New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-19
!, ,5,rIr poI1CE OF SLAVES.
Under tho foregoing caption the Pointe coupee
Echo Of the 18th ins contains avery article


There is present. quite spirit Of public excitement sn
Is TITS 'f as s
that things that kind are possible our anrr prope
steps not taken to avoid, as much as possoe
IN Connection with this subject We will aue the exs,emge
class Of white been @ 6e Sre
paE o Is 4ss s
posed characters below M LEVEL Of the h be Oane
influence discoveries frequently made Of asss
1 m Esss nn m aanes Of
later during the year could It be collected in one b9dy would
Tic class whom We agde and we are gl1a If
detect anything improper which they endeavor to commit
What is true as to the parish of Ponte Coupee is
correct as to the entire South so far as somewhat
extended observation enables us to Judge. The IN
limited license allowed negroes is preudca alike to
their morals and well being. They must be kept
within the bounds of wholesome restraint or else they
will deterorate until they become as degraded as were
their forefathers in Africa For the bad conduct OF
slaves their owners in most part responsible, ana
must abide tile consequences. The weaka frail, and
naturally disspated instincts of the negro, require the
strong Just and unvarying arm of the white man, not
only to elevate him above the brute creation, but TO
keep him up, stimulate him to elevation and advance
ment If left to himself he as naturally sinks below
the level of humanity as lead will sink when thrown
into the waters Of the ocean. All history all expe
rience all tests, well as the physical and mental
conformation Of the race, demonstrate the absolute
truthfulness of this proposition.
The merely nominal bondage in which tens OF
thousands of slaves are held by hundreds OF masters
| has been tine means of doing an immense amount oi
evil but as large as that evil has undoubtedly been
it will bear no comparison to the evils that Will assn
redlv follow a continuance of the suicidal system.
The system must be stopped: if not by the masters
voluntarily, by legislative enactments as rigid and
| farreachine as the laws of old Draco himself. dis
tress, we are well aware, will follow the execution OF
such epactnlents.- what Of that! The highest
warrant Of human and divine law will stand IN our
Justification We are not to blame. No honest man
on the surface of COPS earth can blame US rlghttuy
| We have done more for the Africans than all the
nations Of ancient or modern tines We have eleva-
1 ted him as he was never elevated before We have
done more to chrstianze him than all the peoples OF
Heavens foot stool put together, if we commence at
the period when history loses itself in tradition and
i come down to the present moment. We desire still
to christanize and elevate him but the tanatlclsn1
of the age-wild, savage, brutal and cowardly-com
pels us to abstain from the work of regeneration and
All of the black codes of the Southern States de
mand re-modeling. And in RETAINING them there
must be no sckly sentmentaity 1t is just as easy
and just as safe to keep ten thousand slaves unde
proper discipline, as it is ten The laxty OF all dscl
pne, the almost entire absence of anything approx
mating restraint and the free communication that ha
been allowed between slaves and vile white men has le
to the contemplation ofinsurreconary plots oyerth
discovery of which, in time to prevent arson, murder
: rape and all the told and untold horrors of st. Dc
mingo, the leaders of Northern aboltiondom are noN
grieving.
There must be, also new white laws as well as ne'
L black laws. The man who is found trading with,
y selling liquor to, slave, must be punished with 81
verify that will preclude all repetition of the oenc
On this subject the statutes should be merciless an
the rowing vagabonds Northern, foreign ordomesti
/, who dehauch our slaves with vile whisky, depra'
lie their morals by telling them to steal to pay for it, al
other equally injurious and worse than worthless tras
e. should be put in the chain gang, and there made
lie work for the good othe public they essyed to destro
r. for the term of their natural lives. few just eXar
pies in all the Southern States will answer the nece
Ia cary n,1rnneas