Year: 1862

rom the New york independent, Oct. 9. e.
There is systematic attempt making,
for political reasons, to produce the i'm
preston upon the laboring classes in the
North, and particularly upon the Irish,
that if, slaves are emancipated they will
come into competition with them, and,
by Cutting the labor market, will reduce
the price of labor, and interfere with
their wages. To unthinking men, there
is so much probability in such state
ments as to demand examination and
refutation. For if unprincipled- men
shall succeed in iinflaming the passions
of the laboring> men in the North, and,
to the hatred of race, shall add the blind
fury Of selfshness, good cause will be
impeded, and the administration will be
embarrassed in carrying out its benef-
cent plans ..-..,f s.


Emancipation WiU bring no colored
ld6orers to the North, but uiH drain a
great many out Of it. aN .T + -


There are physical and social reasons
for this


The colored man is the creature of the
tropics, and all his aptitudes fit him for
a warm climate. Even the temperate
zones are not temperate to his heatlov-
ing constitution. His skin is thirsty for
the sun. He basks luxuriously in a heat
that would scoreh and consume a white
man. In short, he is fitted by his nature
for tropical latitudes, and is as much
out OF place in our cold temperate zones
as are oranges, plantains, or palm trees.
- Nor does he willingly wander away from
warm attitudes. 1t is only as the less OF
evils that he is persuaded to such exile.
There can be no more extraordinary tes-
timony to the black mans love of liberty
than that he submits to live in Canada.
A white bear in the Gulf of Mexico, and
a black man in the arctic regions, are
about equally misplaced


Experience, likewise, shows that his
reluctance to live in cold climates has a
| physiological basis. For the colored race
do not thrive in cold climates They do
not multiply; they are not SO robust;
they fall into consumption easily, and
waste away This is clearly shown in
the statistics of New England and New
York. 1t is very plain, then, that black
men would never emigrate from the
South to the North, except under some
extraordinary pressure. 1t is the dread
and hatred Of Slavery that drives them,
against their tastes, into an uncongenial
climate. If slavery continues, there will
be great influx of freed slaves into the
Northern States. This is inevitable.
But, if they are allowed their liberty in
the South, no inducements will incline
the slaves to exchange the glowing airs
of the South for the insipid and austere
climate of the North Their local at
tachments are known to be strong. They
hnger around the places where they were
born and bred. They have a great deal
of Southern feeling. They may be thank
full for Northern kindness, but they are
identified in their ideas, their pride, their
whole method of living, with the South,
and will never become Nortkerners.


If only slavery we're removed, the
black man would prefer to live among
Southern men. Southern men undo >
stand his nature and necessities better
than Northern men. A Northern man
is nethodical, industrious, enterprising
He exacts from himself punctuality, dili-
gence and frugalty; and in even severer
measure he exaets them from those who
labor for him. He has learned to value
time. In the North, " time is money"
In the South, time has very little value.
Less labor sufices upon the luxuriant
soils of the tropics, for the production of
( the. necessaries of life. The heat of the
climate makes labor more intolerable.