The Nevada Democrat., 1861-09-19
9rrada 2emOfrat.
The Negro Element In tho War.

Oupp0slng that there are no apprehen.
siOns OF disturbance from the negro pOpu
latiOn, the war can be carried on by the
South with less arrangement in their so.
cial system than will be the case in the
North. The SOulherners are fond Of call
lug themselves an agricultural people
Their slaves raise agricultural produce but,
except in parts of Tennessee aud Kentucky,
there IL, suspect, very little agriculture
for which white hands are directly employ
ed. The lowest orders of whites are me-
chanical; the upper sort superintend their
labOrers occasionally, but are generally en-.
gagged in The pursuits of rude aristOcracy.
or in The more elegant dissipation of cOnti-
mental cities or Northern watering places
and hotels. II the overseers can do their
work rs usual, all the white lords and their
white dependauts can 30 TO the wars, aud
corn, rice. sugar aud cotton will be raised
as usual. Unless the North can raise a lar
ger surplus than one would suppose from
the populations engaged in its industry,
the arrangement OF its trade aud internal
commerce will be greater than that which
the war will cause Ia the South. II the ne
grOes occasion any trouble, there is no say
ing how far the difficulties of the Slave
States may not 90 but at present they are
possessed with confidence which may be
blind or far seeing, that their slaves will
remain quiet if not faithful, and the absence
OF any white element from the population
of whole districts is very remarkable.
The spectacle Of an uprising of 100000
Of negroes in the plantations, burning. plum
dering aud destroying the whites. is one
which | confess am not humanitarian or
Abolitlonist enough to be prepared TO de-
sire or enjoy. II would be an evil AZ tre-
mendOns in its consequences TO the North
as TO the South, aud 1t would lead TO an ir-
repressible conflict between the Federal
troops and their new allies. There are
some people who talk about re-seltli0g the
South by negro prOprietors, now slaves;
these are blatant lunatics or wicked idiots.
Others there are who desire very kindly TO
make an arrangement with England by
which our colonies could be supplied with
labor, aud who wish TO make bargain
with us for the receipt of 1000, 900 Of black
people. When they are in condition TO
do 20. perhaps 1t may be time TO character
ize the transaction as it would deserve.
No one that ever heard Of propose TO re-
ceive the negroes into the Northern States,
though perhaps they might be allowed TO
go further. aud fare worse, in Canada.
Victorious, the North will have to encOun-
ter on the very threshold of the Temple Of
Peace, foe more terrible than war. Is
there one in all the heads Of the world who
can solve the knot without the use Of the
sword And when the sword has done it's
work, what then There is the eternal ne
gro tripping up the foot Of Alexander as he
returns his sword 10 its sheath. Can any
one iiud scheme for the deportation OF
4, 900 900 souls2 Why, such an emigration
was never heard of. The hordes OF Huns
and GOths aud Vandals-the swarming
floods Of Scythian races, which rolled their
tides over Europe-presented hO such mas
ses and no such scenes as would be witness
ed IN the execution of any scheme OF the
kind and, except by the spontaneous ac-
ton Of the States. there Is little hope Of any
gradual extinction Of absorption Of the race;
and if il cannot be done gradually, II can
scarcely be done at all.
1t il bard TO ascertain what are the feel
ings of these people their utterance is i'm.
/ perfect, not merely morally, but physically.
They are treated TO few words from the
English tongue, which mostly refer TO labor
or to their wants, and their speech is near
ly inarticuiate as may be, although the fine
ear Of the people and the accent OF educa-
/ ted individuals prove they could spaak 1t
! az we'll as their masters If they bad chance
\ of learning how to do so. There are va
! rous notions 10 reference TO their treat
ment AS a general statement, think 1t
may be asserted they are not i'll used in
| the districts where they are dear, and where
| their produce is valuable. Where the mas
/ ters are rich and the estates large, the in-
comes certain. and all struggles with the
forest, and adversely, are over. liberty to
them seems ideness. So am told. But
/ hear too that they are very fond OF idle
/ ness. The conclusion Is not dificnlt. Com
pared with the BONES in Cuba. where the
average Of life in labor is reduced, by lD-
cessant and cruel task-wOrk, to ten or eleven
| years, the negroes on plantations IN Amer
/ lea are pampered aristOcrats but cannot
admit any comparison between them and
the denizens of an English coal mine,
which lie often drawn by the planters down
J here.
On the cotton estates in the South the
negroes dread the "picking season." not
withstanding the assurance OF the Captain
of the Southern Republic that the task was
but the "culling Of roses" On sugar
plantations, although the mill is "run"
night and day, and the toll Is ineessant