New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-09
pRFn NpGRors Nv THE NORTH.


sensible people to their opinions and bringing about
q millennium Of black freedom on this continent are
those which are natural to the subject and have ne
cessary and inseparabe existence with it, those OF
an incidental nature play merely secondary part
and are comparatively unmpo as REGARDS any
nitiye result The total unftness Of the negro Tor
liberty unrestained except by the laws which govern
the white man, aud the impossiblity that ne saou'u
make proper use Of an equality Of rights when n =.
ture never intended him to exercise and never wiz
endow him with, together, we may add wan tue ply
udices Of color and race, are the prnclpal
obstacles to which we alude. Among those o. an III
cidental nature, we believe the most obvious ana
potentto be the nvincible repngnance OF abotonlsm
to reduce its nespun theories OF human philanthropy
to anything at all like practice, except indeed in oc-
casionally jealous efforts to translate the ignorant
black man from position where he must work for his
living, to one where he may have the privilege OF
starving to death in idleness and rags-a privilege
which with him is not always choice, but must pc
accepted per force in many cases. sstri a,l
Everywhere in the North where Abolitionsts and
free colored people abound this inharmonious relation
between theoretical teaching rather defamation
and practical working, is visible every day to the
most shallow and careless observer. The unfortunate
slave who has been lured from comfortable home IN
the South, may find himself in the streets OF NORTH
ern city, homeless hungry, friendless, ana
IN his helpless nexperence and ignorance II ne ma
relief it must be in the prison. workhouse, OF among
the filthy dens of his own caste and color. ne soon
learns that to apply to any one of the lond-mou'nea
fanatics who have labored to place him upon 'he
hghroad to misery and starvation is TO pc spurnea
away with even more ignominy than IS visited upon
the sturdy white beggar, who lazily drags mlhseh
about with stereotyped tale OF woes and
suffered in another land. ii ne ever dreamed lhe
fiction of social equality, he quickly mas tnat III
The relations Of good will and kindly indulgence ne
is immensely farther removed from those whose
patronage or friendliness were worth having, IMAM
when he iabored upon his masters plantation or
yoed nj his table Thus it is that the great mass OF
the negro population in the Northern States ana
Canada. released from a condition OF dependence
mon the superior intelligence OF the white man. and
incapsble of depending upon themselves, sink into
the lowest depths Of human degradation and become
an almost intolerable pest to society about them,
which, by the way, has only itself to blame for their
presence. s
The incapaeity Of the negro race for selfgovern.
ment is unquestioned, we believe, by any one who
pretends to be acquainted with their condition in
their native country and the melancholy failures that
have attended attempts Of the kind by more civilized
negroes in other quarters of the world. And their
complete inadaptation as class to any condition in
civilized white society but that of involuntary serv
.ude has been in process of demonstration for several
wears in the North and receives fresh confirmation
every day. We greatly prefer that the experiment
should take place there, if it can by any possibility
hal JeIa in of
public sentiment in that quarter, regarding the sub
ect of negro slavery in this country Repeated ex-
apes and the peculiarities Of the negro character
have sufficiently proved that those wholesome social
restraints which act as check upon the passions and
tendencies to crime among the superior races and en-
force submission to the laws more perhaps than the
fear Of punishment, have little Or no influence oye
the negro race, either for the prevention of crime
elevation of moral sentiment it follows, therefore
that when they find themselves in condition Of free
dom, among communities not possessed OF the re
straints natural to slave countries upon that class
their liberty becomes Righteousness, which the Law
can but imperfecy correct, because is for them de
prived of chief quality of it's efficiency. is on
the thorough discipline of obedience inculeated b.
the system Of slavery that places them in their prope
relation with the superior race, that can secure then
\ from the worst miseres of human life and rende
them useful to themselves and to society. @
4 Twenty years ago the fanatical excitement in Gel
tain portions of the Northern States and in Canada
against slavery precisely what it is at the pres
ent day. But there was this difference in the genera
aspect of the subject tue excitement then was all
Il one side: the South had not then been goadet
through long years of insults and wrongs into an a
n titude of resistance and nobody believed that tn
\ persistent Vaccinations Of Abolitonism would fnall
place the very existence of the Union in peril. i
the meantime the Abolitionists worked diligently an
faithfully. Underground railroads then, as they d
now extended their ramifcations through all Abol
ton society and the various managers and condu
tors forwarded their unlawful consignments to an
and every place supposed to DO beyond the reach
the hated g kidnapper.i The work prospered, an
not only did every city in the New England and ot
er Northern States soon perceive an amazing increa
in its coored population but almost every little tow
and village could boast of its " fugitives from 81
very The expectancy fpassing runaways in great
numbers over to the province of Canada (whel
they were received with open arms,) became a
parent and arrangements to effect that object wi,
unusual promptness were speedily perfected. u
I consequence has been a steady stream of runaw'
. slaves into Canada ever since, and now they have
distinct and numerous population of that class OF i
terestng persons, which, according to all account
they would go to almost any length to be fairly rid
recent occurrence exhibits the state of feeling
I wards them very clearly. s.. au. "a.
4 On the 9th of last, June Col. John Prince, mer
Der Of the Provincial Legislature, moved in that boo
an address to the GovernorGeneral asking the rest
! ration to the Commission of Peace of Messrs. w
\ kinson aud Woodbridge, who had been dismiss,
therefrom for " conniying at the rendition Of Arcl
i Lanton, a colored man, to the authorities of tt
+ United States" The charge against Archy Lantt
If was not Of being fugitive from Labor but of beir
n horse thief. His extradition was effected, accor
ing to law, and he is now in the Ohio State Penite
v tiary. The Commissioners simply did their duty al
], nothing MORE but the GovernorG General had tend
j. regard for the horsethief because bis color render
y it possible that he might have been fugitive sla
Il once upon time, aud so he discharged his mag
trates for not having violated the eNtladltion Ia
e upon such good and sufficient ground. U..
q The colored population of Toronto forthwith he
It amass meeting to take into consideration the condu
i of Col. Prince, aud in long preamble and series
v resolutions denounced that conduct and Col. Prn
e individually, using language of the most formdal
description and terms which evidently indicated u
they did not consider him at all fit for the society
a respectable darkey. Col. Prince, although PROF
- nent member of the Legislature and popular and
ueptia man, thought proper to reply to this throa
the Toronto Colonst, treating the matter in hum
Gus vein, but at the same time exhibiting no lit