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valuable element of the social organization.

The intimate association with the superior race,

to which it io admitted throogh family servitude,

not only improves its moral tone, bat iner^iscs

its social capacity through enforoed education.

So true is this, that the negro communities of

Liberia and Hayti, in seeking emigrants in this

country, give a marked preference to slaves that

have been manumitted after reaching the age of

maturity. And it is not alone the free negro

communities that confess the advantages that

accrue to the negro In servitude. Both here,

and in tho Spanish-American countries where

slavery exists, the negro Blavcs claim a superiority

over the free blacks, and constantly

cxJULut in their social intercourse a contempt for i

them. Under the operation of these influences t

the statesman and the social economist can con-

template without alarm the progressive

doublings of the four millions of negro slaves

now existing in our Southern States; while those

of a few hundred thousands of free blacks in i

tho Northern States awaken a feeling of alarm.

The logical induction from these facts is, that

the Northern States will return to the enact,

mcnt of the laws establishing negro slavery, and j

sell all the free negroes into family servitude.

riumanity will demand this, to preserve them i

from l*lng educed to a state of degradation i

terrible to contemplate, by the increasing com-

petition of the wbi'e race. Policy will require

it to save the community from the burden of 1

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The New York herald. (1859). New York [N.Y.], 1859-07-21. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1859-07-21/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The New York herald, 1859-07-21.