Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-10-27
From the Detroit Advertiser.
Worse and Worse.


CaSs selling White Men TO Negroes!!- The
Ball and chain added to Whipping and i'm.
! priSOnment!!!
/ Ii is with humiliation that we examine oul
oldstatute books, ,whilo Lewis Cass was Governo,
Of Michigan Territory, and find some of the
most Notwithstanding, oppressive, tyrannlcal
aud outrageous laws therein recorded, that ever
dlsgraced the statutes Of tyrannical monarch
blood thirsty Negro. Without enargng upon
the humIiating fact that man could be found
on the American continent who would give
countonanco TO such inhuman and barbarous
laws, and see them executed upon his fellow.
beings for the sake of exercising "iltls brief
authority" we will givotho enactments bywhich
Lewis Cass used TO govern the Territory Of Mi.
chigan:
GAN ACT for the punishment Of idle and dis
orderly p"rsOns."
SEC. |. Be it enacted by the Governor and
Judges of the Territory of Michigan, that aay
Justice Of the Peace, on conviction, may SEN
tence any vagrant, lewd, idle or disorderIy per-
sons, stubborn servants, common drunkards.
common night-walkers, pilTercrs, or any per-
sons wanton or liceHtiouS in speech, indccentbe-
havlor common rulers or brawlers, such as ne.
glect their calling and employment, misspend
whatthey earn and do not provide for themselves
or families, TO BE WHIPPED, not EXCEE-
DING 10 STRIPES, or 10 be DELIVERED
OVER TO ANY CONSTABLE, to be omploy-
odin labor not exceeding three months, by such
constabes TO be HIRED OUTFOR TIE BEST
WAGES that can be procured, the proceeds of
which TO be applied 10 the use Of the poor of
the county.
Mado, adopted and published at Detroit, the
29Ih day of July, 1918. LEWIS CASS,
Governor of the Territory of Michigan.
Thoro are highly respectable citizens now
living within the sound of buglo from Detroit,
whose SCARED BACKS, from wounds innic-
led by the cat-o-nnc.lail, and this law of Lew
is Cass, are living Witnesses that the law was
most numerically and barbariOuSly executed
We ask tho reader TO look back and read the law
again whoro white men, unGer The approval of
LeaCiS CaSS, were actually,
HORSE WHIPPED FOR BEING POORM
And even this, not satisfying the unsatiated
gIoating for an exercise of power over the poo-
ple-Ritcr having his bare back dreadluIy la
cerated by tho cat-o-nne-tail in tho hands of
some revenge(u or tho artlcss half breed con.
stable, the unfortunate man was subject to be
SOLD INTO SLAVERY!!!
10 redeem his liberty by the sweat of his brow,
and IN one case, at least, under the operation of
Gen. Cass' humane white slavery law,
A WHITE MAN WAS SOLD TO A NEGROMI
here on the free soil of Michigan! This strange
and horrible scene was described to us day or
two since by an old resident, as being the most
and awful that could be witnessed
BY human eyes. The circumstance is we'll re-
nembercd by the old residents here. The fore
going fact is fully corroboratcd by the following
from Niles Register, published at the time.
AWHITE MAN SOLD TOA NEGRO.
"THE TABLES TURNED." Under this head wo
notice case that recently occurred at Detroit
There is law in this Territory that provides
for the selling Of idle and dssouto persons at
public auction. At ono of these sales, negro
bought white man and ordered him TO follow
his master, and tho order was obeyed. But tho
poor black took his servant to tho steamboat,
md paid his passage and restored him to free
loom-satisfed with sending him out Of the
Territory.
Every effort was made by the citizens TO pre-
vent scene so disgusting TO the moral scnsibli-
les OF lreemen, but the rigor Of Gen. Cass'
'dlct forbid it, But thanks TO the better feelings