The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-09-03
From the N. Y. News.
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place Africans upon an equal status with the
Caucasian race. HIS 'confesSions' are valuable
for reference. Sec what he says.
l confess that my expectations from this
measure have not been fully realized OF the
three thousand colored men to whom | gave
land, probably less than fifty have taken and
continue to hold possession of their grants
What is still worse, half of tha three thousand,
as Judge, have either sold theiS land or been
so careless as to allow it 10 be sold for taxes.
| referred to the character of the colored peo.
pie. 1t is improving but still far from what il
should be. Among them are intelligent and no.
BILE men and women, but the mass are ignorant
and thrinless.
You deal but justly with them, when you de-
clare that their own bad influence goes farther
than the acts of the worst shareholders to up
hold slavery.
So far from making their wrongs and outra-
gcs an excuse for their continued degradation,
the free colorcd people should, in view of these
wrongs and outrages, arouse themselves to the
sStible determination to equal and surpass
their prosecutors in all that honors manhood
They should swear that they will be PariahS
and lepers no longer. To this end, they should
quit the towns in which they are wont to con-
gregate, and where they are but servants, and
should scatter themselves over the country in
the capacity of farmers and mechanics They
should cease from the habit of wasting their
earnings in periodical balls. They should nev-
er wet their lips with Intoxicating drinks OF
defile them with tobacco. They should never
so war upon their selfrespect as to Join a
church which spares slavery or join political
party which knows law for slavery,
The measure" alluded to by this philan-
thropic yet visionary and mistaken man, con-
sisted Of the donation in fee of'somc three or
five thousand acres of soil (such soil!) to such
linen and brothers" as would locate on and
cultivate it. Itappears that he gave land tc
some three thousand negroes, and that less than
fifty continue to hold their allotments. The
rest have swindled him and vamoosed the ranch
Last year we happened by mere chance to meet
one Of these backSliders. He was an aged pa
triarch who had become worn out and disg,lSted
in his attempt to work his grant. lie express
ed himself i'll this wise: "Def fact am, Sir, dat
Massa Smiths land am so damn poor, dat an
ole bumble-b hab to kneel down to get at dt
clober."
In this behalf therefore, there can be no dis
putting on the point Of taste; for where such an
insect has to bend itself in the manner and form
described it is true negro cannot live.
Mr.. Smith says "the mass are ignorant ant
thrJtless" Herein he is sane and sensible and
agrees with sane aud sensible men, fully as be-
nevolent, charitable and philanthrapic as he
himself. He has bought his knowledge with a
price. 1t will be remembered that Col. Prince
M. P, Canada, stated, in report or speech, thai
he and his family had had dealings with negroes
for twenty-five years, and he. fin,ls, and SO de-
clares them to be, not only ignorant and thrift
less, but thanlcss, unyrateful, thicving, discon.
tented vicious, &c, &c.
The weight of the law and testimony, there
fore, is against Garrison, Phillips, Stowe
Beecher, Greeley, and the masculine minded
women generally-the whole array of "freedon
shriekers." What will not this class of bogu,
philanthropists have to answer for, when they
shall be called up to Judgment? In the language
of the London Times 10th July:
The emancipation of the negroes in the Yves
Indies, so far from answering the commercla
and humane purposes which it was designed t
serve, has resulted in ''the bankruptcy and ruil
of the finest possessions in the world;'' has ode
stroyed an immense property, ruined thouSand
of good families, degraded the negroes still low
er than they were, and, after all, increased tn
mass of slavery"
The "Thunderer'' here aludes to the Yves
Indlas, it is true, but toward what results 9th
same resultsD do not the wicked efforts Of tn
freedom shrekers tend, so far as our S)uther
and Southwestern States are concerned? Al
ready have they divided churches, commun
ties, families and States, and degraded the ne
groes still lower than they were, and after al
increased the mass Of slave,yh' and cui bono2
A contract has been made between the Frcncl
Ministers Of Marine and Foreign Affairs and
merchantile house Of Marseiles, to furnish IL
thousand so called apprentices" (slaves? to ID
Dor in the islands of Martinique and Guadalup,
The London Times Of the 10th ult., says of tt
project: aa
The evidence Of those best acquainted vii
the negroes Of the Western Coast of Africa di
tinctly states that it is impossible to obta
1000 free blacks to emigrate on any terms, al
that negroes cannot be obtained in great nun
bers in any other way than by the consent, o
}, regular bargain and sale of the native kings
, If this be so, how would the system differ fro
q egalized slave trade? and how would the |,
Of the apprentice, obliged to labor for a certai
term Of years, differ from that OF the slave, Vi
less it be that the former aooul9 be Infinitely mo
,Uretched than The latter, exposed b al tie hatt
ships and possessing none Of the cotots and car
Nth sctict The Selfinteres if no higher anotive
, the SLAVE oWper surrounds his Jondsnen fo, Efe
The French contract, whichis in progress
fulfillment, will test the experiment. The COZ
I tractors stipulate to send 5 200 negroes to Ma
tinque and the same number to Guadalup
} within three years, who shall be obliged
work for ten years at the monthly wages OF I2,
francs, ($2i5 out of which the emgrant is
j. pay back the cost of his transport from Afiic
200 francs or l6 months wages. "a @ a'
We do not believe that the plan will he foui
to be practicable as d voluntary emigration, al
the English people will never consent to i
:. ncwal Of the slave trade. 1t is doubtful al
Q whether for the sake Of the interests of Quad
loupe and Martinique Napoleon III will inc
. the odium which would attnch to him were
to sanctionth measure y
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her eloquence, Her hair eyebrows and cy
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