The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-12-18
win the Negro Come Northp


Since the issue of President Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation, this ques-
ton has been most extensively discuss
cd by the presses Of all parties, by The
rebel sympathising portion of which,
for tho purpose of maupfaeturing dlt-
tic political capital, it is eoRteAded that
he will, aud that to the detriment of the
poor white man with whom he will com
pete in labor. On this subject we clip
the following from the New York Inde-
pendent: I-..
The colored man is o creature Of the
tropics, and all his aptitudes fit him for
warm climate: Even the temperate
zones are not temperate to his heat-lov-
ing constitution. His skin is thirsty
for the sun, He basks luxuriously in
heat that would seoTch and consume o
white man. In short he is fitted by his
nature for tropical attitudes, and is as
much out Of place in our cold temper
ate zones, as are oranges, plantains Of
palm trees. .....,.. r..... ........
Experience shows that this reluctanc,
to live in cold climates has physiolOg
ical basis. For the colored race do no
thrive in cold climates. They do ne
; multiply; they are not so robust; the,
fall into consumption easily, and vast
away. This ia clearly shown in the sta
tisties ofnegrOes in New England an,
New York. ... ....-. n... ..
Their local attachments are known t
be strong. They linger around tn
places where they we're born and bret
They have great deal Of Southern fee
ing. They may bo thankful for Nortl
: ern kindness, but they are identife
in their ideas, their pride, their who
method Of living, with the South, an
d will never become Northeruers. p.
}, A Northern man is methodical, il
e dustrious, and enterprising, He exac
i from himself punctuality, diligence, FRI
d gality; aud in even severer measure
i exacts them from those who labor f
t him. He has learned to value time
n In the North ''time is money. In Il
d South time has very little valuO, lie
!, labor sufices, upon the luxuriant sol
5 Of the tropics, for tho production of tt
: necessaries of life. Tho heat of Il
r climate makes labor more intolerable.-
The true Southerner has sympatl
;, with black mans easy and shirtlc
a ways. Provided black man keeps L
20 place assigned to him, there is reast
,r to believe that he is better treatedG
s; the South than in the North. lie
r not only allowed to follow any trade f
Ii which he has aptitudcs; but he is e
couragcd to do it,
! Here, except within tho circle of !
own people, he is excluded from t
or learned professions. A black lnwy
b, would starve. A black physician cou
IF gain no considerable practice, howev
of skillful, and though perfect gent
IN mau, and regularly educated, he. cnu
"A scarcely gain admission into any medi
=. society or. association. g,,... -..,...
q. 1t is in the face of such almost ins,
erable obstacles that politicians wor
persuade the ignorant, that black N
will leave q climate they love for c
they dislike; a society where they are
least tolerated, for one where they
IN hated; section where all mechanical
ny bors are put into their hands, for {
rs where they ara excluded from all; fr
a. one where they may be -blacksmiths, c
'o penters mosons, coopers, to one VIII
OF they may not even carrya hod or bio
ne bellows, or push the drudging saw
es- There is no danger that water '
III run uphill! ''1's .'"7'" --''D
re- Everything dissuades tho black n
ID from the North The climate piho
's- him from position. The bitterest
litical animosities restrict his 6
six rights to minimum. Even relig
'od and philanthropy prefer to offer indr
zen ments to colonization rather than
sh- help him where he is. ygsu s.s7o8.
e'r Slavery keeps composition y
md Northern cheap labor, Emppeipa
.ali will destroy all competition, and 4
the 1 white labor iq the North without iDl
to imeRt. .r..
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