The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-04-25
Free Negroes North and South.

intelligent portlon vi Ihe Peopie Vi IhSAaHu,
and the tone of the leading British press, es-,
pecialIy the Times, in relation to African
slavery, have undergone great change of late
years, and that the people of Canada, once en-
thusiastic Abolitionists, who received with
open arms the slave stolen or ahsconded from
his master in the South have been cured of
their false notions of philanthropy, or oppose
now, on moral, political and social grounds,
the existence of the free. negro-eIement in
their midst, are notorious facts. But it may
somewhat astonish our readers, that even the
fanatical Black Republican sirrepressible con-
flict' press of New England begins to show
indications of change of sentiment on the
subject. The Rochester Democrat, negro
worshipping sheet of the blacklist dye, speak
ing of the operations of the underground rail-
road, confesscs the error of its ways in the
following style
ave cannot, in mercy to the poor blacks
feel that they are lettering their condition by
going nOrthward. Canada is not congenal
place to them-its climate is against them, and
/ NNNo
dustry. The young negro who crossed over
yesterday will be fortunate if able to earn a
better living than he had at Baltimore, or Sc
cure any more Of the real blessings of freedom
than were afforded him in servitnde As for
the poor old man, he will fare hard in Canada,
AMI will sigh for Louisiana home to die in
before he has spent year in Canada"
This is most discouraging account of the
prospects of the negroi in Canada, and through
out the North, not excluding, of course, New
England, where the competition Of tho white
laborer presses harder upon hi:l than in any
other section of the country North of Mason
| and Dixon'S line and where the climate is
quite as severe upon and deadly to this race as
in Canada.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvania well re-
marks that the free negro cannot earn a bet
ter living" and Secure any more of the real
blessings or freedom" in the North, than the
slave in the South, coming from such a source,
is very significant at this particular moment
when a great party organization is moving
Heaven and earth to elect a President for
these United States upon the issue of Aboli-
ton. All the cunning, the shifts, and the
boasted eloquence of a Seward, all the stale
editorial rehash of anti slavery arguments of
the Tribune, the rant Of mad parson Beecher,
all the statistical editorial frauds of Helper,
the hireling scribe of "The Impending Crisis"
cannot refute nor destroy the effect of This
confession of the Rochester Abolition sheet.
1t is the truth, plainly stated. Now, let us
see how the South, the cruel, inhuman, slave
holding South, treats-not her slaves, for the
preservation Of whose health and cheerful
temper she may be suspected of egotistical
motiyeS-but the negroes, who belong to no.
body, are supposed to be cared for by nobody,
and left TO struggle as best they may against
the competition of their enslaved and unre-
warded, but preferred brethren On this sub
ject correspondent ofthe Spirit of the Times,
writing from Charleston, S. c., remarks:
"The most notable feature in the list of tax
payers of Charleston is the tax on property
paid by free persons of color The number Of
| coiored persons taxed is $50, and of these 3O4
are owners of real estate, while 226 of them
own real estate to the amount of $1,000 more
some of them nearly $4,000 worth. The
entire amount owned by the 226 above refer
red to S1l7 1876. In addition to this, l NAV
as well inform you that the 355 persons Of
color who are free, own 277 slaves. There is
one free gentleman of color still residing, as we
are informed, in Charleston, an ownerof prop
erty, who is honored above any white citizen
In the Union, in being exempt from taxation ;
he Is the negro, then a slave, who gave the in
formation that led to the discovery of the in
surrection Of 1922. For his faithful services
the corporation granted him his freedom and
the immunity above referred to-"
Let AbOlionists contrast with this the con-
dltlon OF the free, negroes in any one of the
cities of the North-New York, for instance,
the Empire city, where they number 1000
and out of which number are not half dozen
according to leading journal of that metrcpo-
| lis, Who pay cent OF taxes. Let us hear no
more, then, of that spurious negro phiIanthro-
Ply. 1t has done mischief enough. The
worlds history has stamped Abolitionism
with the seal of condemnation. The fantastic
negro philanthropy which swayed the leaders
of the French Revolution Of 1887, culmina-
tedin the massacre at st. Domingo. and the
UTTER permanent ruin off all the productive in
terests of the Island which has since relapsed
into a condition, little removed only from that
of the barbarous States of Africa. This dis
PEELED the delusion in France most effectually.
The negro philanthropy Cf Egnland, not as dis
interested as that of France, also ruined the
British West India Islanda, made of the ne
gro, once industrious and useful, savage liy-
ing without work by depreciation, plundering
the fields of the plantations instead of cultiya-
ting them. 1t did worse, it induced hypo-
critical England, who having labored under
the mistake of procuring by emancipation bet
ter and cheaper labor, and having been disap-
pointed, so subject a superior race, but one de-
gree removed from the Caucasian and Euro
pean, the Coolies of Hindostan and China, to
the most merciless and cruel description of
slavery, that of temporary bondage for ten and
fifteen years, under condition Of free return
passage to their native land at the expiration
of their term. But the official records show
that none return, all perishing under the hard
toll which merciless cupidity and more
merciless law imposes upon the wretched, de-
luded victims. By working the coolie to
death towards the end of his term of bondage,
the expenses of his return passage may be en-
ployed to protect fresh supplies of coole
slavery recruits. While demonstrating with
France on the African slave trade revived by
her, England has carried on for years, and con-
tinues to do so, the coole slave trade-the
horrors of which, though it takes place under
Government auspices and the protection of
the British flag, are, as the accounts of the
fearful mortality prevailing on board the coolie
vessels and occasioned bloody mutinies testify,
by no meaus less than those of the prohibited,
and by naval squalrons greatly embarrassed,
African slave trade.
THE STRIKE.-The shoemaker's strike in
Massachusetts is nearly done. In Danvers,
GrcVelane and Waltham, it has been entirely