Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-04-02
Uncle Tenn in Illinois.


passed by the Legislature of Illinois, to parallel
which, it says, in absolute cruelty to the African
the southern statute books may be searched in
vain:
First The law prohibits the bringing of any
negro or mulatto into the State-no matter wheth-
er they be bond OF free--on pain of heavy fine
and imprisonment, besides paying costs of prose
cuton. The apparent effect Of such provision
| is. practically to cut off all communication what
ever between the negro and Illinois white man
The black race is altogether prescribed.
! Second. If negro or mulatto is brought into
the State through the instrumentality of person
or persons not residing within It's boundaries, due
provision is made for bringing them to punishment
by process of requistion upon the Governor of the
State of which the offending party may be resi-
dent.
Third 1t is adludged high misdemeanor for
a negro or Mulatto, bond free, to come into the
State and remain ten days, with intention to re-
side there. The punishment prescribed is fine
of fifty dollars; and if the money is not paid
that is, if the negro has no money--the Sheriff of
the County is to advertise him Es5- TO BE SOLD
AT PUBLIC AUCTION. -kT On the day of
sale, he shall be transferred to any person who,
for the shortest term of service will pay the afore
said fine and costs, 'And Eve quote verbatim
here said purchaser shall hare the right o'conpel
said negro or muIatto to aCork for and serue out
SdtN ttUte. IL IHeTo Is any peICcpIIUle
here between the peculiar institution South and
the Illinois imitation Of it North it is certainly on
the side of the former. In the South the African
is only slaves in Illinois he is made both slave
and vagabond.
i Fourth. If a negro or mulatto don't leave the
State within ten days of the expiration of his time
of service he shall be liable for second prosecu
ton, involving penalty doubly severe, to be
acted by means of resale at public auction.
AZ n. l.o1c Il, ! IL.
] party or witness making complaint. The other
half goes to what is called Charity Fund, fund
for the relief of the Git is presumed white) poor
of the county.
.Sirth If any Justice of the Peace refuse to
issue the necessary process for arrest and sale,
already described special provision is made for his
punishment and the execution of the law by other
officers.
SerenM. Every person who shall have one
fourth negro blood shall be deemed mulatto.
There's few law you. The vote on it STOOD
Nays, &C. Only one affirmative vote in each house
from Northern Illinois 1t went into effect on the
18th of last month"; and IS now, therefore, in full
; operation.
The first thing that strikes one, on perusng this
enactment is the unanimity with which it seems
to have passed; and the next is very likely to
solve itself into the query, what is where was
the necessity for putting such an enactment on the
sta ute book?
5 The Express explains this follows Illinois,
it should be understood, then, has for long while
back been oyerrun bya class of so called free ne
groes, themost of them fugitives from the join
ing slave States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis-
souri,, of the most worthless description. The
poor-houses of the State, we told, have been
filled with them; for it they have neither the
8 physical ability or the disposition to earn living
for themselves. The ms-houses, consequently,
have been their only refuge, and the people have
f been so heavily taxed for their support that at
: Npgth, it seems, they came to the conclusion to
q endure it no longer. Poor white men, among
e others, said they found it hard matter to get
living for themselves and families, and did mt want
! to be compelled to support runaway negroes
! Hence the Bill in question. 1t relates only to
groes coming into tie State it will be seen, and not
to those already domciled on its soil. This fact
. ought to be borne in mind, for ii disrobes the en-
+ actment of that appearance of inhumanity which,
+ on afrst view, it would seem to have. Indiana
thought to be added, having been a severe suffer
h Ell from like incursions, had already law opera
ting very nearly with like severity. The Illinois
3 law is, on its face, unconstitutional; but the fac
Is that 1T Is laW, for the time being indicates state
d of thepublie mind there to which We have thought
s. it propefto invite attention.
= Whea have more space, (says the Express
- we may take occasion to examine the causes which
v have led to this extraordinary yet perfectly natu
raj and might have been-eXpected hostility of the
to North western States to free negroism. Mean
while we turn the Illinois enactment over to thu
N Hindest regards of the Northern Abolitionsts
e. tfSr tender hearted colleagues, the women O
h. Stafford House, with the suggestion that thei
e. guns ought to be turned away from the South 70
m little while, ID order to demosh this bold attemp
as to re-establish slavery in the North. For Uncl
( Tom in Illinois, as things now stand, is likely t.
A. be infinitely off, among the ''suckers
lie there than he would be in the tobacco, rice, o
~ Gotten fields little further South
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ol The total numbefot deaths in $50, in Mobile
rst says the 1riJauS4 was $685. If we give for thi
r. last year population of 80, 600, this would max
ID one death irthirty three-or the average duratio
OF of life thirty three years.
gs The average annual mortality of New York
one in nneteen of Philadelphia, one in twenty
nd seven, and of New Orleans, one in fifteen. Til
n would make the duration of life in Mobile NOR
50 than twice as great as it is in New Orleans.
off If we put the population of Mobile at g. 600
IA and according to the census taken in 1851 by th
nst assessors, it exceeded this number-we have a
en annual mortality of not quite one in twenty
we (which still makes the duration of life in Mobi
SIS nearly twice great as it is in New Orleans an
the greater than it is in any of the three other larg
OF cities above noted.
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-, We learn from the New Orleans Picoyune tn
ks IL bill has been introduced into the Senate of Lo
Aisiana establishing very elaborate system of t
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