Washington sentinel., 1855-01-11

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We reserve for future consideration the
| other features of the bill.
RUNAWAY NEGROES AND TBE "TRI-
BUNE..
1t is a beautiful and benefcent arrange
nient of Providence, that when one kind of
food fails, the human family, with natural
and preservative pliancy, fall back on another
kind; that when one pleasure or one resource
fails, they take, like duck to the water, or
bird to the air, to another.
Mr.. Horace Greeley, the Editor of the New
York Tribune, is an exempifcation Of this
truth. He has an appetite that the stomach
of a wolf would revolt at, but that a buzzard
might envy. He can feed on almost anything
The more loathsome and putrid the food, the
better suited it is to his stomach. But, some
times, in cold weather, the buzzard suffers for
its favorite kind of food, and has to fall back
on another and less agreeable kind So is it
| with the Tribune, the buzzard Of the American
press. When every thing else fails it, such as
| Fourierism, cases Of Grim. con- savage fights,
and scenes of debauchery and pollution it
makes it its business to hunt through the
southern press for advertisements. of runaway
negroes and notices of sales of negroes
That delectable sheet has lately engaged
most industriously in that occupation, ano IN
its Issue of the 9th instant, garnishes its pious
columns, with pictures Of runaway slaves, to
which are appended advertisements, offering
rewards for their delivery. 1t devotes three
mortal columns to the subject. It's great argu-
ment in favor of Abolitionism, seems to be
that runaway slaves are advertised IT seems
to be needless of the fact, that pAite appren-
tices are qualified slaves, and that achite ap-
wentices are advertised as runaways in its
own columns. Instincts are wonderful things.
and pictures are striking things, ard it may be
that Mr.. Horace Greely's dislike to advertise
ments of negro runaways, results from the
fact, that he has discovered, what is plain to
any one who has ever seen him, that he him.
SELF as he walks along, barring the color, bears
close resemblance in form and carriage to
the representations that are usually given of
runaway negroes. The conductor of the Tn
bune, while a man Of talents, is morally and
and physically caricature of humanity, and
it is but natural and instructive that he should
dislike caricatures.
But to take off the edge Of his attacks on
the South, and to spike his northern, abolition
gun, we quote the following (omittng the pic
tures) from New York paper, the Day Book.
That journal says:
Greely on Niggers.
The Tribune this morning contains mum.
Der Of advertisements for the sale of negroes
which it has industriously culled from its south
ern exchanges. Ii is very well known by all
acquainted with slaveselling at the South,
that at least two-thirds Of it is merely form
in order to make the title to the servants legal.
and that it does not embrace the practical sep
aration Of families, &C., to that extent as agi.
tators at the North would have the people be-
lieve. But suppose families are separated are
they not also separated at the North? Chill.
dren leave their parents at very early age here
sometimes, and nothing is thought of it. The
poor father who has large family Of children
| about him cannot support them all, and he is
| forced to put them somewhere TO earn living
! for themselves. So that the most that free.
| dom has to boast over slavery is at best but a
name, for practically the result is the same
under both systems.
We mention these facts for the purpose Of
showing the foolishness OF these people who
are continually prating Of the excessive sever.
ity Of slavery, and magnifying the blessings Of
| liberty--not that we undervalue the latter TO
people who have the capacity to understand
them, or that we would excuse the exercise of
the former over race which is capacitated to
govern itself.
1t may be well here to show how our Boston
neighbors used to advertise negroes few years
since. Doubtless the advertisements we give
below, which are cut from the old Boston
Evening Post" may be the foundation of the
antislavery novels which are 50 abundantly
| produced in that locality at the present time.
Did not our ferocious anti-slavery friends never
think Of the fact that while they are consigning
slave holders TO eternal destruction they are in
| truth placing their own immediate fathers and
mothers in the same position? Massachusetts,
| appears to have been SO incensed at the aboli.
ton Of the slave trade by the SOUTH that she
| Immediately commenced crusade against il,
| and has kept il up ever since.
We present the following as specimen OF
New England literature few years since, and
trust that Mr.. Greeley will study the subject
and give us bis opinions upon it:
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.--Ran away
on the 10Th instant, from James Dwyer, Of Ports.
mouth, negro man named Scipio, about 40 years
Of age, subtle, well set fellow, feet 10 inches
high, speaks good English.
| SIX DOLLARS REWARD-Ran away from
his master, Samuel Hall, Of Portsmouth, on Tues.
gay last, negro man named Seneca, a thick
set lenow, about thirty-six years Of age, five
feet eight inches high, with q scar over his ,eft
| eye.
q Mullato Slave, belonging TO Jerethemeei Bow.