The Lancaster Ledger

Slavery as it is.

The New York Herald holds the following sensible and correct views on the slavery question :

"All this mock philanthropy about human freedom, liberty, and the horrors of Southern Slavery, is mere stuff and nonsense. The real question is union or disunion. The African race, whether as slaves in the South or "free colored Americans" in the North, occupy the position, socially and politically, of an inferior race, and properly so, and simply because the Creator has made them an inferior race. In the same community with the white man, the black, enslaved or emancipated, must forever occupy a degraded position. In a community purely African, even the civilized black relapses again to African indolence and barbarism. See Hayti; see Jamaica. Stop the supplies of christianized recruits from our Southern States to Liberia, and that republic, in the space of two or three generations, would probably degenerate into a petty kingdom of cannibals, with a savage beast as their ruler, horrible and bloody as the King of Dahomey. The three millions of the African race, the most enlightened and the happiest in the world, are the three million slaves of our Southern States."