SO 
¢an be done? their number in the United 
States 3s now efltimated at 1,000,000, 
whofe increafe is {tated to be equal to 24 
percent. per annum. In the lower parts 
ef Virginia, and perhaps Maryland, they 
-are faid to out-number the Whites nearly 
thirty to one. This difproportion will 
at once exhibit the difficulty there muft 
be in producing any alteration in the ftate 
of their fociety ; belides, in many families, 
where the two colours-have been brought 
Bp together, they become ftrungly at. 
tached, and it would be an equal cruelty 
to divide them. Ihave often heard the 
African flave trade defended in England, 
where it has been faid that the flave was 
not worfe off than an Englifh pauper. I 
believe in this country the majority are 
rauch be:ter provided for: the flave feels 
that he need not think of tu-morrow, nor 
the cares and forrows of old age; his 
mafer is to provide for his wants. But 
farely thefe concefficns rather mark the 
milery of your poor. than defend fo vile 
and monftrous a lyitem? One fate in this 
union (South Carolina) alone difgraces 
berfelf by coatinuing to import flives 
from Africa; and even in that fate a law 
tq prevent this damnaole traffic pafled the 
houfe of reprefentatives laft year, and was 
Toit but by a fingle vote in the fenate. 
¥n the year 1808 the congrefs of the 
United Srates will poffefs the power of 
‘reftricting or annulling this trade; when 
it is ferioufly believed that a more Konour- 
able line of conduct will be dilplayed by 
that body than by ancther, which for 
many yesrs, however, has attended to 
very eloquent {perches on that fubject. 
The inatiention of the Waites to the cul- 
tivation of the Negro mind has neceffarily 
deadened their moral qualities. To eman- 
cipate a negro is fen to one to make a 
thief of him: unaccuitomed to look far- 
ward, to provide for the prefent hour is. 
all his care. To make one at a Saturday 
night’s ball is all he wifes; and this ball 
mult be jupplied from the neighbouring 
hen-coops or piggeries. How fhould it 
he otnerwife: the whites will not affociate 
‘with him, and he is compelled to mix 
with his own colour, who, we mult never 
forget, feel no neceffity for care. The 
queifion then will recur, how is this evil 
to be redreffed ? how are the confequences 
{and ill coniequences ever fooner cr later 
iollow injulfice} which threaten cur fafety 
10 be removed? I confefs I Ice only one 
way. Let our ftaces impofe a tax on all 
flaves; and with the money arifing there- 
from purchale and free young negro girls, 
about the age ef puberty, wao ‘would 
Paffage in Dicnyfius Halic. 
[ Feb. 1, 
willingly expatriate themfelves. This 
would preduce ancther advantage: flaves 
are the moft expenlive of fervants, and 
many farmers would have girls anxious to 
indulge the love of novelty natural to 
youth, whom they would not compel to 
leave them, but who for freedom would 
be defirous to quit their mafers, whe 
would thus receive a capital which would 
improve their land. It muft always be re- 
membered that thefe people are private p'e- 
perty, and, however un-European the idea 
may be, it is a {pecies of property which 
government has lanétioned for generations, 
and from which its proteétion cannot be 
withdrawn without terrible confequences. 
The negroes exhibit great affection for 
each other ; and when one is fick, the reft 
will crowd to his afiftance. Poffeffed of 
uncultivated minds, their’ attachments and 
averfions are very ftrong. in common 
converlation, they addrefs their elders as 
uncles and aunts; are very fond ot thewy 
drefs? and »when they meet each other, 
praclife as many grimaces as French daac- 
ing mafters. It is, ‘I hope you are very 
well, Sir; I am_very happy to fee you, 
madam, &c.”’ and their children, when 
called by their mothers, anfwer, Coming 
madam.” Thefe may appear trifles, but 
if they tend to increafe their happinefs, 
in the name cf God let them enjoy them ; 
and I tirengly fufpect they have a tendency 
to leffen the afperities of their characters, 
and increafe their difpoition to befriend 
each other. 
Pardon this. long digreffion. I will 
mention but one fa& more, which had 
nearly efcaped my memory; viz. that in 
Alexandria there are now refident feveral 
of thofe Heflians whom the Engltfh paid 
for, and fent to conquer this country. 
They ftaid here after the war, and fome 
of them are now among the wealthieft 
men in this place. In my next I halk 
proceed with the journey of your obedient 
fervant, R. DinMore. 
Alexandria, 29 OG. i805. 
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To the Editor of ike Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S your Correfpondent W.. of Liver- 
pool, p. 394, vol. 29, folicits the 
remarks of your numerous readers, I will 
endeavour to liquidate his doubts concem- 
ing the pailage in queftion, in Hudfon’s 
Diony!. Halic. 
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wearlovras, n Su OT WY AUTOS YnoWwy Web 
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avicamous emoncbar, omws aPerarTay 
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