East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-02-23
WORKS OF FICTION.


some of the romances inculcated by the
republican prints. One of them to the
effect that Barney Williams, the comedi-
an, had been expelled from the south,
has received the attention of Mr.. VIII
liams himself, who declares that, as he
has not been south of Mason and DiXon's
line during the last four years, he GER
tainly could not have been banished +"
! thercfrom
Another, relating the particulars of
the expulsion of a young man named
Baker, son of Rev. Mr.. Baker, of Utica,
n. y, is spoiled by the Utica Observer
The republican romancers stated that
young Baker, who went to Augustn, Ga,
to take the position of organist in an
Episcopal church, twas driven out by
slaveholding mob" After one Sabbath's
labor the whole town was aroused by the
fact that an anti-slavery northcrner chad
actually played the organ in church
where pious preaching from the text,
servants obey your masters was usually
heard" Following is Mr. Bakers story
as related in the Observer:
"Young Mr. Baker went to Augusta
upon an engagement as organist Of
church at that place. The salary which
he was to receive was not sufficient to
support him, but he hoped to be able to
add largely to his income by teaching
music, &c. After entering upon the dis
charge of his duties, however, he found
that he could not get sufficient employ at
teaching to warrant him in remaining
Being somewhat discouraged by this
failure, and finding the expenses of living
greater than he had anticipated he vol
unfairly resigned his situation as organist,
and returned Northward During his
stay in Augusta, to use Mr.. Bakers own
language che experienced nothing but
courtesy and kindness from the citizens
of that place"
All these rumors, like the bug-bear
stories in regard to the revival of the
! Slave Trade, are put ahoat by such
vehicles of ialsehood as the New York
Tribune, and copied extensively by its
satellites in the country, in order to keep
alive sectional prejudice and hate, which
CONSTITUTES Nhc oilll oNltHRth anu Ihdl-
form of the republican party There
are men in the South undoubtedly who
would drive any northern man from their
neighborhood, if he habitually associates
with the black population to put visionary
notions in their minds against their mas
tiers, aud in doing this they would dc
right. But talk of southern violence
because few hot.headed individual,
there may be violent towards abolitionsts
the enemies of the Union. How is il
here in Michigan, where the republican
papers boast that a southern man has the
liberty to speak and write, and 90 and
come when and where he pleases? In al
the Southern States there is no such VIC
lence upon northern men, as that mann
tested by the fanatics in our last Legisla
ture, when they made law to imprisor
and fine a southern man for travelling il
Michigan with II colored servant-a law
that would imprison two thirds of the
signers of the Declaration of Independ
cnce and most of our Presidents, including
George Washington And yet tn,
'fresdom shriekers" of Michigan talk abou
Southern intolerance and boast of the6
liberalityl They are the men who cal
see the mote in brothers eye, but are
too indicative and selfrighteous to SEE
themselves as they are.