Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-01-22

nothing elses ears hear other sounds than those
produced by external developments, and his mind is /
SO warped by the great controlling idea, that the
mysteries of the inner world, that shape and fashion
the grades of communities, passed by inexpIca
ble We can understand how men are betrayed into
these preudices and we know how hardi is for them
to shake off opinions formed under circumstances in
no fair decree favorable to the formation of impair
tial Judgment Men should pierce into the rationale
of human action the motives also the justice which
have impelledthat action the reasons which have Civ
en- that action birth the laws ofanaogy and differ
ences that determine the dverses of the senses, and
the fraes the fckleness, the Inconsistencies of hu
man nature, arising from the progressive mutations of
human feeling and reason. When these are under
Stood men never grope through the bye-ways Of hfe
They stand upon the highway Of human progress, as
capable oflooking forward as behind, and they can
measure at glance the position God has assigned to
them upon this earth. That they the Master-race
evidences thick leaves upon hilltops lie scat
tered around US. That they intended by the Gre
ator to have and hold in bondage the of Ham, is
evidenced by the Scriptures and by the moral govern
of the universe in this, that the system has
listed nearly far back the record Of man runs and
it has been frowned upon by God, nor has it
er lost province to those who upheld it, neither will
it, The opinion of the Boston writer is not only fall
lacious in ITSELF but becomes braness against the
recorded history of Mankind.
1t is neither wise nor necessary to the defence of
slavery, for prove that the negro is better in
state ofbondage than of freedom We have pointed
at the social condition of the negro in the free States
and proved time and again. that the slave is the better
fed the better cared for of the His spirit
mora aarneStIv ba stands
before God and men, better man, and purer cand-
date for among the hosts of heaven than your
boosted Boston free negro
What is the condition of the negro under social sys
tens entirely their own creation Let the Boston
preacher search their records for answer. Wehave
been able to find little strengthen desire colo
nize them. Under the most favorable circumstances
giving them the advantages of white missionaries,
they have presented claims our respect-nothing
to admire. Their instincts are low their passions al
most entirely sensual and by nature they are but re-
move between the monkey and the man. Their mag
nations are ever grotesque, and they have especial
relish for scenes ofdebauchery and beastal graica
ton. Education is lost upon them as people They
are incapable of any high state of culture, and when
ever the depressing hand of the white is raised off
of them, they drop back into a semi-barbarous cond-
LUn, dS their state ne beasts OF the Held
were designed for some wise and benifcent purpose,
and was every created thing That man has failed
to appropriate all to his pse, may be owing to the
mperection of those faculties with which he is en-
dowed. The negro, in our opinion, was intended by
the laws ofGod to fill in the economy ofhuman life a
position similar to that assigned domestic animals
The white man is responsible to heaven for his treat
ment not only of his horse but of his negro There
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the master who negects those duties enoined by the
Scripture upon his household The master has rs
duties, and to the delinquent the day of account will
be fearful one.
If the negro was designed for any position in the
scale of being other than that which he now ana for
ages has filled, we should be pleased to see eyi-
dences oft. liza state Of freedom was his earthly
heritage, and its the design Of God to throw uon
the white man of the responsibilities of cy;z-
ing and chrstianzing him, we may ask how II IS that
these preachers of freedom square their universal
creed with the erocous and bloody history of the ne
gro race Why has He laid upon them a mark-dis-
tnguishing them from other people, by making them
obedien to the higher prestige that NANTES over the
brow of the white man Can the Boston man put his
hand where his heart should be- and say that an i'm
passble gulf does not divide the white from the black
race What is the position ofthe negro in Boston
Is he your equal in social advantages Is he not ex-
cluded from your churches your schools, your work
shops and this too by the development of those pas
sons which call for the exercise of other remedies for
their repression than the slow process of the law
But there is another view Of this subject which, had
we the inclination present, would cover this Boston
missionary with confusion and disgrace. 1t is this
There is in Boston, there is in every other North
ern city and large town, system Of white slavery ten
thousand times abhorrent to man. than ANYTHING
belonging to negro slavery because it is more unnaur
al Talk to US about deception, and debasement, and
the injustice of slavery Why, we saw with our ow
eyes, in the city of Cncinnatti where business called
us in the winter two years ago. more misery want and
human suffering within twenty days, than we have
witnessed in Mississippi in nearly eighteen years resi-
dence. We saw men and women, girls ana bows.
white at that thiny clad that were astonshed at
seeing them upon the streets Hunger drove them
forth in pursuit of food and the cold blasts of winter
must have racked their feeble frames We saw moth
ers with nursing infants in their arms, nesting be-
meath tatered coaks and half worn shawls threading
the streets with rapid stides bearing from the large
saughterhOuses oals for food that we of the South
who have SLAVES 10 feed, cast to our dogs We saw,
young girls and unmarried women traversing the
streets, over ice and snow, bitter cold December
day, oh covering to their legs, and with shoes that
did not keep their naked feet from the shar points
sented by lce We saw in one pork-packing estab-