The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE

BLACKS.

By one of the late American Mails we have
the text of President Lincoln's address to a
deputation of free negroes that waited upon him
to learn the sentiments of the Federal Govern-
ment with regard to the people of their race.
This address, which we take to be a fair exposi-
tion of the general sentiment, ought to be
sufficient to cure any persons who up to the pre-
sent time have been labouring tinier the delusion
that there exists any great amount of Northern
sympathy with the negroes. The President
plainly tells the blacks that they never can be
the equals of the white man, "never can be
made the equal" are his strong words, and that
go where they may the ban is on them. He
intimates plainly enough his sense of the ill-
treatment of the negroes, but also as plainly his
conviction that there is no remedy, and that
nothing remains for the blacks but to emigrate.
He exhorts them to forego some comforts to go
where they may raise their condition above the
degraded one it must ever be amongst the people
who profess equality and special respects for the
rights of man: "I suppose one of the principal
difficulties in the way of colonization is that the
free coloured man cannot see that his comfort

would be advanced by it. You may believe that
you can live in Washington or elsewhere in the
United States for the remainder of your life,
perhaps more comfortable than you can in any
foreign country. Hence you may come to the
oonclitaion that you have nothing to do with the
idea of going to a foreign country. This is—l
speak in no unkind senae—an extremely selfish
view of the ease, Ina you ought to do something
to help those who are not so fortunate as your-
"elves. There is an unwillingness on the part of
our people, harsh as it may be, for you free
coleured people to remain with us." They are
told to go to the Isthmus of Panama to work in
the coal-fields there. "The place lam thinking
about for a colony is Central America. It is
nearer to us than Liberia; not more than ono-
fourth as far as Liberia, and within seven days
run by steamers. Unlike Liberia, it is on a
great line of travel, it is a highway. The
country is a very excellent one for any people.
On both sides there are harbours among the first
in the world. Again there is evidence of very
rich coal mines.' How very attractive! But
if a coloured man happens to be doing well at
New York ow Boston, if he has got a little
business together and has set up a store or a
barge which pays, NI by in the world should he
go to Panama to dig coal? Logic of President
Lincoln is the logic of the Romaniats when they
tied Protestant martyrs to the stake. It is your
own fault you are burned only recant and you
shall go free." If the black will give up his
house and home and everything he has in the
world, he will be for ever freed from the insolent
Yankee; but if he will not give up these, it is
his own fault that he is treated with contempt.
The black is told indeed, that he Is the detri-
mental, the fly in the pot of ointment. "See
our present condition. The country engaged in
war. Our white men cutting one another's
throats, none knowing how far it will extend,
and then consider what we know to be the truth.
But for your race among us there could not be
a war." "But whose fault, or whose crime,
rather," the poor blacks might well ask, "is it
that we are amongst you 1" We are not here of
stir own free choice. We and our fathers were
torn from our own country, robbed of
their liberty, and sold as slaves, and in slavery
we should have been at the present moment
but that we obtained our freedom, many of us
by purchase. And now we have formed ties
and ure earning a comfortable subsistence in
this the forced land of our adoption you wish 1111
to emigrate. This professed anxiety for the
future welfare of our race did not exist when
you passed the fugitive slave laws which gave
you the power to restore runaway negroea to the
slave owner." But is it true that slavery is the
sole cause of the war Has it not in truth been
a cause for protracting the existence of the
Union? WM not the abolition cry kept Up for
many years to keep the South submissive to
taxation for the benefit of the North? Indirectly,
no doubt, slavery may be a cause of the present
state of things, because if there were no slavery
there could have been no cotton culture, and
none of the temptations of the North to rob
the South of the fruits of its unholy gains. But
on the other hand, if there had been no slavery,
the exacting disposition of the North and the
arrogant propensity of the South would have
found matter for quarrel, and in all probability
separation long ago. It is a great pity that
President Lincoln does not apply to the South
the argument he addressed to the free blacks for
separation an the question between the Federal
and Seceding States IS a precise parallel,
"You and we are a different race. We hate
between us A broader difference than exists
between almost any other two races. Whether
it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this
physical difference is a great disadvantage to us
both, as I think your race suffer very greatly,
many of them by living with us, while ours
suffers from your presence. In a word, we
suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it
affords a reason why we should be separated."
Could more appropriate language be used in
vindication of the course the Secession States
are now taking There is between the North
and South a broader difference than exists
between almost any other two races, and their
Union has been a great disadvantage to the one
and no small inconvenience to the other. They
have suffered on each side. And this being
admitted, affords a strong argument for sopa-
ration, even on the President's own show-
ing.

