Year: 1862

gaey and unchecked cruelty viii dwarf theiI


intellects, gangrene their morals and imbecil5
/ their entire being, while numerically aud in
comparison, they are growing constantly less.
On the other hand, like the Israeiites in their
! bondage, the blacks win multiply iB numbers.
While from their habits of forced activity and


their unceasing study to escape abuse, they are
becoming more and more capable. Thus things
| have only to go ON for a period longer as they
have done in times past, to have the time come


in which the oppressed will arise and assert


their freedom with might that is not to be


resisted. This thought is no itale and careless


dream. It is history yet TO be aoted-and writ


ten. The horrors Of st. Domingo, Nat Tur-


ner's contest, the long struggle Of ths Florids


war are only the first shades ofthe darAar night.


This is only what the history of the past


and present observation force US TO expeot.-


To contribute to this end it is by no means


impossible that the poorer and non-slavehold-


ing whites may aOt a full part, At last made


sensible of their own oppression caused by this


institution, they may make common cause with
the blacks and help overwheIn1 their pround


and naughty OPPressors at a single blow. But


TO say nothing of the poor whites in this con-


nectiOn, there are the mixed bloods who cannot


be overlooked. These already form a numer-


Gus, fast increasing and influential class a. the


South And can we suppose that these are


going to be forever troddcn down In the dust,


when they know themselves TO be the sens ard


brothers of their oppressors, and that they are
not only their equals in mind, Judgment, capa-


city and rights, but often their mental supe-
riors? As well suppose that you can chain the
flaming thuader-holt with your whisp Of straw


or con6ne down the upheaying surges of the
volcano with your bandage of gauze These men
must and will be free, or they will drown them
selves and their oppressors in blood. The con
nection of the North may have thus far helped
to hold in check, or defer the struggle. II may
do so for the future. But to avert it finally,
it cannot, except it be by interposing emanci
patton. Talk Of ineapacity among the negroes
There are men among them capable OF anything
that is great or noble. Tbs world has never T
seen more large, capable and generous spirit
than was that of Toussaint, the hero of Haiti. |
And while there was in him all that was gen
erous or noble, there was enough of capacity |
to defy the power of England or that of France. |
Abraham, of Floridian memory, or the slave
mulatto who planned and secured the destrue-
tion of Major pades force in the first contest, /
were anything but men to be despised. And |
even now, we have rot only at the South but |
in the free States and in Canada, cololetl men, /
slaves, that may yet show themselves
capable Of planning and executing an inSurrec-
tion which shall shiver to atoms the slave hold I
ing power, and leave another and different
empire for US to acknowledge, or conquer inch |
by the inch. Should anything like a general
commence, it could hardly saaex-
cept in the extirpation ot the one race or the
other, or both, a scene Of horror which would |
make the earth faint and the sun backen to |
witness. COMMON SENSE.