Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-07-02

There Is not a State In this Union where /
a negro Is essentially an equal party in /
an action at law. Where is the negro adj
miited as equal peer and compatriot with /
the white man? Where as Juror. Judge |
or COUNSELLOR Is there any Office oil
trust or honor TO which he is eligible?-l
What school receives the Two races to-
gether, witout being placed under public |
ban? Can the negro's money procure
him a seat at the Theatre or Opera, with
out signal of his inferiority offered in
atonement to those who wish II 10 be un-
derstood they but tolerate his presence,
albeit they have srOrn him free and eqHal2
What hospital or poor house receives him,
except apart from the privileged white
sufferer, without it may be half the sense
or virtue of the negro? Even the Church
assigns him a distant seat and different
altar. The grave itself perpetuates the
distinction, by dIsowning the fellowship of
his dust. In life and death alike, he is
prescribed and trodden under foot as an
alien and outcast, and his degradation is
thus made to accompany him 10 the very
gates of Heaven. And allahis is true to
much greater extent IN the North than
in the South. The free negro North is
used-allowed TO live, If he can, and al
any rate is at perfect liberty TO die; but no
where is he protected, encouraged, and
rewarded, in all the liberty loving North.
ParadoxicaI as it may seem, there is MOTH
ing resembling sympathy and equality Of
moral relation between the two races, ex-
eept in the South, where the one, in the
proportion of seven in ten, is enslaved TO
The other. Here, to a great extent, the
children of the two races grow up toge.h-
er, and, as a general rule, cherish for each
other, in creator or less degree, interest
and attachment Similar reasoning ap-
plies to the household circle, as il regards
adults. There is natural sense Of obi
CATION and kindness, on the one hand, and
of dependence and gratitude on The other,
leading TO many of the kinder officers OF
human intercourse, without which the
heart must be utterly desolate. | do not
claim for the South that this view of the
subject applies to all slaveholding indlvid-
uals and families. There are but too
many exceptions to the rule, and | shall
not attempt to protect them from the ex-
l-ecre.5 srz.boy $1,000, So. aS=isSt suj
cruelty in relation to their abused anc
suffering slaves. Nor do | intend tc
charge upon the North or free States, tha
there are no individuals or families who
treat the negro as he deserves. | sPeaI
only of the general, in both cases, and an
anxious to give full force 10 the exceptions
both as It regards numhc- auu weight
individuals AID caInlIies in the South have
| doubtless, acted UNANIMOUSLY toward thei
slaves. and continue to do so, as individu
ais and families in the North have, an
continue to act towards their hired and ap
prentieed servants, and formerly toward
| their slaves also. Most cheerfully do W
bear testimony that individuals and asso
, Citations in the North, have in many in
: stances, acted nobly toward the negro
f whether free or slave. What we ask
D that the exceptions, in both cases, may b
, fairly contrasted with the general rule.