The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-28
LOCAL MATTERS.

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| How THEY TaxATRD HIM.-In this city 10 hon
| est mulatto man wot of named Jack. He lived
very quietly and "a happily falls to the lot of most
mortas, Tor about two score years In the state of
enesimus. Jack is preacher of moderate abilities
among his colored brethren. In the lest year or
| two ne has been seized by the progressive spirit
Of the age, and bought himself at q nominal price
Not experiencing rise at home corresponding
70 his new relations, Jack concluded to take trip
| had never seen any of his friends there, but had
heard great deal of their love and sympathy for
| the black man and the freed man, and be looked
Tor very cordial reception. Jack has returned
| quite chapfallen His account of his trip "Nor.
rud" is doeful one. Those from whom he ex
pected greetings and inequalities, "did'nt come
| nigh" He couldn't find the folks that had done all
that hne talking. He did edge bis way into one or
| two pupits, "but them says he, "they wouldn't
allow me to take up collection As for caste
and cold shoulders at that Jack found to increase
pretty much in the proportion of the ascent OF lat
| l.ide. We give, in his own words, the whole his
| tory OF bis reception by his Northern friends
"They charged me like white man. but treated me
| Ike niger, and that way of doin' amt fair
The above is from the New Orleans Christian
Advocate asource wnicn dlvests il or al toe attrI
| butes of fiction. The treatment which "Jack' de-
| sclibes having received at the hands OF his
Northern friends" we have no doubt is strictly
| true. All the practical tests which have been ap
| piled to Abolitionism prove incoutestaby that
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| their sympathy for the negro race is all humbug
and hypocrisy. II consists of nothing more sub
stantiaI than words, empty words, and hypocriti'
cal cant When their particular favorites tn ir
woolly headed friends, approach them, and ask
for some practical evidence of the great love pro
fessed for them the Aminidab sleeks are not to be
found Jack expected greetings and hospitalities,
| but they didn't come nign." In the midst of
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sua kindness and 10 partake of some of the aboli-
ton doctrine that "s'l men (olack and white) are
created equal" he found all his dignied ante ipa
tons dashed to the ground. As he approached,
their love vanished. They charged his purse as if
| he had been white man, but treated HIM like
| niger"
Jacks picture is faithful exempliication of the
character of the Abolitionis.s. TIER professions
ofove for the black are all hollow and deceitfdI-
| They have not much genuine regard for the ne.
gro the Southe, has; and this all their prac-
teal conduct attests. With all their professions,
they do not treat him with as much Kindness res.
pect, and lberality, as the Southern does
| This is fact apparent to all who have informed
| themselves upon the subject, and who have wit.
| messed the miserable and degraded character of
| the negroes at the North Tleir condition in the
aggregate, is nhnit y worse there than it is here.
They are compelled to struggle harder for living,
receive less for their labor; less sympathy, care,
| and support in Sickness in all respects far re-
moved practically from equality with the white
ian as they are at the South; and are, while
amongst their peculiar friends generally poor out
casts, unheeded, despised, and less happy, than
| here.
| fruf is q of nvr,
drels at the North, who make use of Abo litionism
| to effect their selfish purposes Taking adj
vantage of the preadices which their own false
hoods about Southern slavery have created in the
minds of the people who have no means of ascer-
tanning tie truth, they prey upon their deluson
| and sympathies in various ways. 1t is made reg
ulsr business pursuit Political demag osues trade
upon it, hypocritical reigionists use it, and the
| crafty employ it to swindle old women and the
Ignorant. Ii these Jealous phiianth ropsts have 30
much sympathy for the negro race, why is it not
expended upon them at their own doorss Thew
have ample materials at home for its expenditure.
it they had any sincere desire to ameorate the con-
dltion of the black. Aye, and if they were half as
vigilant in search of white slavery as they are for
black slavery, they would find plenty of room for
it's exercise upon the as ell as the other. The
white domes.ics OF North are termed sseryantsn
and treated as servants. A: Lovejoy's hotel in
| New FORK, where white Sc. wants are altogether
employed cards are nailed upon the doors through.
| out the house, which we read ourselves few DAVIS
ago, In theae words "f the servants of this house
are not polite and o5ede'at our guests will please
| give notice to the Proprietor" And at other no.
tells in New York, where white men and good
looking white girls are also exclusively EMPLOYED
as walters, We saw stuck up cards in the same lar
guage Decent looking white men and handsome
| width girls, termed Servants" and commanded TO
be "obed ent" and polite !" We also with essed in
a puohc hiring room, on one of the NEST public
streets In that city, about 100 white men and girls
sitting In rows on benches, wstng for persons IN
Call and hire them, precisely in the manper seer
wants" are hired out here. In the papers of that
| city, too, are to be daily advertisements for
| white servants
| We refer to these facts to show what we bo
| ieVe, that black or white slavery exists everv
| wnere; and that In the North, uhue servants are
treated with no more respect, and no more regard
| shown Tor their feelings, than black servants re-.
ceve ct the South. For ourselves, we prefer black
| to white slavery.
| STEALING WATERNELoNs.- The continued case
OF Miles Taey, Charged with stealing watermelons
| IRON Josiah Woodson, came up before the Mayor
yesterday morning The theft wss proven and
| Ial!ey was committed for examination before the
Hastings Court during tie November term.
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