Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-04-11
L AIN FIR Re E M A N.
THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION" IN
FLORIDA.


'repubIlcan American" Go where you will, thro'
the length and breadth of this sin-cursed earth and
the like Of our inhuman slaveholding and trading
cannot he found; and yet, when we cry out against
the bloody system, we are met with the question,
" hat has the north to do with slavery? 1t belongs
exclusively to the southern States, s. is guaranteed
TO them by the constitution" Surprising this were
true of the Suites where slavery originally existed
can it be said of slavery in Florida, which was es-
tnblished by the Government of the United States,
cherished and built up for years, and has now, by
an act ofCongress been Incorporated INTO her CON
stitution a sovereign State, with an express pro-
vision that her Legislature shall not haze poecer to
abolish ul-Thus is the attempt made by the Con-
gress of the United States, "a majority of whom
are from the free States) to make eternal this sys-
tenn ofenslaving the bodies and souls OF human be-
ings Alas, for our Republicanism, our religion
and our philanthropy! They sound out upon
the world in great swelling words, but they com
mnge with the agonizng groans of millions of
our chatteIjzed, heathenized murdered fellow NOR
tails, and go up before the eternal throne to fill up
the measure of our hellsh iniquity!
We often wonder if the Wing and Democratic
Representatives from the free States, who have
basely prostitued their official powers to the per.
petuation of southern slavery, they revel in the
luxures of the social and family circle, and whose
| highest joy is, that the strong arm of the law is
pledged for the protection ofthose dearerto them
than lifc-or as they look over their own history,
for those acts of enlarged philanthropy and human
kindness, which will one day be above all price,
as a soother of deaths pangs and as fulfilling the
great end of their being,-we wonder if they can
calmly contemplate the thousands on whom they
have assisted to fastcn the chains of slavery from
| the earliest dawn oftheiF exislence-who are out
lawed from their hirtb-who never knew the en-
dearing appcllarivc Of parent, brother, sister, or
(riend,- who are offered up to crafty the I'M
halIowed Iusts and Unsuitable rapacity oftyranni-
cal masters? Do not the remembrance and the
thought Of the source of their wrongs, sometimes
ill them with remorsc3 Can all these shocking
iuhunanitics be set down to the account of Gov
srnmeni, or Party, and individuals escape respon-
sibiliy? Whoever thus may be made the 'scape
goat Of our sins against God and man, in the eyes
Of men, there is day coming, when Governments
and Parties will not be recognzed-but each one
must answer for all his deeds, whether they be
good or evil. That will be day Of fearful retri-
button!
The following are extracted from the Horidian
published at Tallahassee, dated Saturday, Feb 8
1916:
drought to Jail on the 8th inst, negro slavt
named Gear, who says be belongs to Paul Ulmcl
of jefferson Co. Florida. His owner will call
pay charges, aud take him away, or he will be
dealt with according to law.
JAS. BARRY, Sheriff. Leon Co.
Feb 9Th, 1915.
ga good blacksmith and tcauster for sale ,abou
% years of age, enquire at the bar of the Planters
Hotel.
Tallahassee, Jan. 1S45"
"By virtue ola writ of tieri facias, issued from
the Clerks Office of the Superior Court for the
county Of Leon, middle district Of Florida, | have
levied upon and will expose at public out cry fol-
cash, before the Court House cor, in tn town o
Quincy on Monday the 2d of March 1915, the lol
lowing describable property to Wit
Two Slaves. Suke aged 40 years and her chiIr
aged years. levied upon as the property of Ma
thanle Roberts, to satisfy said 6eri facias
JOHN G. CAMP, Martial, (Chattel Auctoneer.
By the same Martial under similar writ, is the
| following property:
"Mary, negro woman, aged 80 years; Almna
aged 10 years; Emile, aged IS years; Jane, aget
A years, and Floyd, aged 10 years.
Another:
"Two negro slaves to be sold at public out cry
Sc Simon-Charles.
Yet another:
. "Sixty valuable negro slaves levied upon, &c.
JoHN G. CAMP, Sc"
In making an exhibit of the State of the Mino
Bank of Florida, the cashier says:
''By the capital stock levied on land
and negroes $2,974, SOC, OF
Slaves sold and mortSaged by order
ofthe Court 90, 10000
BY land and, slaves referred to in
the Governors message, &c, 900, 00(
HENRY l.. RUTGERS, Cashier"
A correspondent fthe True Wesleyan adds thu
, following remarks:
'You will observe by the above that the finan
, cial department Of our country is built up, in
measure, by the blood of the slave. No doubt there
are millions of money now hired on bonRand mort
gage from Wall street, and capitalists at the nortl
10y the blood Of the slave at the south. In fact al
the business establishments in the United State!
are inseparably connected, directly or indirectly
with it; and no doubt should the money matters
be traced through all their nvolutions we SHOULD
find that the price Of blood is in every mans pOck
Ell, who may have derived it from the resources o
the United States.