Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19
EMANCIPATION IN LOUISIANA.

The New Orleans Bulletin has IN interesting
and suggestive article on this subject from which
We take the following extract
at is worthy of remark, and furnishes food for
reflection, that this class population, coored
persons should be differently regarded in Louis
lana from any other of the Southern States. The
tendency and effect of the laws of emancipation in
this State, by simplifying and facilitating the pro-
cess are to increase and encourage the free coored
population. In all the other Slave States the laws
regulating emancpating slaves are either rgdly
restrictive or absolutely prohlbltory. Taking by
way of sample, the two States before mentioned,
Virginia and Georgia. we find in the former that
the laws prohibit any emancipated slaves from re-
naming in the Commonwealth for longer period
than twelve months. In Geogia it is impossible,
either by law or by an act of the Legislature as
one of special grace, to emancipate slave with
out immediate deportation and, rs we have seen,
the Legislature has just passed law providing for
the removal of those who are living in free con-
dition in that State which lthey have acquired
by birth or otherwise On the other hand the Yro-
cess of emancipation in Louisiana is the simplest
thing in the world. The article in the code says:
The master who wishes to emancipate his slave is
bound to make declaration of his intention to
the Judge Of the parish where he resides the
Judge must order notice OF it to be published
during forty days by advertisement posted at the
door of the Court-Eouse and if at the expiration
of this delay no opposition be made, he shall
authorize the master to pass the act Of emancipa
tIOn.'
'The condition Of the freed man in Virginia.
Georgia and Louisiana after emancipation is as
different as possible. In the two former States
the only effect Of emancipation is to secure him
his personal liberty and the enjoyment the fruits
of his labor; while, in Louisiana, with the excep-
ton of voting and holding office, he employs all
the legal rights Of any other citizen. His testimony
in Court of Justceis good against white man !;
he can purchase, sell and hold property both real
and personal, in his own name, and can sign and
execute any notory act, deed, BILL or other legal
instrument. Louisiana is more tolerant and indul-
gent of this class of population than any other
State in the Union.
"a few facts which we gather from the census
are curious enough for the general reader. They
WILL serve to show how particularly interested the
citizens of New Orleans are in this subject.
"Ihe entire population of this city in 1850, in
cluding Lafayette, was 1860, divided Gs fol
lows l04,743 whites 10000 free colored, and
1907 slaves-showing that the free colored was
more than half as large as the entire slave popu
lation. The relative proportion of the free color
ed population and the slaves in some of our South
ern cities is deserving of attention and reflection
In Richmond, the free coored stand to the slaves
as one to ~ in Norfolk as / to 5 in Charleston
as l to 6 in Savannah as to while here il
New Orleans it is more than to-