New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-09
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Our correspondent will believe that we have de
ferred his letter few days not from Indifference
but because we desired time to reflect upon and
give the right answer We shall do this since 1t u
asked with some didence, yet with n deep con
vction that we not merely intend but indicate The
right
WHAT shall MARYLAND do rithher Slores This
il a grave question and defcrrng all minor matters
we shall endeavor to answer it, She should not
allow these her humble laborcrs TO be sold oil to
delve their lives out in the Presidential swamps aud
cane-brakes of Louisiana Texas; it is a horrible
abuse of the power of Law TO permit this These
poor people have an indefeasible right to be pro
teced by the laws of their native State from such an
aggravation Of their bondage as also from The
separation by sale Of husband from wife, mother
from children. &c The law which fails to protect
Woman from the power of brutal lust is a mockory
of law. and all who acquicscc in for moment arc
guilty OF fearful crimnaliiy. So much we are saro
of. even Though Slavery 10 be maintained.
What more is to be doncl First stopping the
expectation and abuse of Slaves, we think the PEG
pie of Mary land through their Legislature, should
Immediately proceed to abolish Slavery. Whether
such abolition should take instant and full effect
NAV not be so clear; one of the evils of any wrong
il the seeming necessity il imposes for still farther
wrong. Yet il seems TO US that the history OF
West India Emancipation has already fully demon
strated the safety and wisdom OF immediate aboli.
ton. with the danger and mpolicy of any other
course We entrcat those who do not this
TO recolcct the Instructions butcheries aud gen
cral insecurity OF life and property in Cuba within
the last seven years contrasted with the general
quiet security and progress OF Jamaica during the
same period. Who can now say, after Emancipa
ton has proved so safe and benetccnt in Jamaica
40 widely separated from any aid against insur-
rection, with its population nine tenhs black and
three-our,hs just set free that it is not safe any
where Rely on il, that il is always perfectly safe
to do right and extremely dangerous 10 persist in
wrong, even for an instant.
But how are the Slaves of Maryland to be treated
Il set free and what is TO become of them Our
correspondent stumblcs at the fact that the Free
Blacks $50 called in that State are more degraded
than the Slaves To this we answer, that those
Blacks are not free, and canno, be so long as Slave
nv exists around them, and the mere circumstance
OF a mans having coorcd skin is held proof pre-
sumptivc that he is somebody's chaitel The Blacks
even Of the Northern States are no, really free they
cannot be while every avenue TO honorable disnc
ton and public esteem is shut against them. Com
mencng their lives in ignorance, poverty and gene
raj contempt debarrcd the hopes and denied the op
portunitics for Education of men, who can wonder
that the Blacks take refuge from burning sense of
wrong in frvoliiy, dissipation and vice Who can
severely blame those who seize wha, seems To their
darkened minds the only chances for enjoyment
which are lcii open to them Not till the African
Race have iaircr opportunities can Justly blame
them for their degradation. But let them stand ON
the common platform of Manhood, and they will i'm.
prove their opportunities as well as others Their
elastic. initiative nature, so strongly susceptible TO
love Of appreciation would ensure this.
Slavery being abolished, we would not send one
freed man out Of the State encourage to leave
H. They are all needed there and more with them
TO fertilizc and till its soil rendered sterile by the
curse Of Slavery. Blu, we would have early sys
temstic effective measures taken 10 provide every
oneiwi,h Employ and the means of Education
For instance. here is an estate of Nv, thousand
acres Of arabic land. on which there are hundred
negroes naturally divided into forty families Let
the owner Of the estate call them together. and say
Now you are free, you can go where you please
but believe you will find it your best course to
stay where you are. | will sell to each head of a
family who chooses TO stay here forty acres of land
at twenty dollars acre giving deed and taking
"A mortgage. and will take my pay 10 Labor or Pro
.duce at its market value. l will move or build
him cabin on his land will sell him COW. pig
and few necessary implements to begin with
will at all times stand ready TO hire him teams
when necessary, and take his labor in pay shall
establish school here. which children may attend
in the day times and their parents in the evenings
If they choose and will agree TO pay the school
master and take labor from you. If any of you
choose to live with and work for me on the land
that reserve, will give you such wages as can
afford, and you can qui, when you choose Such
il the course we would have agreed on and gene
rally pursued by the masters; and from ii we are
sure these results would ensue:
/. Nobody's throat would be cut nor be In the
least Danger oft