Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-23
BERKELEY COUNTY.

H%s5 iiEncr law cthIcs are preparing to.
the colorcd population in the Free states a
wrctchcd doom Under the teachings Of the
pseudo philanthropists Of the North, who rec
ognize law above the Constitution and the
Statutes. band Of ignorant negroes. and
misguided Whites, has openly nulliGcd tie
laws, and is guilty ofthe highest crimes known
in the calender murder and treason. The
recent outrage in Pennsylvania, upon the
persons Of peaceful citizens Of a ucighboring
State, in the exercise ofthcir Just rights, calls
for solemn reflection on the part Of the Abol
itionist--the false friend Of the negro--tle
instigator to, the alder ard abettcr ia crime,
as we'll as BY every loycr Of law and order ;"
Who are the true friends Of the negro p
Men who know the law, and fear the penalty
Of Tits sopen 'intraction, but yet put the
deadly weapon into the hands Of the negro
and counsel its fatal use, or those who advise
obedience to the laws And who are the
guilty parties p those who have absolved all
allegiance to their country, and adopted a
creed above the laws Of God md man, and
advise resistance to both, or the ignorant and
deluded victims Of their selfish schemes for
selt-promotion i he actual perpetrators of
crime are held responsible, and must atopc
for the offenee-while, as in this case, tie
hundreds and thousands, who standing in
high places, advise resistance TO the laws by
an armed force, are, the real muracrers, and
are deserving such punishment as is mcted
out to him who kills.
A few more such scenes as the one recent
y enacted at Christiana, in Lancaster Coun
ty, Pa, will deprive the South Of all confidence
in the power of the Fugitive Slave Law and
render the condition of free blacks in Free
States far worse if possible, than it new is
Peaceful and law-abiding citizens will not
permit such scenes of violence in their midst.
nor will they harbor the guilty perpetrators.
The Free States are already acting in this
matter.
The recently formed Constitution Of the
State of Indiana has the following stringent
provisions on the subject:
'.SEc |. No negro or mulatto shall come in
TO or settle in this State, after the ADOPTION
of this Constitution
"SEc. 2. All contracts made with any ne
gro or mulatto coming into this State contra
ry to the foregoing section shall be void !;
and all persons who shall employ or other
wise encourage such negro or mulatto to re-
main in the State shall be fined in any sum
of not less than ten dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars
'1Iave the colorcd race no sense left to see
where they are drifting in the United States,
and to feel that the Abolitionists are their
greatest curses? See they nothing in that
alarming omen of Indiana? Have they for.
gotten the vote of New York on the adoption
of the Constitution of the State? Are they
blind to the fact that twenty five years ago
they had hold IN the hearts and heads OF
the white population Of these United States,
which Abolitionism has nearly lost to them
by its Insane rawlings, and its action yet more
insane? The finger is on the Waldo they
not see it ?--which is writing now ; 'Suel
scenes as those in Pennsylvania are expellini
us from the Free States. We shall be dri
ven out as were the Aeadians from New;
Scotia we are demonstrating that thu
white man and the black man cannot live ii
the Free States together We expect n
heed to be paid to these signs by the Adolf
iionists proper who glory in these excite
ments, and rcyel in them as giving The Gle
ments of agitation But why should the col
ored man be his dupe? Why his instrument
Why fire the musket tie Abelitionist puts i
his hand and so be hung for tie Abolition
lists murder z"
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Dssy Gov. johnson, in reply to an oppc
from a number Of citizens Of Pennsy lvani
that he would indicate the laws and sustaI