" Shall we look for that condition in the lucubrations of that
romance, raised to the importance of a philosophic dissertation, but
leading public opinion astray, provoking revolution, and
necessitating incendiarism and revolution? A romance is a work of
fancy, which one cannot refute, and which cannot serve as a basis to
any argument. In our discussion, we must seek elsewhere for
authorities and material. Facts are eloquent, and statistics teach
us that, under the superintendence of those masters,--so cruel and
so terrible, if we are to believe "Uncle Tom,"--the black population
of the South increases regularly in a greater proportion than the
white; while in the Antilles, in Africa, and especially in the so
very philanthropic States of the North, the black race decreases in
a deplorable proportion.
'The condition of those blacks is assuredly better than that of the
agricultural laborers in many parts of Europe. Their morality is far
superior to that of the free negroes of the North; the planters
encourage marriage, and thus endeavor to develop among them a sense
of the family relation, with a view of attaching them to the
domestic hearth, consequently to the family of the master.
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