The New York herald., 1872-12-22
Natural Tendency Of the Black to Imi-
tate the White Negro.
COLORED SCHOOLS AND NEWSPAPERS.
Controlling Darkes Of the Seces-
sion States.
EX-sLAVES AS PLANTERS.
9ffice-Seeking, Land-Grabbins and Whiskey-
Drinking the Dane Of the Emancipated.
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 10. 1872.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 16, 1872
The negro must be considered more seriously
than ever before under his new condition. He is a
great part OF the government he is two-thirds OF
the industry OF the South; he is here and he has
come to stay. Upon his labor depend the three
great staples OF cotton sugar and rice which should
be worth under wholesome production $500 900 900
q year to the people OF the country. Upon his
morals and industry depends the future social and
religious condition of the South, and upon his
knowledge OF principles and business rests the
Holvency Of the Southern States Their debts will
never be paid without an educated negro society.
TO repudiate them is TO injure the white man
mainly, Tor the negro derives little relative value
from the public credit His politics have heretofore
been wholly animated by q sense OF danger to his
aife, wages and family security, and therefore no
fair estimate can be put upon his organic vl9or
and public Intentions until politicians, swindling
employers and desperadoes cease to af1ict him. AS
hong as he is ''the nigger' he will vote solidly
against his neighbors; when he becomes the ac-
cepted citizen his status may be better defined. AS
the time Is approaching when he will be great
newspaper patron and reader, let us form some
conception OF him in this ninth year OF emancipa-
tion and seventh Of peace.
HIS NUMBERS
The negro population OF the country is 4, ,S35 106
having ga ned above 400 900 during the war period
Does this prove that the negro in America is
vanishing race For convenient purposes you may
remember that the negroes OF the United States
now equal oil the people in Connecticut added to
all in New York. The Indians including $4,000 in
ALASKA, are less than One-thirteenth the
number OF tho Africans. Some OF these
AFRICANS have been localized in coun-
try as family stock fer 26O years. and
others were brought in by slavcrs late as 1860.
saw negroes in three States who were claimed to
have been brought in u, to the brink OF the rebel
lion, and there is no doubt that public opinion In
the Gulf States and even the State and District
Courts there abetted the direct slave trade up to
the laying OF Mr. Stephens corner stone of the
exclusive empire OF human slavery While the
South was clsmoring at the North for evadng the
Fugitive Slave law 1t was itself breaking the
constitution by encouraging the direct importation
OF slaves.
THE NEGRO AS TYRANT.
fhe enfranchising OF the cOlored population and the
bestowal OF the ballot upon 1t almost changed
Lhe relations Of South Carolina, West OF Mississippi
west OF Louisiana and West OF Florida These
the great natural negro States OF the country.
During the war mortality among the blacks re-
tarded their increase, which should have been one
khe war involved the direct obliteration OF 1000
white men and shortened the immigration rolls
b53,OO0. 1t is claimed that the extinction Of the
c0lored race is still proceeding In an increased
ratio. arising from sloth, improvdence, exposure,
prostitution and the repugnance OF the women to
assume maternity or to provide for their onspring.
But these views struck as being dictated by the
wish. More human beings died In the slave period
from overwork breeding slave children upon CON-
pusi0n, and from hunger and exposure IN sick
ness than in this period The same causes DIst
to wh IN
FOUND at last .the sweet sense Of providing" and
Who are as averse to chid-bearing and in some
pther respects not greatly differing from what Is
charged against the negro classes During the
past ten years Missouri and Texas have grown
more relatively than any other Southern
States. Florida had also gained thirty -nvc
Der cent but South Carolina had not
gained one-thlrd OF one per cent. The negro popu-
lation in majority Of the southern States actually
outgrew the white increase between 1860 and 1870.
30 that II anybody wants to prove it true by watch
Ing the thing out, that crow can live 100 years,
khere Is good substitute for the crow in Sambo
TIE pUsKY EMPIRE.
In South Carolina there are now, according to
the Official enumeration, 45, ,s14 negroes to ESQ 667
whites; in Mississippi 444, ,2o1 blacks to 3s2, 500
whites; in Louisiana, 364,21o blacks to 362, ,o6S
whites, and in Florida, 96os7 whites TO 1859
negroes No other States are threatened with .
Carolina which was most energetic to multiply
slaves, has pulled the dusky temple down upon her
head and lies there perfectly helpless in the ruins
pf her iavorite institution 1t is claimed that
negro votes have nearly arrogant power to seat
IN the United States Congress six senators and
twenty-five Representatives.
NEGRO SCHOOLS.
The condition OF education among the negroes
Is very promising particularly Ia Alabama and
Mississippi. The nrst negro United states Senator
10 pri nff IYt0n rtt.
jackson, Miss, and he is also a small cotton
planter. This Institution is well endowed, and all
the professors are colored men. most remark.
able institution for negro culture exists at the
town OF Talladega, Ala. IL was established under
and has lss pupils some OF whom are quite pro-
1cent in Greek and Latin. Another extraordinary
school Is sat at Marion, Perry county, Ala, called the
Carr, colored graduate OF Oswego College
There are three teachers, and Greek and Latin
are taught; At Marion there Is also the Lincoln
Bchoo The swaync University al Montgomery,
nDder the auspices or the American Missionary
Board has 400 pupils and six teachers, all negroes.
There Is fine school at Selma, Ala, and at Mobile
Hhe negroes are getting along very heartily. At
were being examined Mr.. Moore. of Corpus
Christi Texas, planter who had formerly owned
. great many slaves, came back to town and went
1nto the college. He had not many OF hts old
slaves for years and the negro woman who
nursed him when,he was q child--athough be him.
peared, called him her child and wept over him as
IN former times, while the pckannnies who used
10 be on his plantation were firing away In the
double rule OF three and equations.
NEGRO PLANTERS.
inquired whether any OF the negroes In the
South had turned out large planters. The ques-
ton would scarcely admit OF an Affirmative reply
under the emancipated negroes 1rst forlorn con-
dti0n, but 1t Has reported that Ben Montgomery
Negro man, now made cotton on the plantations
OF both JeH Davis and Joe Davis his brother. near
Warrenton, Miss, and had been successful. Iasked
whether Ben voted with the conservative party on
account OF bis riches. The answer was that large
republican meeting had been held on his place
during the last campaign. There are about four
hundred negroes In the South who have made from
nifty bales to three hundred bales Of cotton during
the past season. In Alabama Charles Teel. Ste
phsl Foster one Patteye9u u Autaga. and others