The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-10-18

emancpated they VIII come into competitor
with them; and, BY Cutting the labor market,
will reduce the price of labor, and interfere
with their wages. To unthinking men, there
Is SO much probability in such statements as to
demand examination aud refutation. For if
unprincipled men shall succeed in infaning the
passions of the laboring men in the North, and
to the hatred OF race shall add the blind fury
OF selflshness, good cause will be impeded,
and the Administration will be embarrassed
in carrying out its beneficent plans.
Emancipation Uiu bring no colored labor
ers to he North, but ,ciu drain a great n,auy
out Of til
There are physical and social reasons for
this. The colored man is a creature of the
tropics, and all his aptitudes fit him for "A warm
climate. Even the temperate zones are not
temperate to his heat-loving constitution. His
skin is thirsty for the sun. He basks luxuri-
ousy in heat that would scorch and con-
sumo white man. In short, he is fitted by
his nature for tropical ATTITUDES, and is as much
out OF place in our cold temperate zones as
are oranges, piantains, or palm trees.
Nor does he willingly wander away from
warm ATTITUDES. 1t is only as the less of evils
that he is persuaded to such exile. There can
be no more extraordinary testimony to the
black mans love of liberty than that he sub
mits to live in Canada. A white bear in the
Gulf of Mexico, and black man in the Arctic
regions, are about equally misplaced
Experience, likewise, shows that this reluct-
anca IN live in noId climates hos a nhvsiolooi-
cal basis. For the colored race do not thrive
in cold climates-they do not multiply; they
are not so robust; they fall into consumption
easily, and waste away. This is clearly shown
in the statistics of negroes in New England
and New York. 1t is very plain, then, that
black men would never emigrate from the
South to the North, except under some extra
ordinary pressure. 1t is the dread and hate OF
slavery that drives them, against their tastes,
into an uncongenal climate. If Slavery con-
tinues, there will be a great influx of freed
slaves into the Northern States. This is inev-
liable. But, If they are allowed their liberty
In the South, no inducements will incline the
slaves to exchange the glowing air of the
South for the frigid and austere climate of the
North. Their local attachments are known to
be strong. They linger around the places
where they were born and bred. They have,a
great deal of Southern feeling. They may be
thankful for Northern kindness; but they are
identified In their ideas, their pride, their
whole method OF living, with the South, and
will never become Northencrs.
II only slavery were removed, the black man
would prefer to live among Southern men.
Southern men understand bis nature and nee
essities better than Northern men. A North
ern man is methodical, industrious, enterpris-
Ing. He exacts from himself punctuality, dill
gence, and frugality; and in even severer
measure he cxacts them from those who labor
for him. He has learned to value time In
the North, ''tine is money" In the South,
time has very little value. Less labor sufiiees.
upon the luxuriant soils fthe tropics, for the
production of the necessaries of life. The heat
of the climate makes labor more intolerable
The true Southerner has a sympathy with
black mans easy and shiftless ways. Provided
black man keeps the place assigned to him,
there is reason to believe that he is better
treated in the South than in the North. He is
not only allowed to follow any trade for which
he has aptitude, but he is encouraged to do it.
But, in the North, the black man has no
place assigned him in society. The Irishman,
no matter how low or beggarly, knows that his
child may rise to any position in society The.
father may be vulgar, brutal wretch. But
the child goes to the public school; he becomes
intelligent; he has vigorous stock, and as
soon as he emerges from his own family, he
finds nothing which industry may earn, or
ability achieve, or genius deserve, that is with
held from him simply ON account of race or
parentage.
But it is not so with the black man. He is,
for the most part, hindered in his efforts at
education. As he grows up in intelligence,
every step is marked with suffering. Except
within the circle ofhis own people, he is excu-
ded from the practice. of the learned profess
ions. black lawyer would starve A black
physician could gain no considerable practice,
however skillfnl, and though perfect gentle
man, and regularly educated he could scarce
ly gain admission into any medical society or
association.
Al Wuht PARISH, except among MS own peo-
pie, could an African clergyman, though he
were as learned, eloquent, and pous Cyprianas
or Origen, be tolerated? Thus far, education
serves rather to heghten the black mans sus-
ceptibiiity to social indignities than to aug
ment his power or increase his influence.
If we turn to the less informed laboring
classes of black men, what chance is permitted
them? They are efectually excluded from
the great staple industries by prejudice
which is n thousand times more effectual than
could be statutory law. There is hardly
single mechanical trade in which white men
will allow blacks to labor by their side. Black
men are allowed to be sailors, and to mingle
with white shipmates without prejudice. To
very limited extent, they can labor in agri-
culture with white men. But, besides these,
there is scarcely any trade or calling in which
white laborers will permit black men to toll by
their side
1t Is in the face of such almost insuperable
obstacles that politicians would persuade the
ignorant, that black men will leave climate
they love for one they dislike: society where
they are at least tolerated, for one where they
are hated; section where all mechanical la
bors are put into their hands, for one in which
they are excluded from all; from where they
may be blaeksmiths, carpenters, masons, COO
pers, TO one where they may not even carry