The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-03

good start in the race OF life aS the other
varieties of the human species, but the mex
orable fact is, they alone have not improved.
But here in the United States, under mild
system of bondage, some advance was made
by them, but as soon as the controlling inau-
ence of the white race was taken away, we
find the negro lapsing into his original bar
barism. The increase of population in any
considerable degree depends upon relief from
cares and a sufficient quantity of food and
clothing and shelter from the changes and
inclemencies of weather. The census, par
ticulary that of 1860 shows that the natural
increase of blacks was much greater than that
of the whites, proving clearly that the condi-
tions Of life were more favorable to increas-
ing the blacks than that of the whites. With
out cares, with comfortable cabins, with good
clothing, and sufficient quantity of whole
some food, the negro improved and multi
piled. But now left to the tender merces of
his pretended friends, he is sinking fast to
his original condition, and gradually, or
rather rapidly, disappearing, Not long since
we read of the sufferings of the negroes in the
District of Columbia, that only portion of
the territory of the United States under
the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. The
Chairman of the National Freedmen's Relief
Association appeals for the relief of 10000
negroes, suffering for the want of the neces-
saries of life in the District of Columbia, and
his appeal is responded to by a donation of a
barrel of onions and a barrel of potatoes
worth $3.50, all the way from the North, the
region where the negro is regarded as a man
and brother. An appeal to the benevolent,
to contribute to supply the wants of negro,
was never heard of before the advent of radi-
calism. But now, right under the nose of
Congress, 10000 of its wards are crying
for help. There is no help for them but in
themselves, and as we know that Providence
only helps those who help themselves, we can
see no relief for them, for they are as help
less now as when they first made their appear
ance upon earth. 1t is q hard fate--we pity
them-but their present deplorable condition
was thrust upon them by the fanatical North.
That they are not increasing III population is
apparent, and that they will finally disappear
is also evident. Let this one extract open the
eyes of their pretended friends
Beaufort S. c., says the Lynchburg Mems, once
the fashionable watering-place OF South Carolina
has become decaycd, ragged hOuseesS, ana Il mere
Branch and Newport are to the North. 1t had It's
hundred boats and bathers, but there are d
few mean whites who ntermarry with the negroes
few low liquor shops and clothing stores, d few
eX-Olcias OF the Treasury, VINO hope TO get lit e
Sea Island cotton ana few stunted palmettOs. The
correspondent OF the Boston Trdrecr, who tells us
of the decay, adds the following OF the negro race =
"Away ON the sdndhills, in the bOmD-prOOis of
forts, under Old forts and decaying tents, this
family of COlOrCd men, during the war industrious
and happy, are now passing their lives in the wilder
of the desert islands, along their Shores or III
the woods of the inner islands. SuCn lives VIII soon
he past. For they tell that the surf, which can be
heard so distinctly is the only voice that sings the
dirges Of hundreds that almost daily are laid in the
cold square tcncmentS dug in the sea beach. Going
down to death, a who race, ut the rate Of u thou
sand a day, ana leaving nonr bchind to bear theil
names This, then, is frs edOm Suffering for food
for clothing Tor everything, having no money, NJ
trade, employment nothing to hope or to live for
Free to search Tor labor they cannot find free to die
unnOtiCed and unknelled one after another, unit
the fatal hftieth year comes ~Ound When at tn
present rate Of disease. the whole race will hav
gone into the gloomy hereafter"