Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-03-02
THE orToROoE N Nh. BErcHERs CHURCH.


ted States made as il says for promoting
Justice aud liberty. With such funda
mental declarations and records, we ar,
neutrality-suspicious. There Is onlJ
one drawback -Four millions people ar.
declared to be no people at all, not ever
up to hogs and asses, but merely chat
tells. Bot Notwithstanding these opinion,
as to the African, the white Southron who
is Mortified at the idea Of equality o.
marriage with the black, mixes blood witt
the race just as much as il marriage sane.
toned it. The result is, that after SC
many generations as belong 70 240 years
OF the institution, We have an appropriate
number Of dlutions OF blood-of inter
fusing the white with the black. Thus
we see a great physiological, moral and
political fact. What would ruin white
woman socially at the South, is as com
mon on the part Of the men, as stock
raising; and ali the South teens with
this stupendous fact, in the shape Of mix
ed blood, up to that point, where the
Caucasian face, fire, and genius SO pre-
dominate that the dark skinned African
is lost sight of-only the expert and spe-
cial examination leading to the detection
of the black blood. Hence it is no long
er question Of negro slavery-but-
hear it, ye old thirteen stars on the azure
heaven Of our pavilion but Of white.
That the white man and white woman
sold distresses the " Democratic" senti-
ment Of thirty pieces-of-silVer men Of the
North and South, any more than the
black man and black woman sold, is not
to be expected. The immense majority
Of slaves in antiquity, ninety-nine out Of
a hundred, if not all, in Greece and Rome,
where they numbered half the population,
were white-pure white. Oppression
then was the same as now, and was more
respectable, because it did not set up a
canting, lying howl III defence of slavery
as is done now on the negro question:
If all the slaves South were Germans in
stead of negroes, or mixed blood, we do
not believe it would influence any of the
Democratic" votes against it. The OPP
pressor never is deficient of excuses for
his oppression. We are led to these re-
marks by an occurrence which took place
yesterday in the Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn. A little white chattle nine
years of age was introduced TO the Sun
day school of the church of Mr.. Tilton.
lis story was this 1t is one of six
children whose mother was slave and
whose father is a physician-of course
a man of the highest standing-in the
city of Washington. These children
with the exception of this one, the young
est, were at various times sold, and the
mother was sold down South This
remaining chattel was put under the
care of its grandmother in Washington.
The owners-a firm of slavetraders-
agreed to let the little white chattel re-
main in the hands of the old chattel to
pacify the latter for the breaking up of
all its family. Hail Columbia.) During
Christmas week the old chattel was star
tied with the announcement that the
young chattel was to be sold to the
South, because an offer of $500 had
been made for it. The party desiring
to buy was Christian who believed in
the command, BE fruitful and multiply
and wished TO hold the chattel until it
was old enough to breed stock. The
chattel so soon as it heard this ran up
stairs to the garnet, locked the door on
the inside and barricaded it with several
trunks. The Christian slavetraders went
up stairs and demanded admittance so
did the old chattel, but the young chat
tel refused to let them in. So the door
was forced by the Christian slave traders.
Not to make the story too long, suffice it
to say that clergyman lately from AL
exandria who knew the young chattel
and the old chattel as well, interfered to
the extent of getting bonds and permits
sion TO bring the young chattel to the
North, where the said chattel arrived on
Saturday last, and was taken to the Sun
day school yesterday, as we have stated.
1t was presented to 400 children 70 better
looking or whittier than itself. The clergy-l
man who befriended II related many in
cidents of its life from his own personal
knowledge. Mr.. Tilton addressed the
children, and the result was a subscription
on their part of 5000. After the sermon
by Mr.. Beecher, he presented the case
to the company, and called the ehattel to
the platform. The sight Of the chattel
was enough. Much money was raised
for the purchase of the chattel, but be-
fore It could be counted. a note was sent