Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-08-08

troublesome to take care Of their stolen properly as
did the young Laced@moniaR. They have the wild
besst under their cloak and it has fixed IFS fangs
upon their vitals Their hypOeridcal whining at
the wrongs Of the slave is changed into complaints
and curses ct the consequences Of their own vii
lsipv They are the sufferers now, and they have
no 5Ouss of compassion left for the former objects
Of their sympathy They are trying to devise some
means to get rid Of their WOolly headed brethren
They begin to realize the evils Of their own pre-
cents and practices. They have taught the negro |
that it Is right to steal, and he plumbers them.
Thew have made him believe that he is equal to @
white man. and he claims the privilege Of sitting at
their board and associatiDg with their families. !
The free negroes Of Ohio are only practicing the
lessons they have learned from their benefactors
The crimes they commit are in imitation of those
which their abolition friends have perpetrated.
The evils they inhict upon society are the ccnse-
Quenoes Of abolition doctrines
The people Of Ohio are complaining bitterly Of
the increase Of the colored population in their
midst Those regions Of the State where they have
erected colleges for the education Of negroes and
where sympathy for the slave is most active and
most earnest are crying out the Oudest against the
published in the very hot>bed of abolitionism,
where men are brought up to think that stealing
slave from his master is a heroic achievement, is
discussing what shall be done with the free negroes
and fugitives. The Neus begins the discussion Of
the subject follows;
al How shall we stop the GROWTH of the evil!
II Having asOOtOhsd the snake" how shall we
b
The first Of these more Immediately concern us.
are constantly receiving aceessiOns to our colOred
population. Something like twenty have arrived
within the past week We are fast becoming sort
of land of Goshen" 10 blacks All around that
very peculiar college" Wiberforce black colony
is being established We have over 800 negroes in
our own toWP. The whole county is becoming dot
ted with their cabins And the cry is-stil they
come. How shall We stop the growth of the evil?'
We begin to see now the emptiness Of abolition
bensvolence. After euticing the negroes away from
their homes where they might have lived in content
ment and comfort, they refuse them habitation in
their midst Their present suferiugs are just re-
tributon for their crimes, and deserve alleyia-
ton. But the brutality of denying resting place
and refuge to The deluded victims Of their false
philanthropy is almost bal their original guilt
They have induced them TO run away from their
masters who fed and clothed and cared for them, and
they now drive them out to starve. The negro is
incapable of making support in q northern climate,
and his incidence and improvidence ia a State Of
freedom disqualify him for taking care of bimself
But the brutes who have forced him to leave con-
dition which best suited his capacities and wants,
refuse him in his hour of need and distress the
means of making subsistence. They tear down his
cabin and send himaway an Outcast ana vauderer.
There is no State or country which will receive hin.
All the free States wisely refuse to allow any more
free negroes to settle their borders, audmeans are
being taken to prevent their coming into Canada.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvania says:
at cannot be questioned OF denied that IN
willingness to have this class Of population multi.
piled and augmented in the free States is manifest
ing itself more plainly each year. In the older
States those especially the seabOard, this feeling
is apparent And it arises from many causes, pro-
minent among which are the known improvidence
and disiucnatiou for labor which characterzes the
eolored race, and makes them at all times partially
liable to become dependent on the labor OF others
for support and the ant aEonism between the color
ed race aud that class of white abOrers who are com
pelIed TO compete with them in the same field Of in
dustry. These two causes are powerful enough e
array against free colored men most potential IN
6uence in all the older ates, where there more
laborers than can at all times find remuUeratve EN-
ployment and where capital does not wish to b,
burdened by the necessity Of supporting a class
population which is unprodUcuve. In the west
where laborers wanted, the same causes operate
but not 10 the same extent, though II Is TACT il
almost al the Western States a disposition Is mani
tested TO place the most stringent restraints uPOr
the colored man, if they are not wholly excluded
Oregon has adopted a constitution preventing color
ed men from residing within her limits Kansas has
followed in the sane path, though not with such
positive tread; while in Indiana Illinois, and various
other Western States, the condition Of the colcreC
man is but little above that OF his brother in GeoT
ria Alabama OF South Carolina. The ban Of sOcia
and political oU'lsWTy is upon him, from which iher
is no escape. He may struggle, but while surrouu
ded by superior race such struggles will be in vain
The sentiments of the leading statesmen Of Cana
da on the subject may be gathered from the follow
ing speech made by Col PRINCE, once an active
negro philanthropist. "He had, says the Cincin
natl Commercial "eIulted over the influx Of negroes
into Canada aud had done all in his power to in
crease the current. He had a full opportunity t,
view its effects and the following the bitter, bu
evidently truthful description Of what had falleI
under his observation"
On the order of the day for the third reading o
the emigrsnts' law amen, meut bill being called
Hon Col Prince said he was Wishiul to move
rider 10 the measure The black people who in
Tested the land the greatest curse 10 The pro
vince. The lives Of the people Of the West wcr
made WreChed by the foundation Of these animals
Kent have been compelled to leave their beauIifu
farms because Of the residential sWarthy sWarms
What we're these Wretches fit for! Nothing Tbel
cooked our victuals aud shsmpoOned u; but VIII
would not rather that these duties should be per
formed by white men? The blacks we're a worth
less useless thrftless set of beiugs-they we're to-
indolsnt lazy and ignorant TO work, too proud b.
Taught and not only that if the criminal calender
of the country we're examined, il would be fOunt
that they were majority of the criminals. The,
were detestRble that unless some method wer
adopted Of preventing their influx into this countT
by the underground railroad" the people Of III
West would be obliged 10 drive them out by opel
violence. The bill before the House imposed
oapitatiOn tax upon emigrants from Europe, am
the object Of his motion to levy a similar ia,
upon blacks who came hi,her from the States. H
nov moved, seconded by MIR. Patton. that a capita
ton tax Of IS for adults, and 3s 90 for children
above one year and under fourteen years Of age
be levied upon persons Of color emigratng to Cana
de- from any foreign country
Ought not the Western men to be protected from
the rRsoalides and viilisnes Of the black Wreches
He found these men with fire and food, and lodging
when they we're in need and he would he bound I,
say that the black men in the county Of Essex would
speak well Of him 10 this respect. But he coulC
not admit them a. being equal to white men; and
after long and close observation Of human nature
had come fhs conclusion that the black bon