The Van Buren press., 1866-09-28
MISCELLANY.
From DeBow's Review.
The South and Direct Foreign Trade.

The habits of the Southern people have
been inimical to their true interests for
many years proceeding the war, and they
are so now The negro has never had
anything to DO with it, and never will
have.
We thought before the termin&tion Of
the war. that Southern prosperity G9pen-
ded OF. slaya labor. we arc satisfied now
that it does not, and speaking, in refer
erence TO a series Of years, we arc equal
ly satisfied that the wealth Of the South
does not depend on the negro at all. We
regret to say that the time is not far dis
tant in the history Of the nation, when
the negro will have passed away under
the heavy pressure Of the white popula-
ton, and cur regret is for the negro, and
not for the white man. The latter can
take csre Of himself; the negro has no
friend but his former master, who, polit-
cally, can do him no good, nor can he
long protect hin, by ..aord;ns h;raa -sanial
comfort, the best Of which is employ
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History proves that two distinct races
have never harmonized under an equal
participancy Of political privileges; and
the same question is again being solved
The negro will disappear. 1t would be
to his interest if the government which
has destroyed his earthly hopes in the
South, could colonize him elsewhere. If
that is not done, it will be seen, in the fu-
ture, that the white man will occupy the
land, and the poor negro will have to give
way under pressing want, as well as the
stronger muscle and greater skill of a SUI
perior race. ,l.r
That the white man can work and work
successfully, in the open fields, beneath a
burning sun, and accomplish feats of in
dustry SURPRISING anything in the history
of negro slavery, it seems to us no we'll
read man will attempt to deny. We will
not fatigue the intelligent reader by his
toric detail, for educated men are suppos-
ed to be acquainted with history. But we
will ask, for the purpose Of turning the
mind to this subject, where were the seats
of ancient civilization? were they not
under tropical or semi-tropical climate T!
were not the great works of art and la
Dor which distinguished the old civiliza-
ton of warm climates, worked out by
white labor? .
The Hebrews, the Persians, the Assyr-
ians, the Greeks, the Romans, were all
located in warm climates. The proud
cities Of Babylon and Balbec and Palmy-
ra, were erected by white men, under bur
ming suns. The rich fields Of Egypt were
cultivated by stalwart white limbs and the
mighty pillars of the Pyramids piled un.
der a tropical climate, by white people.
The Southern States will be worked by
whites. In the cotton and rice and SUI
gar plantations, the white man will stand
as much work as the negro can stand.
Did not God put the white man under the
tropics? Did he not say that he should
earn his bread by the sweat Of his browi
And is it now left to our infdel philoso
ply to say, that he cannot do what his
Maker has commanded?
Ancient history proves, what is now
substantiatcd by the history Of modern
Europe, that Southern nations have al-
ways been in advance of those Of the
North, in every element Of civilization,
physical, moral and intellectual
The people of the South, now living as
citizens under the laws and government
Of the United States, are destined to be
the most powerful and intelligent on this
continent. .....a
Whether in the United States or out of
it, that section Of territory extending
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande,
will be in all respects far ahead of any
other. 1t has soil and climate that can
raise all the products that grow in the
world, or their substitutes, with, perhaps,
the exception Of few spices; while be-
meath its surface lie nearly every mineral.
Every section is watered by streams that
give facilities for working every kind of
machinery that man can invent or desire;
and besides this, like all warm climates,