DORCHESTER. Prrcuan Coals Mattusi,
Saturday, September 6.—The attendance was good,
and business generally progressed sestidaetorily.
The downward movement in wheat we. sleeked,
and spring corn was very firm in price. The yield
is said to be deficient. Winter tares in good
demand from Ss. to 9s. per bushel.
MR. ENSO R'S REPOSITORY SALE, Saturday,
September 6.—The supply of beef and mutton was
good, and the quality better than we have seen of
late. As usual there was • large attendance of
buyers, including many dealers from Hampshire
and other adjoining counties. The trade was good,
especially fort sheep, s large number of which
were sold at full prim*.
. . . . . . .

We have been requested to contradict a state-
ment which appeared last week in our contemporary,
the Sherburne Journal, to the effect that Lord
Portman is about to be created Earl of Dorset. We
can assume our readears there is not the least truth ,
in the report.
M. BLONDIN'S VIRIT TO DORCHESTER.
—This
wide-world renowned artiste paid his first visit to
Dorchester on Wednesday, and his preemie ()rested
no small amount of excitement. The place selected
for the performance was a field belonging to the
Town Council, called Wollaston field, near the
Walks, and was, as regards its site, admirably united
for the purpose. The day was unfortunately
showery, which prevented many Roth being prompt.
Long before the hour appointed for the performance
—half-past eight—a large number of people had
assembled, and as the time drew on the excitement
became greater. Almost all eyes were directed to
that magic rope, stretched 40 feet high, and 70 yards
long, on which they were shortly to see such
marvellous feats performed. The band of the 3rd
D.V.R. relieved the tediousness of waiting, by per-
forming some favourite pihces ; and when, shortly
after the time sppointed, M. Blondin drove into the
field, and almost as quick as lightning, was up and
on the stand at the end of the rope, a hearty
welcome burst forth from all present. He first
commenced by dancing to the music, and making
several feints as though he were falling; then ran
along, to the farther end; he then returned and
, stood on one leg, laid on the rope as if in the act of
swimming, fastened his balancing pole to the rope,
and turned a somersault, hung to the rope by one
leg, and performed other daring feats. He next
enveloped Elmself in a white sack, covering his
face and the whole of his person, and thus accoutred,
like some aerial being, belonging neither to the
' celestial nor terrestrial world—one might almost
fancy a fairy in wierd-like attire,—he nimbly danced
along, seeming as safe or safer than many who on
terra-firma have the fell use of their eyesight. But the
most astonishing feat was yet to come. This was the
wheeling a barrow along the rope and using as a
balance a framework of fireworks. While be was
preparing iibisainember of splendid rockets were meat
up, and won afterwards; hi. Blondirf having reached
about a quarter distance from bth starting point, set
light to the fireworks, and planting himself firmly
was soon enveloped by them. No one, who has
not seen this, can have the faintest idea of the
grandeur of the scene, or of the *mailing muscular
strength this celebrated man is possess—ed of. Enthu-
siaetic cheers broke forth from the assembled
spectators, daring which the performer passed
to the end of the rope on to the stand, and with the
greatest ease let himself down by a rope to the
ground. At the close of the performance a brilliant
display of fireworks, in various revolving figures,
shot forth, which reflected the highest ctedit on the
pyrotechnic skill of Mr. Darby, of London. The
band then played the National Anthem, and the
assembled spectators, numbering about 2,000, after
giving repeated expressions of their admiration,
quietly dispersed.
A NOBLE Exemem—lt is with great pleasure
we record the following initiates of self-denial and
liberality for the relief of the distressed.• The
working men of Hinton Martel, a village near
Blandford, have subscribed .e 8 13s. in cash, and £.4
its. 6d. worth of calico and flannel for the relief of
the distressed operatives in the manufacturing
districts; which have been forwarded to the relief
committee at Manchester by the Rev. Charles
Bridges, the rector. We earnestly trust that their
example will find many imitators. The distress is
weekly increasing, and very gloomy forebodings are
prevalent that many will, during the ensuing winter,
if all do not join to ward off the evil, die through
want of the necessaries of life. Dorsetshire being
far removed from the scene of the 'idea, and
enjoying comparative prosperity, may well afford to
minister of out its abundance to the necessities of
those who are reduced, by no fault of their own, to
such misery and destitution, and we hope very
shortly an appeal will be made from every pulpit
, in the county on their behalf.
HOLXI24O THE FARMER& —Tas OLD LADY OF
WEST Mom Eitsur soars I—We have letely had
some serious complaints from our agricultural
friends who have been so foolish as to consult the
Old Lady's many-page sheet for the time of the
arrival and departure of trains on the Central
(South ' Western) line; the result of which has
been that some of the few who read this
"costly produce of skill and science" were
cruelly hoaxed, and when they got part of the way
to one of our late fairs they found that there was no
such train as stated, and during the hours they had
to wait they could but reflect upon our frequent
advice, and believe the fact "that men do apt

gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles." So
much for the Old Lady I

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TOLLERDOWN FMB, Monday, September 8.
The number of sheep penned was very small com-
pared with former years, 'the trade was so brisk
that pellets advanced the prices ftilly four shillings
per head, and with these prices there was a ready
sale—good Down lambs being worth SOB. per head,
and for choice lots more money was obtained.
Ewes and wethers also sold at similar advanced
rates, .

CouNTV Pittt Sleet°ea, Saturday.—Before H.
Williams, M. Williams, And G. TI Sulk, Esqrs.
And Major Steward.
STRA.TlON.—Frederiak Hatton Wall summoned for
riding without reins on Thursday, the 28th
August. —Superintendent Underwood deposed that
about 3 o'clock on the day in question he saw the
defendant riding on the top of the forepart of a
wagon, drawn by three horses, on the turnpike
road at Prattipton, fast Asleep. The defendant said
he lived At Stratton, and was going to Maiden
Newton. He hot not been in bed for two nights
before, on account of being so bnsy on the few pre-
ceding days.—Fined ss.

Soiroti.—John Davis and William Galpin were
charged by Mr. Charles Shorto with stealing 9 lb..
of flour. —Thomas Guppy said he was a grinder in
the employ of Mr. Short°. On the 30th August he
weighed a part of two bags of flour at his master's
request, just before he went to tea. One bag
weighed 177 lbs. and the other 157 lbs. When he
returned from tea be found entered on the day-
book a peck and a-half of flour-21 lbs.—to John
Davis. Ha re-weighed the two bags of flour and
fourul that 30 lba had boa taken from the 157 lb.
hag. The policeman brought back Davis's bag and
found it to weigh 30 lbs.—Sergeant Vickery said
that from information he had received 'from Mr.
Short° of having lost small quantities of flour from
time to time, he went over to the mill on the night
of the 30th ult. Davis came home with his team
about 6 o'clock, and shortly after the grinder went
to tea. Davis then went into the mill with a sack
in his hand, and then went to his house, situated at
the back of the mill. He then went to the mill
again with two white bags on his coming out
again he had same floiir in his bags. Witness asked
him how much flour he had in his bags, and Davis
replied that there wads peck add a-halL Witness
asked him if he bad not morel and he said he had
• peck in the large, and half-a-peck in the small bag.
He took Davis back into the mill, when the flour
was weighed, and there were 22 lba in the large
bag, and %lbs. in the small one. Witness then
charged him with stealing 9 lbs. of flour. He said
he was very sorry, he had a very good master, and
if he were forgiven he would not do so again.
Witness then went in search of the other prisoner,
and found him at liavit's house, He asked him if
he served Davie with the flour, and Gilpin said he
did. -- He asked him how much he had I
and Galpin replied, " A peck and a-half."
Witness said • But he has two bags," and
Galpin replied " Yes; he has a peck in
the great bag, and half-a-peck in the little one."
Witness then told him he should take him into
custody for stealing the 9 lb.. of flour. He said
the half-peck was for Davis's mother-in-law, who
came to the miller to pay for it. —Mr. Charlee
Short° said that having missed flour on several
occasions he last Saturday gave Guppy instructions
to weigh some flour before he went to tea, and also
when he came back. On his return from market he
found the two prisoners in custody. He told them
he was sorry to see them in that position, and they
begged pardon. He told them be would not press
the charge against them.—Mr. Weirton, who ap-
peared for Galpin, put softie questions to the wit-
nesses. From Mr. Short.° he elicited that Galpin
had, so far as he knew, conducted himself well
during the three years he bad worked for him.
The value of the flour was ls. 6cl.—Mr. Weston then
addressed the Bench for the defence, and endea-
voured to show that the affair was nothing more
than the result of carelesenesa—The Bench decided
upon sending the case for trial.—Mr. Weston said
under these circumstances he must advise his client
to plead guilty. —Davis also pleaded guilty. They
were each sentenced to three mouths hard labour.

