The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-16
From the New YORK Day Book.
NEGROES AND IRlsHMES.


FROM the New Yok Day Book.
NEGROES AND IRlsHMEE.
The Tribune this morning endeayors TO chow that
groes and rishmen exactly alike in impulses feelings
wants sympahie instincts and sentiments Here is what
il says about negroes running away from their masters
The emigration northward now going on from yir.
GINA springs from exactly the causes with the emil
grafton from Ireland to America and that has the
Virginia emigration viii be likely TO 90 with increas-
ing energy, Till few years hence il may reach point
quite beyond anything now complained Of nor indeed do
imagine that any laws other contyanees can check
ill the fire begins 10 die ont for want OF material The
negroes like the Irish find themselves very uncomtora-
bic at home Hard work no wages and the frequent use
OF the cowhde make them uneasy These The negroes re-
aze To be dsn2reenbe things without the necessity OF any
abolition emsssry put the idea into their heads They
have heard too, like the Irsh Of free country where
wages are high where one man, 10 the eye OF the law at
least is just good another and where that Fgnian
distinction Of persons into the two great classes OF cow
hdes and COW hded is totally unknown. Neither the ne
groes the Irish particularly well informed about
the geography social condition of foreign parts but the
idea Of land ofpome city Of refuge is so congenia
to suffering humanity that its existence being once sug-
gested the notion OF il duses itself from heart TO heart
and mind TO mind in an almost miraculous manner The
slave population throughout the entire South are now per-
ieey aware OF the existence OF such land and 1t IS the
aspiration Of every suffering soul among them, OF every
entorprsug courageous, nohesprted man, woman, and
child among Them make their escape that land. Ey
cry motive which operated upon the Irish to emgrae
! operates upon the negroes with ten-old force
And the Tribune would like to have them come here in
the way would it. and nfuse themselves into our
working population just the Irish do There pract
cabity for you
But there more absurd comparison or state
than the above put forth since the world bsgan The
idea that negroes love freedom lrshmen love it, enjoy
it as Irishmen enjoy IL and seek 1t Ishnen seek it, is
as peposterous anything possibly be- The Tribune
might well tell that the children of New England
would all run away from their parents II they
restrained by arbitrary law, as tosay that
the negroes would away from their masters It no
outside influence and misrepresentation OF aboonsts
were resorted to TO induce them.
Just look at the facts in the case There are in Virginia
900 free negroes and in Maryland 81 ooohat s to say
there in these States 10000 negroes nominaly free
free go away migrate North West and better their
condition. just when they please. But they have nothing
like the freedom the Irish have in Ireland. They cannot
vote they cannot hpd real estate their testimony Is not
received in tho Of justice they cannot travel or 20
about place place without pass from respccta-
bic white they not allowed 10 be out after dark
congregate together to hold meetings nor in fact TO do
anything enjoy any of the privileges of white citizens
Now, then TO al these $4,000 negroes--these men and
coniesscdy off in every respect than the
Massachusetts, generously offers asylum. She
has proclaimed to the world that all negroes within her
borders shall possess the rights and enjoy the
privileges Of white Sue says to the negro, Come
aud be of us Why do not these free negroes OF Yr
gina aud Maryland go? Not OF them starts
of them ask think of leaving their present
condition. where they treated oucasts for the free
dom and equality offered them by Massachusetts Every
inducement is held out by New England laws, and the
laws of The State where they are urge them TO depart yet
not one of them will bulge inch.
The oppression of the Germans and Irish home bears
comparison that of the free negroes of Maryland and
Virginia and the privileges and rights offered
here the negroes that to the Germans and Irish
yet the latter leave their homes the and
pouring in upon by the hundred thousand whilst the
negroes do not think Of moving rod. They will not even
into ylvnnia nor with all the inducements
held ont by Massachusetts, make effort TO go TO Bos-
! ION. We should ike to some OF our abolition
changes attempt explain this popularity Of the negro
and tell what makes this difference between the white
and black man. In opinion, it is good deal more
than skin deep
There another point which needs explanation also il
is that touching the negros Improvement after obtaining
his freedom We have yet whose moral or
physical condition was improved by migration from
slavery in the South to freedom in the North
The Tribune says that like the Irsh they send back
word TO their friends telling them how much better off
they here than "a home" We do not believe word
Of it. We that was better Off and do not
believe the editors OF the Tribune saw such a one
Instead of lettering their condition. and mproving" as
the Irish do it is notorious and beyond dispute they
become vagabonds thieves and drunkards and end their
days in and misery The Tribune knows that this is
so. 1t has acknowledged openly that they 'ndoen
mproyideut servile, and centious.' Yet now, within
month Of the time when it published this of hom
out and compares them to the Irish in morals sentiment
feelings motives and instincts We think Irish fellow
citizens will feel obliged to the Tribune for its compliment
The truth is negroes not like lrishmen, nor like any
other white men and it for the unceasing efforts
of the abolitonis steal them away from their masters
and the diaboca misrepresentation and lies told to them
by the tbevng sneakng white who go about among
them talking about the blessing Of liberty the slaves
the South would not leave their homes half the
free negroes of Virginia would migrate Massachusetts,
i From the Bangor (1e.) Democrat.
Il non. ISRAEL WASHBURN'S POSITION
II In letter the editors OF the Bangor Journal dated
the 18th OF June, 1855 the representative Congress
from the fifth congressional district thus defined his posi-