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The Future of tho Emaacipated Slaves.

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The Future of tho Emancipated,S Slaves.
Revolutions never go backward, but ever
move onward. The struggle through which
these States have just passed may be ended
as far as the clash of arms is concerned, but,
says Southern eetsmporary, some Of the
marked results to flow from it are not yet
perceptible. The history of Che past will
teach US that important changes are to. take
place in the condition of this people within
the next quarter of a century-changes, too,
that are scarcely imagined by any of US.
The rapidity with which the American
colonies were peepied, the manner and ex-
tent of the development of the resources of
the country since the revolution that resulted
in our independence, are among the most
astonishing things in history. One Of the
greatest nation, of the earth, one. of the fret
war powers of the world, built up in three
quarters of century. Just think of it /
and compare our rise ard progress with the
rise and progress Of the older powers Of Eh-
rope. But the advantages of our climate,
soil, and general resources, enable us TO rob
them of THEN greatest source Of wealth, their
brain and muscle. Evor since the Eden,
America was thrown open to the down-trod-
den aad oppressed of the old country,a con-
stant stream of immigration has been Row
ing from the old to the Dew world, (which is
increasing rather than diminishing in volume,
And can we stop It? As we'll attempt to still
the rolling bilows of the ocean2 This stream
OF humanity will flow on, on, and on, and
when Europe and the North shall have made
a Now England OF all the territory lying be,
yond the Mississippi, and settled the new va
cant lands to the Rocky Mountains and be-
yond, tine stream will still flow on, and news
territories will be discovered, annexed, settled,
and the Yankee energy and American civili-
zation will still press forward toward the set
ting sun. Wars, rebellions will not stop it,
but hvaoh aucceeding shock or conyuh ion
the mighty torrent will only increase in
strength and power.
The introduction of African slavery into.
this country by our ancestors, is their sin, not
ours. 1t has caused much suffering to the
white race, has kept many of them in igno-
rance and poverty, aud retarded the develment
of the resources of those States that have
nurturcd it ard kept it alive. Whether it
has benefited the black man or not, is IN
abstract question that we do not care to dis
cues; but results have shown that, as slave
or freeman, the African has been in the white
mans way. :
The red man, the original proprietor of
this vast country, gave way before the tread
of his more proyident and enlightened pale
faced brother, and following the setting sun,
as our civilization advanced, there are now
but few traces to note the fact that he he's
ever been here. This country was his by the
right of long and sudisputed possession, but
when the tide Of immigration turned West
ward from the Old World, he began to recedo,
and in remarkably short time, if compared
with the history Of nations, he disappeared,
and in the forest wilds, where but as yester-
day he held undisputed sway, now the pale
face IS monarch of all he surveys.
i. Slavery was introduced into the New Eng
land aud other Northern States for gain. Our
ancestors cared no more for the black man
than we of the South did when We held
them as slaves, and we cared but precious
little beyond the property that was in them.
But why did our Puritan ancestry rid them.
selves Of this moral. social AID political evil
Was it humasity-philanthropy Not a
bit OF it. The slave and the negro was rooted
outof New England and the North just as
they will be, within the next half century,
out of all the country East of the Mississip-
nj. to make room for the immense aow Of
white men from the old world, of which ne
have spoken. Slavery was abolished, and
the negro has become extinct in til. Northern,
States, because the superior race--fhe whites
rushed there l.. such numbers as to supply
oil the wauts OF the country as-to labor in all
the departments of business and commerce.
As this stream of humanity from Europe
poured into The Northern States, slavery and
the black man had to give way before it and
move down South, and nov that tho prowess
OF the Northman has crushed elagery and
opened these Southern States to The food OF
immigration which is ever moving onward,
the thick!y populated cities, towns and dis
tricts of the whole North will throw their
surplus population upon us. The poor will
come in search Of labor. those Of small capi-
tai will come TO better their Condition, and
the capitalist will Come to invest ;.and within
ten or twenty years, two-shirds of the South
ern States will change hands, our population
will be doubled or lrtb!ed, white laborrs will
abound, and the negroes will move South
ward, until within thirty years they will be
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