The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-05-16

Tree NcfrltOry.
Notice is taken Of the noble course pursued in
the Senate by Messrs. Hale, Chase Seward, and
Baldwin; Of the establishment expressed in that
body, and elsewhere, at the annunciation that
there If law superior TO the laws Of man Of
MIR. Webster's declaration with regard to the
Wimot Proviso Of his willingness 10 aid the
slave States in forcing away the free people Of
color to the extent of two hundred millions from
the National Treasury if necessary of his going
TO the fullest extent in seizing and sending.
back fugitives from slavery of the appreciation
given by such men as Leonard Woods, Moses
Stuart, Jared Sparks, and others and Of the at
tempt to effect a compromise between freedom and
slavery, between the law of God and the slave
code, at the suggestion Of Mr. Foote and under
the leadership of MIR. Clay, in the face of the ma
ton, aud before " the SUM-
SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH.
A view ia taken of American slavery as it is
from Southern testimony, demonstrating that al
though anti-slavery sentiment is increasing at the
South and the press is speaking against the ex-
tension of slavery in some of the States with un-
wonted force, yet that the recent developments Of
slavery exhibit the Internal system as the most
atrocious that has ever prevailed. Mention is
made Of the whipping and Imprisonment Of free
negroes, of taxing them to raise funds for their
expatriation of whipping slaves to death, of sell
ing free negroes into slavery for crime, of the i'm
prisonment of colOred preacher in the city of
Washington, and the subsequent attempt to sell
him to pay his Jail fees by the Marshal Of the
United States, Of the tragical case Of the slave
Emily Russell, Of the Interstate slave trade, of
the confession made by Virginia Representative
in Congress that that State depends upon slave
breeding for its prosperity, Of the arrogance of
the slave power in denouncing the school-books
of the North, imprisoning Barrett and occasouing
his death, of the violation of the post-ofice &c.
The Report gives many facts to show that anti
slavery sentiment Is increasing at the South, that
the people there are hostile to dissolution of the
Union, even If it were practicable, and that the
South as well as the whole country will not al
ways be ruled by the one hundred and thirteen
Thousand shareholders Of the United States.
STATE OF THINGS At THE NORTH.
Notice is taken of the laudable efforts made by
the people of color in solicitation of young
Morris, of Salem, Mass, who was commissioned
as justice Of the peace by Gov. Briggs, and has
managed a cause before the court with much abil-
ity; Of the graduation Of young colored man at
Middlebury College with one of the highest hon
Ors Of colored agriculturists in this State, Mich
tgSN, &c; of late Convention ut Columbus, D.,
whose business was conducted with much order
and ability; Of steps taken TO found a Manual La
Dor Academy in Essey Co. n, y. Of the inhu-
ence of the cOlored electors at recent election in
the city of New York Of the dOngs of the State
Convention of the ColOred Protestant Methodist
Church at Baltimore; of a wealthy colored land
lord at South Trenton, who voluntarily reduced
his rents on account Of the lack Of remunerating
wages received by his tenants and of the testi-
mony Of the Mem York ObSeruer, that within the
last twenty live years no people have advanced
more rapidly in all that eevates people
The prevalence Of caste, the offspring of sla-
very, is spoken Of as more rife in this country
than in any other India not excepted, where in
the presence of Juggernaut it disappears while
here in temples of Christian worship, and else
where it exists in an odious form. Allusion is
made to the refusal of the Department Of State to
grant passports to people of color, who citi-
under the Constitution Of the United States,
and a fear is expressed that our increased COM
mercal facilities Of intercourse with foreign ma
tions will extend to those countries the baneful
system peculiar to this country.
The Colonization scheme is alluded to- and the
opposition felt to it by the great body of people
of color, because it was projected and is sustained
by shareholders, for the purpose, in the past Ian
guage of Daniel Webster /" of getting rid Of the
free people Of colorO has engendercd wicked
prejudice has been held up as remedy for sla-
very, and because Colonizatonists do little or
nothing for the elevation Of the colored race with
view to their remaining in this country. Ref
erence is made to an article in the Libsrn AdUO-
cate, where it speaks Of Moses as an AbotiOnst,
and says that he went out and slew felow-man,
probably a STAKEHOLDER, Of which he repented for
forty years, after which God made him q Coloni-
ZatiOnist
The Free Produce Associations are favorably
noticed and facts are stated with regard to the
growth Of free cotton in some OF the slave States
and in five of the West India islands of its man
ufacture in England of petition signed by six
ty thousand English women to the Queen of Eng
land, that no article of slave-grown produce be
odd in tha nj nd 10 oil
cd, should the people of England come to the res
olnton not to manufacture any cotton grown by
slaves, American slavery would be attacked IN ITS
MOST VULNERABLE POINT.
Both the free and the pro-savery presses Of the
North are spoken Of The former, it is said are
increasing in number and devotion TO the anti
slavery cause while some of the latter seem to be
gloating over the ubiquitous system which in part
sustains them. Particular encomiuTns are passed
upon the National Era and Ne,u York EUeHhg
Post.
WEST INDIES.
The state of things in the. West Indies is
glanced at, and reference had TO a recent letter
from Geo w. Alexander Of London, who with
John Gambler is on tour Of observation to the
British and French West India Islands, and will
soon visit this country. They give in general a
favorable account of the workings of emancipa-
tion Of the gradual rising of the colored classes
and the abatement Of pre- udice. Mr. A. says
"The circumstances of the planters in different
colonies vary considerably, and are to great ex-
tent influenced by their own individual conduct
and that Of the LegislaturesD From other sour
ces we learn says the Report, that some of the
most talented men at Jamaica are colored that
ten or a dozen are in the Legislative Assembly,
that seventh-tentbs Of the whole police force
the public printers of the Legislature, and the
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that the depress state Of things on the island is
Aot owing to emancipation, but to the Sugar Du-
ties bill of 1916 to want of thrift and industry
and the Yankee pillow among the proprietors to
the enormous salaries Of Government officers, 10
the heavy duties on island products in England,
to the lack of provision for the education and re-
ligious instruction of the emancipated, and espe-
ciay TO the want of a SOCIAL sYsrEM-occasione1
by slavery II is believed better time is coming
and that when freedom, industry, and Christian
institutions are firmly established in the islands,
they will be as the Garden of Eden.
The Report concludes with an appeal to the
free people of the United States to arise in their
majesty and throw off the incubus of slavery that
is destroying our peace and prosperity and incur
ring the wrath Of God tits document of great
length, full of valuable information, will be print
ed az an early day and be had ut the office of
the American and Foreign Ant-Slavery Society,
W. Harmed, Agent, OF John street.
ResOlUed, That our fathers regarded slavery as
social and political evil-a curse bequeathed
them from the British Government that the
Declaration of Independence and the Consttu-
tion of the United States will always be sufficient
evidence that they eschewed the notion Of prop
erty in man and that they intended that by the
operation of these instruments slavery should be
speedily and forever extnguished