him, than he can impose
his civilization upon US: and for the same
Ieason--the want of the capacity to receiveit.
1t is unfortunate that the African was in.
troduced into America; but it is the fault of
DO living creature. The colored man came
here against his will, and without the con-
sent of the present generation. Now that
he is here, however, here he will until
his destiny is accomplished. Aud although
that destiny is his own, it will be compli
Gated with that of the people with whom he
continues to reside, as their destiny will be
with his. The union of two races upon the
same soil will never be broken up; and they
have their problem to work out together,
whether or not slavery is abolished. In the
light of those long periods which the greater
revolutions of the world and its inhabitants
require for their accomplishment, abolition
is atemporary measure, and will not vary the
final result. 1t is an important question,
however, whether it is desirable as a tempo
rary measure.
1t it were accomplished in the way it is
proposed, it would, perhaps, facilitate the
subjngation Of the South; and if this Is all
that we are permitted TO care for, in the
present or in the future, the question is an
swered Let slavery be abolished. But,
whether we heed it or not, there is future
beyond the end of this contest--a future in
which we and our posterity will, when it
shall arrive, be as vitally interested as we are
now in the present and it, is not out OF
order to feel some curiosity as to the effect OF
the abolition of slavery upon that future.
Society naturally settles into that condi-
| tion in which its elements fit each other best,
and which is most conducive to the common
| tranquility. In the South, where there are
| two distinct and widely different races, this
! condition is practically found in the relation
of domestic master and servant-or of slav.
cry. There is bond of mutual interest anG
dependence established which we are accus
toned to call involuntary, but which ap
proaches as nearly to the voluntary as any
union between men, in which there is servi
tude upon one side and a power to direct
upon the other. To break up this condition
produces anarchy, which continues until il
is re-established again, or until in the course
of centuries an unity of blood is perfected
and hybrid race is produced, which either
! goes out through some constitutional weak
ness developed in the process of amalgams
tion, or gains a consistency which enables il
to begin for itself tie reconstruction of 30
ciety.
OF this anarchy, Italy upon the European
continent-which at the time of the com
Increment of the Christian era contained
more imported slaves than descendants from
its ancient people, ana more freedmen Of
emancipated slaves than either, and which
! is now emerging from the intestine conflicts
| of eighteen centuries, and struggling for q
| new natienality-and the Spanish colonies
upon this continent are the best examples
and it is an anarchy like that under which
these countries have SO long suffered that
we have reason to fear would be inaugurated
by an act that should sever finally the rela-
tiOns that exist between the dominant and
the subject class at the South. Like Mexico
at the present day, wars of races and con-
flicts of factions would tear society in pieces
rendering person and property alike inse'
cure, and imposing a sort Of obligation upon
other countries to Interfere and supply for
them that civil government which they are
no longer able to provide and sustain for
themselves
Such state of things upon our Southern
border would be the reverse of desirable. II
would be both troublesome and expensive
liable TO involve Us in wars with othel
nations, and to oblige us to be continually
| engaged in quelling civil contests that sros'
| in our own domain. We might keep up thu
name and pretense of Union; but the part
nership would be of the most unsatisfactorI
| character. We might govern by force, bu
the enterprise would be costly and unremu
nerative. 1t would be continual draft uDol
the national finances, with no commensurate
return. Disunion or its equivalent wOul
become a thing Of necessity; and our mora
would be like that Of the novel of the maj
with the nose, in Hafen SlawEenbergius-
that when the nose became so exacting ths
the digestive and assimilative organs weI
10 longer able to supply it and its owns
, with the necessary nutriment, the nose mu
, either part company with the man, or Il
, man must part company with the nose. v
should have to get rid of the incumbranC
t or the incumbrance will have TO get T
5 of us.
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