Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-08-29
FAYETTE, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3d.
FsY CYRIL e. CADY,

This is question of vital importance to every
white man in the United States-and it will not do
for the President TO look with indifference, not to
say with appreciation, upon it.
| have watched this question through all its mu-
tations The opposition will, no doubt, avail them
selves of this false step of the President TO promote
their own political views
on the part of the President, Of that watchtul and
ardent socitude which the very nature OF the sub
iect is calculated to inspire, and which 1t was his
province to guard and defend 1t is now said by
members of Congress that they will still pass Ia"
to prohibit in future the introduction OF negro tes
timony against white man. 1t is too late the
poison has been infused all the laws on earth can
not heal the deadly influence.
Tell me not Of your fanatics and abolltlohists
when the highest officer known to your laws ana
your Constitution admits the fact that negro IS
competent witness against q white man. IS TINS
your Northern man with Southern feelings ANA
is this is the man we to rely upon when the day
of peril and Of danger may come
But it Is conended that Lieut.. HooE was convict
ed without the negro testimony. Then why ntro-
duce it? Was it TO ieer and tannt the feelings OF
the South We are not now trying Lieut.. Ho'E'
but testing an all-mportant princple-one lhlI-
maley connected with our political and social reIa-
tons.
The principle Of the admission of negro testimony
prove And if it be fact, as stated, that the re-
spondent was convicted without the negro evidence,
then it is gratutous assault upon the policy and
institutions of the South.
This case presents to the mind the most singular
and extraordinary anomaly in reference to that por-
ton Of the Union supposed to have Northern feel
nrs and Northern preiudCes on the subject OF sIR-
yery. In Pennsylvania with her Quaker population
always opposed to slavery in the abstract, She has
declared that a negro, within the purview OF the
Constitutions isnot entitled all the privileges and
mrnunities of free white man. In Connecticut,
Chief Justice DAGGET, in the Tappan negro school
ase, decided that negro was not a free man or
citizen within the. meaning Of the Constitution OF
the United States.
By the laws of South Carolina, and, perhaps, of
all the Southern States, the admission OF negro tes'
timuny is prohibited in the trial Of white man.
Yet in the face of these facts, and within South
ern Territory, negroes are permitted to give tesi.
mony, and the proceedings Of the court approved
by the President of the United States!
The charge of oboitionist comes lily from that
quarter nor, since the President has officially de-
clured that he nothing wrong in the proceed
inrs of a court which two negroes had gwen EVIL
dence against white man.
| If we are to have q President holding Opinions
adverse to the interests Of the South, give us one
born south of the Potomac riyer--One whose early
associations habits and education would make him
act with caution, if not with propriety, however
much he might in the abstract be opposed to slavery
| Z. S. DAVIS.
| Washington, July, 1910.