The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-10-03
THE SLAVERY OF THE WHITE RACE IN THE
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The Slavery of the white race in many parts of
the South is as ignominious, if not as cruel as
that of the blacks The following is from the South
ern Press, which seems to sympathize with Lynch
Law as the proper remedy for Freedom of opn-
ions
awe find the following account of summary
process case in the Columbus TIMES The eli
mate of Georgia is getting uncomfortably warm
for Southern men with Northern feelings.-Somh-
ern Press.
"NoncE TO OUR At n large public meeting
at Eufsula, Ala, last week, one Captain Elisha
Belts of that place. was ordered to leave on short
notice-he having been discovered as the author
of an abolition communication from that city TO
the Washington Era, abolition paper.
awe have no doubt, from the character of the
meeting and from the temper Of the sound South
ern city of Eufauls, that this time the public de-
cree will be executed 1t is a just decree. Our
rights may be compromised away in Free Soil
Congress, but it is no time to compromise with
Abolitonsts in our midst1p
Mr. Belts is an old man. born and raised in the
South in which he has always resided. For the
grievous sin of believing that Slavery s evil he
is ordered to leaven-that is, exiled from Bis
home and country by mean, dastardly nS.
The aabolition communication {" referred to in
the foregoing extract is the following, published
in the Era Of August 29th-certainly very in
offensive article, as every body, not monomaniac
On the subject of slavery, will admit
"NRAa EurAuLA, BARBouR Co, As-ApAMA,
July II, 1850.
DEAR Sir: have received the National Era of
the 18th instant, and after carefully examining
its contents like it WELL and therefore enclose TO
you two dollars agreeable to its terms of subscrip
ton for one year. Having been born and raised
being now in the 62d year of my age) amidst
slavery, certainly have had fair opportunity to
judge of the effect of the systom on society in this
country. There is no doubt but it has tenden-
cy to vitiate and demoralize those who own them,
and to degrade those who do not | am well
pleased with the Hon. Charles Durkees speech
on the California question and what he said
respecting slavery was well said. But he did not
attempt to portray the evils this unjust instu-
tion produces on and among the free white popu
lation of the slaveholding States, nor do suppose
he could do it for the want of information. If
some Of the Southern members in Congress were
disposed to do it, they could tell all about it but
if they were to do it they would Immediately be
denounced as traitors to their country by large
majority of the acknowledgements all thank
God that have yet reason to hope that there are
some owners of slaves whose sensibilities not
so blunted and benumbed by what We are told
are our highest interests, as to admire the insti-
tuition Of slavery; nevertheless we submit to the
laws and customs Of the land we live in not know
ing how to rid ourselves of the evil But the intro
duction of slavery into the newly acquired Ter
ritories is quite another question Ii seems to me
that the people who inh sbit these Territories are
altogether right in endeavoring to exclude the
evil and that Chrsfian va good
man, yes, every one who believes in equality and
justice, ought to sanction and encourage these
praiseworthy efforts"
Doubly accursed is a system which thus chains
two races-enslaving the souls of the whites,
and the souls and bodies Of the blacks
The editors of the Southern Press are fond of
descanting upon the baleful workings Of the free
institutions Of the North Has any postmaster at
the North refused to deliver their paper to sub
scribers, on the ground that it is an incendiary
or disunon sheet, or that it advocates doctrines
which, if carried out, would authorize the enslave
ment Of the whole laboring community in the free
States2 Has any Lynch Law been put in opera
ton az linst the tribe of Northern mscreants who
advocate slavery on Bible grounds, and as the
best condition for the black race There are
political hacks at the North who are aboltionisls
in the most Infamous sense of the word-sdvcosi-
ing the abolition of Freedom In one-hslf ct The
Territories of the Union. No mob ever preiends
to send ibsm the insolent message to leave
Hateful as are their sentiments, q Free Lsecf
Population understands too well the Freedom OF D
Opinion and Speech, to call in question Their
right To hold and 10 prOmulpate lust such views
AS they please. The capitalists and properly
holders OF the North have their rights denied
everyday by large class OF men who are seeking
to change radically the social fabric but they are
not fools enough 10 attempt to curb and put down
such ag'taiOrs by the application of brute force.
That Is the Internal policy Of Slavery-not Of
African Slavery alone, but Of every species %
Despotism that enihrals and curses the masses o
mankind