The national Republican., 1861-12-25
From the N. Y Express
MultlplyinR Negroes.

not more than Eve per cent, their numbers
bsing constantly swollen by manumissions and
escapes from slavery
Eroes has been constantly observed in this
country.
Some OF 0,e causes of Ibis sloao increase offree
negroes, and Of the rapid multiplication of
sldres are obscure. Others are plain. But the |
fact itself is undisputed and indisputable.
The four millions which we have to-day iu |
the condition of slavery, WILL If left in that
condition, become Ave millions in ten years.
II emancipated, their increase in ten years, |
instead of being one million, will only be one
ltth that amount, taking the results of the last
decade AS the guide Of the calculation.
1t IS slavery which is the breeding mother Of
negr"es."
What confessions for the Emaneipatonists or
Abolitionsts!
LIST. 1t is admitted that free negroes die out
perish, when made free-that Is, decrease,
because made free.
I'd. 1t is admitted that the same negroes, as
| ,laves, increase, multiply, prosper, flourish.
| Therefore, It is admitted that AS mere ami.
ual, AS ply sical being only, the negro ia more
prosperous, that Ia, happier,-as reproduc.
ZION OF human life is, in n good degree, pros
| perity,-the result of good supply of food
clothes, care, stten:ion,-tlrat is happiness.
But, adds the mystified editor, the causes of
| this are obscure!I Not the least. We Re.
pubhcans " of the North kick and cuff negroes
| about -confne them in garrets and cellars, or
shut them out OF the workshops,-in short,
make social slaves of them, without master
| to care for them,-and hence, they starve,
freeze, or die of bad air, or bad food, or dirt
| while they, the Shareholders of the South, feed
tnem enough, clothe them enough, nurse them
| well, and provide for their needs with inter
eSted assiduity and forethought. Hence, the
negro dies out with us, while in the South he
rapidly reproduccs himself as stated in the
| Republican.
We, Yankees, within 200 years have exter.
minated one race of human beings, the ABB.
rIgines the Indian. That ought to satisfy our
destructive ambition. The proposition now is
to emancipate-that is, to exterminate-the
negro, AS shown in this Republican article.
| We protest against il, in the name of Human.
ny--aye, of negro philanthropy. even.
| Emancipation of the negro, without colonza.
| tun is destruction of the negro. II s a law of
life, that two diverse races of human beings,
| such ~ the Indian and the Caucasian, or he
negro aNd the Caucasian, cannot live together,
| IN equality ard iraternty-fOr one must per
| l,i before the other. The Indian is about gone
| already. Tho negro will follow, and be next
extermn ted, just as we emancipate him.
| d" Humrnltariaus" to the rescue!
RrpLY BY THE NATIONAL REruBILCAN.--Tbe
cypress which is an intelligent as well as per
sistent advocate of negro slavery, is quick 10
see that the point We made against that system,
that umuliples negroes. is calculated TO have
more effect upon the public miad than almost
what it knows to be the weakest and most as
s4ilable part OF its line of politics.
The Express does not controvert the fact that
slavery does multiply negroes and that email
cipatou will prevent their multiplication. II
not only admits 50 much a matter OF tact
but goes further and lays down the more gen
sral proposition that no two diverse races can
exist together in II condition OF freedom, with
ont the decay aud disappearance of the inferior
in the presence ,f the superior
The ground which the cypress is forced to
take, is, that it is our duty. as matter Of hu.
manity. to retain the negro in condition in
which he may multiply himself. In other words,
the editors OF the Express assume tn character
Of negrophRists, aud insist that our national
policy shall be in the interest Of race it l.
generally accustomed to treat as having no
} rights which the white man is bound to respect.
f The laws of God are better than the dev ices
OF man, and the universal law of the animal
and vegetable world, that the strong supplant
the weak is for the greatest good of the great
cs, number. II the negro race is really an in
ijrior one it will b. no calamity if it disap
pears like the Ihdisn, before the white man
The sum total OF population and Of human
happiness is thereby increased.
But the Express misappr'hends the priuci-
pies which determine the fact of the rapid
multiplication Of anslaved negroes, as CON-
pared with that Of free negroes.
, The Increase of the human species depend:
o upon two things: first. the proportion of an
0 nua births to the number of the living; and
secondly, the average longevity. This last de.
p nds upon the condition OF comfort in which
, people live and is certainly as great among
@ free negroes US among slaves. 1t is in and by
the enormous proportion Of births to The living
that slaves increase so rapidly, notwiths:and
ing the ill treatment to which they are sub
y ected. The collaborating capacity of slave
II women, is uvailed of from the time when il
: begins, to the time when i, ends. There are
c 40 maids. young or old, aud no widows, among
= slave women. There l. 40 mystsry at all
. about the manner in which slaves are multi
. piled, and no particular necessity of going into
,. deta IL about it.
II The people of this county chOoSe 10 con
tinue system which will fasten eight millions
of negro slaves upon the next generation, wher
W. ourselves hardly know what to DO will
half that number, it must be So but we mus
J, do il with orr eyes open, and upon the justifi
!, cation of the New York Express, that "hu
l. ndni'y" requires it. For ourselves, we abide
}, 10 the belief, that it is by multiplying lreenen
y not by multiplying slaves, that thu world is tc
t, be mad happi"r and that 1t is b'st 10 leav'
y the fac of intermingled races 10 the benign
, laws OF Divine Providence.
i. TIE DISTRICT JATL.-The Rev. Mr. Charming
made an eloquent and urg:nt appeal, on Sun
d,y, ~ the Christians Of WashngtOn to reno