Year: 1866

the negroes among us, either as freedmen or slaves. If, as we believe the negro race will perish under the system of free dom, so. o.called, it is better that a few should perish than, that twice or three times the number should be on hand, merely to die out, as the Indians and all inferior races have done when brought in contact with the white race, which is al- ways the superior and governing race. The social evils growing out of the emanci patton of the blacks would have been incre- ased immeasurably if the number of blacks had been twice or three times as great as 1t nowsis If as the Abolitonists contend, the negroes will be more industrious, more prosperous, more valuable members of so ciety, more quiet and orderly, and will increase more rapidly in freedom than in slavery, then, of course, the sooner 1t was abolished the better But those ofus who know the negro character better than those Abolitionists, do not believe any such thing.

 But if our view be correct, if the negro will degenerate and perish, as race, under the operations of the Abolition policy, if there is constant danger of conflicts be- tween them and the white race, especially if an attempt is made to place them, by law, on an equality, then it follows that, the smaller the number of negroes in the country when abolition took place, the better for all sections and all races. The idea of gradual emancipation was myth. Neither the North nor the South would have agreed to it. The Southern people were determined never to give up the in stituton of slavery without a severe and terrible struggle The North was equally determined that they should give it up, and collision of arms must, sooner or later, have been the inevitable result.

 The longer it was put off the weaker the South would have been relatively, and the more certain and speedy her defeat and the more terrible the consequences of defeat. It was therefore we'll that if the issue had to be made, and slavery had to be abolished that the sooner the better. What will Dc the result of abolition even now is proble matical, The future is dark and uncer- tan There are great trials tor the coun- try even now, growing out ofthc abolition of slavery, all of which would have been immeasurably increased by delay. We of the South hope that the evils which we anticipate may be warded off, that the ne gro may do well as a freeman, that he may be an industrious laborer and valuable member of the body polite. We are dis posed to give him all justand proper rights, to aid and assists him in his new, untried, and we think perilous condition We are, in word his true friends. But we have no faith in the abolition experiment. If the leaders of the secession party precipi tated the issue, 1t was well for the country that 1t was made now, as 1t had to come Delays were dangerous and putting off the evil day would only have made it more terrible when 1t did come. We are aware that 1t is difficult for a man who has lost his propertyin slaves to reconcile himself to the joss, but we should look at this ques- tion in broader and higher view than our own immediate selfish interests. The vel fare of our children and the general good of our section in the future, and that of humanity to the negro. should be looked to in determining what was the wiser policy to be pursued. The original secessionssts arc the true men ofthe South and if their councils had been needed twenty years ago, slavery would have been forever perpetual. ed--without war and without any attempt to dissolve the Union. If the issue had been made twenty years ago when the South was united and the North divided, triumph would have been certain The struggle came too late; but the faultis not with the original secessionists. Slavery is abolished and the result is attributable to the weak and timid who opposed resistance at time when triumph was unquestiona- ble -[ Memphis Avalanche,