Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-30

The notion That the negro - the defendant OF
Canaan. the son of Ham, and sentenced 70 Per
perpetual slavery for his SIN. is SIMPLY puerilc
The question OF TIE neutra iuferior.iv OF the
neg race ! one on which boia parties are enfi-
tied 70 a hearing. Society 5 established UPON
the relative development Of the individuals
Slavery exists in the Southern States not because
the negro is inferior 20 the Anglo Saxon, but be
cause the individuals of the negro race are inie-
rior to the individuals Of the Anglo Saxon. The
normal condition of society J. IN a unity Of race.
America stands IN the anomalous condition Of
having two races. widely differing from each 9th
.r, living upon is soil.
The object Of society is 70 secure tse best ia
terests OF It's members bv promoting the general
peace
After the emancipation of slavery in New Eng
land. most OF the slaves retired 10 waste land and
lived bv cuitivating small patches Of corn and 20
taioes. and by petty pliering returning near
possible 20 the habits Of their African ancestors
The consequence was, that the race gradually
went out
Slavery is said to be a condition of involuntary
labor. But all labor is Involuntary No man
labors for the love of IT, Practically, nearly all
aborers, free slave, work all their lives for food
clothing and shelter But slavery is said to be a
great injustice The fact of proprietorship, does
not not necessarily include injustice.
IL is customary among persons whose sensbil
bilities more acute than their information i
correct, 10 represent the negro pining out his
servitude. The negro flies not from slavery, but
from the labor it imposes He sees no harm in
slavery of itself, and if opportunity offers, he be
comes the worst of masters II the slaves OF the
South have any fondness for the Abolitionists of
the North that feeling Is of recent orr gin. There
IS reason 10 believe that the reports Of the un-
easiness of the slaves are greatly exaggerated.
The negro seems fit for n state of servitude from
the fact that his numbers Increase more rapidly
IN a state of slavery than in state OF freedom.
Ii seems TO be the fate of our race - root out
every other race Of less vitality. unless the bond
of interest causes the stronger to throw its pro
lection the weaker Emancipated. the slaves
OF the South would be in the way, and this fact
alone would be enough to surround them with
danger. The wrongs of slavery are wrongs of
the individual, and are not part OF the system.
The probabilities are that there is as great a
proportion of men in the North who abuse their
families rs in the South who abuse their slaves.
With the average of the African race the fear of
pain Is the only stimulus sufficient to make them
labor. The separation of children from their
parents is great cause Of complaint. but there
Is great reason 10 believe that il is of seldom occur
renee
Separation.of families frequently occur in the
North from circumstances as imperative as any
that attend upon slavery. The great evil which
is charged upon slavery is the possibility of the
deterioration of the white race from contact with
the negro.
The danger which is to come from amalgama-
ton does not belong to slavery alone. but to the
presence of the negro race. The production of
individuals of the mixed race goes on quite as
rapidly in the North as in the South.
The North and the South have not been rivals
in my of the markets of the world. We of the
North boast that with our wheat and corn we
can iced the world they of the South boast that
with their cotton plantations they can cothe the
world. The South can do as we'll without North
eTn machinery and manufacturers as the North
can do without Southern cotton and groceries In
lo2O the cotton growing may be said 70 have been
fairly inaugurated. Al that time the South pro
duced nearly all its own necessaries Southern
planters finding il more economical TO produce
cotton than 10 engage in domestic manufactures.
choose to do At the same time New England
turned Us attention TO the production of manu-
features, and depended for It's supply of food on
New York. Pennsylvania and the Great West.
The lecturer here quoted 1T great length mass
of statistics TO prove the mutual dependence of
the sections each upon the other, and the calami-
ties which would fall upon the world by the fail
ure of the supply OF Southern cotton There are
those who, becoming possessed with the idea that
slavery is the one great evil, can not see any
other. These men were few months ago the
disunioniss Of the North, and called the Ccnst
tuition "a league with the dewitt Now they are
loudest in their cries to uphold il. 1t must cause
the devil, If there is devil, wag his tail-if he
has tail-with delight, to hear one of these gen
tlemen clothed in slave labor cotton and mount
ed in "A pulpit. declaiming against the evils of
slavery. The meanneSs of the thing is only
equalled by its hypocrisy.