Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-05-16
In AdYancc.
NUMBER 20.
Er0nt thc lSoat,
from thc lS0lth.
Honor and Northern Ava
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1 RICE"
+ Such is the caption of the following ex-
traordinary article, which we find in the
Springfield Mass Argus. We say e.tra-
ordinay, because so high tribute to the
South accompanied with the scyerest rep
rotation of Abolitionsm, was little to be ex-
peetcd from that quarter.
Not only are the sentiments it contains
especially grateful to our feelings; but tho
temper and spirit of the article are truly re-
Imarkable for one who breathes the position
tal air Of New England. It is not written
in an apologize and expostulatory strain; it
does not urge the tyrant's plea of State me-
cessity in our behalf; but is a thorough-go-
ing ousore vindication Of our state OF so
ciety and the influence Of our domestic in
situations. The fact that there are some
righteous men in Soaem," moro than All
other agencies, tends to perpetuate the e2-
istence of a confederation, which is beeom
ing every day more and more detrimental 10
the honor and interests of the South:
One of our exchanges contains the fol-
lowing paragraph, to which We desire to
call particular attention
THE negro man, Jim Breckenridge. who
was so fortunate as to draw half the capital
prize Of $50, 900 last week, at Louisville.
has purchased himself and entire family at
a reasonable price. Mr.. Isaac r. Green,
bis owner. referred the matter Of value 10
Judge Pirtlett, by whom the valuation was
fixed. The remaining money has been pla
ced in the hands Of a trustee"
By the law of Kentucky, this $50 600
loI - 70 ;aoo
master. Mr.. Isaac r. Green and $50 900
is no mean bait. A Northern Abolitionist
weald have quietly pocketed the pile, and
las qaid pro quo invited Jim TO take a
glass of beer, and perhaps fifty cents for
pocket money. The Southern master, ON
the contrary, brutal Shareholder" hold
ing his honor above the temptation Of bribe.
allowed the negro to keep what was fairly
but not legally his own, and only asked him
what he could have obtained without refer
ence to the prize. Thirty thousand dollars
did not tempt a STAKEHOLDER, educated under
the "brutalizing influences of slavery" to
dc an act which almost any Northern Adolf
ZIONIST would have done for one hundred -
Such instances are honorable to human na-
ture, but especially honorable to the South,
because it is there only that we hear Of them
The conduct Of this Louisville gentleman is
not an exception, not rarity in the South
On almost every plantation, some negroes
have property, which is as religiously held
to be their own as if the law gave it 10 them,
which it does not. Hundreds Of slaves luv
themselves with money that is already legal
ly their masters, and may lie taken from
them without granting the equivalent q lib
Icrty.
II may be safely said that seldom Ia tie
dollar-loving ranks of Abolitionism would u
sense of honor not coupled with a legal olli-
cation. produce such sacrifices Of interest as
are constantly made, unnoted and unre-
marked upon, by Southern Shareholders -
Look at the death-like tenacity with which
Dr. ChafIee, Northern BLACK Republican.
clngs to the Old bones Of bred Scott and
the eagerness with which policeman was
dispatched, Immediately upon the decision
of the Supreme Court, to hunt down his two
daughters With all his sham Abolition
philanthropy, DR. Chafee cannot screw him
self up to the point Of parting with the
thirty pieces of silver" Surprising, then.
10 had been poor bred, instead of lucky Jim
Bfeckinridge," who had drawn S30, 0o0 in
ta lottery, and this Northern freedom. Shrek
~ had been the master, instead Of this South
ern stakeholder, is any one at a loss to di-
wine whose fingers the money would have
Iclung to? There is no more question that
1.-THE freedom-shfieker would have grasped it
for himself, than there is that any Southern
gentleman would have acted as Mr. Isaac
L. Green did, bonevolently and honorably.
leaving canting philanthropy to knaves and
Ihypocrites.
1.-The influences Of slavery" is topic on
which more oyerweening arrogance, icno-
rance, cant, prejudice, lying and humhug
is expended at the North. than upon any
half dozen others, or all others combined
The South is malignod as persistently and
bitterly as if natural enemies resided North
aud South of Dixon's line. Something may
be based upon abuses which belong to every
human institution, bat the superstructure,
where the stones are not of prejudice, are
jof the baser materials Of demagoguism and
snivelling cant. Under such circumstances,
it is pleasant for a patriotic man to extract
from the social life Of the South beams like
those of sunny beneyolence, honor. and in
tegrity, which are nowhere to be found
among the mock philanthropists of the day
Shall We award any exclusive praise to
Mr.. Green, for acting as a man of honor :?
1t is question with casuists whether a man
is entitled to praise for merely doing his du-
, ty; but until it is settled, we prefer to award
the need. Mr.. Green did nobly, but he
did no more than nine out of every ten, if
not ninety-nine out Of every hundred, South
I'm gentlemen, would have done in Ike
case And this is one of the .brutalizing
effects of slavery" Let our readers pin to-
gether the names of bred Scott. Jim Brock
inridger Isaac r. Green, and G. G. Ghaffee,
and point at it and ask the meaning Of it,
when next they hear the phrase.