New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-27
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The New York Evening Post Is known as one of
the sost violent Of the organs Of antislavery. In
SEINE respects the Tribune itself does not excel it
IL the bitterness of It's hatred Of everything South
eru and the consistency and persistency Of is AT
| tack upon The institution of slavery.
The POST has sent a correspondent to Charleston
ID report fhe proceedings Of the Democratic Com
ventsou in that city, and his first aefser appears in
that Journal Of last Friday. Considering the deci-
ded antislayery tone of that paper, it was with
equal surprise and pleasure We found in the first
letter Of til Charleston correspondent the fellow
ing paragraph
Speaking Of negroes, it Is but fair to say, that
the slaves here are, as a general thing, fed and
treated 40 far as stranger can tell, better than
the corresponding class at the North. They are,
in fact fat, good natnred and lazy, and to all APP
pearance, happy. Perhaps they do not pine for
the sweets of q freedom they have never tasted
and cannot appreciate.
BY a curious coincidence, the Cincinnati Gazette
Of the same day had correspondence from this
city, written by delegate to the Young Mems
Christian Association lately held here, in which
identically the same opinion is expressed. The
Gazette il equally as much in the interest Of ths
Black Republican party as the Evening Post
Here is what its correspondent says:
We are all agreed as to the good physical con
dition and the contentedness of the negroes. But
we are very far from being agreed as to thai
being reasonable or Christian argument for then
involuntary seryitude.
Here Is the testimony Of two witnesses, whose
preiudces are all against the institution Of slavery
ana the correspondents Of journals which are,
both, leading organs of Black Repnblicanism tits
natural to suppose that if they had seen anything
Of the cruelty, the suffering, the burning at the
stake, and the other incidents Of slavery in the
South which constitute the text of the Abolition
harangues delivered in Congress BY the Van Wycks,
the Potters aud the Lovejoys Of that honorable
body, they would have been eager to report it.
But, Motley are compelled to admit that South
ern slaves are not only happy, well-fed, and con-
tented but they are better fed and treated than
the corresponding class at the North.
And this is the universal testimony Of all honest
men, from the North, who will look at the subject
fairly and squarey and not through the spectacles
Of blind passion and sectional prejudice. There
cannot be better Or stronger evidence Of the dis
honesty and villainy Of such men as Redpath and
Helper, than is afforded by the fact that they de-
claim against the cruelty practised upon slaves,
when both Of them have had ample opportunities,
afforded by d residence in the South, for witness
ing the practical workings of the institution. We
have no reproaches for Northern man who knows
nothing of slavery, and has been educated in the
belief that it il stain upon social system, for
his opposition to its extension. Until he becomes
better acquainted with it, it is natural that he
should be so opposed. But when Helper, in order
to sell his infamous book utters the falsehoos that
he does, knowing them to be such at the time, we
are astonished alone at the facility with which the
creduous people of the North suffer themselves to
be duped by his statements.
Van Wyck, = member Of Congress, says it is not
an unusual thing in Mississippi to burn slaves at
the stake. LoYeioy, another member, says slavery
is the sum Of all human villainies-worse than muir
der, piracy, robbery, or all Of them combined.
Which are right-these members of Congress,
drunk with passion, and knowing nothing of sla-
very from personal observation, or the two cores
pondents we have above quoted who, equally OPP
posed to slavery in the abstract, honestly admit
that Southern slaves are happy, well fed, well
clothed, contented and better off, in respect Of
personal comforts, than the same class of aborers
at the North! We repeat the question: who is
right--yan Wyck or the correspondent of the
Evening Post
Now, then, if the claims of humanity do not urge
the people Of the North to war upon the institu-
ton of slavery why should the conflict be kept up
1t il admitted that the slaves Of the South are
happy, and enjoy more comforts than any other
class Of mental labofers on earth, at the same
time that they are free from all care and anxiety
about the future. It is admitted that they fire.
auenty perish with cold, or stafye. when spirited
away BY Abolition emissaries, and run off to Can
ada Why then, this perpetual complaint this
eternal agitation. Southern people do not inter-
fere with the rights Of property in the North nor
with their social and domestic customs and institu-
tons. Why cannot the same rule apply with re-
spect TO their conduct towards as It was but
the otherday negro was boxed up in Nashville
by Abolitionist and sent all the way to Cincin-
natl by express, at the peril of his life The OBJ
iect Was to take him from happiness at home to
starse him and freeze him to death in Canada. Is
there any greater cruelty than thisa The true
policy Of each section is to let the other alone
We never knew a community yet in which an un-
selfish philanthropist could not find enough to give
him employment, and to coll forth all his energies
within his own neighborhood, and in sight of the
smoke Of his own chimney.
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TIRE ITALIAN OPERA. :" Lucia di Lammcrmoor /"
last night drew as crowded and elegant an audi
cnce apparently as was present at the Amphithea
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