, 1862-06-17

4e>e1 NllA tne negro, ls most natural SO
long as the negro is slave; for the Oft
repeated reason that slavery makes
labor dishonorable, by demeaning
and degrading the laboring man
And although it is contendcd that at
present the same feeling Of dislike and
utter unwillingness to compete with the
negro for work, is to be found in all the free
States, still it is not unreasonable to sup
pose, if this be so, that this state of feel
ing here has been caused by the tra.
dictionary prejudices which have come
down to us from the generation in which
there were also slaves at the North; or it
may be bred and nourished among US solely
from our nearness to, and sympathy Of feel
ing and interest with the people Of the
Southern States. We know Of no facts to
prove that if the branding mark Of degreda-
ton that S1ayey has stamped upon him
vas removed, there would be anything
found, either in his color, or his race, to
awake and sustain such fierce and relent-
less cn1nity between him and the white
man. The variety Of relations implying
cordially, sympathy and fondness for each
other, that exist between the black and
white races at the South, afford many
reasons for believing that they can live
harmoniously and happily together.
There are other views to be well con-
sidered before We reach finally the conclu-
sion that Emancipation must needs be
joined with Colonization, and cannot be
effected without. A 1aboring class is Of
course necessary to the existence Of any
people; and although State that had
supply Of white laborers might from preju-
dice, passion, or blindness, Danish all
blacks from its midst, yet the conclusion,
it is perhaps not rash to say, might be quite
the opposite, if q people had to choose be-
tween free blacks OF no hbor at all We
do not perceive what the Slave States could
do for laborers; or how the production Of
the great staples Of their land could be
carried on without the work of the negro
The residents Of the South, however wed
ded they may be to their peculiar institu-
tion, and however fercely and stoutly they
may fight for it, it seems to us, if they saw
there was no avoiding the result, and that
the slaves must become free, would decide,
that abhoHent as it might be to all their
feelings, they could not get along without
the blacks; and bad as it might be for the
negroes to be enfranchised, it would be still
worse for them to be sent away. Who are
to raise rice, cotton, and sugar, if the blacks
are to be banished? Where are the labor
ers to come from to take the places Of the
slaves?
Nefeel certain that if emancipation were
to take place tomorrow, and the Southern
States had the power to drive by law, all
the blacks beyond their limits, no one
would entertain the project for a moment;
Tor it would be only madness and self de-
struction to get rid Of one working class
before the other stood ready to take its
place. Providence has so woven together
the life of the negro with that Of the white
IN the South, that no sudden severine
OF the ties can be made without its being
fatal to the white. IF the negro is to disap-
pear from all the region in which he is now
to be found, the process will be slow and
gradual one. It is just as impossible for
any one State alone to clear them out as it
is for all united. Nothing would be more
absurd than for the general government or
any one State to pass law of exclusion.
Neither the United States, nor any one
State can get rid Of the blacks without the
expense and labor Of transporting them
elsewhere. Emancipate the slaves in the
South Tomorrow, and We think, willie the
Free States might by severe legislation
guard themselves against their inroads. the
South could no more get lid Of them by
such means than she can Of her mountains
or CULTS. The question in the South would
not be between permitting the blacks to re-
main there, or driving them out; but be-
tween continuing their freedom, or re-cn-
shaving them.