The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-21
21, 1862.

the black mans easy and shiftless ways.
Provided a black man keeps the place
assigned to him, there is reason to be-
heye that he is better treated in the South
than in the North He is not only allow
ed to follow any trade for which he has
aptitude, but he is encouraged to do it
But, in the North, the black man has
noplace assigned him in society. The
Irishman, no matter how low or begger-
ly, knows that his child may rise to any
position in society. The father may be
q vulgar, brutal wretch. But the child
goes to the public school; he becomes
!. intelligent he has vigorous stock, and
as soon as he energies from his own fam
lily, he finds nothing which industry may
earn, or ability achieve, or genius de-,
serve, that is withheld 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 of
his own people, he is excluded from the
practice Of the learned professions = A
black lawyer would starve A black
! physician could gain no considerable
practice, however skillful; and though
perfect gentleman and regularly educa-
ted, he could scarcely gain admission
In what parish, except among his own
people, could an African clergyman,
though he was as learned, eloquent and
pious as Cyprian or 0rigen, be tolerated?
Thus far, education serves rather to
Z highten the blackman's susceptibihties
to social indignities, than to augment his
power OR increase his influence.
If we turn to the less informed, labor
: ing classes of black men, what chance is
permitted them7 They are effectually
excluded from the great staple industries
by prejudice which is thousand times
i more effectnal than could be statutory
law. There is hardly single mechani-
cal 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.
I To very limited extent, they can labor
in agriculture with white men. But be-
sides these there is scarcely any trade or
calling in which white men will permit
black men to toll by their side
1t is in the face of such insuperable OBJ
stacles that politicians would persuade
the ignorant that black men will leave
climate they love for one they dislike;
I. society where they are at least tolera-
ted, for one where they are hated; sec
ton where oil mechanical labors are put
into their hands, for one in which they
are excluded from all; from where they
kr,l Ill, obr
coopers, to one where they may not even
carry the bod, or blow the bellows, or
push the drudging sawl There is more
danger that water win run up hill
Everything. .ldissuades the. ..black man
from the North. The climate pinches
him Labor dsdains him. Social pref
udices exclude him from position. The
bitterest political animosities restrict his
civil rights to aminimum. Even religion
and philanthrophy prefer to offer him IN
ducements to colonization, rather than
to help him where he is.
On the other hand, should liberty be
given to the black man there would be a
demand for his labor in the South greater
than ever before And upon fair scale
of wages, he would labor with vastly
greater fidelity. The first effect OF
emancipation would be to withdraw from
field labor vast number of women, who,
instead of being beasts Of burden, would
remain at home in the appropriate duties
of wives and mothers Their places
would have to be made good. This would
tend to drawing laborers from the North.
The black man, for the most part, can
| give only unskilled labor. This labor is
far better fitted to the rude husbandry oil
the South than for the mechanical and
agricultural industries of the North
Every single circumstance tends to
Z show that no fear was ever more un.
reasonable than that which evil-minded
politicians arc zealously diffusing among
the unrefecting portion of Northern
laborers. And it will be a good and
wise task for every true patriot to reason
with his neighbors whose prejudices have
been excited, and to show them that
emancipation, while it is an act of sub
lime national justice, viii not disturb the
industrial economy either of the North OF
the South Whereas, the direct and in
evitable effect of Slavery in the South
will be to drive Increasing numbers Of
black men into the North.
Slavery keeps up competition with
Northern cheap labor. Emancipation
will destroy all competition, and leave
white labor in the North without impedi
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