The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-11-23
THE "C0L0RED CITIZENS" OF THE FREE
STATES.

No inconsderable element of the northern
fusion is the enthusiastic manner in which the
free negroes assist the twin treasons of abolition
and bigolry. In such States as confer the right
oisutirage upon the blacks, the latter are to a
man against the democrats and the know
noIbings OF Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts,,
and New Hampshire, inaugura,ed their success
year ago by still further increasing the lacii-
ties 10 ''colored citizrns,' and by building the
most offensive barriers between all white men
VINO intended avaAng themselves OF the bene-
fits Of our naturalization laws aud the right of
voting. The gratitude Of the former has known
no bounds, especially as there is reason TO IN
ducr them 10 hopes that political equality can
not long be conceded without glevatng them 10
social level with their benelactors. As an
eviGeHce Of tie orthodoxy OF the Massachusetts,
Africans on the Seward and know-nothiog
platforms, the following resolution, which we
hnd III the Boston Post, Will be interesting
The meeting was held in Boston, at the Twelfth
Baptist church, and the resolution was offered
by the colored leader, Dr. Rock, and adopted
by acclamat;on Of his brethren
"Resotged, That the recent aggressjons of
the slave power, in the admission of Texas, the
passage OF The fugitive slave act, the admission
Of slavery into California, the burning ofGrey-
town, the rendition Of two unofiendng AIassa-
chos-iiS citizens INTO slavery, the repeal OF tht-
Missouri Compromise, the murderous outragys
on the persons and property OF northern free
men IN Kansas, and The scanda!onS decision of
Judge Kane in the Wheeler slave case, aN call
alona 10 The treemn Of the NORTH 10 form
great Pofifi'ai parfF fb}iy committed, ,rfhao:
coaceatment md vtbom Compromise TO free
dom
And now for the cap-sheaf TO this coored
column, furnished in the following extract from
the Express. the know-nothing organ at Cleve-
land, Ohio, which rejoicpS over the assistance
rendered by the negroes to the dark order al
the election in that city:
''The coiored population generally rotpd for
the .4meyicah ticket day before yestYdag In
this they showed good judgment, and they will
have no occasion to regret their action They
rejoice rifh us in San1's triananh oper a agqak,
corrupt Nebroska administration; the coIored
people are nofires, and much better citizens
tban the hords Of Cathoiic hish ,cho are yearlu
foating 10 our shores"
The free negro ofOhio is ''much better" than
the alien-born citizsnl This is s.American
doctrine" in Cleveland. II goes even further
than the doctrine of the know-hothing Massa-
chnse;ts house of representatives, which has
passed bill asserting the equality of negro chill
dren with the children of poor white persons,
whether native or foregn-born
O. Mas. SwIssnELM on BABy Snows-Mrs. !
Sw;sshelm. has been TO 'sbaby show,'' and
rather ntimates, if wr-can understand her, that
she don't quite like them. Here is what she
says, at any rate:
''The poor dupes of mothers are 10 be pitied /
rather than blamed. Some of them are decent,
innocent women, who have no definite idea of
toe light in which they place themselves, and |
most are too nearly idiotic to be accountable
But i is not right that humanity should be de-
graded thus in these persons: nobody expects any
respect for humanity from Barnum. The par /
ties really TO blame for these exhibitions are the
city authorities " ho grant these licenses, and I
people OF ordinary sense who go 10 see any
thing 50 totally devoid Of attractions Ugly, /