New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-27
OLD TINES IN THE JERSEYS.

communities have secured the removal Of great social
evils. Tie review IL susges i've Of rebuse To thoee
Who cry out sgspst the progress Of the race toward
better things because il may chance 10 interfere with
the plane VI fhe selfish.
We were much entertained q few days since tn
resdiIg a number of The her Jersey Gazette, pub
I.hed at Trenton, June H. 1851. One NJ the hrst
things which arrested attention was the sdver-
tiseuent Of " Gerhsm johnson and james Drake
1t ives head ed "Elizabetbtown Stage Wagon which
is conpIacenuy described as a ''eonrenH"s Tying
"roggor with four hores at the end Of every ~enty
" miles, suitable for carrying pSsengers aud their
"bsggage" The subscri ,ers' "do engage to go
two trips in every week from Philadelphia to Eliza
beh,o wn with this flying stage after the goth of
"May. l7sl, and so continue I'LL timely notice lie given
"to the pubIck VIII set ont from the Bunch OF
"Grapes, in ThId.st., between Market and A'ch-
SIS on every M,noay and Tnursday morning pre-.
cely a, the risiI Of the sup breakfast a. the Four
Lanes Eud shift horses, cross the New Ferry, just
above Trenton Falls, dine at Jacob Bergens at
" Princeton shift horses, lodge at Brunswick, the
next day at Elzabethtown at 10 o'clock in the fore
"poonW This was only in the summer, when the
roads were good. Winter travelling was then quite
difTeren, affair.
The return trip on Tuesday and Friday was on the
stage Wagon "beg leave to return their thanks to
d" all Gentlemen and Ladies who have been pleased to
favour them with their custom aud hope for a con-
tDusnce Of the same, &c" Seven,y-four years
have changed the speed snd facilities OF travel and
how much better we csa realize by comparison with
the above adver iseme1t the s)me SIX or eight
railway trains which BOW daily between New
York ana Phasdephis, and the time consuned-not
precs.l y from the rising Of the sum until 10
o'clock in the forenoon of the next day for only
the distance bet~eeD Philadelphia and Eiiz .bethtown
Point, but only some four hours! This is progress.
There IL another class of advertisements which
might answer for the Palmetto chivary For instance,
this:
ITO BE SOLD-By the subscriber in Cross
i viek. a general assortment Of Mefch.ndi.e Cedar
Boards and Shingles Al,o, healthy EEGao GIRL about
IA yesrs Old &c.
Here lie another:
THIRTY SPANISH MILLED DOLLARS
stS@ 21 n.S Ss '1s'sS ss
d che. h,h fir completion &c
sano, &c &C. Ps-ssj FELLOW would have been .dvs
sed before tut h. h.d dct Of .bseptns of for xo
three week at time and returning home' N" 'aoasn'
be might do the same now.
The "trick Of this fellow Jack seventy years
ago. seems to have many accurate imitators among
the fellows of our time, especially of Jacks last
" absentne himself and not returning home"
Another advertisement in the same paper offers
" One Thousand Continental Dollars Reward " " for
"securipg 60 that his master may have him again,
ga gro man nsmed Toney, abou, IS years of age"
Another advertisement offers Eight silver Dollars
Reward" ITO any one who will take up and secure
In any GAoL, 60 that his master may gethin again.
IAN apprentice lad named William Worstili, about
"le wears of age" &c remarkably fond Of play
" ing on fife by trade miller" &c, &c. NIL
lers and very good ones too run away at the South
yet.
TIE papers Of that date abound in advertisements
OF this sort ard show very much the same sort Of
slave catching rhetoric gsnishes the columns
Of our Southern newspapers only not quite so highly
coo,ed. Even in New Jersey, where farmers ploSed
and boed in the same corn-felds, moved in the sane
meadows, and resped in the same grain fields with
their slaves the psiarcbal institution affected slaves
spslsAsaHi-d o.is- fo- q change OF scaSos
change Usually made " between two days" The
masters too were moved with strong desires to restore
the wanderers back to home and happness. And
this reminds us of an incident which occurred in those
good old times A slave had run from Ne w-Jersey,
and was traced by his master to Connecticut and ar
rested but bis coored brethren gathered round the
MASTER end managed to jos'le him from his grip on
Sambo, to whom they added the exhortation to
max bis niggers heels fly" while they entertained
the master-s very safe business since the NewJer-
sey shareholders did not fport pistols and bowie
knives. 1t is enough to Say that Sambo made pro-
| ftabe improvement Of the exhoration! But even in
tbose days, so deeply were many disgusted With the
iniquity of negro slavery, and its barefaced contra
dicton of the Declaration Of Independence, that they
refused to advertise pursue their runaway slaves
| In March, 1885, the Legislature Of New-Jersey
passed can act to Prevent the Importation Of
"Slaves into the State Of New-Jersey," in which
they the extravsgant language, "the principles
"of justice and humanity require that the barbarous
"custom Of bringing the unoffending Africans from
their native country and connections into state
"of ssvery, ought to be discountenan,ed, and ss
"soon as possible prevented and sound policy also
"requires that the importation Of
slaves into this State, from any other State
"try rhaterr ought to be prohibited under certain
restrictions" Section LIST inaicts penalty of ESQ
for bringing slaves into New. jersey imported from
Africa since l77s; and Section I'd penalty for
brir gng slaves into the State imported from Africa
| before l776.
The supplement OF this Act passed In 1885, almost
anticipates the National Act, denouncing the slave
trade Is piracy In seizng under forfeiture any
sci with its sppurenances aid cargo, fitted on. for
the slave trade. The filth section Of the supplement
puts negroes and mulsttoes accused Of crime on an
equal footing with white skinned rsscals, &c.
The sixth section contains teis memorable sentence
all honor to the fathers of New Jersey: "And be it
further enacted BY the authority aforesaid that every
"peron or persons within this State, who shall be the
"owner or owners Of any negro or mulstto slave or
"slaves servant or servants, for LIE or years, born