The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-07-05

is well known to all gentlemen in the South,
that one man in louisiana liberated twelve
hundred slaves. whilst the whole State of Rhode
twice that number. also deny that those IS ho
have been turned loose on the charities of tn"
North are, or ever will be, in as comfortable Il
condition as those who are slaves with U.s.
They are in cold and ruthless climate, amongst
a white race az distinguished for cupidity and
sharpness as any that ever inhabited spot of
this Globe. Inferior in intellect and genius
to the whitcs--drstltute CT friends who are in
afurnce and power TO employ and assist them ;
owning little or no land--unable to compete
with Yankee ngenuity-indisposed at best to
labor honest y--incapable of social equality
without food and clothing, or even fuel to warm
their wrciched bodies daring The piercing blasts
of winler-they naturally betake themselves
TO every species of horrible and loathsone vice
known in the world and in proof Of this
need but cite TO the places of public resort,
where they are allowed to coAgregate about
the cities. You cannot hide from their squaid
wrc,chedness; nor need the phian,hropist go
in search OF more victims of misery on earth,
for the exercise of his bpnevolence, than he
may find in the cies-in the strecs--in the
celIars-n the aims. .houses--in the suburbs
in the prisons and in the penitentiaries of the
free States. And even those you find in hest
employment amongst them are generally car.
rying out the truth ofthe Scriptures, that "ser.
wants shall they be-" preamble or misrep
resented clause of the Declaration Of Indepen.
desce, or the grossly perverted passages of
Scripture, will ever change this las, condition
until God has changed his nature, or his prom
ises are violated.
Nor would stop here, sir. would carry
the war into Africa il | had time to do so, and
make the comparison, without fear of success.
fil contradiction, between The condition of
very large portion otlhe white population or,he
North and The slaves Of the South in which
much that have said in relation to the free ne
grors of the North would be equally applicable
TO The lower order of the whites, with his dis
lnguished difference, that forgeries and coun.
lerfrils. swindng and other arlfices, requiring
higher order of intellect. arr mainly confined
to the whites In proof of this, need not only
refer te the records Of your courts, your mobs,
your State prisons. your pententiaries, your
railroads. aud every species Of horrible device.
have recently seen an account offive hun
drpd true bills, think. in one week, (l am sure
in one Conr,,) n the pious city of Boston, for
every SPECIES Of crime, There have been ex.
pended in the county of Phlade phia, accor.
ding To IL published statement have clipped
from paper, since the year ls42, upwards of
Sl42.U0O for The suppression of In"bs whilst,
upon the other hand, see it repeatedly stated
that there are ghteen thousand human beings
living under ground aud in eel ars, packed to.
seIhrr in rags ana horrible wrr,cbednrss, in
the great city OF New York. Isaw myselflhree
years ago. there, scenes such as my eyes had
never hrheJ, and such, trust, as may he
spared seeing again--aInongsl them few that
nrvrr shall tnrg-l--wD oflhem will mention:
The one was IA blind man. led amid the lhrong
on the great aud crowded Broadway, by a string
attached to dog (who seemed TO have been
his deepest sympalhizer.) He held in his hand
plate, rs he passed, that had nothing in it AS
bright as silver, when stopped TO add a trillr.
The other was Il woman, seated on the steps
of the notorious A>tor House, with a shrve'd
and writing inlaut on her knee, and whilst
was in the ACT Of giving her piIlanre, was
accostcd by IL citizen, who said she was doubt.
less an imposer, VITO had borrowed the child
and bandagrd it with bands to impose upon
strangers.
in vain shall it he said such scenes and cir.
cmmslances are confined to the cities. They
are not to he found, either amongst the whites
or the blacks, in the country or cities OF the
South Go to the farms and cities otIh
South, and see the African, fed, clothed, and
happy and let your false cam"r stand rehuked
forever Nay, more; whether these things br
in the cities of the North or elsewhere. they are
gathered to the polls ben it comes to voting,
and swell the abolition lune. which comes here
to drnuuncr and insult us, in relation to an in.
silution that, could they change and be elevated
10 its scale ofhappinrss aud conlrnlmrnt, they
would he more improved in their condition than
the philanthropy o(Ihe North will accomplish
for them whilst they lrurlin oD this earth.
1t is from this very city Of New York there
comes SO strong tide of abolition, us furnish
cs distinguished member in the other end OF
the Capitol, who stands up in the presence OF
Senators, the people and in the face o! Heaven,
and calls upon his God to witness his oath to
support the Constitution under which he takes
his scat, and yet declares, in his place, that so
great is his philanthropy, he will yicld i'll his
conscience to Il sense OF hig her duty, when
slavery is in question, and whenever it is con-