The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-07

LADY's VIEW OF CoLoRED FoLKs.-We quote a
passage below, saws the Boston Courier from the
Aua"'e Honthty Magazine for May. Our readers
WI, ponder over it, perhaps many will be astonish
ed at the doctrine If the Atlantic ia the organ of
anythlng, it is most assuredy of the anti-siavery
leellng within its own sphere. Yet nothing could
ore thoroughly exhibit an utter bouleversemen of
everything proper to that feelinp than tho naOsae
thus extracted from its columns Fvnorianna ffn
t ns'ance mas been pitted against sentiment and
a. mas uh tne latter down all to nothing According
Of the negro-phsm is all fiction
NJ tne iamagihauon The handful of negroes at the
North, for certain stated does not 49,
sent the race at all. We have got mn on ;S1
gro, ABOUT whom we whine and sentimentalize
rave, recite and madden round the land y iii,
The creature himself is something which We shIS
nave hesltated very long about describing in terma
so much more graphic than fattering, like those
employed in the AHanhc O. 0
And then, after observing his asnect bis nrorou
sites, his mental and moral characteristics comes
home-We almost dread to repeat it--s'the unwel
come question: ohether compulsory labor be not better
man none ' Why, goodness help us this is slave
ry itself, with vengeance; proposed as at least a
probable necessity for the compulsory welfare of
the negro race We know not what the world ia
coming to; but we do know, that if such oninions
eaa Deen put forth by some of us, who have suf-
Tered unmeasured vituperation for years, and have
wlthered as 1t were under the ban of the anti-sla
very circles; notbecause would deprive colored
persons OF any just rights and privileges; or had
any preJudices against them individually; or were
with
and humanity; but solely because we thoucbt or
them as untitled to be placed upon exactly eouaI
reiations, social, domestic and political with our
own own kindred and race-why, our ears are already
ueu ulhneu Win the universal howl which would have
been emitted from certain quarters AGAINST ns Tho
Atlantic speaks of its own intimation on this sub
lect as lone heretical whisper-very small and
low Go0d heavens! If this be only a ,ghisper.
wnat VIII the anti slavery folks saw about our
col0red brethren when they profess to talk alond?
w made Nassau at twelve O'Clock on the sixth
DAY from our departure, counting the first az ono
Inc hrst feature dscernible tall group of CO.
coa-nut trees, with which the Island is bounteous
ly feathered; the second was proun of neHrooo 10
small boat steering towards us with omen 3ontbad
and white tothed wonder. Other hoots
then came, like shoal of little fishes, around the
~ oalodss vi a grant Whale. There many ne
groes, together with whites of every uradn:' and
some OF our number, leaning over the side saw for
IN the hrst time the raw material of which Northern
numamtarians have spun so fine skein of compass
SION and sympathy
Now, we who write and tbev for whom ,,o ,it
are all orthodox upon this mighty question. We
nave all made our confession of faith in private and
In public; we all, on suitable OCCASION walk nm and
apply the match to the keg of gunpowder which iS
to blow up the Union, but which, somehow. at the
critical moment fails to ignite. But Won must al
low US one heretical whisper-very small and low
Inc negro OF the north is an ideal nepro il ia tha
negro rehned by white culture, elevated by white
blood, instructed even by white iniouity. the napro
among negroes is coarse, grinnng, dat-footed
thlckskulied creature, ugly as Caliban law as the
LATEST of brutes, chiefly ambitious to be ofno usa 70
any IN the world View him you will, his stock
IN trade Is smal-he has but the tangible instincts
OF all creatures-love of life of ease and of of:
spring. For all else he must 90 to school to the
white race, and his discipline must be long and la
POROUS Nassau, and all that we saw of it, sug-
gested to us the unwelcome question whether CON
pusory labor be not better than none Rnt az
question gladly leave it, and return to the simple
narration of what befell"