Port Tobacco Times, And Charles County Advertiser

NEGROES.-FREE AND SLAVE.

We copy the following article from the New York Herald, as containing a true description of the condition of the slaves at the South, contrasted with that of the colored race in other locations:

The two distinct races of men, the white and the black, never yet stood side by side in a social system that can compare with the present happy relations that exist in the South. It is a spectacle which is exhibited in no other country. The one is dependent upon the other. Each belongs to, and all are parts of, a peaceful system. Both are surrounded with all the comforts, conveniences-ay, luxuries, and endearments of life. Love and kindness sweeten the tasks of servitude, and quiet obedience and devotion lighten tasks of command. Each plantation is regulated and governed after the model of a happy family. There is also the legislative, the judicial and the executive system working in primitive simplicity, and for the good of all. What is the state of the negro in other parts of the world?

Look at Africa, where he is found in his native state, wild, crude, a cannibal, stupid and but one remove from the ourang outang, and but two from the little monkeys of the forests. He is brutal, beastly, barbarous, ferocious, and possessing every vice without one virtue.

Look at him at St. Domingo-in a state of social and political freedom; sometimes as an empire, sometimes as a republic--possessing all the characteristics of the race-black, ignorant, brutal, blood-thirsty, lustful, vain, and stupid, without a redeeming feature of white humanity.

Look at him in Jamaica-socially poor, lazy, ignorant, the type of a human hog.

Look at him in the Northern States-lazy, indolent, ignorant, and, if honest, the slave of any employer who will work him and give him bread, as much and more so, than his colored brethren in the South-for there, when sick, he has a home and the comforts of life; here, when sick, he may starve or die. Those who are not honest, parade the Five Points, Elm street, and other resorts, ragged, dirty, and destitute, their food the offals of the street, and their condition only bettered when sent to the penitentiary or State prison.

Here are the several pictures. Look at these pictures. Look at them all. First : the happy condition of the negro in the Southern States. Second : the miserable condition of the negro in the rest of the world. These are facts-stern, incontrovertible, and undeniable fixed facts. This is what the negro now is.