Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-13
RESCUE OF FREE NEGROES.

MISS Janet Henderson, of Virginia,
emancipated a negro woman and four
children. She bequeathed $500 to nav
the expenses of removing them to q free
State. Mr.. William Horner, of Far
quier county, Virginia, took charge of
these negroes, and carried them as far as
Western Pennsylvania on his way to
Wisconsin, in which State he had pur-
chased farm.
The Abolitionists of Allegheny City,
seeing white man going into free
State with colored persons under his
charge, assumed that he was a slave
breeder, propagandizing an odious insti-
tuition. They thought that this was the
advance of that great army of invasion
with which the South are to overrun and
subjugate the North, as foretold by the
mouth Of Prophet Greeley, chapters L
nj, inclusive. So the iberators seized on
this poor woman, thus set free and fur
nished with money ty charitable wo-
man. She cried piteously as they took
her away, and implored those around
her to permit her to 60 with her master:
they, however, paid no attention to her
entreaties, and carried her off in tri-
umph.
Mr.. Horner, relieved of the duty i'm
posed upon him, pursued his way to Wis
consin. The philanthopists succeeded in
depriving the woman and children of the
money, friendship, and protection pro-
vided for them by their bene6cent friends.
We ask those who, as editors and states
men, are responsible for molding public
sentiment upon public subjects, to reflect
how rapidly they are succeeding in break
ing up all comfy of feeling between the
people of different sections. This rescue
grew out of no friendship for the slave,
but hostility toward the master; q cheap
opportunity occurred to insult and injure
an unprotected stranger, and with ma
lignant cowardice they ayailed themselves
of it.
If this wanton cruelty to the poor ne
groeS had arisen from sincere interest
in their welfare, how easy it would have
been to have verified the statements of
Mr.. Horner! How could he possibly
have enslaved negro in Wisconsin
We ask the same influential interest how
it can possibly be expected that Southern
people can manifest their attachment to
faithful servants by acts Of manumis-
sion? The AbolitioniSt has rendered
more stringent the free negro code of the
South. The free States of Ohio, Illinois
and Indiana exclude them by legal or
constitutional requirements. The latter,
We believe, prescribes by clause of her
m hot hol1
become citizens of that State. Ii was
the adoption of the same principle, by
the State of Missouri, which occasioned
the difficulties of her admission, and re-
suited in the Compromise of lS20-2l.
The District of Columbia has, we be-
lieve, imposed tax of some $50 per
head upon immigrant free negroes. Slaves
cannot be manumitted to remain in the
South. They are virtually excluded
from other States to which it would seem
they had right cf access. Their con-
dition in the Eastern cities is what has
teen thousand times described. They
are vicious aCa destitute. What then is
the object of the agitators? Can it be
the good of henegro! Every fact shows
that it has resulted so far in his injury.
1t can therefore only be scheme to &C
quire power by creating sectional hos
tility under this feeling the numerical
power of the North will be used to secure
to the agitators all the honors and ad-
vantaces of the common Union, whilst
the Southern people are to be subjugated
to the disqualification of an ignominious
stigma, and excluded forever from any
participation in the administration of the
common government.-Patriot.