New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-05
FREE NEGROEs--THE ABOLITION

upon the eolored population of the South, slave a
well as Free We willing to set this down to tle
credit; and we are prepared to say, while do no
believe they would have rivers of tears to shed if
Y houses were burned and families and children
burned to death in them that they would decidedly
object to the black ncendiaries they had instgated
to deeds of horror being treated in the same manner
The selt.constituted friends and champions of the
blacks cannot, certainly wish to bring upon them
the dire results attendant upon comparative exter-
mnation. So, we take it for granted the hideous abo
! Iton devil is not quite as black as he is painted.
The New York Tribune of the 18th ut, has an ar
tcle in relation to Southern free negroes The writer,
now that years Of wanton wrong and mali gnant per-
secuton are bringing forth their natural fruits is evil
IDENTIFY apprehensiye q wholesale expulsion OF free
negroes will be determined upon at remote period.
Hence an effort to save his friends from the conse-
quences Of his ipeftinent and uncaedfor informed
ding The attempt is Characteristic, and of course
vitupelative and full Of ungeuerous filings at the
South We propose making some extracts. Here is
the first paragraph: ...
helpless people The world than the free
ssq o. ex q so sss aGw % s
white eisbors Or tnay exchange for drink of
cannot very We indeed then hear
II and Is nss E rs sr EO ss
hegoten of slave mother beside horses cows and household
all have heard OF. OF free
srof OF aey ayi aeqnired in "n honest
1t is difficult to tell whether malice Or untruh pre-
dominate in the foregoing. The free negroes of the
South, although not as harmless as might be sup
posed, BY meaus helpless" in the sense the
Tribune would convey They enjoy ample rights
and protection, clearly and specifically defined in
! legislative enactnents. Those rights are seldom
transgressed upon and when they are, the law vind
Gates tie franchises and protects the person and pro-
perry of tile free negro fully and unmistakaby as
it does the white Especially is this the case in
Louisiana. As to property held by free persons Of
color to which the Tribune contemptuonsly alludes.
all have to say IS that the property owned in this
city by such persons is estimated to be worth more
than four millions of dollars.
Fuftaer along, the Tribune says: =.
feeble these negroes are especially
antipathy and wier passes bn we hear of bills in
limit privileges that they have, even aiming
hS5 81 ee aeoe r snS o@T Ts for
chi varoGs Southern Legislatures one would
aaT9s icy s sGs Gi t hoa
find themselves and their States 4aer the hab Of The free
danger by driving these terrible fellows Stale
The above paragraph commences by telling an
absolute and unmtigated falsehood-a falsehood so
obvious, too that none but wooldyed fanatics would
make themselves ridiculous by telling it. The free
negroes South not objects of dread and antipa-
thy This is fact every free darkey will ceerfu!ly
testify TO-. On the contrary they are objects upon
which much sympathy and encouragement have been,
heretofore, bestowed That that sympathy and en-
couragement has been in great measure with
drawn, is altogether owing to the internal machina-
tons Of men like the editors Of the Tribune.
None but fools and fanatics pirate about the Southern
people entertaining any dread for free negroes
Let such feeling obtain to any extent, and the
&c dread would be removed by the removal of the
negroes, who then indeed, would be " helpless In
New Orleans we have been dread fully exercised
in regard to free negroes, some fifteen hundred
slaves having been enancipated in the various courts
during the past twelve months And the same pro-
cess has been continually going on before the county
district courts throughout the State, making the
calculation reasonable one that three thousand
negroes have been freed within the last year, Now,
Messrs Editors of the Tribune, has aboIitonism ever,
throughout its whole infamous career accomplished
by stealing Or otherwise the acknowledgements of the
same number of Africans? Give us an honest answer
if you can?
The ignorance the Tribune displays about the free
negroes is Just about equal to the hatred it maniess
towards the Southern people. There can be no actual
danger in the premises except that which is TO be
apprehended from servle instructions and should
servie Instruction break out it is well known the
free negroes would be the first to suffer- owing to the
.antipatbyand luminosity that exists between the two
classes II there is any thing earth slave hates
more than any thing else, it is free negro and if
there is anything free negro particularly abhor it is
a'slaye. These are facts well known to all men who
have sought to make themselves acquainted with the
slavery question So much for one part Of the
subject. "
Furthermore, as we have shown above the Tri-
bune either wifuy ignorantly misstates the mo-
tives of those Southern State Legislators who have
moved in the matter of the expulsion of the free
colored population. To give it excuse, hereafter
we will state some of the ground work of the action
it affects to rdicue. In the first place, free negroes,
as general thing, are nuisance to any community,
more especially to slavehoding community. A
slave better fed better clothed and better off in every
respect almost invariably enSjes the lot of the free
man. This leads to dissatisfaction, dissipation, ne
glect Duty etc., all of which demorazes the servant
and distresses the superior In the second place,
laziness natural to the negro as it is for him to
draw his breath. He thinks it COMPOUNDED shame
he should be obliged to work for q living, while
enancipated Sambo, willing to submit to any depri-
walton than labor manages to get along after
fashion, doing pretty much as he pleases-- usually
out at the elbows and usually in want of the com
forts of life to say nothing of the ugly suspicious the
patrols and police bear towards him.
The inferiorty of the negro, which seems special
dispensation of Providence, it has followed him
through all time, prevents him from distinguishing
properly between the laZZaron life Of those cursed
with the freedom he envies and the comfortable and
respectable home provided by humane and provi-
dent master The brass is all gold to him. OF course
there are many honorable exceptions to the rule
have laid down. but they only substantate its correct
ness. In the third place, the Northern people have
set themselves up as the exclusive friends of the black
race, great many of own citizens have come to
the conclusion that the free blacks amongst It's had
better go to their friends and the the better
It is true the stringent laws Of several of the Northern
States against negroes would seem to indicate that
their much Wanted friendship'was deceit and lie,
delusion and nockery, bat still that is Of
business They love everything African. At least,
they say So and that is enough for us. Therefore let
those among rs we can spare seek speedy refuge
among their friends. We have done enough for them
by giving them freedom This is the line of argu-