The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-10-23

Southerner has sympathy with the black !
mans easy and shiftlsss ways. Provid
cd black man keeps the place assigned
10 him, ibFre is reason TO believe that he |
10 better treated in the South than in he
North. lie is not only allowed 10 follow
any trade for which he has aptitude, but
be ls encouraged to do il.
But, IL the North. the black man has
no place assigned him in society. The
Inshmsn, no matter how low or bevpar.
ly, knows that his child may rise 10 any
position 10 society. The father may BE-
vulgar, brutal wretch. But the child
goes to the public school, he becomes
intelIigen he has vigorous stock. aud
as soon as lie emerges from his own fam
lily. he 6nts nothing which in6Ysry may
earn. or ability achieve, or genius deserve,
that is withheld from bin simply on ae
connt Of race and parentage.
But it Is not 80 with the black man -
He is. for the most part. hindersd in bic
efforts at education. AZ he grows up in
intelligence, every step is marked with
suf-ring Except within the cir"le Of his
own people. be is excluded from the prac
lice Of the learned professions. A BLACK
lawyer would slalve. A black physician
could gain no consi ler.b'e practi"s. how
ever skill uI. aud though perfect gen
tlemaH, aud regularly .duc ted; lie could
scarcely gain admission into any medical
society or association.
In what parish. excep' amorg his own
people. .cculd auAfrIcan clergy ma" though
he weie as learned. eloquent, and pious
as Cypri-n or 0rigsn. be lolrr-l-d? Thus
far, education serves ratIer to hghten
the tlack mans su'eptihlliiies to social
intignities, than 10 augment his power or
increase his influence.
If we turn to the less informed. labor
ing classes ef back men, what chance is
permitted them? They are efrc'ually
excluded from the great staple industries
by prejudice which is thousand lines
more efectual than could be statutory
law. There ia hardly single m.chliani.
cal trade in which white men will allow
blacks Ia la or by their sides. Black men
are allowed to b. sailors, and to mingle
with white shipmatss without prejudice.
To very limited rx'ent, they can labor
in agriculture with white men. But. BE-
sides these, there is scarcely any trade
or calling in which white lsborers will
permit black men to toll by their eide.
1t is in the face Of such almost insuper
able obstacles that politicians would pr
suade the ignorant. that black men will
leave climate they love for one Il ey dis.
like; a society where they are u, least tol-
q Grated. for one whrre they are hated: q
section where all meclani al labors are
! put into their hands, f., one 10 which thu y
are excluded from oil; from where they
may be blaeksmiths, carpenters. masons
cOopers, 10 one where lhey may not Eve d
, carry the hod. or blow the bellows, or push
, the drudging saw! There is no danger
that water will run up hill
Everything dissuadcs the black man
, from the North. The climate pincl es
him. Labor disdaiDs him. Social preju.
. dices exclude lin from position. The
bittersst political animosilies restrict his
civil rights to a minimum. Even religion
aud philanthropy perer 10 offer. him in
=. ducements to colonization rather than to
j, help him where he is.
On the other hand. shouI liberty b.
given TO the black man ,h-rs would be Q
demand for his labor in the South create
l. than ever before. And upon fair scale
, OF wages, he would labor with vasil,
a greater fidelity. The first rfsct Of eman
cipation would be. to withdraw from ielC
labor q vast number If womtn, who. in
4 stead Of being beasts Of burden, ToulC
remain at home, in the appropriate duIie:
Of wives and mothers. Their places would
!. have to be made good. This would tend
!. 10 draw laborers from the North. The
black man, for the most part. can give
v only unskiled labor. This labor 10 fsl
. better fitted to the rude tusbandry Of thu
h South than for the mechanical aud sgri
cultural industries of the North.
II Every single circumstance tends tC
n show than no fear WAS ever moro unrea
f sonable than that which evil minded poll
!. ticians are zealously diffusing among th'
unreaecting portion of Northern labOrers
And it will be good and wise task fol-
every true patriot to reason with his neigh
- bors whose prejudices have bren excited
n and to show them that emancipation while
= il is an act Of suhlimeNationalJu ustice, viii
= not disturb the industrial economy eilhe
Of the North or the South. Whereas, tn,
, direct and inevitable effect Of slavery il
N the South will be 10 Dive increasing mum
n bers OF black men into the North.
!. Slavery keeps up competition will
a Northern cheap labor. Emancipation vii
i destroy all competition. and leave whit
If labor in the North without imgedimsnt.