New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-11
pRnonPr vs.. PRAcr1cR.

Although the State Of Illinois gave plurality vote
for Mr.. Buchanan 1t the last November election still
feesoil Governor and freesoil Legislature were
chosen by the people, rendering the commonwealth,
70 all practical intents and purposes about as Black
Republican as Massachusetts,. The war upon the
south s kept up with as much vim in Illinois as it is
IN Vermont, notwithstanding the Authorization OF
the former isnot quite thorough and complete as
that Of the latter and the Republicans are full Of
confidence that in few years they will be enabled to
Danish Mr.. Douglas from the Senate and elect free
soiler in his stead We think it extremely probable
they will succeed for we unable to discover the
slightest abatement in the surging food of Northern
anaticsm which bids fair to obliterate every ancient
landmark in the country by 1860 On the contrary,
an increase Of volume and power is plainly and con-
tnually apparent and it is than folly in us to
shut our eyes to the probable consequences or fold
our arms in stless apathy, until the Dykes eyees and
barriers are all swept away, and no protection left us
wherewith to beat back the fearful torrent.
But to our illustration OF" Precept vs. Practice" as
exempifed in freesoil Illinois. The Legislature Of
that State, in 1858, enacted the following law:
If any negro or mulatto, bond or free, shall here
after come into this State and remain ten DAYS. with
the intention Of residing in the same every such ne
gro or mulatto shall be deemed guilty Of high mis-
demeanor, and for the first offence shall be fined the
sum OF ty dollars to be recovered before any Justice
latto may be found. = If the said negro or
mulatto shall be found guilty. and the fine assessed
be not paid forthwith it shall be the duty Of said JUS
tce to commit said negro or mulatto to the custody
her or them in custody. = The said Justice
shall, AT PUBLIC AUCTION, proceed to SELL
said negro OF mulatto to any person who will pay
SAID hne and costs for the shortest time and the said
purchaser shall have right to COMPEL said negro
or mulatto to work for and out said time etc.,
Rather severe for the philanthropic people of
philanthropic State. The Iinoisans evidently prac-
tce upon the principle Of talking one way and acting
another They repudiate the relative connection be-
tween speech and acts. They would set all the
negroes down South free--but when Southern negro
puts his foot upon their free SOIL they provide for
selling him into slavery if he remains there ten days
This is friendship with vengeance. This is SYM
pathy with cockatrice's sting as the most promi-
nent feature Of it. This is-to sum up in two words
everything that is contemplate, hypocritical and
mean-modern abolition.
WE'LL now for the Illinois practice. In pursuance
of the foregoing statute the following notice was
officially posted in three public places in the county
of ST. Clair and to it we invite the attention of our
readers:
STATE OF ILLINOIS, g,
st. Clair county. S.
LEGAL NoTIcE.-Whereas, Jackson Redman,
mulattc was, on the 7th day Of April, A. d., 1857,
complained against, arrested and brought before me
the undersigned Justice Of the Peace for said county
and was tried by q jury Of twelve men, who found
nm guilty OF high msdemeanor, and as first offence
fined in the sum of $780, agreeable to the provisions
Of the act of February H. 1853 to prevent the imm
grafton OF negroes and mulattoes and Judgment
having been rendered against the said jackson Red
f6G ON mt of Il
which has not been paid, whereupon he was placed
the custody of the Sheriff of said county for safe
keeping until he is further dealt with as required by
aw. This, therefore, is to give notice that, at |
'hice in Belleye, in said county, will proceed to
ell at public auction the services of the said jackson
sedman to any person or persons who will pay said
inc and costs for the shortest time according to the
PROVISIONS Of the act aforesaid.
Posted this 9Th day of April, A. d. 1857
CASPER THlELL, Justice of the Peace
Accordingly, jackson Rsdman was sold on the
9Th day Of April. The high msdemeanorn of
'hich ne was found guilty consisted of three counts
st, ne was negro; I'd, he was free negro Sd,
q wasin free State. Illinois has no use for free
egroes in free States, but superintendent amount
sympathy for slave negroes in slave States. She
pprehends free negroes will become charges upon
er bounty. She knows that slaves can never SO
ecome. Hence her repulsion of free blacks and her
ympathy with slave blacks. Sympathy costs moth
ng; sympathy takes well with the world; conse-
uently the people Of Illinois are huge sympathisers
vhen it does not interfere with the economy of their
ockets. They are certainly entitled to front seats
a the temple of philanthropy.
But Jackson Redman, although the amount for
rhich he was offered for sale was made up by some
utsiders, did not long enjoy his liberty. Being dis
harged he took the liberty of going on spree -
'as re-arrested and thrown into Jail and probably
ill be exposed at public auction again before the
lonth expires Free darkes should make it point to
i've Illinois wide berth hereafter. Their presump.
on will be severely punished if they venture into that
zee State.
five are not much mistaken, the black laws of In
lana are about stringent as those of Illinois, Free
egroes have precious little opportunity in either of
ne States. And if the colored population of the North
as doubled, we believe the Illinois law would soon be
,und engrafted on the statute books of all the free
tates. It's in the po,uer Of the slaueholdng States
double that population in t'seiue months! We won
er If the philanthropists ever thought of that.
M.n.n1n1@
ID FL ID.
On Sunday the 10th inst, O'Clock P. NJ JOHN FRAN.
aged and months eldest of Elizabeth and the
tie John Duffy