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CHARLEs MORAN on UPPER
TENDON.

based upon actual observation, and the in
eidents o'tie work are facts. Mr.. Quinn
at the present time is in our town.
"HsVing registered bis name,lhe land.
lord babe him take seat near a stove 10
The bar-Foom,amOng promis;uous group
Of young and middle aged men and boys,
engaged 10 idle talk and having every ap-
pearsuee Of having been accustomed to
indulge in debauensy and luxurious prac-
tees.
"Tbers we're some young Ihshmen
among them, one Of whom expressed him
self quite freely in vilifying Fremont, the
Republican nominee for President Of the
United States. He added 10 the rest of
bis absurd remarks, that every Abolitionist
10 the Northern Free States should be
driven out Of the United States, notwith-
standing that it appeared that this poor
fellow, who was gulping liquor aud smo.
king cigars alternately, was himself but an
alien; bnt be was Catholic and, like many
Others ofthe same claSa and order, both ar
rogant and ignorant, who follow directions,
and reason from wrong principles, under the
influence Of Southern men, which speedily
takesetfec! upon young foreigners Of nofxed
character, and therefore quite susceptible
Of being corrupted or lent to answer any
purpose in the hands of politicians. In
the Free States a very different direction
might be given to the minds Of such young
persons.
"In Huntsville the slaves who are en-
ployed in the dwellings are picked muIat-
toes, and comparatively we'll treated.-|
Some Of them were in groups in front Of
the residence Of the wealthy inhabitants,
indulgiDg themselves in apparent merri-
ment and loud laughter, staring on the
molly scene of both white and black per-
sons which the square and streets present.
ed, very many of whom were Of slouehed,
eogged and sulen appearance, supporting
each other in pairs in state Of drunken
ness as they relied along jabbering incohe-
rently, whilst the negroes gave them the
way, and raising their hands to their hats
as they rolled past by way of saIutation
and using their accustomed expressions, with
grymaces, young MaSsa, or 'ole Masia,' as
the case seemed TO be,as to the age and cir
eumstanceS Of the persons addressed. In
such condition they were soon lost sight
of, however, by their entering some Of the
numerous drinking saloons, there to spend
while in drinking, and the enjoyment of
listening to fiddler, and fifer. and par
ticipate in vulgar ranting, The absurd
pride a1d palpable cheat Of such men is
provoking, and repugnant to common
sense, but of course they are really but
models for the villiaEous and Vicious |
But in spite Of argument which but few |
dare offer, even remote from the horrible /.
scenes in the South, the slaves are held |.
just as are domestic animals on a valuable I
farm increasing as fast as it is possible for
nature and their masters influence to make |
them, in order to accumulate more wealth !
for their owners, aud SO they will continue
to hold them until providence ordains
otherwise, or so long as such a state of
affairs is left between the poor ignorant |
slave and his learned master, for,o course
nothing except lead, or steel, can touch the
masters heart and with some credilable
exceptions to the courage Of suffering
humanity the slaves are so reduced and
broW-beaten as to be almost wholly desti.
tpte of both physical and mora! courage.
Were these shareholders themselves living
under despotic or even monarchsl gov.
ernment, their tyranny and despotism
would be less reprehensibie,in holding the
poor ignorant Africans, who still indulge,
like all other persons in bondage a hope
of freedom, or else, like some Of the educa-
ted native American citizens. aud Euro
peans also, who, by disasters, were captur-
ed by men of barbarous character in foreign
lands, and there enslsved,yet did not COM
init suicide, nor killed the tyrants who
ruled over them, but bore every indgnity
until they were liberated by circumstances
or by death so that it is absurd to assert
that The negro is far inferior to the men
who have white SKINS. Certainly the COL
or Of a being can make but small difference
in his or her nature. The whites seem to
be just as suitable by nature to subjeetion
as the blacks, as all Europe proves, but
it seems that the rich soil Of this almost
boundless Continent is an irresistible
temptation to men to perpetuate slavery,
thus abusing the gracious gift of Divine
Providence in its discovery by monopeIiz-
ing the soil and impiously insisting that
slavery is right, and by artful means en-
listing every uncultivated native and for
eign tatterdedemalion to join them in this
most unholy work. White men are not
made of gold or silver, that they should
set themselves up to be worshipped by the
negroes under pain of death,as the goll-
en- image mentioned in the Bible. The
clergy in the South are allied with the
shareholders, consequently they cannot be
excused from corruption aud guilt, so that
it is labor lost to admonish either them, or
the slave-dfiver. Justice, and the condi-
tion of the slaves, require something more
than mere words of remonstrance in favor
of the slaves, or else millions of blacks yet
unborn in these United States will also,
like those who have gone before tbsm,f fill |
slaves graves. The slaves creduity aud
want of personal independence in all things
both temporal and spiritual, seems at once
to be the support of both the clergy and
laity of the Southern States. Their 10.
structions only germiuate evil and multi
ply the woes Of the blacks" ' .a /