Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-11
The Express itself has the following pertinent


The Express itself has the following pertinent
reflections upon the policy of the free States in
regard to the negro population:
1t continues to be stated in several of our CITY lour
mails, with decided emphasis in the Abolition ones with
qualification however, in journals of equvocal posi-
tion that the Fugitive Slave Law cannot be peaceaby
executed in the free States, Or if executed at ALL with
SO much rpugnance as to amount of civil disoua ica-
ton tor office ofall OF who hold Federal Law 10
be supreme that il must be executed with our moral
aid, always with our boldly presence even necessary
or demanded by The officers OF the Law. 1t is very
evident that as one OF journals days sin ce
stated, the Law is to be PORTRAYED as to create
popular opinion which will DANA everybody supporting
its execution. The Chrstana and Syracuse outrages
the resu IS OF their portralts and they 90 on with
their portraits, we shall have them everywhere in the
tree States, where negroes running away from the
Southern States choose to stop.
This beng the fact, it begins TO be time to ag
tate another question: and that s the exclusion bg tar
Of the immigration OF blacks into the free States
Indiana has already done. If every runaway negro
is to bring with him aSyracuse fight, let for bid ne
groes by law from coming here. We have in this
State already prohibited them from voting unless thew
have a large property qualification; and, doubt
majority TO prohibit their entry here could be got Just as
large as that which prohibited them from voting We
cannot afford to make the free States battle ground
tor runaway negroes. We cannot afford to have
repetition OF Chrstana and Syracuse outrages. We
cannot afford the ill will the bad blood the mainline,
and murder the Aboltionsts through the means Of
these runaway negroes get up between the North ard
the South The true remedy is to forbid the immigra.
ton OF negroes, and to stop the entry of any more of
them into the Tree States AS long the white and the
black were permitted TO live peaceaby together no
such law necessary; but as the AboIitionsts are
bent upon bringing us into constant collision and the
blacks especially into collision with the Law we
must remove all causes OF such collision by refusing
to have any more negroes come among
The first duty of society Is to itself to protect it,
self; and if strangers come into it, bringing nothing
but the seeds OF mischief and, perhaps, of civil war,
is not only just, but lndspensably necessary that
their coming should be prohibited. Society is State
Family; and as the Family turns from It's doors the
neighbor who would bring disturbance and disorder
into it. ought the State Family to turn from The
State like elements OF disorder dlscord Thus if
blacks can no longer come among US but upon the re-
petition OF Crstlana and Syracuse scenes thew must
no longer come. They must be prohibited from en-
terns the State. OF couse, it there no fugitIves
there will be no Fugitive Act TO be executed here:
and thus the Abotonsts will be gratiied and we all
shall be saved from the disgrace of treason, mobs
murder and MAIN. No village permits powder
magazine to be i'll the midst OF 1t. These runaway
negroes, it seems, are in some villages powder maya
zines, which blow otherwise peaceabe people into
that state of combustibllity which makes them burn
the Statute Laws, and even the Federal Constitution
itself. The best way OF getting along with such
combustible neighborsla to remove the powder maya
zlne.
1t is pretty we'll settled in the free States now that
the whites and the blacks not permitted to live on
anything like equal terms together. We have gwen
them, II Is true, what is called Llberty,-that is, we
spirits, their very souls We allow them scarcely one
OF the rights and privileges of citizens. We elect
them TO nothing, but degrade them in everything
We sedulously exclude them from trades. We drive
them out OF our school houses. We wilt not have
them IN our houses of God. We refuse even to go
down to the same grave yard with them. The less,
therefore, we have OF population that society
holds in such unulterable degradation certainly the
better for the State. Our prisons full Of hem,-
We treat them so badly as by our ag ncy to reverse
toward them the ordinance of Heaven which nculcates
the propagation of kind feelings for census
show that the black man is hardly allowed to IN
crease his species il these Norhern States The
istence among us of such people, we infer, there
FORE is so unnatural, that it ought not be
aged, if not forbid.
Besides, the runaway negroes that come to the free
States from the South, ii is we'll known, the worst
species of that sort OF population there; and if there
be a reason, therefore, for objectng to making this
country the Botany Bay ground of the white man OF
Europe there stlii better for directing to
make it the Botany BAY ground of the black man OF
the Southern States. The runaway slave ofteneT
runs away from some crime he has committed, In
sequence of the punishment apprehended for it, than
for any other cause. If the moral statistics of
way negroes could be collected, we will venture to
Ay that eighty out of hundred became runaways for
crimes, which, II they white men, would, under
the Constitution and the laws cause their surrender
without word OF fault finding or of excitement -
The negro steals, Tor, in the me dern vocabulary,
takeS) and, to avoid the punishment, sun away. Or,