The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-10
[Comnswnicated.
A Popular FalIacy.

IN MS speech mere a rev evenings ago,
Mr.. I. A. Hendricks was sorely troubled
with the question as to what would be
done with the negroes in case of general
emancipation as result of the rebellion.
This question is source of great per-
plexity to the Butternut gentry general
ly. 1t forms with Abolition" the bur-
den Of their song. They have made it
an axiom, that in case of emancipation
as result of the Rebellion, of cousre the
released negroes will all come North
and by their presence injure free white
labor bya degrading competition, and
eat out our substance.
Many intelligent people believe that
d, this would be the result The incessant
harping on this string by the leaders of the
Eighth-of-January stripe, has brought to
implicitly believe in this doctrine, if not
those leaders, at least their deluded fol-
lowers and many other well-meaning peo-
pie who do not ordinarily pin their faith
to the coat-sleeves of such demagogues.
Let us sincerely examine into this sub
ject, and ask ourselves whether, in case
of emancipation, the enfranchised ne
groes would really come North and pro-
duee the evils SO eloquently descanted
on.
The writer does not believe that the
negroes would leave their present homes
in any great numbers, but on the contra
ry that they would remain where they
are, provided they could be assured of
and protected in their freedom 1t is in
accordance with the dictates of human
nature that they should cling to their
homes and the spot where they were
born, and where they were raised. The
attachments of hODae-even though that
home appear, to more fortunate people,
cherries and unattractive-are as strong
in their hearts as in the hearts of persons
more fortunately situated Those at
tachments are as ineradicable in the
breast of the negro as in that of the white
or red man.
One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin" This poetical expression
becomes sober truth, when we think of the
passionate attachment of all mankind to
ttiC cpOb "hCAO thCy WCIC pOIu SOll-
slider the European immigrant, from
what ever country he may have come
how, after the lapse of years, and when
he gets together enough money to justify
it, he returns on visit to his fatherland,
and thinks brief visit rich compensa-
ton for the toll of thousands of miles of
travel and the expenditure of the gather
ing of long years of labor.
Look at the removal of the Pottawato-
mics, Seminoles, Cherokees, Chickasaws
Chocktaws, Creeks, and other tribes Of
Indians from their pheasant hunting
| grounds on this side of the Mississippi
to their new homes How they clune
with desperation to their old homes, al
though they were being crowded on and
oppressed there, and although they were
offered large inducements to 60, and
were given better hunting grounds in the
new localities that were set apart fol
! them. -
Consider the pain that is caused to om
white population when they tear them
selves away from home and its associa
ton, and go to new localities with the
hope of improving their condition. They
never forget their early dwelling places
though their new ones be all that is pleas
ant and desirable M
It's with the negro as with the rest o
| mankind
Then the subject of climate must b,
considered The constitution of the ne
gro was formed for hot climate Physi
ology demonstrates that the structure O
his skin, hair, skull, and respiratory or
gans are adapted better to hot climate
than to cold ones This fact will not b,
denied Everybody knows that in Cana
da and the more northern portions of ou
own country-where negroes live in larg
numbers in consequence of their create
security from oppression-their genera
health is bad They seem to be out @
their element and to bleach, wither, an,
become enervated, as potatoe or othe
plant does in a cave or cellar. A grea
degree of heat and light is necessary t
elicit their full strength and vigor.
Another consideration that forbids an
change in their residence, in case {
emancipation, is the lack of enterpris
and adventure in the race, which induce
them to prefer to bear the ills they hav
than fly to others that they know not Of
An instance of this characteristic
found in their persistent and confrme
opposition to the foreign colonizatio
scheme. They resist all the benevolen
and expensive efforts that are made I
deport them to Liberia and Hayti, tho
those efforts are made with the kinde,
of motives toward the unfortunate rae,
Excellent homes are offered to them i
countries that belong exclusively to tn
negro, where social and political equalit
is obtainable by them. A climate adapte
to their constitution invites them. The
would be leaving behind persecution
degradation and hopeless misery, an
: gaining equality, liberty and fraterr
. t" Yet they prefer all the evils e
! dured here, and forego all the advantag,
that make life desirable, rather tha
leave the land that they regard as the
home, and rather than undergo lit
hardship and danger in the voyage tn
: they must take if they emigrate. tt.s s
We think that these consideration
!. strengthened by others that might
mentioned, ought to be conclusive as