The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
Free Negroes.

From the New Orleans Picayane Of the
LIST inst, we clip the following:
In CoNTRAvENTIoN.-Har and Elenora
Ribins, F. W. c., were arrested this morning
for being in the State in contravention to law
Recorder Summers notified them to leave the
State within five days. This is the first ar
rest made under the law Of 1859, relative to
free persons Of color, and will be followed by
many more. For the last fifteen days the
Mayors office has been daily besieged by =,
large number of free negroes anxious to h
registered Many find themselves in great
trouble through their ignorance or neglect
The law Of 1843 authorized all the negroes
residing IN the State previous to 1888 to re-
main, provided they would get themselves
registered within the thirty days following the
PRONUNCIATION of this act. There are hun
dreds in this eity who have been residents
for over twenty years, have, raised families and
acquired property, but who have never com
Piled with that legal conformity, and now find
the laV rs strictly followed.
There is no question of the fact that slaves
are not improved from an association with free
negroes, and that where is to be found one So
Der, steady, honest law revering and abiding
hCO hC6AO1 tACAC oAC' tWCLll ANN-NIOL1IlLH--
slave-corrupting insidious scoundrels, whose
evil work is so secretly done as to defy detec-
ton. A slave State is no place for the dwell
ing of free negroes. The laws of Mississippi.
If enforced, would cure many evils which ex-
list all over the State, and we have special al
fusion in this connection to section XII and
XIII. pages 1854 and of the Revised Code.
of the State. These sections tell us /, Whas
4. u,
None to come into the State; g. Notice given
to remove, and sale of in failure TO remove
4, Not to travel without their license; 3, PEN
atty for giving pass to slave; 6, Not to keep
arms without license, and license, how granted
and withdrawn; z, Of riots, ARRAYS, trespass-
es, malicious mischief seditious speeches, in
sulting language, assault, &c, how punished;
8, Furnishing liquor to slaves; 9, Conspiring
with slaves to rebel; 10, Circulating seditious
papers, &C.; IL, Not to keep house of enter
tainment or grocery, or even liquors; IL, Ne
gro emancipated not to be protected as a slave;
b.. Free persons attending unlawful meetings
of slaves, &c, &c.
But though our laws relating to free negna0S
i rigidly hne1ed. would 4 ts.s.ve ,
the lntersts Of the people of the State, yet
NO FREE PERSON OF COLOR, or slares irl.o re-
s c1y az as their Oscn masters, though oste,,si-
ty h''cSer the eye or 10Th pass from, seem
ng Osci y, should be Gllotoed to re,noin n, Ms
isstPpf! in making this declaration we out
cho the voice of all good citizens. Itisan-
lex of the peoples will. And il is insisted
hat the Legislature which IS to meet this fan
hall pass laws even more stringent than
hose now on our statute books. and especially
law requiring an free persons of color. (nct
flowed to reDain BY special Legislative enact
nents to Be made,) whether born here or nOI
0 remove from the State never 70 return. ex .
ept in transitu- A satRcient period, say tU q
oree, OF our years should be allowed tn EN-
heir property and wind up their basins = in
he State. - ~ kte- u . ~
The South can know no thsrd class s;thou,
Jury to her institutions TherA must he
ne master and The slage ONLY the Nee white
IAN and the descendants OF Ham In N;s t1ne
osition of servitude to the supe r;o- Nil
IAN Free Bude. -'Oi WY