Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-12-18
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IL nquirCs no propI to iorsee that of all the SUI.
cor- y his INFAMOUS nVasirn the cOntrabands who
': kce Iunds 6estintd 10 dri the deepest
mud Uiitttest cup OF dslltss aid d siiutOn. That
lsr guoant aud tabe hrjugs should be deu led by
Iluhte uuren ents AID ar6ces is TO be wondered
SIG JGl they will tht ms W. pay penalty tT their
uuoy which hay we'll extinguisn indy nation at
'-r}r iugrai ude IN sorrow for their iae. We know
81 The ndIjiun OF tie free negro in the Northern
Sats Statistics show that tie disappears rapidly
fiIp wi iI~J in Ih nth IL uCrt pros pers.-
With lew Exception s. !hy ccupy III the North the low
est de- ct Gtba AID uesli ut( The sympathy
potsstd them in hat latitude has shown itself
IA anything but words II the negro cOCd ted and
cothe himself fee rhetorical figures and philanthropy
jC pref tsiOus there would be country for him like
tie North. Bat nothing else can he ever get there to
eat We0r An Grafton of Wei dell Philips must
suffice for bis wardrobe, and the daily Tribune for bis
daily bread. Anything else IN the way OF Provant and
pay the North las never yet supplied his race At
last, that rabid organ of Northern abotionism, the
New York Euening Post has avOwed that the negro on
this Cgntitent must tie eXerminated like the Indian
ard his place supplied by the white men. We may be
uprs at the uudaclty OF the confession but the SEN
.jmeat itaat is the handspring of the whole war The
North fighting 10 drive Out the negro from the South
that it may find room for its own surplus laborpg pop
uatiOn II does not realize that white labor can never
be made substitute for slave labor in the cultivation
Of SUtbern staples. 1t does not for the suffering
which the success of its experiment would jDfic upoL
the negro teng and brother" it practically
treats him as an animal, and not even as a useful ami
NAL, but as beast OF prey fit only to be extermna
ted.
The African has never occupied condition of suct
physical conf r. aud moral dignity that from which
Northern FhiauthrOpsts seeking to hand hin
over TO elimination. Iu all ages be has been slave
and bis Country the most hopeless and degraded
slave Of all. That Powder &c designed him fer THU
condition is evident from the fact that be has never
shown capacity for any other. The enslavement o
white men, however long and oppressive could not crust
out tie aspiration OF the soul for liberty nor extnguisi
tie 81 arks Of genius and intellectual power. But in nj
age and uuder no circumstances has the African blood
produced great poet sculptor, orator, general o.
shown enterprise in any department OF human exertion
Fre IN, where they have obtained it. has Uniform!
redccsd IhCm to lower condition OF barbarsm and de
graduation than slavery. The slavery Of the s nth ha
been slavery only in Dame. 1t has worked them NOR
lightly, and provide Tor them more abundantly tha
any other Class OF labOrers in the world has elevate
their morality, aud cJnvered hundreds OF thousands o
them TO Christianity 1t is from such a condition q
this that the phian'hrOpic North is enticng them
misery, crime, want and, finally determination.
Richmond Dispatch.