St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-10-23
Free and Slave Labor

"0 SNCUVt"S, 80 ~ U"0A 'cdoc"o, I"
alarm the working men Of the North. by
creating the impression that tn. slaves,
ifrma"cira,ed, will crowd into the North
cru States, producing. competitions" ;a-,'.s.
labor market, aud reducing the wages If
the lab"rns population. -. -
1t is evident, We think that such would
not 10 the result. On the contrary, tho
effect Of en'Ancipa'io" would bc the grad.
ual but certain removal Of the culor.d
population from the Northern States.
There are strong climatic influences
tending to produce this result. The col
orel mon is constit;o'.ully adapted to u
tropical Or sem,-t"ori,ul climate; aud all
his tastes and aptiudes fit him for South
era attitudes 1t is the dread "f slavery
aud the nope IF freedom that co''s:rai"
him to seek home at the Nor,h-in the
free states aud in Canada-where the rig
ors Of the climate arc unfavorable to his
comfort and health.
Notwithstanding this strong pressure
removing the negro from u c"nyenial cli-
mate, multitudcs of them when emancipa-
ted choose to remain III the South. Q A
late writer in the Cincinnati (omn,rr' i"l,
after c"ll'ting carefully the census reports,
states Us the result that tl.eIe arc more
free negroes in the slave states than in
the free states
BY contrasting the diff'r nee in the
white population Of the slave and free
states with the ia iIi,ies FIR labor cnj"S Cd
in the free states, the argument is largely
in favor Of the free negro loving the 5, nth
better than the North.
lf"Slavesy continues, there will be u
great Influx Of tree slaves into the North
ern :tatcs. This is inevitable. But if
they are allowed their l;bert, in the South
no inducements will incline them to cx
change the glowing airs Of the South FIR
the frisid austcre climate Of the NORTH
Their ! cal attachments a,c known t. be
strong. They linger around the. places
where they are born and bred They
have great deal ii Southern feeling
They may IT, thankful for Northern kind
ness; but tn y are identified j" their
ideas, their pride, their whole method Ut
living, with the South, and never bee me
N"rthrrners.
Social Influences also ,enu to attr.e G,
the coIored population t. the Southern
States.
livery consideration disuadcs the black
man from the North lie is, Tor the 'nos'
part, hindered in his rtfurts Ut education.
As he grows up il intelligence, every
stel is marked with suffering. Except
within the circle Of his own people, he Is
excl 4ded FROM the practice Of the learned
professions. A black lawyer would starve.
\ black physician could gal" a" consider
abe practice. however >kl!iul. and though
u perfect gentl' men, and regularly educa.
ted he could scarcely gai" adn'is<io" in.
t. any medical society or association.
In what Parish, except AMONG his own
people, could an African clergyman
though he Was as learned, eloquent, ard
ri,us as |yp'ian Or Ori@en, b. tolerated !
Ii We turn to the less informed, labor.
Ing Classes Ut black men, what chance is
permitted them They are ctfrctua'ly
excluded froa the great staple industries
by prjudice which is thousand times
more ctft ctual than could be statutory
law. There is hardly single mcchani
cal trade in which white men viii ALLOW
blacks to labor ty their side. Black mc,'
u. allowed to he sailors, aud to minylr
with white <hipn'atcs without prejudice
T" u very limited extent, they c." labor
il agriculture with white mmn. But be-
sides these, there is scarcely any trade o.
calling i" which white laborers will per.
mit Lluck uc" to toll by their side ,"
If slavery w>re ab l'shrd, thu hac '
man would prefer t. 1.-Two ut the South -
The climate is adapted IL his "a'ur,. and
habits 'icss labor euticcs FIR the pro-
duction of the .rccs<a,ies If life. I here
are no long unlroductive winters, aud Il
the black ma" keeps his assigned p~i'i""
he is better trc ted ty South RI mr" villa
understand his rature und necessities,
thu" by the people Of the North ]" the
N.nth. HI. il excluded from l,.nuv of the