Year: 1860

on this slave system, but rather In spite OF
It. The slow incre ase, and in many in
stances the decrease, of the whites in the
same slave regions, as shown by the Gen.
sus, is not chargable to either the climate
nor yet their state of freedom, but find
their source in the loose, idle, dissolute and
brutal habits of the privileged class, and
the low, irregular and uncertain life led by
the poor oppressed white class.


On the other hand, as the Herald"
ought to know, the blacks in the Northern
States, so far from decreasing, have in
creased in proportion to the whites, when
there is taken into consideration the orig
inal stock of each, and this statement is
borne out by actual statistics The task
is difficult and this fact is always used
either to our disadvantage or CLOSED over
by journals like the "Herald"-to ascer-
tain the actual natural increase of the
whites proper, and their true amount of
generative force, in the North; and that
is SO is owing to the great influx of foreign
ers, and the continual flow of new blood
through the veins of the old stock. Sub
tract all this out, and what becomes of
your white man2 Where would he be
to-day2 Ask South Carolina; ask some
others of her sister States now venerable
in years. Shut out the human food from
Europe, and what, in century, or even
half century hence, shall we behold on
| this American continsntf We answer: a
poor, feeble, diminutive, feverish, excita-
bic, half imbecile, and halfbarbarous white
man, with only traces enough left to show
that he once might have belonged to the
Anglo Saxon type.


Facts and experience have already pre-
sented themselves to show that, notwith-
standing the vast amount of American
boasting, this country and climate are not
the most favorable to the white race. In
sections where new blood and new forces
have not been permitted to come, we be-
hold in the white man the high cheek bone,
the sunken eye, the weird face, and the
angular frame of the Indian; while, on the
other hand, the bills of mortality among
those Celtic foreigners who have landed
upon our shores are unprecedented in the
annals of mortality-two simple facts suf
fcient to show, if no others could be pro-
duced, how inimical is the American con-
tinent, as whole, to the increase and per
petuity of the pure white race. Rather it
is, as whole, better adapted to the blacks,
who approach nearer to the original race
found here, with the additional advantage
that the present black population are pos
sessed of greater powers Of physical en-
durance, greater generative force, and are
susceptible of higher mental culture.


The first of these conclusions is fully
borne out by the whole scope and tenor
of the "Herald's" article in question. 1t
admits the idleness and inability of the
the white race to work on the greater and
by far the most valuable portion of the
American continent, and like the pirate
insists that this physically helpless class
shall live by the fruits of others labors.
"Take away from us the African and the
Africans labor" says this journal, "and
you bring upon us bloodshed, anarchy, civ
il war, and irreparable ruin" What ter
rible state of things this for Anglo-Ameri-
ca to be reduced to because of the exodus
of the blacks u! What if we take away the
white race? To the actual workers of the
soil should belong the soil.


But the "Herald" insists that the blacks
of the North, since emancipation, have d.
minished. 1t says: "They have disap-
peared; they are no longer to be found be-
hind our chairs at dinner, nor is their SON.
orous song longer heard on our wharves,
cheering each other on in their labors.'
After this sympathetic and touching la
ment, it calls upou the undertaken and the
graveyard to answer the question, "Where
are they2"


Now, we can safely assure this chief of
the satanic press that neither the underta-
ker nor the graveyard, nor yet fell dis

ease, can echo, "Where p These cannot
give that answer. No, no. The answer
as to where these blacks are will be found
in distant lands and distant sections of our
own country, and in different and often
better employment right here around us
than those mentioned by the journal in
question: only employments in which
it can see black men, The undertaken
and the graveyard can answer truly for
those that Northern slavery SO deeply
stepped in the vice, the intoxication, and
the debauchery of the system that their