—George Gibbs, a grocer, was
charged with having in his pcienseaion an illegal
beam and scales.—Superintendent Underwood said
he went to defendant's shop on the 28th August,
and found a flour scoop 11 drachms against the pur•
cheater. Tlie scales had never been brought to him
for adjustment. The defendant disputed the
weight, asserting that there were but 7 drachms
against the purchaser. —Superintendent Underwood
then called a witness to prove the oorrectness of his
statement.—Fined 101., and 11s. costa.

BROADMATEE.—Wm. Strange was summoned for
drunkenness. P. C. Idaidment said on the 27th
August he was on duty in Broadmayne, and found
the defendant lying across the read about 1 o'clock
In the morning. He had no shoes or stockings, nor
bat on.—Fined 55., and Bs. carts.
17rwirr.—Thomas Menden was brought up in
the custody of P. C. Dram, charged with sleeping
an the open air, and having no settled home.—
Defendant said that Bincembe was his pariah, but
they would not let him have any lodgings unless
he went to the union, and he did not want to go
there. He had work, he said, and did not spend
his money—he put it by. He could get lodgings at
Badipole, but that was too far oft—The magistrates
dismimed the case, cautioning the defendant not to
offend again.
GREAT TOLLER.—Llewsllytt Legg WM charged
by P. C. William Tomkins with stealing 11 apples
from an orchard at Bingcombe, the property of Mr.
Pope, of Great Toiler. The constable caught the
defendant in the act, and took the apples from him.
The defendant did not appear.—Mr. Pope said he
did not wish to press the case heavily against the
defendant, but he believed he was an old offender.
—The Bench ordered defendant's committal for 14
days.
Cotimirran To THE Donation's Geol.—Se/mime:
Joseph Perriott, obtaining money by false pretenoes
at Bradford NYE rell.—Assizee: Charles Fooks,
wilful murder at Walditch.—llard Labour: John
Saunders, easault at Poole, two calendar mouths;
Thomas Hall, torturing a horse at Shaftesbury, one
calendar month; Lewellyn Legg, robbing an orchard
at Toiler, fourteen days; Julia Winsor, stealing
wood at Blandford, one calendar month;
William Newell, stealing pickaxe at Mason,
one calendar month; John Davis and Wil-
liam Gslpin, stealing flour at Preston and Sutton
Points, three calendar mouths; Frederick Wright,
stealing money from the person at Portland, three
calendar months; Israel Party, stealing bran, ecc.,
at Portland, two calendar months.—Thspriaotintent :
Thomas Wallis, smuggling spirits at Portland, six
calendar months.