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- the very purpose, as some suppose, for which his sojourn here was permitted by Providence, and is thereby the better fitted for the toils of the white man; which will now be the lighter in that he enters on a new & progressive husbandry, with better lights & improved implements; the rather also that his heaviest laborers will now be required during the months of winter & spring & the calls for effort amid the heats of summer will be less protracted & incessant.  As a consequence of these changes, he may not be able to grow as much tobacco as formerly; but he can raise something better in its stead, & the tobacco which he does grow may yield him as much clean profit as the larger quantity produced by the labour of the slave.  He may not hope to produce as much cotton, enough, however, for the consumption of our own country, & something to meet the foreign demand.
   Such being the case, we may anticipate a large influx of immigrant labour into the South, both from the Northern states & several countries of Europe.  This in turn must lead to a competition for employment between the two classes; & in such a conflict, the colored man must either go to the wall at once; or if, by underbidding, he maintains the struggle for a time, he is thereby the farther & more certainly depressed in the scale of being.  With his standard of comfort lowered, & no sufficient moral check to prevent the multiplication of his species, what is like to be the status of the new generation?
   This simple statement of the case is sufficient to show how terrible the exigency which must then be met.  I know of but one mode in which this can be done.  The two races cannot continue to occupy the same territory in their present relation to each other.  No true Southern man will for a moment debate the question of amalgamation.  One of the races must be removed; and when we consider that the number of the blacks to that of the whites in the states now reunited, is but little more than one to ten, & that this ratio is like farther to decrease, we need not say which must give way to the other.
   At first view this may be thought impossible.  But to show that greater things have been done & under circumstances less favorable, I beg leave to refer you to a brief extract (sent herewith) from the printed paper to which reference has been made more than once.  It is believed moreover, that this can be done without too great a strain on the resources of the country; by a measure, grand & comprehensive in its scope, but simple & intelligible in its principle; & which, if systematically, prudently, & persistently carried out, must

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