Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-04-18
rFrom the Richmond Post.
Mrs. Stowe and the Colored Men r.
Boston.

Boston.
We find the following in the Baltimore Times:
Eat late meeting of what they call in that
Slate, ''Ihe Massachusetts State Council of Col
ored Americans the follow ing resolutions we've
adopted:
Resoiped, That when Mrs. Stowe promised
The colored people OF this country large do,ia-
ton from the funds collected from her friends and
ours in Europe. for the establishment OF a school
adapted 10 our wants, reioiced in the hope of
great and lasting gooL to our race from that noble
enterprise.
~"tResolped, That her late refusal TO make TINT
contribution III aid of our elevation, has lille d us
with unieigned regret aud modification and COM
PEELED US TO believe that she has been acted upon
by other influences than the dictates OF Ler own
good heart"
"Comment is unnecessary"
1t is very true, as the Times says, that comment
is unnecessary; and yet the circumstance suggests
vast deal oil it. Here see q woman who hns
made an Immense fortune out OF the African race;
has traded in their msfortunes the tune OF scores
of thousands; has set up their miseres 10 the
highest bidder; has trafficked in their blood tlans-
muted their signs into gold and made their tears 4.
source of endless revenue. Yet when she is ask
ed 10 beStow some of the gold thus Obtained to
liere actual practical suffering, she coldly turns
her back, and says she has nothing 10 live! Ii is
nothing more Than We expected, and if the .tSlule
Council of Coored Americans expected nything
more, they must be maryel,ouSly deficient in Nil
knowledge OF the true springs of human, aud es-
peclalIy oil abolition, conduct. What dues Mrs.
S1oWe cdIe-Wuut uoeS datTlSOn care-what 10 all
the abolitionists care for the African race! Tell
us exactly how much she or they can make out of
them, and we can then tell the exact amount Of
their sympathy. 1t IS commodity upon which
they place market value-its value is estimated
by dollars and cen'S-it rises or falls, like every
other merchan;able article, according TO The inya-
tlablelaw OF demand and supply. What has Mrs
Stowe ever done for the colored man? Where is
he evidence of her having redeemed one nom
slavery! Me-venture 10 say that it cannot be
found, for the simple and sufficient reason that 1t
does not exist. IEf
Such persons as Mrs Stowe and her companions
have done more injuryto the colored race than all
the hard masters that ever existed. They have,
at every step, riveted more tightly the chains of the
slave, and rendered more ;intoerabe The condition
OF the free .colored man in the Stateso of the South
They have given rise TO nnumerable iealouSies
which would otherwise never have existed, caused
the passnge of innumerable laws which would
otherwise never have been enacted, rendered the
slave disobedient and neslectfu of duty nd fore.
ed the master 10 tighten The reins Of authority con-
trary to his own inclination. Such have been the
blessed fruits of abolitionism, so far as the slave is
Individually and directly concerned. But what
care the agitators for that? His good is the last
thing they iave in view. Bent e ltirey upon the
pursuit Of their Objects be is regarded only as
The dice with which 10 play their game. IL they
could, Tomorrow, secure the abolition OF slavery
in every State in the Union, they would not do it,
ltwould be taking the bread out OF their oy
it would be destroying the trade by which they
manage to support existence.
i--------'.You take'My life 1s-fts'
"heh you DO lake the means whereby Iive.''