Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-15
The Shame and Di.rrnee of Amerion.

The principle of Liberty is as old as the uni
verse and as sacred as Divine truth. All that
is dear and great in this world, all that faith
promises itself Of blcssedness i'll the next world
is Unidentified with it. Liberty lost, and man
is no longer an evidence of being the noblest
work of the Creator. So said the inspiration
of the poet more than three thousand years
ago; so says every lyrical or inspired tongue
at this moment, and so Will it ever say But
this principle is denied to more than three mil
lion human beings in this country, which pre-
tends to be the model republic, the asylum of
the oppressed, the harbinger Of a moral and
material triumph yet unknown to history.
As painfully as we are impressed with the
deep and barbarous wrongs attending the ordi-
nary manifestations of Slavery, every now and
then some single incident turns up which
makes the system appear yet more inhuman,
demoraizing and shameless. This may be the
account of some cruelty-some lashing, burn
lng-some hell-throe of the kind, which a
Legree or other oligarch of the South inhicts
on his mechanics and laborers whose skins are
of African tinge, or, if as white as their mas
ter, OF an outlawed blood. We believe, indeed
all these chivalric- drawn distinctions of color
to be he-a lie as deep as cruelty and decep-
ton could utter. When mulatto chIld is
born, and when still further the blood is di-
luted through successive generations, until
the expert alone can tell the difference be-
tween the mixed blood and the pure-and the
fire, and ambition, and intellect of three or
four white ancestors course in the veins of
their des9ent-and then that victim OF con-
cupiscence is hammered by the auctioneer from
one master to another, it is false to saw that
the same sort Of democrats buy and sell a
human being would not buy one another if
they could. The Grecian gentleman did SO
the Roman gentleman did so,a and the gem
tleman of medieval Europe didso; all bless
ed with letters and arts with thepoetry of
Homer, the statuary of Phidias, the mathe-
matlcs OF Euclid, the architecture of En-
manuel Stenlbach. 1t is not mere culture
which eleyates man. Thare is something
higher than that. It'll sentiment Of Justice
OF the value of the golden rule, of the brother
hood Of humanity.
Of the kind of incidents which startIe +be
mind with fresh sense of the enormitv Of
Slavery, take the following handblll. of akind
which we suppose to be no rarity, at least in
the more southern Slave States. 1t has been
forwarded to us by correspondent, and is
strictly authentic:
"NEGRo DOGS.
The undersigned respectfully Informs His frierd al
the public generally, that he has taken charge of RnT
Perrys celebrated PACK OF NEGRO DOGS for the pre-
sent year, and will give his undivided attention 10 The
business Of hunting and catching runaway nepros
call will be promptly attended to when am nat rrofesS
ally engaged. Terms as foows
Hunting per day. ..............,.s5 m
Catching runaways.. ..............25 90
INVARIABLY CASH, OR ITS EQUIVALENT
Persons under the necessity of calling on me will ,so
give me fair showing at the trail as it will he grr ~
their interest to do And persons at distance Iii
have their business promptly attended to by G1rwarI; q
letter through the Post Office a
Marshall, (Texas.) Feb. IL, 1854
Our correspondent who dates from anotber
town in the same State, says:
81 send you herewith the professional card
of one of our slave catchers. would remarL
by way of information, that the docs snor ~,
Of are unusually severe. Not lone since
saw slave pass through the streets Of th;s
place, who had been captured by mack he
longing here, and his raiment and dnskv HID
were ruptured and rent to a shocking dagraa
Now it is in vain for Union SAVING Co..
mittees, dough- faced white mechanics and la
borers, or any Of the caitiif army at the North.
to gloss over such facts as these. There stands
the South-look at her Virginia, the birth
place of Washington, sunk to the level Of a
mere negro breeding territory, and those slaves
the most valuable that have the largest mix
tlre Of the blood Of the first families. Cen
tlemen of Virginia are now engaged in rear
ing mulattos to be sold and hunted by blood
hounds as above professionally advertised
A white rufian buys slaves within a stones
throw Of Mount Vernon or Monticello for a