Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-12-06
Northern NCgrOphilism.


We have so often remarked on the hypo-
crlsy OF the professions of love for "the poor
| negro" in ;lc so-callcd "iree States" that we
urc nearly sick of the subject Yet the fol.
lowing item, aud the comments of the New
York Day Book on the subject, confirms so
strongly our statements on this topic, that
we cannot refrain from putting them upon
| TIE witness stand against the mock philan-
thropy of the Nortl.-iS. Press.
The law prohibiting negroes and mulat-
toes from coming in aud residing in Oregon
has been decided to be constitutional aud
valid, by Chief Justice Nelson, of that terri
tory, IN case brought before him recently.
The defendant (colored) was directed to leave
ihe territory within thirty days from the date
ct the decrce.-.N u Times.
What shall he done for the poor negro p
lhIs Is question that presents itself to the
tnlnd most lorclbly upon reading such para
graphs as the above. Our answer has been
given openly and frankly more than once
but we want an answer from an intelligent
Abolltlonist; one who sees what is done by
| the whites in free States, and can tell ms how
The prejudice which commits such wrongs
ms The above, can he removed. Whenever
slave is set free, he runs full tilt against lust
/ such hedge of thorns MS this in Oregon :
wherever he goes he meets these prcludiccs
and these rebulls. What then can I've done
| for him? Is there any situation in the world,
any place upon the earth, where he is so
safe, so comfortable, so far from injury and
| oppression as Slave in the Southern Stu,es?
Mr.. Greeley says that from his soul lac
hates human slavcry-that he louthes and alb
lors oppression in every form. The editor
of the Day Book says that from his nmost
! soul he hates. hc lDathes and nbhors the pre-
] judcc which thrust the black man out oI
not only every employment, hut out of the
| State. We hate that prejudice which cX
! lists in the office Of the New York Tribune
| and prevents n man with dark skin from
working nt casc in the editorial room, in tn
press room, or any where but in the Goa
vault. We hate il, we loaihe and abhor it
but what of tllnt, we can't help it. 1t exists
| il always has existed, and always will exist
We might have rumpus about tive NIGH
strive 10 elect some miserable demagogue L
the mayoraliiy who believed in enacting
law TO prevent il, but we should only bt
throwing ashes against the wind TO he blown
back, it not into our own eyes, into those OF
our children. We are glad that we are not ia
nduc enough TO try il, and we should pity
those who were.
There is no place that we have ever been
in, where this prejudice existed so little ns
in the Southern States. There we have seen
black and white tailors working on the same
board we have seen black and white sleo-
makers working in the same shop, and in all
the various mechanical employments they
work together quietly and peaceably. In nc
! place have we seen the blacks so well pro
vided for, so well fed, so well clothed, Sc
well aud so respectfully treated, MS in Soutl
Carolina and Georgin. Call this slavery j
you will, we care not by what name colorc'
labor goes, but it comfort, health, aud hap
pincss are worth having, we would thous
dimes rather he black slave in Georgi,
than black freeman in New York or Ore
gon.-Day Book.