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.

It will be then observed that in such a state of things the interests of the planter, in default of any other motive, promotes the advancement and well-being of the slave.

Certainly, we believe it possible still to ameliorate their condition.

It is with that view, even, that the South has labored for so long a time to prepare them for a higher civilization.
'In no part, perhaps, of the continent, regard being had to the population, do there exist men more eminent and gifted, with nobler or more generous sentiments, than in the Southern States.