Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-12-14


 ana sat down to dine at the Revere House. Cod-hsh balls were served at the table, and one of the kentuckians taking them for corn dodgers proceeded to break one in two Getting the scent of It, he turned to his partner remarking in the Tom"i'
 The girls of Mt. Sterling, Ky, held meeting and resolved several things Here Is one of them:
 :. We have resolved every one of us. that we VIII not, under any circumstances; attend that party without young gentleman gallant. We have submitted to neglect long enough, and we don't in tend to have our old pas rub up their old clothes any longer to take us to parties. That game is stopped Make mark ofthat, young gentlemen"
 Reader, where do you think we found the following? In the New York Tribune
 "ExclrEMENr IN DUrcHEss Co.-The county board of Duchess county proposes to close the Poughkeepsie pOor-hOuse, and to hire it's in mates out to speculatOrs. The plan has caused great deal of excitement. and large portion of the citizens are earnestly opposed to selling in this manner the unfortunate poor The experiment was made in the neghboring county of Rensellaer, and the result was that all the paupePs of the county were exposed to hunger and cold by interruptions l men who had charge of them.'
 It is done this way. The paupers are put up on a block and hired out to the lowest bidder. An old, infirm pauper who l cannot work costs the county more. Chil dren are sold till they arrive at the age of twentyone years and are regularly appren- ticed. Their master has the right to ad minister wholesome correction.'' The older paupers are required to work. Those unable to work are taken on speculation by rapacious Yankees who try the experiment with them of seeing how little it will cost to maintain life in human being And reader, these paupers are white men, wo men and children. Well, there's nothing like philanthrophy.
 The legislatures of several southern States are now in session. Members of these legislatures or State officers have sent to Arkansas for copy of the free negro bill passed last winter. In several of the I States we see bills have been introduced copied from ours CT modified to suit pre- vailing interests. In two years there will be no such thing as free negro at the south.
 The French are doing grand stroke of business buying and selling negroes under the name of" the apprentice system" The English are less active. The hypocrisy of the latter nation is more striking, because great part of the abolition sentiment at the north was imported from England - She sent agents and lecturers here twenty five years ago. In 1886, fellow named Thomson, lectured in the northern cities, but to the credit of the people of that day let it be remembered, he was mobbed in several places. Now, things are so chang ed that pastors of American churches go to England asking for aims to maintain their churches, because they are abolition. A lecturer traverses Great Britain taking up subscriptions to buy arms for old Brown Forbes, the Englishman, is employed to drill troops and write book on military tactics for the use of northern invaders. = All this while, this same England is actual ly carrying on the slave trade. We refer not now to Chinese coolies or other nations whose people they buy or steal, but real African negroes.
 The New Orleans Crescent exposes this hypocrisy and proves that the English car " on hourishing slave trade under the patronage of the English governor of the island of Mauritius, between that point and neighboring coasts. The Crescent says
 The gallant tars of old England,' who burn with such superfuty of honest indignation against the slave trade, in the Atlantic Ocean, confess tn very different sentiments in the Indian Ocean, and proving along the coasts of Malabar and Madagas- car, steal and buy all the triggers which they can get hold Of, and sail with them away to Mauritius where they are condemned tn wear out a short life | i'll labor in the field. They buy the darkies of the native chiefs for beads, condemned musketS, iron hoops, and all such triies as savages prize, and sailing with them to Mauritius, pay d bonus or sort of import duty to the British governor thereof af- ter which their live cargoes are sold on the block to the creole planters of the island for a term of years-that generally lasts as long as the victims live, which is not very long, for they generally con | trve to kill them of by cruel treatment of short commons before the period arrives at which they are to be restored to freedom. But should it hap pen that the bondsmanprove an extra tough speci- men, and so outasts murderous treatment and star vation during the term of scrviude, and is esteem ei worth retaining, pretext is found for sticking him for another term. These pretexts are alliga- l gations that he has lost portion of the time for which he was to serve in ideness, illness or running away The method of chastisement practised by the brutal hybrid masters of the slaves is beating them over the head with cuJges instead of on the back with whips-a system happily contrived for lhilctng the severest injury with the least trouble and quietly getting out of the way negroes whose approaching emancipation would involve the ex- pense to the owner of making stipulated payment"