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The Two Races

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
March
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Clay "the enïbodiment of Whig principies," opposes abolition becausc tlie white and black races could not live on terms of equality with each other. One race must subject or enskive the. othfir.- What says experience to this assertion? Slavery has been abolished throughout America, except in Brazil and the United States. In Mexico, Central and South America, distinctions of color are unknovvn to the lavv. All colors are eligible to the high est offices, and amidst all the convulsions tliat have taken place in these countries, since slavery was aboiished, none have been -for the mastery of one race over those of a diíferent color. Read the fullowing from the pamphlet of Senator Walker, of Mississippi:"Beyond the Del Norte, slavery will not pass; not pnly because it is forbidden by luw, but because the colored races ihere preponderare in the ratio of ten to one over the whites; and holding as they do, the (overnment, -and rnost oí" the offices in their own possesston. they will never permit the enslavementof any portion of the colored race which makes and e.ecutes the laws of the country. In Bradford's Atlas, the facts are given as folio ws: Mexico - area, 1,090,000 square miles; popu'ntion 8.000,000 - one-sixth white, and ail jhe rest Indians, Africans, mulattoes, zambos, and other colored races. Central America - area, 186,000 square miles; population nearly 2,000.000 - one sixth while, and the rest negroes, zambos, and othcr colored races. South America - area, 6,500,000 square miles; population 14,000.000-1.000,000 white, 4,000,000 Indians; and the remainder, being 9,000,000, blacks and other colored races."ÍCP A wrker in the Michigan Expositor has a. well written anieles on Retrenchment. In opposing extravagant salaries, he goesto the other extreme, ana would cut down the President's salary to one. two.or three thousand dollars a ycar. But he lays down one principie wlñch is worthy of the atlention of the producing classes - that evcry dollar jmid to qfficeholders proportionately reduces the income of the laborer. But here is the statement in his own language:1 C;Whoever contends for the arrest óf this extrávagance, and for cutting down the Executive expenses to 1, 2 ot $'3000 per annum, contends as a necessary consequence, for distributing the remaining 37, 38 or S39,0ÜO, among the laborers of the Union, or what is better, for ceasing to draw that müch froaa the earnings of the people, whrch would leave it already distributed. This would be the effect of every similar retrenchment. The more yougive the President, the less you can give the laborer. Therc is hut a giveir amount earncd, and the more the President has ofit, the less is left for you. - He who advocates high salaries, must as as an inevitable consequence advocate low wages."(TAt the Monthly Concert on Mondayeveníng,Mr.LiGHTFOOT,acolored gen tleman of Detroit, made some interesting statements respecting the condition of the colored population of Canada. He had travelled the provinces extensively, and had carefully noticed their circumstances; and he could truly say, that on the wliole, their condition was quite as favorable as that of the poor white people. Many of ■the refugees had become land-holders,and the schools were in a favorable condition. But the destitution of many of them on their first arrival was distressing. In many cases women andchildren escaped from the South, un-accompanied by men, and havingnoneto provide for them!they often suiTered much, until they .could obtain employment. L The Wliig papers clairn etipport nnd fa-or frotn Aboliüonisls on occount of tlieir dpfcnce of the right of petition. Admitting, lor argumenta sake, that they have defended t, wliat.wasthe reason? Let the New York Tribune ansver: {Lf" "The whigs of the North, Ttaving thorf. íod retid as a party from the incrcase il ühoüUin, than nny other parly, because it (Jrawe its recniits mostly from their ,rnnks, convertinef each into a bitier ïdvprsarv. have tenjfflstly conter.dnd from the fust. 'TH AT THEONLY WAY TO OPPOSE ABOLITION WITH SUCCESS, is hy meeting il fmnkly and candidly, receiving the petitions of its advocates," &.c. Here 3 a reason which commeads itseif to the notice of Liberty men.

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