The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-06-23

followed. In the south the pres
ence of the negro, thus out Of hi
sphere, is regarded as an obstacl
to the advance Of material wealtl
and a stumbling.block in the patl
of prosperity. 1t is not to b
wondered at, therefore, that step
are being taken .everywh b err
!. throughout the South to so organ
ize measures that the labor of th'
negro can be dispensed with en-
tirely, and society no longer b.
), kept dependent on his inconsisten
Willingness to earn his bread by
the sweat of his brow. Societies
have been already formed in every
Southern State to supplement the
negro by an immigration of Euro
peans. These societies are backed
and sustained by the most promi
nent Southern men; the induce
ments offered are of a character
which cannot fail to prove attrac
tive to the hardy sons of toll who
now spend unrequited efforts after
competence OH the banks of the
Rhine; the Shannon, the Danube
and elsewhere. These. workers
will soon be coming over here By
the thousand, and instead oi
crowding our frigid Northern sea-
bpard with an overplus of laborers
as has been the case in the
past, they will not halt in their
journey until they have reached
the land of genial warmth and i'm.
mense agricultural wealth. It will
not take many years OF such an
influx to settle the Southern States
with q vigorous, hardy and intel
ligent population, daily increasing
in wealth and power while the
negro will be gradually, but sure
ly pushed into the Gulf, as the In
dian is now being forced toward
the setting sun. The thriftless-
ness and improvidence of the ne
gro are even now telling against
him fearfuily.
His universal disinclination to
marry and take upon himself the
cares of a family is apparent in
every Southern State. Tho fear
.iaE mortality, that is deci mating
Esis -Eisasssccs has already attracted the
attention of thinking men, and IS
sominons Of its early extinction.
This loss cannot be supplied to the
negro, for hc has no stock of i'm
migrants on which to rely for re-
plenishing it. Besides, the negro
women have learned from the New
England school-marms an efcctual
way of escaping the pains Of ma
ternity, and according to most
authentic accounts they are not
slow to profit by the lesson. The
ratio of mortality among the ne
groes may be learned from an
official report of deaths in the city
of Charleston for the year 1868.
The population of that city is
about 10000, equally divided be-
tween the two races. Yet we find
that out of 1908 persons who died
last year, S2S were negroes. This
proportion (two-thirds) will hold
good for the whole Southern
country. In fact, from mortality
alone, leaving out the increase OF
the whites by birth, and immigra-
ton from the North ard from
Europe, and the failure to increase
on the part Of the negroes-an
equality of the two races will be
brought about in South Carolina
in decade of years. The vote OF
the State is now about 100000, OF
which aggregate the negro vote is
about $4,000, giving that race a
majority Of 10000. But of late
the blacks nave crowded the sea-
board, leaving the upper and mid
land Counties already in the hands
of the whites. 1t is not indeed,
improbable that, in 1870, the
whites will have a majority IN the
State Senate, which consists ofone
member from each County. The
aggregation ofthe negroes on the
seaboard will only add to their
mortality, and the strange spec
tacle may soon be presented of a
State the majority of whose popu-
lation. was not long since in the
hands of the black man being, by
the unerring effect of natural and
philosophical laws, placed entirely
within the control Of. tho whites,
while the poor negroes are daily
declining in numbers. All of this
will 10 broughtabout by the foolish
fanaticism and grasping propen.
stiles of the radical party. Well
may the poor negro exclain (and
some of the wisest Of them have
done .so,) "Save me from my
friends!"