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

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destiny to obey the voice and submit TO the
dictates of law and reason, few of them
act as though they had any property in
themselves. Thousands of them perish
annually for want of the protection and
support realized in state of slavery
After an experiment of fifty years in the
North, no elevation of the negro character,
no improvement of their condition, has Ia
ken place. As slavery recedes, the pre-
JUDGE against the negro increases. All
the non-sIaveholding States, and especial |
ly those where slavery has never existed,
are intolerant even of the presence of the
negro. Look at the impartial humanity OF
Ohio, and other free States, whose laws
exclude not only the slave, but the Stree
and equaF' negro, and deny him not mere
ly the right of holding property but even
of residence. 1t is unlawful for any clti-
zen of Ohio TO employ negro (free, OF
course,) to do a days work tokeep him from
starving, unless he shall have first given
security, both for his maintenance and
good behaviour. The whole movement
of the North--the entire policy of the free
States been system of death to the
negro.
In their miserable freedom, so called, they
have died at the rate of two to one in a state
of slavery. Interest or humanity may
abstract slavery but the interposltion of
omnipotence seems necessary to relieve
the negro from the weight of disabilities
beneath which he is crushed. The de-
claration of his freedom is fraud in eve-
ry State of this Uuion. Both prejudice
and law proclaim it impossible, in the ex-
isting state of things. The ordinary
; eligibilities of citizenship are no where
!, his. The white man and the negro may
not separate, as to the bounds of habiia-
ton, bat they do not, cannot combine
: They may be together, but 10 mingle is
impossible. The distinction for example,
as it relates to color alone, appears so
founded in an invincible law of nature,
that in no instance in the history of civil.
zation, has it yielded to influences. Thus
may be all utterly wrong; our business is
with the fact only. Kindred reasons and
arguments may be multiplied indefinitely
Disproportionate, inadequate compensa-
fian for laher, - asellrnad "a fandanIent--
al element--one Of the chief disadvan-
f ges of slavery, and it is an argument
: principally relied upon by abolilionists, of
; every sect and color; and yet it is suscep-
} tible of the clearest demonstration, that
the slave of the South, Tin an annual es-
: timate) gets more than the free negro of
f the North; and, by the showing of the
: Northern argument, is less slave. Eve
3 ry victime of injustice is slave. and
j lsuch is the atgro every where in the
g North. Crushed by the indirect tyranny
n of law, and the intolerance of public
: opinion, he is the miserable victim of all
t kinds of injustice and hardship. And
e what must be the sober decision of histo-
r ry with regard 10 those who pity the negro
J, until he becomes free, and then starye
S him to death? The mooted question oil
h negro rights and worth, and his title to
e Northern sympathy and protection, are
) dropped the moment the negro becomes
e free, and appeals 10 the Northern court OF
d errors for the promised boon of equa, so
II clal and political rights. Notwithstand
?, ing all the paraded humanity OF the North
y on the subject, no actual abolition OF
t, sldUery has erer taken place in the United
ii is an imposition upon the civilized world
Df The servitude of the negro, and the in
sr Justice and hardship of his lot have merely
re changed their form. The legal principle
e. of slavery is abolished in the North, bu
e all New England, New York, Pennsylva
" MIA, Ohio, &C., do not contain a single
" negro who is free, in the sense of thu
10 Declaration of American independence
al not one. No where does the negro NEE
I'd the white man--no where is he meet b,
" him, on terms of equality. There Is n
u. civil, social, domestic, or even religion
n, intercommunity of enjoyment or suffering
v They are deprived of the most importan
he rights of mankind. Both by law and pub
n. lie opinion they are condemned TO tn
a hereditary degradation and misery. Thei
IL liberty is lie and cheat. In what d
ct they find themselves free, except to b
e, neglected, scorned, and trodden nnde
til foot? Prejudice, manners and custoI
do turn aside and bear down the fruitles
re- provision of legislation. There is thu
Re. CONSTITUENCY interviewer with the popula
lie. feeling of the American people, in reli
he ton to the unfortunate negro, which la
BE can never efface. 1t is even true, thi
"a. the prejudice againts the negro lncreass
he with the progress of emancipation. TAX
ms. any of the Northern States-that who
ell. nearest approaches the Utopia OF model
,es abolIiionism, and Notwithstanding the a
,er franchisment of the negro in law, if
his white person marry negro, infanly is Il
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