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

There Is not Stale IN this Union Where
a negro is essentially an equal party in
an action at law. Where Is the negro adj
miitcd as equal peer and compatriot with
The white mena Where as juror, judge
or counseIor7 Is there any Office d
trust or honor 10 which he is eligiblef--
What school receives the two races to,
gether, witout being placed under public
ban? Can the negro's money procure
him seat at the Theatre or Opera, with
out signal Of his inferiorty offered in
atonement to those who wish It to be I'M
dersiood they but tolerate his presence,
albeit they have swora lin free and equdi2
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 negrol Even the Church
assigns him a distant seat and different
altar. The grave itself perpetuates the
distinction, by d,sowning the fellowship Of
his dust. In life and death alike, he is
prescribed and trodden under foot as IN
alien and outcast, and his degradation is
thus made to accompany him to the very
gates Of Heaven. And all this 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 at
any rate is at perfect liberty TO die; but no
where is he protected, encouraged, and
rewarded, in all the liberty loving North.
Paradoxical as it may seem, there is Moth
| ing resembling sympathy and equality of
moral relation between the two races, OK
cept in the South, where the one, in the
proportion of seven in ten, is cnslavcd TO
| The other. Here, to great extent, The
children Of the two races grow up toge!h-
err, and, as a general rule, cherish for each
other, in creator or less degree, interest
and attachment. Similar reasoning ap.
plies 10 the household circle, as il regards
adults. There is natural sense Of obli-
CATION and kindness, on the one hand, and
Of dependence and gratitude on The other,
leading 10 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 indiyid.
uals and families. There are but too
]. many exceptions TO the rule, and ! shall
not attempt to protect them from the ex,
ecration they deserve, for neglect ant
cruelty in relation to their abused anc
/ suffering slaves. Nor do | intend "a
+ charge upon the North or free States, thai
there are no individuals or families who
treat the negro as he deserves. speak
only of the general, in both cases, and am
( anxious to give full force 10 the exceptions
D both as il regards number and weight
individuals and families in the South have
] doubtless, acted UNANIMOUSLY toward theiI
3 slaves. and continue 10 do so, as individu
! ais and families in the North have, ant
{ continue 10 act towards their hired and up
| prenticed servants, and formerly towardl
4 their slaves also. Most cheerfulJ do W,
/ bear testimony that individuals and asso
o Citations in the North, have in many in
e stances, acted nobly toward the negro
I'll whether free or slave. What we osk !
0 that the exceptions, in both cuses, may b.
e fairly conlras,ed with the general rule.