New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-03

IS The Right Way the Safe Way replied:
On the wdom Of Emancipation aud as proving that the
right way is the safe way think your pamphlet
sbe But here other things than wisdom be met One
OF the nost foolish AID yet mos. potent is that
negroes and whites will snagamac the slave. are freed
Ny belief founded very sufficient reasons is that
Slavery Freedom l. the fruitful source Of ansalra
tom bat have figures evidence any Kind to prove
ibis. other than what seearound II you any ss
cs tits sub which you thrk would be useful TO the
cause Of Emancipation you wOld much obss ne by TO-.
wardrg liem"
| In reply, wrote as follows:
"Iam not ;ha, any statistics record concerning
the suect Of your inquiry The Outcry about future
gaIus,a merely of the art lodges by which slase-
holders and their allies seek eyade the msn question OF
anybody who know, anything about Slavery ia wei
tina, ANA gams,ion is the universal and inevitable result
Of hat sys,en Gen. Lafayette during bis & witt to this
country remarked upon great change @ eompexon that
had taken place among the slaves since the period OF
Revolution Icoud furnish you with nuume-sbe advertise
from Southern papers describing runaway slaves with
sandy hair bue syss rudy COMPLEXION easily passing
for white man. &c, to say nothing Of yellow boys and
Itch; muat,oss But this Is unnecesary Tor your Letter
admits that slavery airuul source Of aalssnation"
Whether amaigamation would take place ieeaily,
as does Hegay if the slaves freed is not
question susceptible Of prOof II must, OF COURSE
remain 4 matter Of opinion TIL experience furnishes
evidence. But il seems to me qnite superauous TO
trouble ourselves abou IT, If there rs sn Instructive
antpathy between the races, il will take OF It.
self as natural antipathies and attractions are always
sure to do. Il there ia ro, any natural antipathy,
| then the horror of amalgam4i0n Las no rational
/ foundation. Ny own opinion is that there is not
natural antiIahy between white and colored peo-
plc Ny reason for thinking SO is that wherever the
two classes have been brought into vicinity they
have invariably mixed extensively and, in view of
their relative POSITIONS it must be admitted that the
mixture has been sought by the TiHes.
Ny own belief also is that prejudice against COM
plexion is entirely founded upon pride, and grows
out of the debased and degraded condition in which
our laws and customs keep the eoorcd people This
is sufficiently proved By the fact that Shareholders
have the utmost horror Of lcgah-ed anal gamation,
while they lave none at all Of illegal. They would
consider their families dsgraced forever if son
should NARY the most beautiful and intelligent OF
quadroons but are quite undstsrbed by his brood
Of Legitimate mulaitO children, owning some " Coal
black Rose for their mother.
From all the Information l can obtain, | should
Judge that there il much less mixture Of white and
colored in the British West Indies than there was
ietore emancipation. The bad habits formed in !
Slavery still cling to them in a considerable degree
tor generations must be educated under better ti0-
before the corrupt effects Of system 50 thor
oughly nnclean can be washed out # the character
of people. But the colored inhabitants Of those
islands gradually acquiring habits Of sereslec,,
and they more and more discountenance neglect Of
the marriage ceremony. Marriages have occurred ,
between white and colored, aud in some cases they
have been persons OF high position. Some judges
Sand lawyers OF distinction in the West Indies have
married haudsome, int ligeu,, and well-educated
u.uatlo ladies, aud nothing has occurred TO make
them ash ,mei of their choice; for their wives pre-
side over their households in a manner 50 graceful
and digniiei a. TO command respect even from
im,ricaH guests. But such exceptional.
Preildices wear ont slowly. and finally disappear,
wiitout violent collisions with the changing state
OF things. Carlyle said, very wisely: " BE not dis
mayed. The old skin never falls of TIL new ekiD
has formed under IT," We may safely trust 20 this
,.v OF nature. Legalized amalgamation c,n never
become common long As there is prevailing re- .
ludice against coor; and when that phantom dy-
na-y' pssses away with the centuries I,s disappear
auce viii harm no one. aud postcri;y will wonder at
the power il once exercised, as we uow marvel at
the terror our ancestors had Of witchcuf. Il is the
duty Of or dayt obey the plain dictates of justice
and humanity, which are also the dictates Of en.slt-
eued policy. God Will not :ail in His promise that
." the effects Of righteousness shall be peace"
This outcry about ANAL .maton, IA the result Of
emancipation IL simply ridiculous, II view Of tie
swarms oi muaitoes, quaGroous ana ocsoroous pro-
duced by Slavery but in view OF the monentCus is.
sues now at stake in this country, il il worse than
dicgous; it is hcartlsss, wicked irifius wita the
destinies OF u great ration.
Candid rejecting, daintercsed non, all over the
civilized world agree that Slavery - "A bad system,
injurious to 0H parties connected with it, Statistics
abunGluty prove that Agriculture, Commerce, Man
uMctafes, Moral. Education and Internal Improve
ueu,s Of all sorts, rapidly advanced by free in.
stitu,ious. There is ample evidence of his in the
comparative progress Of lacrent States in To-, coun-
try Virginia iunshe, one OF these instructive iius-
tgnrous. she SURPRISES other States ia Richness OF
coil, attractions Of merry and climate, wealth OF
mineral resource, noble rivers, AMI o0mIodOus
harbors. Al IL, ,iae If the Revolution her CONF
Eelce was Tour times that OF New-fork; but To- 1853
the imports into Ncw-York Were valued at 5lsJ 000.
COJ while those II Virginia were less than iJ), 900.
Lands in Virginia, capable of producing fom - to
80 bushels OF wheat 70 tho acre, and only - hours by
raj nom New-York. aye TO be had for one.forielh
the ,rce Of similar l.nd in New YORK itse.. Such
was the comparative value Of land in those two
States in lSjG
The prosperity Of any State depends very largely
on an intelligent thriving p,dafe casS Where
Slavery exist, society inevitably auanges itself INTO
Two classes very sSiaely separated IRON each other