The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-08-03

break up asylums for the
poor fugitive slaves, and
to increase slave States,
and thus add to the bur-
dens and horrors ofslave-
ry, 9o,ooo,oo
purchase as much more. ao,ooo,oo'
The removal of Indians,
that shareholders might
get their rich lands, and
recover fugitive slaves,in
VIC, alton of the most SOL
emn treaties with them on
the part of the govern
ment, by a slaveholding
administration. United 47,OOO,OO(
States Bank capital SINK
ossnsd ed in The North, 100000
Agrees loos to the North
in these items alone 1oa,ooo,ooc
Look al another fact. The
post office department re-
ceived from the free States
last year, 100000 dollars
more than it cost to carry
the mail; while it cost to
carry the mail in the
South, over and above
their receipts ,571 ,0oc dol
lars. Thus it cost the
North to pay the South
ern nostase. $4,000
AS specimen the expenses and re-
ceipts of the North and South, let us
compare Massachusetts and Virginia, the
famous cold Domain" whose legis-
laturo has passed law that requires all
anti-slayery publications sent TO their
post Offices, to be "burned in the pres
ence of a magistrate" During the year
1893, Massachusetts received for car
rying the mails, 1874, 426, SO; and it paid
to the department $I54, 444, As, or $70,-
Ol8,09 more than cost. Virginia, the
same year, received for carrying the
mails 1894, 1890, and paid to the do
partment only S109.990 &c, less than
its expenses, $124,248,84. From the
insolent tone in which the South have
controlled the affairs of the Post office
department, we should suppose they
were bearing all its burdens, if we had
not already learned that they claim the
right to treat US much as they do their
slaves at home. The fact is, men who
derive their whole living by swindling,
theft and robbery, will not be very par
ticu ar about the color Of the mans skin
from whom they obtain it. But how
does it happen that the expenses of
Southern mails are so great, and their
receipts so small? The following item
from the post Office law will show
The fourth section enacts, that emo 9TH
or than WHITE person shall be employ
ed in carrying the mail of the United
States, either as post-rider, or DRIVER of
any carriage carrying the mail" under
penalty of fifty dollars. Any vagabond
from Europe, any fugitive from our own
prisons may take charge of the United
States mail; but native born Amesi-
can citizen, of unimpeachabIe morals,
with property acquired by honest indus
try, may not, if his skin be dark, guide
the horses which draw the carriage in
which bag OF news papers is deposited.
The following letter Of instruction from
the p. M. General to one of his depu-
ties. written 10 1923, is curious COM
mcntary on the above law: "Sir-The
mail may not, in any case whatever, be
in the custody of colored person. If!
a colored person is employed to lift the
mail from the stage into the post office,
it does not pass into his custody, but
The labor is performed in the presence
and under the immediate direction ofthe :
WHITE person who has it in custody: but 6
il a coLoRED person takes it from tay.
ern and carries it himself to the post Of
ice, it comes into his custody during the /
ime of carrying it; which is contrary to l
aw. am, s.. JOHN MCLEAN. !
Remember, reader, every time you
'ay your postage, that about one half of
goes to support southern WHITE gen.
lemen for their superior services. How
much southern Postmasters are allowed
or robbing the mails of anti-slavery pa i
'ers and burning them, we have no sta 4
istcs TO inform us. G
Look al another fact. When surplus Il
evenue accumulated in the treasury of :
States, it was so divided among the
'tales that each stakeholder able 10 own !,
;re slaves received as much as four
Northern freemen; for every ten slaves, !
S much as screen Northern freemen; for y
very fifty slaves, as much as lhirtv-one V
rcemen; aud each stakeholder owning .
ne hundred slaves. drew as much as six. II
y one freemen and in that proportion for I
more or less in number. And thus they .
eceived OF our proportion, about 3,4OO,- 0
100. Can any man show why this three o
nillion and four hundred thousand dol. :
ars, together with the vast amour, arts. =
ng from the sale of public lands and
aid to shareholders on account of their !,
taue property, is not, in principle and 10 .
act, taxation upon the north without rem J.