New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-05
The Negro Race.

Whilst Congress and the American people are
squabbling. passing laws and interesting them
selves, so the exclusion of every other political
subject, about the negro, that interesting race
seem to be settling the Yexed question by quietly
withdrawing from the stage. Senator DooIittle as
serta that he possesses the very best and most re-
liable authority for stating that the four millions
Of negroes ia the United States in 1860 but three
millions are in existence. Disease has swept them
away By the tens of thousands-the common sick
ness OF the army has proven as fatal to them as
the vomit0 to the white race, and it seems that al
though more prolific than any other race whilst
ma wild state Or state Of slavery. that during
the war q fewer proportion of children were born
among them than usual.
In the towns and near encampments, their chill
dren, to an extent Incredible to those who are ig-
norant of the fact. are Of mixed blood. Their
social status and the requirements of society pre-
vented this latter evil to great extent before the
war, but since their freedom the responsibility APP
I pears to be not AZ great and promiscuous inter
s course with degraded whites has produced the
usual results. The hand Of Providence points in
ways apparent 70 us that sooSer On later the black
: race must disappear from this continent. Disease
4 seems now TO Hasten upon them with q Partially
y and tenacity never before observable. In the
80 awful time of slavery, when yellow fever,
Z cholera and small pox swept over the country,
With few exceptions, the rayages Of these terrible
ezsconrges were confined to the whites. Now the
black race seems susceptible to every disease,
whilst the whites suffer but little. Why this is 40
foreign to the subject but It is simple truth that
-U9 is +
In Baton Rouge, for instance, many scores Of the
blacks have fallen Tictms to the ravages of the
small pox, whilat we cannot number dozen whites
Who have died Of II: Another reason why in few
years the race will have awindled away from
unong Us, at least here in the South, lies in the
act that they are now free to 20 wherever thew
y rish. Slowly but surely the habits of Continued
b lbor to which they have been constrained will
= aar away, and the Individual wanderines Of this
" st tribe win commence There Il no corner Of
kht North 10 whch you will not find, in a few
70, US, block laborers, beggars and wanderers
Fro Nm town to town, State to State, they will con-
IA, sy remove in search of that paradise on earth
wh we they can lay in the sun and the ravens feed
khel with something more substantial than com
miss ary birds we're wont to provide the prophet in
the eden time. The three millions now settled
amor Z eight millions Of whites in ten years will be
! sha acred fragment Of half that number among
Forty millions of whites. They would prefer the
South aud would live and die among us, but the
blesse, I word freedom struck out the name anl
protect ion of master and provider. There is nt
Sid cab IN home rent free forthem- no place where
the oc Us Of children can bask IN the sun Of plenty
under Ii 70 eye of one to whom they were OF value
and who se substantial interests was involved ii
the cont unance of life and health among his human
mock. he South Is now the same as the North to
them. ana the people among whom they are now
0cated zst forget their old liberality stie every
feeling Of lavish charity IN the strenuous efforts
Low neces ssry 70 obtain for themselves livelihood.
-Tke demsn a for labor will soon create . supply,
saud its chaa acter will be such that tho negro will
noM give way: He will seek in other lands for
Nv means os hfe, and III . few more years We win
4xae stsonsL EAton Rouge Advocate. =
3pa,x,rAleE AND Jossss, ~ ! -. al, 81.
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~ tlaat fhe hing Of Prussia valued him self mon
II sae a snn uPsS being hero musician and
A AZ man Al y ia b.,n. psssty veil Sir for
iooi nd Al bis poetry But hs prose L no ~.
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