The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-05-30

unjustly held in subsection, are not sure
of their position. They are like the
Louisiana sugar growers, who confess
themselves unable to live without such
aid from the government as will counter
balance their inferiority by depriving all
natural competitors of the advantages
God has bestowed upon them. We are
reminded Of the DourenuG riches, the
arstocrats of doubtful anlecedents, who
are afraid to hold even the most distant
connection with their plcbian neighhors,
for fear of losing caste. Their claims
to quality are SO fraiI that they must be
fenced about and protected by every pos
ible guard while the true nobleman
fears not that his reputation will be COM
promised by any association he may
choose to form. So it Is with many of
those men who fear negro competi ion.
Concious of their inferiori y to the mass
Of mankind, and recognizing the fact
| hat they exist and thrive only by the
aid of adventurous advantages, they
look with jealousy on any new rivals and
competitors, and use every means, fair
and unfair, to keep thom out of the
| market.
The same sort of opposition has been
made to he in reduction Of female labor
into any of the various branches of man
ufacture. Consequently women have
always been Disseminated against
They have been restricted to u small
range of employmants; their wages have
been KEEP down and many who would
De perfectly compe ent to perform the
duties of clerks or accountants, or to
earn good wages in some branch of man
ufacture, have been driven by their ne
ccssties either to suicide Or prostitution.
Several years ago the proprietors of
large crockery mandatory in England,
being short Of hands, bethought them
selves Of employing women to paint
some Of the figures on some of the rich
and more delicate articles. Before long
they had become more skillful than men
They did better work, and accomplished
it faster. As soon as it became evident,
all the men about the esta 5ishmant
struck, and refused to work on any terms
until the women were driven from the
workshops and denied employment. The
pressure forced the proprictors to yield,
and women who had been earning hand
some wages and were looking forward to
the enjoyment Of u competence in their
old age, were turned forth penliless on
the world. The same coward.y mean
ness was, at one time, cvincod by the
dry goods clerks in New York when it
was suggested 10 employ girls IN their
places.
The fear that the people of the North,
with all their superiority of race, yheir
advantage of education, aud their cxpe.
tiencc, are in danger of being overruu
by the five millions of negro slaves who
are made free by the procl amation, is
absurd and unmanly. The negroes will
do well if, when they come to enter into
free competition with the Whites, they
can preserve their existence. 1t would
not be surprising if, in the next century,
hey should disappear from the face of
the earth, either wholly or partly, as
the Indians have. 70 be sure hey are
superior to the Indians, and have had
40 nconsidcrablc education in the ar S
of peace, but they labor under disad-
vantages, when brought into compc ,ition
with the whites, which might we'll daunt
the stoutest heart, even beating under a
white skin. Instead of whinrering
about negro cIua!ity,' and throwing
up obstacles to the progress of the freed
nen, we should lend them helping hand
and try to discover, if possible, just
what capacity for civilization there is in
them, that their labor and their talen s
may be preserved to The country, and
that we may make some slight rcparation
for the awful sin and injustice to them
which lies at our door. IT, they can
sustain themselves they will live. If
not, they must be destroyed. The unal-
terable law of humanity and decree OF
God, that the weaker animal must perish
in the presence of the stronger, is no
going to be suspended for the benefit Of
the freed ngroes Of America.