New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-07-02
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GETTING TIRED.

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The underground railroad is getting into dis
favor with our neghbors Of Canada. The day before
the prorogation Of the Canadian Parliament Colonel
Prince made aspeech to thenegro fugityes
from the United States, in which be said
He then took occasion to speak of the negro fugi-
tiyes as being most unprinciped persons, and sag-
gested that they should be separated from the white
population, which they contaminated by Their wees
The people Of this country, moved BY Christian
sympathy for their suerings, treated them with Kind
ness but they repaid that kindness with ingrattude
they were chiefly remarkable for their filthy and dis
honest features and should be sent to live by them
selves on one of the Monit0nn islands, or some
where else where the whites would not suffer BY con-
tact with them.
Just what we expected and what we predicted
years since. The time is coming, and will soon be
here, when the Canadians will no longer tolerate the
free negro nuisance. They have been stnarting under
for years but thisis the first parliamentary indca-
tion of popular feeling that has come under our OBJ
seryation. We doubt not it will be followed by others.
which will be succeeded by acts, until the Infamous
underground railroad put in operation by thieves
and manned by land pirates, will be compelled to run
from Canada, instead of to Canada.
Col. Prince evidently understands the Canadian
negro character He speaks as one practically versed
in the characteristics of that race when cursed with
freedom from sautary restraint, and left untrammeed
to pursue the indication Of their natures. And had
he stated that the black population Of Canada was
mostly made up OF runaway negroes from the South
scamps too lazy to work, and willing to steal to avoid
work, and whose exodus, in nine cases out of ten,
was caused by punishment, or apprehension of pun
ishment, for laziness and thefthe would have told
more Of the truth concerning them. A good negro
seldom or never runs away. There is no necessity
for it, in the first place, for good negro almost in
variably makes good master, and a good master is
the best and only true friend and protector the poor
black has on this or any other continent.
Should the proposition Of this member of the
Canadian Parliament be carried into effect, and the
free negroes of Canada be colonized on one Of the
Montouln islands, or somewhere esen it will be but
another proof of the false philanthropy of the age,
and another illustration of the folly and wickedness
of men or nations running counter to the painest
laws Of Providence, and the most arbitrary DEGREES
Of nature Both have stamped upon the brows Of the
Africans the nefaceable brand Of inferiority They
have worn it for ages and must continue to wear it
for ages to come, unless COP, by some inscrutabe
dispensation, shall relieve them from the curse de-
nounced against their progenitor Then, but not till
then will the sable sons of Ethiopia be enabled to
claim an equal place alongside the children of men.
For the sake of the wretched free negroes we trust
they will not be colonzed proposed by Col Prince.
By allowing them to mix among the white people to
any considerable extent they may be saved from the
clutches of rredeemable barbarism. But put them
on island by themselves, compel them to remain
in particular section of country by themselves and
they will speedily become brutal and savage as the
cannibals Of Africa. There is hope, slight and un.
substantial it is true, when they kept under the
eyes of superior race-none whatever, when thrown
upon their own unaided resources. & I
If the people Of the South did not possess thou
sandfod more real philanthropy than the pharisaical
phanthropists Of Canada and the North, they could
easily put stop to the running Of the underground
railroad" in all directions, and cause universal
enactment of the illinois law in all the States above
Mason and Dixon's line All they would have to do
to effect this end would be to compel every free
now in the South to seek free State country for
his future residence. This would double the black
population Of the North in year. and render what is
now loudly complained of and legslated against an
unbearable burden. We do not propose any such
harsh measure, and only mention it to demonstrate
how much better friends to the negro are the people
Of the South than are the hypoctcal phanthropists
of the North and of Canada. MIX.