Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-09-21


in this territory after the passage Of this act under penalty
twenty dollars for every week any such person shall remain in
negro or maauo shall refuse neglect pay the ne
imposed by this who shall not give such security TO
Judge Justice Of the peace Of M ns parrish n which they shall
the said judge justice shall approve o. shall be commit
ted to the Jail Of the parsh, and may be sold hererom BY the
sufficient pay the fines herein imposed with the costs
and that person should buy such OF color for
the space time mentioned he shall then be employed
public work during days he shall have renamed
IN the territory alter the two weeks Aforesaid
Such the legislation which obtained in Louisiana up
1880. The statute had remained dead leer Hundreds
Of those whom intended il should exclude from that
State had been suffered remain and to settle there and
not until fresh provocaiOns offered to the sum
bering suspicious Of the Legislature that they thought Of
revising the existing laws. Nor did the provisions then
enacted to evil which had grown to the most
alarming proporons show any want Of tenderness for the
interests and convenience Of those who bad succeeded in in
Producing themselves into Louisiana in violation Of the law
Of 1907. They wre nearly all allowed full amnesty as
the provisions only made apply such had
mmigrated since S25 Here the provisions Of the oct
Of 1880:
sSec All free negroes mulaoes, other free persons
Of color who have into this ssate since the first day Of
January 1925 in Violation Of Of the territory OrIAans
passed f4th G. Atii. 1907. entitled IN prever
y = s. s sss. d a1s. aa i,.s M territory
in this State and upon due proof of the violation Of said
act &c Se shall be ordered to depart herefro within sixty
Sec Any free negro mulatto 0. other person Of
color Who having been ordered to depart from this State
after the period assigned for his deprue be found in
parish in this State all such free negroes &C. found within
this State dsobedence Of such Of departure and
removal hereom shall be liable to be before any
of competent jurisdiction before any judge Justice
dsobsysd an order of departure or removal provided for
in the first section OF this act all sach free mulattoes
and other free persons Of color shall by said court judge,
Justice of the peace mayor be
prisonment hard labor and any free muao other
free person Of color ordered depart from this State puru
the provisions of the first section of this act shall be
convicted Of dsobedence such order and sentenced to
Imprisonment herein prescribed all such free negroes &c.
shall be held aud bound depart from this State thirty
day after the expiration of their imprisonment and failure
to depart within said thirty days. all such ree negroes &C.,
due proof Of failure to depart from the State, herein
mayor, be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for e"
Sec g. All free negroes mulattoes and other free persons
vessel cook steward, other capacity and
who shall depart with said vessel provided she destined
for an outward voyage and or is from
incapable Of not destined for DEPARTURE shall depart
within thirty days from This State, all such free negroes &c.,
coming into this State and not departing erefom
tempaed in this sections shall incur the penalties Of the second
section of and be against directed the
first and second sections Of this act's
ec to depart from this State there any who hold
&c., they SHALL proving the before the acting
Of the State be allowed from him year from the promul
cation Of this act, /" &c. &e.
And now Mr. President what is there the provisions
which have just read that bear comparison with the
statute passed in 1888 by the Legislature Of Massachusetts,
Upon what ground could that State complain that the Leg
aure Of Louisiana had tanscended her constitutional powers
passing her prohbitoy laws Are the grievances stated
in the letter introduced here based any fact that be
borne under the provisions Of those laws Where is the
least authority conferred any body to take seane cooks,
and steUards out Of sps lying sirty feet from the soil
louisiana Why, sr, they allowed to remain long
the ship on board Of which they enans in port if she
be bound for outward voyage and destined for such
voyage, or in any way prevented from performing it, such
hoo, hoa.J of
allowed thirty days before they required DEPART and
only and in default Of their dung so they be
ected the penalties denounced BY the Besides
when found delinquent they only be arrested and
proceeded against by ,oaran And connexion with this
let remark also that part Of the duties Of the habor
masters to issue to erecute warrants Of arrest and that
therefore, the statement that hundreds hare been taken out
of ships by them, hG,dced and taken into custody is
unoundd the other allegations in the paper
fcous and untrue deny them all. deny them most
pbaicaly. The letter contains reliable statement for its
author stands convicted of unmgated asehood far the
facts by him forth made the actual legislation
Of Louisiana, and the which it is enforced in
New Orleans.
It has also been said, upon the authority Of know not
what certificate, that twelve hundred colored
taken out annually from ships arriving at the port Of New
Orleans and thrown into prison. May not be permitted to
cast glance that certificate
Mr. WINTHROP. said nothing about any certificate
to that effect merely said that statement Of that sort had
been made to some which had found among
Home in New York, who seemed to be very intelligent on
the subject and stated doubtless that which he thought to
be true.
Mr. SOULE And is that the source whence the honora-
bic Senator would expect find TRUTH and which he dsdans
not to with the folds of his Senatorial mantle There
is not word Of truth in these satements-no word Ipro
nounce them absolute unruhs The honorable Senator
perceive how grossly he has been deceived and while
him fully from all intent to propagate these abec
calumnes knowing them to be such he will thank me, am
sure for redressng his judgment upon them, and for eev
his sympates from the agony which they seem 10 have
suffered on their account.
Sir had not intended to dwell so long this un-
welcome topic Of debate, and will end what have say
by expressing my deep regret that it has all been intro
duced here That Massachusetts should revive at this day.
under the circumstances that surround u.s. what constitutional
scups she may have entertained with respect to the matters
alluded to- after she had suffered them sumber all the time
while States coming into the Union
with that most obnoxious discrimination, and when she might
appropriately have INDUCED them in procuring the repeal
of such OF her laws botted with it. betrays,
afraid, that there yet latent and energies in the
spirit Of hostility long entertained against the South by
would moderate the passage Of the socaed peacs
measures entirely consume and exhaust.
Mr.. BERRIEN. Mr.. President in consequence of
statement made yesterday by the Senator from Massachu-
setts find myself under the necessity Of offering brief
panaon the Senate That statement relates the laws
OF certain Southern States to which he has referred After
having denounced the proceedings under these laws as
abuses he proceeded to speak of certain evidence his
session Of the facts stated in the papers which he referred
Among this evidence, the Senator either produced referred
to certificate given by keeper of house for cooed sea-
men, coloed persons, affirming if my recollection Is gnf
to numbers that there annually imprisoned IN New
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