The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-09-15

Republicanism al through the country you
have got to do something more than fight your
own battle. You have TO fight for Freedom
throughout the Union, for the example of this
people viii be potent in that struggle. There
fore ask you, men and women, TO take these
things to heart, and not merely that you may do
your duty, but that you may see that all your
neighbors come up that every man who can vote
is brought to the polls; that the protest of Ohio
| against oppression, this fall, be, as | believe
from all the signs that greet me it viii be, more
| significant and more emphatic than it has ever
yet been.
THE JUSTICE OF SLAVERY is CRUEL.
The Rev. John 6. Fee, of Kentucky, writes
as follows, to the Free South, from Frankfort;
FRIEND BAILEY; I am at the capital with
my family, for very short time. came here
chiefly to visit, cheer, and look after the condi-
ton Of that colored woman whom / emanci-
pated some years since, and who was last
March sentenced to imprisonment in the State
prison for the term of three years, for the al
legged crime of attempting to entice away from
Slavery part of her own children. We found
her in good health, cheerful, grateful to God
for the comparative comforts that surround her.
She has, in the providence of God, comforts be-
yond her expectation; though she can read but
| imperfectly, she win be still more comforted
| by reading the word of God.
| found the keeper of the prison sensible,
gentlemanly, and an accommodating man. He
is fully aware that the prison could be managed
on the part of the State, so as to be more ia
vorable to the coDvicts. Instead of q superin-
tendent being paid by the State, for the care
of the prison, it is leased, with the services of
the convicts, for stipulated sum. 1t then be-
4 naaa h. Al l.
educe from each convict all labor possible, with
as little expense as possible for his physical
comfort, or mental or moral culture.
lnasmuch as most of these conyicts will be
! again turned loose upon society, it is of the
highest Importance that the discipline should
be reformatory in the highest degree possible.
| 1t is the interest as well as the duty of the
people of Kentucky to demand this
A strict discipline could be maintained, de-
handing regular physical labor, and yet a por
ton Of each day allowed for moral culture-for
the direct and personal labor of faithful min
lister, who would be, not a mere hireling, but
one who from special sympathy with convicts
would choose the service-labor, not in occa-
sional sermons, but personally with each one
! placing such tracts, papers, or books, in the
hands of each one as would be profitable, and
suited to the state of the convict. There are
now in the prison 278 convicts. These have
/ as general rule one sermon each Sabbath
! But this is not all that could and ought to be
done.
! But why should we expect the people of
/ Kentucky to care for those deprived of liberty
for crime, when they have SO little care for mil
lions deprived of liberty without crime? The
! people must be brought to feel for man as man,
before they will be truly faithful to any class of
| men.
q Sbok Al
with the assembly of convicts, I said, how
capricious the decisions of human courts {"
Here is one person many punished for taking
that which naturally and justly belongs to
another-and there is mother, punished for
the alleged offence of attempting to get into a
| place of security that which naturally and lust
| ly belongs to herself; for if the mother who has
| borne and nursed child at her own breast, and
| fed and clothed it with her own hand, does not
naturally and Justly own that child, so far as the
claims of man is concerned, then there is no
such thing as natural justice. JOHN G.. FEE.
Frankfort, KY, August %, 1859.
WHAT WILL THE ABOIITIoNIsTs SAY?-
Among the many instances of fidelity of the
slave to his master now on record, we know of
none that shows more plainly the Negroes devo-
ton to his protector than the following:
/
on the St. Johns river, in Florida, Capt Shaw,
the commander and part owner of the boat, was
thrown high in the air, falling on deck and
! from thence overheard into the river. His
| negro boy Isam ran upon deck, seriously scald-
| ed and with the blood streaming down his neck
from severe cuts upon the head, to seek aid
| from his master but, on seeing that master
foundering in the river twenty yards astern,
forgetting, in his devotion, his own wounds, he
! sprang into the water, and, with his own life
blood ebbing from his veins, succeeded In sa-
wing his owner from a watery grave. Captain
Shaw has since died but Isam still lives a
manned and SCARED monument to his generos-
lty. Nay he meet his master in better world.
GpRDoN, GA, Aug. %, 1859. J.M.F.
~ T. Herald
The Abolitionists will say" that the noble
character of Isam," so far from furnishing an
argument for Slavery, proves that he richly de.
serves the freedom Of which his master deprived
him. Is there any need of saying more Am
ti-Slaray Standard.
| The Crockett (Houston CO., Texas) Printer
contains the following items of intelligence:
!. There has been quite a lively time here
lately, hunting runaway negroes.
%. An animated time exists with the
churches in this town, among the searchers after
spiritual truths
3: The corn crop is made, and is very abun-
dant."
1t will be seen that the g hunting was olive
| ly" and the revival /" animated" Truly warm
time. No wonder the corn crop made" abun-
dantly.-Neao York Tribune
BALTIMORE RowDYIsM TO BE PUT DOWN.
The San says We certainly realize with sim
cere qualification the uniformity of feeling and
sentiment expressed in the following paragraph
by the American, after quoting the views Of the
Sun and Exchange:
Here is common ground, upon which the
San, the Exchange, and the american, can
unite, and it shall not be our fault if the union
for a purpose so necessary, so commendable,
and SO practicable, is not kept in good faith.
We desire to free our city from disorder and
lawlessness. We desire to have selected for
Office men who shall acknowledge some higher
obligation to the people, some nobler rule of
conduct than is found in mere party obliga-
ton land, above all, we wish to subdue that
intense feeling of party bitterness and partisan
alienation which has afflicted our citizens and
magnifed our evils, whilst it opposed the most
insuperahle obstacles to their cure. The move
ment now inaugurated has healthy promise
of achieving, to some extent at least, these de-
sirable results. Already the spirit of lawless-
ness is quailing before it-already we find the
public attention and desire closely directed to
the purpose of securing fit and proper men to
represent them in the city and State Legisla-
lures. Already the barriers of prejudice and
passion, which kept apart those who have
common interest in redeeming the city from
its subsection to organized rufianism, are bro
ken down, and men can consult as citizens
whilst they continue to differ politically as wide
| 1v % over The WAY IL oman tn a cordial nn;ou