The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-04-14
The Last Gun from the Satanic
Press.

eyes, positively the last gun we shall
fire at the negro-the very last; and if
this does not kill him-if he is so tough
why then we will leave him to the politi-
clans" Such is the last announcement of
the New York Satanic Press" and it leads
us to greatly wonder what is in the wind
what next is to take place in our earthly
pandemonium.
If we remember Alright, Irish John
Mitchell, after various circuitous turnings,
strange summersets, and lofty tumblings,
first in England, then in Botany Bay, and
lastly in America, said that if the South
did not come over to his extreme way of
thinking on the negro question, after GER
tain date, then he, John Mitchell, would
curse them, throw up his pen, upset his
ink, smash up his press, and go soul, body,
brains, and all over to Garrison and the
Abolitionists The appointed hour arriv-
ed; the obtuse South, in their obduracy,
still held on their own old slow coach way
of thinking on this same negro question,
and poor John smashed up according to
promise. But, poor fellow owing to his
very dubious antecedents, we doubt if ever
Garrison or the Abolitionists received him,
as we have never heard of his enlistment
among them, and furthermore, knowing as
we do their holy horror to contact with bad
or suspicious company.
And now that the satanic press, accord
ing to its own acknowledgment, after some
six months besieging and bombarding of
the negro, and after prodigiouS waste of
powder and ball and percussion upon him,
fires this last shot and gives up. We in
quire anxiously again, what is in the fore
ground Is there also to be smash up
in pandemonium Is the satanic press
coming over to our side, and if so are we
prepared to receive it, or like poor Irish
John, must it, in case Of only partial con-
version, with all its weight of old and aw-
full sins upon it, be turned out to Craze,
Belshazzer-like, on the husks of the swine ?
Perhaps the chief managers of this rather
hot concern begin to perceive that after
their six months hard effort the outer world
whom they would effect adversely to the
negro, being cheated SO often by them,
cease to pay any further attention to them,
for it thus dolefully bowls out-"We trust
our supporters are not tired Of the almigh-
ty niger" ave have another series of
articles which we have prepared in regard
to this interesting race. This is the last
one. After this we leave the everlasting
niger to the politicians; and after they
are done with him let him go back to his
old posts Of waiter and barber, with clean
lather and sharp razors."
Though the entire tenor Of these epistles
is an attempt to prove the contrary, yet a
very important fact is rather plainly hint
ed at here, viz, that neither the efforts of
the satanic press nor the politicians, nor
yet the power of the government will ever
be able to crush out the negro. He is to
be let alone, is he, after the politicians are
done-left to his old and degrading posts
of waiter and barber? Further on in these
chapters, we are gravely told that the
whittier man being SO much his superior, that
he is fast crowding out the negro and
monobolizing the businesses of walters and
and BARRIERS This seems to common-sense
persons rather irrecoucilable, but we sup
pose these businesses are no longer degra-
ding when white men come into them.
This reminds us of remark of one of
our leading New York dailies, that certain
black man could hardly be regarded as a
negro, as he had proved himself very able
as writer, and the fact alone ought to set
him down as white man. But again we
are told in these last epistles of the satanic
press on the negro, that there are but
10,607 colored persons, men, women and
children, all told, in New York city. Who
does not know that this is false2 But, say
they, we have it from the census. We in
quire, who took the census? What inter-
est had they or those who employed them
in accurately counting the blacks2 In one
section of the city, to our own knowledge,
where scores of colored people resided, not
one colored person was reported. So much
for the census. A word now about the
epistle on vital statistics. Let us see if it
is any more reliable than the one on the
census. In the City Inspectors report for
1858, says this satanic epistle, that out
OF population Of nearly IL, 600 colored
persons, the number of births was 60, or
about one birth for every eight deaths.
Out of whole-cloth-like, this loathsome
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