The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-26

ancestry I'D themselves of this moral,
social and political evil? Was it hu-
manity philanthropy? Not bit of
it. The slave and the negro was root
ed out of New England and thsNorth
just as they will be, within the next
half century, out of all the country
East of the Mississippi, to make room
for the immense flow Of white men
from the old world, of which we have
spoken. Slavery way abolished, and
the negro has become extinct in the
Northern States, because the superior
race-the whites-rushed there in
such numbers as to supply all the
wants of the country as to labor in
all the departments of business and
commerce. AS this stream of humani-
ty from Europe poured into the
Northern States, slavery and the black
man had to give way before it and
move down South, and now that the
prowess and valor of the Northman
has crushed slavery and opened up
these Southern States to the food of
immiSratiop, which is ever moving
onward. til. thickly populated cities,
towns and districts of the whole North
will throw their surplus population
upon rs. The poor will come in
search of labor, those of small capital
will come to better their condition,
and the capitalist will come to invest;
and within ten or twenty years, two
thirds of the Southern States will
change hands, our population will lie
doubled or trebled, white laborers
will abound, and the negroes will
move Southwark, until within thirty
years they will be rs scarce here as
they are in the Northern States now.
And why? Because the Southern
people will be unkind or preiudiced
against them? No. But because now
that they are free, we shall become as
careless about them as the Mortimer
are, and when we find it to our inte-
rest to employ whites to perform the
menial service they have been per-
forming, with All eye to self-1nterest.
we shall not be slow to do it If
pressed back, it will not he the South
ern, sbut the Northern people and
Europe that will do it. They will
leave because the superior and more
energetic whites will take their places;
and as they own no part of the soil,
as soon as they cannot find employ
ment they will begin to disappear.
The negro prospered physically and
increased in number as q slave; but
with this tide of white immigration
pressing forward as the result of his
being freed, we do not believe he can
now.
Already we hear that the intelli-
gence Offices will be able to furnish
white servants for families who wish
them, in North Carolina, and no
doubt by the first of January next it
will be as easy to get any kind of
white ''help'' that may be desired, in
that State, as in Baltimore or New
York. And when this comes to be
the case, and those people who have
to hire, find that one Irish or German
woman can do the labor of two negro
women, like the people of the North
they will give the preference If the
negro is driven out, as we believe he
will be ultimately, it will not be on
account ofpersecutions by the former
owners, but by the flood of immigra-
ton which had pressed slavery before
1T, before the war began, from Massa-
chusetts to Maryland.
Ii the negro would remain here as
an inferior, not demand too much,
and perform for reasonable compen-
sation the labor the country must
have, he might stay this volume of
immigration to some extent; but if
he listens to the few fanatics who
preach political and social equality to
nm, and aspires to govern, rather
than be governed, the tide will press
forward and engulph him. Leave,
finally, +" make room for the firm
tread OF tue white man, we believe lie
must, but he may prolong his stay by
good behavior and industry. The
same Anglo-Saxon that has pressed
hlm out OF the Northern States is
now applying for that place he has
hitherto occupied here and ,nYacc bo