The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-08

~ ignorant Of the negro nature they ALL nearly all
aboonsts while in New York and other cities where
negroes eongegate in considerable numbers and they
thus obtain practical knowledge of the but
few aboitonists all Indeed, il is universally
and exactly that precise proportion to the number
Of negroes in any northern community, and therefore
knowledge of the negro nature will such community har-
monte in sentiment with the South while on the
trary proportion 10 the absence OF negroes and there
ignorance of the negro nature there is deusion and
hostility to the South thus showing beyond doubt that
the northern masses only need be enlightened this
subject 10 explode decisions and restore that
tionalty sentiment which every true in this repub
lie should labor 10 accomplish This ignorance OF the ne
gro and msconcepon and deluson in regard
to the condition of southern society," works out strange
suits New Hampshire with 800 negroes sends senator
to Washington represent, New Hampshire or the
people of New Hampshire any interest OF New Hamp
shire the interest the supposed interest OF these 300
negroes. Massachusesthe great intellectual as well as
commercial and energetic Observation-Disclosures not one
but her six thousand negroes
These senator's othese senator's sits day after day
in the Senate chamber doing nothing, interested in
nothing, taking part whatever in the great and
solemn legislation of mighty nation-indeed utterly
disconnected with the great abors of that eminent body
and as far Massachusetts is concerned any great in
teest of Massachusetts is involved that State and the peo
pie of that State voice in the Senate of the
the interest the supposed interest OF the six thousand
groes Massachusetts who touched upon
that the is aroused TO action and takes part in
legislation Again a member from Ohio, with perhaps
fifty negroes in his distrctwith certainly fewer negroes
in his district than any other member OF the Househas
been kept there for twenty years representing and defend
ing with singular devotion what he supposes to be the in
Of this handful of idle and vagabond negroes flor
ee-negrosm is always disease social monstrosity;)
while his dslriet-he ctzens-who send him there and
hav kept him there for twenty years-are dumb and
yoceless in the national Congress if they lived Egypt
instead of Ohio cattle and horses instead of full
grown white men, and in other respects intelligent and
worthy citizens And srangest of all the strange phases
of this stupendous deusion, at this moment sub
scribng immense sums of money and making mighty
efforts, and, it is said, supplying themselves with
Sharps rifles fight the great battle of negro eedomn
in Kansas negro liberty in the national Terri
tories Certainly, their liberty, that of their postery
neighbors Of their tatethe liberty of white men,
or white women, white children, nowhere, in any
manner whatever, is involved What, then? What do
they want? What will they fight for2 Why, for that
liberty that Wilbertoce, and Pitt and Sutherland and
old George iii, the champions ofthe liberty of
standing the plains of Kansas level with the
negroor the "great cause" Of negro equality when the
Almighty has made the negro unequal" in fact and
which amount of human force, folly impiety
royal or arstocratic, imperial aid, which not
Sharps rifles, alter modify the millonth part of
In conclusion, the simple fact that where there
few negroes the population anti-souhern,
and where negroes congregate most there harmony of
sentiment with the Southths simple fact is the key
the northern mscohcepton and may be made to unlock
the stupendous deluson about negro slavery II shows
beyond doubt that ignorance Of the Negro and therefore,
msconcepon Of southern society," constitutes the entire
basis of an-savesm and that this ignorance only needs
to be enlightened explode the Unreasonable illusions it
generates To say that this is not possible for any
democrat say that this northern ignorance be
dspeed is deny and repudate the first article of his
creed fa in the of the masses, is the
very soul OF democracy at any rate the time has
come when the question must be met, and northern
democrats strike their flag, and abandoning JEFF
erson and Jackson rally under the lead of Wilberfore
and Pitt Louis onapae shoulder to shoulder with
their miserable upes midst in defence of the great
cause of human freedom and negro equality boldly
taking the by the throat end its hdeous existence
forever.