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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting facts. (search)
nity makes frightful progress in the negro population of North America, in proportion as it is removed from the zone where the white race are unable to cultivate the soil. Thus, the proportion of insane negroes which, in Louisiana is 1 in 4,310, amounts in South Carolina to 1 in 2,477; in Virginia, to 1 in 1,299; in Massachusetts, to 1 in 43; in Maine, to 1 in 14. The height above the ocean which gives protection to the life of a European in hot climates, becomes fatal to the negro. M. Boudin refers to the fact that, in the earliest times, despotism made use of exile into countries alien to their nature for the destruction of different people. With this view, after the destruction of Jerusalem, a great number of Jews was sent to Sardinia, on the occasion of whose exile the heathen Tacitus makes a reflection which the Northern Christians have indulged towards their own friends, whom they have sent to invade the South: "Even if they should fall victims to a murderous climate, th