Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-12-27
From the New York News.
Daniel Come to Judgment.

Hon. Henry j. Raymond, nominal editor of
tho New York Times and actual Lieutenant
Governor of the State of New York by
,,;nor;tv vote) has been delivering a lecture
at Boston-upon negro slavery, OF course.
Nooro slavery is the only subject they discuss
:, Roston. besides spiritualism, in the inter-
I,das hatween the horrible every day records
&C or;r,a and vice in the emnently free"
soo;atv of Massachusetts,, served up in the
Roston newspapers. Mr.. Raymond has gone,
of conrse. as far against negro slavery as any
&c his Black Republican" party-as,far as q
I;eutenant Governor IN esse and Governor
IN nosse ought to go. But he appears to have
made some strange statements. scarcely in
keepinp with the high character for general in
formation and exactness which he has hitherto
deservedly borne. According to the Boston
Chronicle:
ale drew a contrast Of the power and pro-
oress of slavery in the early period of the his
tory of the United States and its sway at the
present time. Then it was weak now there
are three millions Of slaves in the United
States; then the expediency of sustaining the
institution was questioned in all parts Of the
land but now slavery is spoken of as an ordi-
nance of God"
Now we have an indistnct recollection OF
having read that ain the early period of the
history of the United States" negro slavery
existed under the laws of epvy State. The
very spot upon which the able and eloquent
lecturer stood when he made the singular his.
torical blunder, was, in our /" early history"
slaveholding territory When the Declaration
of Independence was promulgated, Massa.
chusetts held negroes in servitude. So far was
the Institution of negro slavery from being
weak" in those days, that Quakers and other
reprobates who were in the habit of bearing
testimony in troublesome way, against
the sin of slaveholding," had been treated
quite as harshly in Yankeedom, as Mr.. Ray
mond would be likely to be treated now, should
he be caught stealing negroes in Arkansas or
Florida. Isft possible that gentleman who
took the trouble to 90 all the way from New
York TO Boston to say something new on this
old question, was ignorant Of these things2
ain the early period of the history of the
United States such was the "power" and
"swayp Of negro slavery, that not only was
the Massachusetts Quaker who questioned it
scourged and banished, but in every State OF
the confederacy it existed when Thomas Jeffer-
sons Declaration was adopted, and these colo.
MES were declared independent States y
Every State in the confederacy, mark you, Mr..
Aspirant for the gubernatoral chair, ito which,
your political heresies form, we hope, an i'm
passabe BARI Mr.. Traveller to Boston for the
enlightenment Of the people of Modern Athens
upon negrodom in general The "Republi-
cans of that day were saveholding Republi.
cans they troubled themselves little about the
civic rights Of the negro, but they furnished
him with what he cared much more for-food,
and raiment and shelter. Free society denies
this to him in most cases, and calls his priv
lege TO starve in our streets-Libertyl
Mr.. Raymond has the right to lecture wher
and where he pleases. A suggestion from us
that more good might be done here, at home
among the squalid, naked and starving free ne
groes Of our Five Points, than by all the lecture,
he will ever deliver to perfumed and white
gloved Boston audiences, he might perhaps
deem impertnent. Yet, since he cannot state
facts more correctly in Boston than this, ",
will take the liberty to suggest to him the de
livering Of lecture, at some proper place il
New York, upon the condition and prospect
of the free negro population at the North--th
proceeds to be applied in the Five Points
What says he?