Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-20
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HARTFORD CORRESPONDENCE.
H.nTroKp. Sept 29-Messrs. Editors Having
promsedsto give you the results OF my
observations of the feeling of the people OF this Sec
ton of our county, i'll regard to the subject OF slave
~, and it's cognates, | must intrude little more
than usual upon your columns whlle proceeo 10
fulfill the promise One thing appears certain, the
newspapers of the day not correct exponent OF
the mind of the people, either South or North'ss
They are largely opponents OF cllques, parties VI
more limited still, of individuals who are manuac-
turing. pubic opinion, or who are endeavofing 10
make for themselves fame that neither merit OF
ability will command. A leading paper1In the nusi-
ness walks of life ably conducted, anu felaoie III
all its legitimate efforts, may nave an eossot mho
upon some one Of the exciting topics now aatatlhg
the public mind may be perfect mailman put 1t
is no evidence that the fifty one hundred tho9-
sand readers of the papers are lmbued with MS IA
naticism or ulrasm because they o"y ana T0'ts Tue
naner or that this fanatical editor represents the
views of any large portion of his readers upon this
particular subject
For instance a leading religious paper will de-
nounce the institution of slavery upon pr'mctpSe, as
being in itself sin, and will contend manuly that
the effort of the slaye to escape from servltude IS
right even the resistance unto death OF any eHor
To take him. 1t will reprint every advertisement OF
a runaway negro, and comment upon its stipulatlohs
with holy horror and if any threat of prosecution
il made to those who may harbor or secrete MN,
they'wl call it "abomnable cruelty - an eiiort 20
star We the wretched negro into SUBMISSION anu
Vyl1l call
every runaway" even if they violate order and
iaw:n but they take notice of the same thing
when sohite slaves are Interested When the poor
miserable and often abused white boy runs away
from gripping stngy, misery master, under the
Northern free labor system, and is advertised, there
is no lifting up of hands and rolling OF eyes, ana
unchartable denunciations On, no; TINS Is all cor
rect and righteous. Read the following advertise
Inent which is now daily seen in every Hartford pa
Der and probably in other New England papers,
Without word of comment Reproduction, and say
if there can be particle OF honesty IN the pre-
tence of moral principle in denouncing slavery:
DUNAWAY FROM THE SUBSCRIBE Err,
leave to visit his parents (naned Eder and wiIf%ly alb
snng himself the st of isS old
high dark hair and eyes and far pick witt
impeachment of speech He carried sae Tfr bright eu
inc silver work reward to whosoever shall give IN
t of his esn Sm
toned against harborng giving employment To the SAID
apprentice as they wi" be pGES s%6Ss
Gold and Silver Pencil and Thimble ManutactuTer,
September 81. Phlladelphla "a
Ten Dollars Reuard-The value of the white
slave is not quite great the value of the black
one but still he has value, and must be caught, and,
if necessary for safe keeping, ne must be put INTO
prison. 1t is all right, system, that runaway
white boys made slaves until they are 2l, without
any act of theirs often and frequently against their
wish shall be chased and caught and put into prs-
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same by blacks! And, then again, some complain
of the chains and the whip being the great evils
of slavery; well, chains and whips arc not often
used any where except as punishment, and the pub
lie mind here seems to acquesce in the chains as
a proper thing under some cases-showing that,
even in this pretence of philanthropy there is n.y.
pocrisy. The other day man was at work upon
one of the highways near this city, having under
him and subject to his will, squad of men. lie
treated them well though he kept them at work
On INQUIRY found them to be paupers oafers, etc,
and were there at work by city law. This was all
very proper. But among them was man who had
q heavy chain upon one ankle, and who was COM
nelled to work thus upon the public thoroughfare,
in view of all the world. What was his offence p
He had committed no crime, but had violated a new
law, made by public opinion and liable to be chang
cd at any moment He had been found drunk
That is an offence any where against good order and
the public veal and ought to be punished every
where He was arrested and fined $40 But he was
poor man and could not pay, so ne was imprison-
ed Well that seems queer way to punish
loafer!
This man, however, thought liberty sweet,
and felt that he entitled to it under Jetersons
theory SO he attempted to run 0ac0y and for that
running away-he was chained upon
the nublic highway in good old Connecticut |
have heard no outcry about this mans sufferngs,
and presume public opinion susains the law, or the
practice that thus makes white men slaves. Now
Won will saw WHY give these facts? | answer
hat these with thousands and tens of thousands of
others which are seen and heard constantly, the
evidence that the great of people
in the free States have honest quarrel upon prn
cple of morals with negro servitude and more than
this the evidence is startling that they have little
no true sympathy with the negro .1ettow being
They absolutely detest the species, and dislike to
have them about to ride with them in the public |
conveyances or to meet them upon any other social
platform than as their superiors
This sentiment if not inherent, is of so early !
growth, and rapid and general as to completely
pervade the whole character and beside all this the
negroes themselves widenngsthe breach. The |
fuss that has been made about them, the pretensons
they put FORTH and the impotence they exhibit, SO
great at times as to be nsuferable, and which In an
or woman would not be endured, are rap
idly changing the opinions OF those who have been
favorably disposed to their settlement among them
selves have never yet met an individual who de-
sired to have large increase of this class into the
free States though it is possible few of the most
rabid abolitionsts may say so III their wild TRADES
and bombastical speeches. There cannot be doubt |
that there is the most entire hostility to negro labor
the free States when that labor passes beyond the
bonds Of servitude in some shape. Negroes may be |
WATERS BARRIERS, boot blacks, &C., but they never
will be- asong aohites any thing else, and when the
influx into the free States becomes troublesome, |
these States will drive them out, stop further |
immigration But how do the masses look upon !
slave labor and upon the institution of slavery?
HCharzeston Courier.
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