The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-08-29

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what Is 10 be Done with the Negroes,
and What with the AHOiitiOnisls.
The abolition press and the orators OF the
radical revolutionary faction are continually
embarrassing the President and the operations
of The war, not only by their absurd theories Of
negro elderly, fraternity, equality" bat by
urging their practical adoption on the govern
ment. One portion of the faction contends that
the emancipation Of all the negroes of the
South is essential to the success of the war,
and would be, besides, q righteous act of the
President to down-trodden humanity, Though
the President himself declares that the saliva
ton of the Union is paramount to the emanci-
patton Of any number Of negroes. At the
same time this wing Of the faction, which is by
far the most numerous, insists that the liberated
negroes shall be- sent out Of the country with
out waiting to inquire whether they are willing
to 60, or determining the question. in the event
of their refusal, whether banishment from their
native land would not be greater crime
against humanity than permitting them to re-
main as they are, even in slavery. The other
wing of the radicals goes the whole figure for
emancipation and social and political equality,
and contends that the negroes have right to
remain to amalgamate with the white race.
Now we hold that the best thing TO do with
the negroes is to let them alone. The. best
thing to do with the leaders of the abolitionists
who have disastrously meddled with this war
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bright prospect of the struggle soon being
brought to successful termination. We are
not opposed to the colonization Of the negroes;
but it does not practically amount to any.
thing. The blacks have right to emigrate to
Liberia or Central America, OF anywhere else
they please, just as the irish in America have a
right to return to Ireland or the Germans to
fatherland; but to force them to emigrate is
impracticable and absurd. That they would
not leave in any considerable numbers is too
well known to admit of question. But if it
were practicable it would be neither for our in
tcrest nor theirs to drive them from the country.
We need their labor; but it isbetter for all con-
cerned that they should be held in the mild
servitude of the Southern States. The two
races could not exist together in freedom.
1t has been said they do exist in freedom
together in Russia, in France and in Eng
land How many negroes would tourist see
in his travels through England France and
Russia? Not one hundred. In some of the
Southern States the blacks are more numerous
than the whites. Gould both races exist together
in freedom there? Moreover our institutions
are very different from those of England,
France and Russia. Under monarchy ne
groes might exist in freedom side by side with
white men, but not in republic where every
man has voice in the making of the laws
Republics are founded upon intelligence. The
black man has not sufficient intelligence for
and democratic institutions
Political equality would lead to amalgamation
as in Central America and the South American
republics and the result would be the deterio-
ration of the white race, or it would lead to
the destruction of the blacks. Political equali-
ty would begeta claim of social equality, of in.
tellectual and physical equality, and lastly Of
amalgamation. The antipathy to this on the part
OF the superior race would result in a war Of
The negroes, in their native Africa, have never
made any progress in arts or sciences, or letters,
or philosophy or religion, or government since
the dawn of history. The head of the negro, as
sculptured on the monuments Of Egypt thirty
four centuries ago, is the same as it is found at
this day on the shoulders of the living race in
America. The figures on the Egyptian tombs
show that they were slaves more than three
thousand years ago; and slaves and barbarians
they still remain. They alone, of all other
races, have made no progress by the light of
Europe and America. Time has effected no
New World. In ten generations here it has not
made the slightest approximation either to-
wards the aboriginal population or to any other
race. Better food and contact with the white
men have slightly improved both body and
mind; but two generations of domestic culture
effect all the Improvement Of which negro or
gansm is susceptible. Many negro families de-
scended from the second generation are here
but they are perfectly identical in physical and
intellectual character with those of the eighth
or tenth generation, where there has been no
admixture of white blood.
We have no objection to the emancipa-
ton of all the negroes in the land; but let
it be done by the people OF the States
themselves The federal government has not
the power. 1t must be admitted, however
that the negroes are practically as little en-
shaved at the South as at the North, while they
are far more happy and contented with their
lot there than here, and have a lien upon the
land for their support in sickness and old age,
which Is moro than can be said of the white
laborer of the North. The negro population
ane vast benefit to the Southern States, and to
the whole country, under the patriarchal in
stitution. To COLOMBO them would be to re-
move 50 much productive labor from the coun-