Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-02-29
NEGROPIIOBlA.


This is an age Of strange and impractica.
bic theories, and few practical reflections
may not be amiss, now that morbid fanat
icism runs wild, and plain reasons and stub.
born facts are no longer clamps to cur feet
or guides to our pathway. The great mass
of men are only seeking how to be clothed
and how to be fed, as the great objects Of
their existence. "The human necessity fol-
daily bread" is forcing their undivided At.
tention to that subject. Politicians and
Office seekers, however from constable to
Governor, are doing rushing business out
Of the niger agitation but IS theirs is only
a mercen"ry interest, let US inquire into the
interest Of this large class Of bread eaters
and clothes seekers.
The products of slave labor enter into the
minntest details of our life. We advise the
fanatics to consider that We drink big drops
Of African sweat in every cup Of our morn
ing coffee. Every buckwheat cake is sweet.
ened by small groan from the plantation
slave. Every boiled shirt that decorates the
" human form divine" has felt some touch
from the overseer's lash. Add just one
more picture to this panorama of griefs -
Scene-A Northern Abolition meeting. Au-
dience-A symp.thizing asssmblage Of Ia
dies and gentlemen, large, respectable, and
enthusiastic. Suddenly, as ponderous an
athemas against slavery awaken the echoes
that lie hid in every boot heel, umbrella and
walking stick, every particle Of slave grown
cotton fabric follsfrom their gar ments. The
imposing cotton shirt collars have vanished
Their pants of glossy satinet three-fourtha
disappear. In male attire tho change ID
complete and perfect. The ladies can liter.
ally take up the vail Of Flora McFlimsey
about nothing to wear" The well dressed
Spanish gentleman, with his spurs, is now
fashionable man, and the ladies', whose
handkerchiefs have disappeared, furnish a
scene Ia Venus dc Medici, beyond the
power Of Hogarth's brush to delineate, Or
the most vivid Imagination to protray.
We have drawn this picture to illustrate
the practical and never realized dependence
of our people upon the products Of slave
labor. Cotton, and sugar, AID coffee-our
comforts and our luxur:es-keep the lash in
motion, and the big drops Of healthy sweat
rolling down the negroes back, and We thus
quietly encourage and sustain "this traffic
in human souls"-we strengthen tive
support it. Who )? Why, we Abelitionists
OF the North-we buyers of Southern pro-
ducts--we lovers Of sugar and candy-we
who !uxuriate in cotton shirts and calico
dresses and at the same time our eyes fill
with great large round tears Of pity and
|commiseration, for the evil We aid in
and supporting. This is the
'-''''' VI -,'v'av" nypocrltlcal sympathy we
practice. Place this preaching and prac-
ticing together. 1t is humbug But our
opponents do not forget that it elects "pop.
corn" and "sell me out" to the Legislature,
and county officers and town constables to
match. Vive lie humbug! 1t pays Sla-
very is none Of our business, it is true. We
have no part or lot in either establishing or
supporting slavery, but it pays to ag;tats.
Well may official gentlemen, who are riding
on tho highest seats with the tax gatherer,
eating out the peoples substance, and waxing
fat with county orders, cry out, "A little
louder about the horrors Of slavery, Elder ~
It is time to stop this nonsense, and in
quire where we are drifting. These men
are humbuggine, It is apparent; but the
people should recollect they are humbugged
at the same time. The people no doubt re-
ally believe that all this means something.
It does. 1t means Offices sec :red--nothing
more. What can we here do about sla-
very +? We have kept it out of Minnesota.
and no one wants to get it here; SO there
is no fight about that. The people have,
and can, keepit out of the Tcrritrries, much
better than we can, and will do it IS we did
it-and If they want it: there is no consti.
tutional power to prevent but they don't
and won't have it. With slavery in the
States, no one pretends to interfere, or to
claim the right even, to interfere. This 'sir-
repressible conflict" is all conflict for Office
by getting on the soft side of human nature
by shedding hypocritical tears, in regard to
wrongs which we are powerless to prevent
and only make mischief and create sectional
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